RTS Cuda RUNS, DRIVES, $2,000,000 BIDDING WAR!!! 

For those of us that grew up in this era, it's an amazing piece of history, no different than a rare painting, sculpture or vase. For those saying it's way too much money, file this under noneyo, as in it none of your bussiness how others spend their money.

Badass car. Maybe someday Revell will release a 1/25 model kit of this Cuda. That's the closest ill ever get.

We need a Rapid Transit Hot Wheels series!

Working for Chrysler in Boise in 1970 we got in a fury 3 vip with 440 6 pack. It was fun to drive. Glad they mentioned the ,6 pack in the article. I cant get anyone to believe they made them, now I have proof.

I was 17 in 1977, I sold my 71 cuda for 500 bucks in good condition, lol, back then you couldn't give them away. If only I had a crystal ball, money and a garage to store them.

All I can say is, WHO KNEW? If I knew in 1980 what I know now, I'd have bought a warehouse & filled it with every old gas guzzling muscle car I could get my hands on, then sold everything in 2020 & lived happily ever after!!!🤑

I'm glad as hell that Steven Juliano never got this car......It would've been resold after he died anyways......And the Black Ghost might turn out to be the biggest SCAM that ever crossed the auction block.

Plymouth ruled the muscle car era. You got more bang for the buck than Chev or Ford.

Congratulations on the super sale. I was following his car for a while. 🔥🔥🔥 maybe one day I’ll be able to look up the build plate for my dad’s challenger and find out where it’s at. I do have a picture of that.

Had to go find the story of the car and it has a cool background. It a 1 of 4 that was part of the rapid transit system to get younger people to buy them. The designer Harry Bradley was a gm designer and former hotwheels designer (which makes sense) then a shelby collector wanted to buy them he bought 3 but passed away from cancer before getting the 4th

Like they say ... "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Some people have more money than brains too.

That car should never been pushed off that stage before the sale was over.

That's a badass car I was a 12 years old boy who is in love with mopars from the day I could talk just a beautiful car

I knew this would sell for a ridiculous amount of money.

wow! id love a cuda just like that with a balanced hemi tb's and decent pipes and suspension

For that what's go in on in the WORLD TODAY ... MORE MONEY THAN BRAINS !!!

Awesome 😎👍

I remember a Cuda for sale on my school bus route in the 80s. It was only a 318 console car, but to me it was awsome. 400 bucks, and I was a kid that just didnt have that big money roll.

I don't think I ever laughed so hard at a car auction!!

I wonder if the person woke up the next morning, after last nights drunk and said" I DID WHAT"? 😲

My Pappi loved his old car.

Nice cuda Beautiful car

👍Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍

RTS - Ready To SCREAM!

Bradley rules! The wheelie bars made out of leaf springs are cool as fk! The value old classics got up to don't though.

Wow that's crazy but in a good way.

Front end reminds me of a fish I bought for my aquarium to clean the algae off inside of tank

Everyone dreams with no money and a car passion was just crushed, me too

Man it might of brought another million if it had been running on 8 cylinders .

Good for the seller and good for the hobby!

I remember that cat it set in the garage for many years.

Thought it was the Rapid Transit Cuda - damn

Wow I wonder how many of these cudas could have been duplicated for the price of this one geeze crazy

Wow!!

Sounds like the motor was out of a 78 New Yorker.

Been messin with cars my whole life, and if this doesnt fall into the "somebody's got more money than they've got sense" category then i dont know what does. The classic car market has been ruined by rich guys who happen to like classic cars, and it has totally disenfranchised the average buyer. Have watched many classics go thru the auction block that brought 20-30 grand over what they were actually worth because it ended up being a bidding war between a couple people with deep pockets, and it progressively got worse year after year and drove up the market to utter insanity. This is what forced the blue collar guys like myself to stop going to car auctions other than being a spectator. Watch Barret Jackson for a perfect example and watch whos bidding. Some rich guy recently forked over a million bucks for the infamous black ghost challenger along with its fairy tale story (literally) of owning the street back in the day which compelled this guy to pay this insane amount, bit thats another story for another day. At the end of the day if the rich guys would stop buying these cars the classic car values would drop like a lead balloon to a more sensible level.

Thats a crazy amount of money spent on a car.

Proof you should get drunk at an auction

The roll the car out in low light & just film the back ? edit..I see then end it's on a turntable..frustrating though

There is a old saying a fool and his money will soon part

Watch… this will be in the next fast and furious 38

Next time maybe a video all the way around would be nice. The rear end of the Cuda looks really good.

Reminds me of that garish ‘Corvette Summer’ Vette, yuck. I almost picked up a ‘70 Cuda, big-block 4-speed car, when my Aunt and Uncle got divorced; I wasn’t old enough to drive so I got his ‘69 Jeepster Commando instead.

Absolutely Gorgeous 😍

Anthony ? Owned this car he mentioned at the start ???

Lol I knew they were going to flip it

Mopar RTS ftw

People are nuts.

must have gone to the brothers collection, they have the other two rapid transit cars

what are the odds there's a guy as crazy as you at the same auction bidding on the same car?

All auctions are fixed

Was there 1.7 million in cash in the back seat

Someone paid 2,1 mil on a car that costs at most 30k to build. Thats some serious $$$ per hour labor costs. Not disputing its a lovely looking car but not 2,1 mil not even 100k in my eyes no matter who built it or what number chassis it is. This car will now end up in storage and maybe seen once or twice a year if lucky. What a waist of time money and efforts. Rich people literally mess the world up as they buy these things then hid them up....

The engine bay and trunk are a mess!!! Look up the photos. You’ll be shocked.

No reserve on the car but it's mandatory. You have a mullet in order to bid

Wonder if those cars came from the factory with those cut outs in the rear end for wheelie bars

For that hell no way

People with more money than sense.

Mecum bids to run it up, RU-vid channel Jimmys world says it all, he bought the Elvis plane the next day after the auction saying the winning bidder backed out.

❤❤❤ there’s a sucker born every minute ❤❤❤

MOPARS ARE WORTH IT,these will never be made again,at one time they ruled the streets,when the went to the tracks,they ruled those to

Hopefully that car doesn’t sit in somebody’s garage. I would take that beast to the track the same day of purchase !! Muscle cars are meant to be driven not stored.

Isn’t that car untuned worth around 80k?

Anybody else find it odd that Jim Belinda, Mopar Nationals Jim Belinda, was the under-bidder on this car? To my knowledge, Jim doesn't really collect a whole lot of cars... certainly doesn't have anything approaching this caliber... hmmm...

Dam my bid of 200 dollers didnt win

Maybe a $200k car, but not $2M. There's always a couple fools with big money who let their emotions get the best of them. I've pretty well quit paying attention to auction prices because of this. Private transaction sold prices are a bit more realistic. Auctions have fucked everything up.

I would hope the person who was so eager to drop 2mil on a car that they have done something descent in their lives to help someone else.

I wonder if this car was even sold or this was all for show???

Those rear tires sticking out like that look so ghetto though? I don't understand how that car could go for $2 million? Looks kinda ricer and ratty? Not a super custom challenger? The Craiger S/S style wheels look good but they are bargain basement steel rims with chrome plating. They rust just being out in the rain. The car looks like it could be worth $200k but not more than that?

Screw these auctions all they do is raise the price for used cars everywhere just because the people bidding on them have way more money than brains it's sad for auto enthusiast all over

Amazing body!

Thats only money 💵to blow the person nose that won the bid

Stock motor with wheelie bars ! Love it

They had the hood up on it. And all this guy gets is the a$$ end of it. It would have been nice to see the engine. Even at the end no engine.. 😳 REALLY!!

Put it back to stock instead of its carnival look

1970 Rapid Transit System Plymouth Cuda Highlights Mecum Lot R581.1 One of the four original Plymouth Rapid Transit System Caravan traveling road-show cars Hidden away for over 50 years, being offered to the public for the first time since the early 1970s Odometer reads 967 miles Unrestored with the car retaining both its custom metalwork and lacquer paint circa late 1970 Serial number 100005 Designed by Harry Bradley, the man who was responsible for the initial Hot Wheels toy line in 1967 and 1968 Built by Chuck Miller, winner of the Ridler award in 1968 Authorized and paid for by Plymouth for the Rapid Transit System Caravan that toured from 1970-1971 Dash VIN intact Fender tag denotes 440 six-barrel with automatic transmission, as built Chrome caster-style wheelie bars and original Rapid Transit System Caravan show sign included in the sale

And the fools run in.🤪

holy cow lol its one of one but so 70s very nice paint

Could have gave it a rev

Car looks weird not tubbed.

200k maybe..

black ghost who?

2 million spent on a classic. What could happen? --- *worst case scenarios* --- On the way to the trailer a several seagulls flying over head crap all over it... and the windows are still down. While waiting for your trailer to get into position, tornado sirens go off and the sky goes dark and the wind picks up. Your ex wife who hates your guts, sees that you bought it and waits for the right moment to vandalize your investment... and the worst part is you don't even know she knows about the deal... let alone that she was even there at the event. A losing bidder walks by with a key and does a number on it out of jealousy. The engine blows while you're showing it off after winning the bid. A thief steals it because the keys are still in the ignition... then proceeds to hit several vehicles as he makes his way out of the parking area, then leads COPs on a high speed chase only to try an outrun a train at a crossing but fails.😲 On the highway, some low life driving recklessly with a cell phone in his/her hand loses control of his/her car and cause a major wreck right in front of you, which in turn causes you to lose control and you wreck... then a tractor truck plows right into the trailer housing your 2 million dollar car. To add insult to injury... the cuda' wasn't even insured yet.

Is that a factory paint job?

Wicked car but that paint job is definitely not my style

Easy scam the sheep bid on it. Hillarious. Yuppies with too much cash

If it got a 383 and 3:50 rear end possi traction n 727 auto trans. Oook ❤❤❤😘😘😍🤩

Mopar son!

that's the ugliest car I've every seen.

That car was not worth that

Too bad it can't be driven on the road.

Stunning car, beats most things out there in terms of looks, sound, rarity, performance and just total bad assery. Too bad they didn't film the engine bay and interior in this video, car would be illegal here in the UK because the rear tyres stick out too much past the bodywork, would have to narrow the diff and bring those bad boy wheels in but other than that, amazing car.

spending stupid amounts of money for crap is the number one way to launder money…

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Cannot believe people call this ugly. If it wasn't set up for drag and didn't have the stripes it would be the best looking muscle car of all time

I didn't see not one black person in the crowd 😮😢

That looks stupid with the rear bars

WTF

Nope

who ever buys it will have to fix the motor, sounds terrible.