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6-Mile 1974 Plymouth ‘Cuda 360 “Graveyard Carz” Collection – Unsold NOS Example
Overview
Description
There are Low Miles No Miles cars...and then there are cars that challenge the very definition of preservation.
This 1974 Plymouth ’Cuda 360 is one of those cars.
Finished in FE5 Rallye Red with a White vinyl top, White longitudinal stripe, and White bucket-seat interior, this ’Cuda shows just 6 miles and has spent more than five decades preserved in essentially the same state in which it arrived at the dealership in 1974.
It was never retailed to a customer when new.
It was never conventionally dealer-prepped.
It was never restored.
And according to the history accompanying the car, it is one of two sequential-VIN 1974 ’Cudas preserved together from new and believed to be the only unsold new-old-stock examples of their kind known to exist.
Its sequential companion—the 62-mile TX9 Black ’Cuda ending in VIN 040—is being offered separately by Low Miles No Miles, with the two auctions scheduled to conclude approximately 30 minutes apart.
For Low Miles No Miles, this is one of the most significant automobiles we have ever had the privilege of presenting.
Vehicle Overview
Finished in factory FE5 Rallye Red with a White vinyl top and White longitudinal stripe over a White bucket-seat interior, this 1974 Plymouth ’Cuda is powered by its original 360 cubic-inch V8 High Output paired with a Slap Stick automatic transmission. The odometer currently shows just 6 miles.
Factory optional equipment includes air conditioning, power steering, power disc brakes, center console, and Rallye gauges.
But the options list only begins to explain what makes this car extraordinary.
Unlike virtually every new car delivered in 1974, this ’Cuda was intentionally kept from undergoing the normal dealership pre-delivery process. As a result, it retains assembly-line markings, stickers, decals, packaging, and other details that were ordinarily removed, installed, cleaned away, or altered before a retail customer ever received the keys.
This is not simply a low-mile ’Cuda.
It is a surviving snapshot of how an 1974 E-body left the factory before the dealership finished the job.
Story
In the spring of 1974, Plymouth dealers learned that the ’Cuda was coming to the end of the road.
1974 would be the final model year for the E-body ’Cuda.
Fred Ditman, owner of Ditman Motors in Baytown, Texas, understood the significance immediately.
According to the history accompanying the cars, Fred attempted to order two brand-new ’Cudas directly from Plymouth. He was informed that the factory was no longer accepting new orders.
So he started looking elsewhere.
Fred contacted dealers throughout the Houston area and eventually located two new 1974 ’Cudas through River Oaks Chrysler Plymouth at 4807 Kirby Drive in Houston.
One was this FE5 Rallye Red example.
The other was a TX9 Black example.
Their VINs were sequential: BS23L4B271039 and BS23L4B271040.
Their Dealer Demo Plates were sequential as well.
Exactly how the cars changed hands between the dealerships has been lost to time. It may have been a dealer trade, an outright purchase, or some combination of the two.
What matters is that Fred got both cars.
And then he made a decision that would prove remarkably forward-thinking.
He decided to save them.
The Rallye Red car was specifically kept from undergoing the dealership’s normal pre-delivery preparation. Fred instructed his prep department to leave it alone.
No normal cleanup.
No final installation of certain delivery items.
No attempt to turn it into an ordinary retail-ready new car.
Instead, the car was preserved essentially as it arrived.
Although the dealership no longer exists and was eventually sold off, part of the property was kept by Fred. The two ’Cudas were then kept indoors on the original dealership property, where they remained together for approximately 52 years before emerging in January 2026.
An Assembly-Line Time Capsule
There are restored cars.
There are survivors.
There are low-mile cars.
And then there is this.
Because this ’Cuda was never conventionally dealer-prepped, details remain that almost no retail buyer in 1974 would have ever seen.
Factory markings remain throughout the car.
Stickers and decals that normally disappeared during preparation are still present.
The original Rallye Road Wheel beauty rings were never installed and remain in the trunk.
The original window sticker is still affixed to the passenger-side door glass.
Two original fender tags remain with the car.
The original build sheet survives.
And perhaps most remarkable of all is the car’s original “Follow Along” assembly sheet.
It was found exactly where the factory left it in 1974—folded between the seat track and the floor and pierced directly through by a seat mounting stud.
It was not repositioned for display.
It was not recreated.
It was not placed there later.
It simply never moved.
According to the seller, no other fully intact, untampered Follow Along sheet has been documented still remaining in its original assembly-line location on a surviving E-body.
That alone gives this car extraordinary historical value as a reference piece.
Condition
The goal with this ’Cuda has never been to make it look restored.
Its importance lies in what has not been changed.
The FE5 Rallye Red finish remains original, as do the White vinyl top, White stripe, interior, drivetrain, and countless assembly-line details throughout the car.
After approximately 52 years of indoor storage, natural age and patina are visible in areas, particularly underneath. Those characteristics are part of the car’s history and have deliberately not been erased through cosmetic restoration.
Mechanically, the car runs.
The brakes function.
The transmission engages.
The air conditioning has been charged with R-12 refrigerant and blows cold.
Only extremely minor age-related service items have been addressed, including replacement of the oil filter and one deteriorated heater hose.
This is not being presented as a freshly restored show car.
It is something far more difficult to recreate: an extraordinarily intact reference example that still displays how a new E-body looked before decades of restoration, detailing, reproduction parts, and human intervention changed the landscape.
Highlights
- 6 miles shown
- Final-year 1974 Plymouth ’Cuda
- Original 360ci High Output V8
- Slap Stick automatic transmission
- FE5 Rallye Red
- White vinyl top
- White longitudinal stripe
- White bucket-seat interior
- Center console
- Rallye gauges
- Factory air conditioning
- Power steering
- Power disc brakes
- Original paint
- Original drivetrain
- Never conventionally dealer-prepped
- Preserved indoors for approximately 52 years
- Original window sticker still affixed to passenger glass
- Original build sheet
- Original Follow Along assembly sheet still in factory-installed location
- Two original fender tags
- Original keys
- Rallye Road Wheel beauty rings still uninstalled in original packaging
- Numerous surviving assembly-line markings, stickers, and decals
- Sequential VIN to companion TX9 Black ’Cuda
- Sequential Dealer Demo Plate history
- Clean title
The Sequential Twin
The number immediately after this car’s VIN belongs to another extraordinary 1974 ’Cuda.
BS23L4B271040.
Sixty-two miles.
TX9 Black.
And preserved beside this car for approximately 52 years.
The two share the same remarkable story, but Low Miles No Miles is offering each car individually rather than requiring a bidder to purchase both.
The auctions are planned to conclude approximately 30 minutes apart.
That gives each ’Cuda the opportunity to stand on its own while still leaving the door open for one collector to acquire both and preserve the sequential pair together.
For someone who believes these cars belong together after more than half a century side by side, that opportunity remains.
Letter From The LMNM Team
Every once in a while, a car comes along that changes the scale by which you judge everything else.
For us, this is one of those cars.
Low Miles No Miles was built around preservation.
We have featured cars with hundreds of miles.
Dozens of miles.
Cars still wearing factory plastic.
Cars hidden away for decades.
But six miles on the odometer is not even the most interesting part of this ’Cuda.
The story is.
In 1974, while everyone else was thinking about selling cars, Fred Ditman was thinking about saving them.
The ’Cuda was finished.
He knew it.
He tried to order two more.
He couldn’t.
So he found them elsewhere and brought them back to his dealership.
Then he made a decision that, more than 50 years later, seems almost impossible in its foresight.
Don’t prep the Red one.
Don’t turn it into a normal new car.
Leave it alone.
And that is exactly what happened.
Look closely at this car and you are seeing details the first retail buyer of a 1974 ’Cuda would likely never have seen.
The beauty rings are still sitting in their original packaging because nobody ever installed them.
The window sticker is still attached to the glass.
Assembly-line markings remain.
And beneath the seat track is a piece of paper that might tell the entire story better than anything we could write.
The Follow Along sheet is still where a Chrysler assembly-line worker left it.
Pinned beneath the seat mounting hardware.
In 1974.
That stopped us in our tracks.
These two ’Cudas also come to LMNM from Mark Worman of Graveyard Carz. If you know Mopars, you know Mark. He has spent decades studying, restoring, and preserving Chrysler history, which makes him a fitting caretaker for a pair this extraordinary. Mark understands just how important the smallest factory details are on cars like these, and we’re incredibly proud that he has trusted Low Miles No Miles to tell their story and bring both ’Cudas to auction.
We have always said, “They’re only original once.”
This car takes that phrase to an entirely different level.
And somehow, there is another one.
The next VIN.
The Black car.
Preserved beside it for the same 52 years.
Each car deserves to be judged individually. Each deserves its own spotlight.
But after surviving side by side since 1974, we also wanted to give someone the opportunity to keep them together.
So we’re ending the auctions approximately 30 minutes apart.
Maybe they go to two different collections.
Maybe one bidder decides that VIN 039 and VIN 040 have spent too long together to separate them now.
Either way, for LMNM, this is bigger than simply auctioning another low-mile collector car.
This is automotive history that somehow survived untouched long enough for all of us to see it.
A final-year ’Cuda.
Six miles.
Original paint.
Never conventionally dealer-prepped.
Preserved indoors for more than half a century.
The kind of car you can search for your entire life and never find again.
Fred Ditman believed these cars would matter someday. He was right.
