1968 Plymouth Barracuda Super Stock 426 Hemi from Highwaymen

If you're gonna hunt a hunter, doing it in style is a must.  Going after a maniac who uses a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado to kill his victims requires an equally compelling car to hunt him down.

That's what Jim Caviezel did in the movie Highwaymen, co-starring the super babe Rhona Mitra (who drove a 2008 Bentley Continental GT Speed in Doomsday).  Caviezel drove a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda Super Stock Hemi to hunt the man who killed his wife.

I never heard of the movie, Highwaymen, until I saw it on the shelf of a local DVD rental store by my house and I had to see it.  Turned out to be pretty good.


The movie was essentially a duel between two men of different worlds (not actual planets or dimensions, I meant social economic backgrounds, no aliens here) with different styles.  Mano a mano.  Jim Caviezel, a former doctor, obsessed with finding the man who stalked and murdered his wife by running her over in an open highway in front of his eyes.  His nemesis, Colm Feore (played First Gentleman Henry Taylor in 24), a wheelchair bound psycho path who targetted women for open road kill.

Yes, that's right, I said wheelchair bound.  It seemed that Colm Feore's character (named Fargo in the movie) had been in so many accidents that he lost many body parts.  He required an electric wheel chair and prosthetic arms to get around.  He had to have special contraptions to go in and out of his Eldorado, open the passenger doors, and drive the car.  The movie is worth seeing just to see a paraplegic psycho.  Yet, he was still a very menacing villain.

What drew me to the Highwaymen were the cars the two men drove.  Feore was in a full-size luxury car, a green 1972 Cadillac Eldorado.  Came standard with 500 cubic inch V8.  Often thought of as a family car or a cruising car.

Meanwhile, Caviezel drove a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda which caught my eye.  It's a nice sporty muscle car which I didn't know about until this movie.  I've been lost in the clouds of Mustangs and Camaros that I don't often look for what else is out there.

The Plymouth Barracuda has a rich history.  It's a HEMI car first of all.  The 1968 Plymouth Barracuda Super Stock 426 Hemi were special built in limited numbers for "supervised acceleration trials" ... drag strip racing!  I don't think they're street legal.  At least at the time they were made.  And they're very, very rare. Only 50 Barracuda 426 Hemis were made.

Photos of various Plymouth Barracuda