The last time I saw this car in April of '74 at Amarillo Dragway it had braided hoses all the way around ......... Judy's hubby and crew chief Dennis Maurer said that the great variety of altitudes and barometric pressures they raced at caused problems with the finicky beast's cooling system ......... he found the braided hoses helped somewhat ........ must not have been enough though, as they parked the Barracuda in August of '74 and sold it over the winter .......... went to running a SS/MA Duster