executives came in one day and told us they were gonna call it the panda. ( record scratches ) ( brahms's "lullaby" plays ) and all of us designers looked at them and moaned a little bit and said, "that's terrible." it's not very intimidating for a muscle car. yeah, so they said, "well, give us some names." so i gave them a list of names and so did a couple of other guys. i had barracuda on the list, and they went for it, they liked it. and then milt antonick designed a little fish that they put on the car, which everybody thought was neat. thank god for that. boy, 'cause panda, i don't know about that. without that name, i don't know if it'd be that popular. they shortened the name later on to "cuda," right? yeah, around the design studio we kind of called it "cuda" informally anyway, but by the 1970 models, i guess the plymouth division decided it'd be good to call it just the cuda. the first barracuda started out as a valiant model, and had the valiant emblem and so on. then by '65 they decided to make it a separate car line. it was still called the barracuda then, and then by the '70