Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a Plymouth Barracuda automobile.

2012		M. Wilkerson ‘A Clean White Sun’ in ThugLit Sept./Oct. [ebook] The rumbling of the ’Cuda’s Hemi.
2024		D. Swierczynski California Bear 33: [H]is car — a hardtop ’78 Plymouth ’Cuda.