Any motor heads / vintage car guys around?

[pepperj]

It must be a custom since Mercury didn't start building Cougar convertibles until 1969.
I've seen several, though, and are made with the sister car, Mustang parts.

Brother owned a /69 canary yellow eliminator. 351 Cleveland. Mickey Thompsons on the rear.

 

[pepperj]

Neighbor has this ride for sale. $45K was offered already.

 

[pepperj]

1964
100ft ladder truck
536 cu.in.
Purrs

 

[Sandog]

67 was originally a big block which blew up and got replaced with a hot 350 and drag raced. I repainted from a flipflop white pearl to the original Marlboro Maroon. Absolutely not fun as a daily driver. Traded with Bill Tower (Corvette people will know of Bill) for the 68. All numbers matching, A/C, the special 327/350hp. Lot's more fun. Pegged the speedometer at 165. Once. Used to autocross with it in the Cypress Gardens Corvette Club. Great bunch of people. Long before those two I had a 1970 396(403) Nova SS. Also big fun. Now I drive a Civic. LOL

 

[bc5391]

I like most cars from th early 60's and for $3000 you could get most one of them...brand new.....

I had bought a brand new 1973 GTO for $3200, my first new car, traded in my 1963 Impala for it.. I think they gave me $500 for the impala.

 

[xr7ator]

Brother owned a /69 canary yellow eliminator. 351 Cleveland. Mickey Thompsons on the rear.

Pepper. Just now seeing this post. The 351 Cleveland engine came out in 1970 and was indeed the base engine for the 70 Eliminators. 69 Eliminator base engine was a 351 Windsor. No doubt one could install a Cleveland in a 69 as I have done it myself, but no 1969 Cougar came from the factory with a Cleveland.

 

[ISmellGold]

Wouldn't mind driving the Bangshift Cougar
🤣

 

[releventchair]

Pepper. Just now seeing this post. The 351 Cleveland engine came out in 1970 and was indeed the base engine for the 70 Eliminators. 69 Eliminator base engine was a 351 Windsor. No doubt one could install a Cleveland in a 69 as I have done it myself, but no 1969 Cougar came from the factory with a Cleveland.

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'I see this is an old post revived. But the answer is yes. But only if it's a 69 1/2 AKA 70. July 1969 the Cleveland was in production. Some 69 1/2 Mustangs and Cougars did get the Cleveland. I seen one 69 Stang in Calif about 25 years ago with a 351C. But it all depends on how you look at it. 69 1/2 some call 69s due to the 69 features. But due to the VIN that makes it a 70. Yes they are rare'"

Were Clevelands available in 69?

I was under the impression that the 351 Cleveland came out in the 1970 model years. But I came across a set of 351c manifolds that supposed came off a 69 Mach1. I've been a car nut most of my life, but recently got back into Fords. I could have sworn the 351C came out in 70. School me please. :buck:

www.mercurycougar.net

 

[releventchair]

2nd ex wife had a Cougar pain in the butt convertible piece of , work wanted.
"Not today I don't want to start I have a headache. " Everyday. (The car, not the ex.)

City odd even parking staggered nightly.
Car I had no prior history with and sat a while and I was ready to set fire to needed shoved out and encouraged to start.
She sold it cheap and the co worker buyer said it had a broken frame affecting starting.
Oh it had far more going on but that was the reason (allegedly) it never wanted to start.

Last Ford truck and engine I sold cheap had airwashed by P.C.V. valve stuck or fried.
Fan came off and chewed on the radiator. Friend made a mudder out of it.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Hi, I’m Jeremy and I’m a junkoholic. As a lover of old stuff I’ve taken to rebuilding old cars and trucks. Anybody else have the affliction? I’ve got a few things I’d like to run past some fellow motor heads.

Yes!

 

[xr7ator]

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'I see this is an old post revived. But the answer is yes. But only if it's a 69 1/2 AKA 70. July 1969 the Cleveland was in production. Some 69 1/2 Mustangs and Cougars did get the Cleveland. I seen one 69 Stang in Calif about 25 years ago with a 351C. But it all depends on how you look at it. 69 1/2 some call 69s due to the 69 features. But due to the VIN that makes it a 70. Yes they are rare'"

Were Clevelands available in 69?

I was under the impression that the 351 Cleveland came out in the 1970 model years. But I came across a set of 351c manifolds that supposed came off a 69 Mach1. I've been a car nut most of my life, but recently got back into Fords. I could have sworn the 351C came out in 70. School me please. :buck:

www.mercurycougar.net

Kevin Marti has ALL the computer records of ALL Ford products from 1967 up and there was NEVER a 1969 Mercury Cougar built from the factory with a 351 Cleveland. None...notta and zilch.
Rickyracer on the cat forum is wrong. He also stated that they ran out of windsors late 69 year, yet there are a lot of 1970 cougars that have left over windsors instead of the cleveland. He's wrong.
I own ten classic Mercury Cougars (1967 through 1970) including a 1968 Cougar XR-7 GT-E that came with a 427 side oiler. 357 were produced and mid year they stopped production of the side oiler and started production on the 428CJ. Another 94 GT-E's were built with the CJ engine.
The 1968 Cougar GT-E was the ONLY vehicle that year that had a 427 factory installed. No mustangs, no fairlanes or comets, etc.
I know my cats pretty darn well.

 

[southfork]

I have a stock 1929 Model A Ford standard coupe I'm slowly building in my spare time.