Saw this next door to an estate sale we went to today. Asking $15,000. Odometer shows 73,000. Car looks pretty good. Did not talk to anyone about it. I think the price is a bit stiff. $7,000 to $9,000 would be more reasonable, but good luck to him. No phone number shown. If anyone is interested, I can go back and get contact info, assuming the car is still there.
Regardless of the price, if they want a good chance of selling it, it definitely needs a deep cleaning, with a wash, polish and wax. 60% of what people look for in a car is cleanliness and shine.
That's a nice color combo for a Falcon or Comet. If he want's to get a high price, he should invest in a red paint job and color the interior accordingly or replace it with a factory one or at the very least paint it a deeper darker blue. Those end pipes and extra spring leaves doesen't do him any favor, either. They make it look like some highschool kid's first car
Fun factoid: (I haven't ABSOLUTELY verified this as accurate, but I think it is.....) From 1967 when the Cougar was introduced, all the way through the 1980 model year, you could only get one with a V-8 engine. No 6's were offered.
Yeah, it's true, my brother has a coffee table book on Mustang and Cougar. It also said that they (Mustang and Cougar) only had floor shifters. No provision was made for column shifters.
Mustangs were originally conceived for women, until they came out with the fastback. If a woman wanted to own a Cougar, Ford Motor Company would be the last to object. However, no compromises with bench seats, six cylinders and vanity mirrors for the driver. It wasn't until the end of the Muscle Car era that FoMoCo started third gendering their products
No, never from the factory a 1st generation Cougar left with a inline 6 (67-70). Along with that no Cougar left the plant with 4 wheel lugs, this was still the standard for inline 6 Mustangs in 67, don't know about 68. And true (like the Mustang) they all were floor shift up until 74 where then it was a option. Early 67 Cougars DID have a bench seat with arm rest, just not sure if that was standard. I've seen 1 in person, original owner, back in the 80's. If you are the real die hard for restoration you can still get one. Mustang was also designed as a young persons car, a sporty car, no gender attached to it even before the fastback. The Cougar listed "could" be a decent car, yet even I'll admit the stupid huge pipes don't belong on this car, but WAY over priced. I dual exhausted mine in 83/84(?) and I made sure they were not a in your face ad on but just something 1 in 5 people mite notice. IMO, $ has been spent on this ones interior even though no pics of it. It's clearly 2-tone, facory blue for 67 looked like this, was the only blue available.... I suspect mud on the one listed for a few reasons... 1st, it's a freeken old car and they still leave the plant today with mud from touch ups. Drivers front fender in the 2 pics caught my eye, the white scratch.... that has to be mud. Also from owning several of these in the 80's, that straight body line in the middle going from wheel well to wheel well ( along the white scratch), that shadow line was NEVER straight no matter what angle you looked, it very mildly curved up on the front fender towards the top of the wheel well on the front fenders Front end has been tweeked a bit also, for the good I will add........ Fenders and hood line up GREAT....... they didn't line up that way from the factory! This is pretty much how they were when new, passenger side being the worst for lining up...... The 67 I still have ( in the barn dead since 1987) , and the many other, a 67, and lost track of how many 68's ( and one 69 but it's front lined up) I owned all had this issue, no cars were crashed and fixed, it was a factory thing. Takes/took a fair bit of "tweeking" when I was a teen to line those up. Lazy eyes also, a very common problem on the 67/68 Cougars. That eye lid is just to heavy for it's structure as the design is for the eye lid to just SLAM down once the vacuum is no more..... that's why even today you see these 67/68's out of whack so to say, the one being sold shows the same problem.... they don't just go to far, they also bend the grill structure in, a flaw no the less. In the 80's I removed mine, bent them back into shape and attached spacers to the lids would close all lined up Some 67/68 Cougar facts....... The grillllls....... "If" you ever get one and need "just a part", be careful! I personally have 2 variants, but have heard of a third.... On the exterior all looks the same, but hinge points/parts can be different. my 2 variants all plug into the vacuum lines and bolt up to the car no problem but you just can't swap parts from one to the other Base model 67/68 cougars.... wiring harness changes through the model year...... be careful if you need the new brain box for the 3 way signal lights. Rear glass window..... 67-70 shared the same glass Trunk lids..... A nice flip up Cougar emblem ( sorry, not the best pic) was 67 only, yet through 70 when it was now just a boring key lock all trunk lids were the same. Same goes for the chrome trim piece on the trunk lid..... Asking price for the car posted.......... COOL, mine must be worth $5k USD in it's, million pieces! Nice looker, to hard I guess to spit and polish the caps and tires............ Non the less, a nice looker IMO. However, being what it is, even at 1/2 the price, these Bougars/Rustangs.... you look at that sub frame and unibody hard, especially at the torque boxes. These cars also, left the factory with the flaw of, water puddles and will not drain but has to over flow at the windshield, where you can not access without major cutting when they rust out....... OK, slam Ford now guys....... T-was the 60's, GM and Mopar all played the same game............
