Body Type:2 DOOR HARDTOP
Engine:347 STROKER
Vehicle Title:Clear
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
Interior Color: Black
Make: Mercury
Number of Cylinders: 8
Model: Cougar
Trim: XR7
Drive Type: RWD
Mileage: 1,012
Exterior Color: White
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
We started with a BC rust free 1967 Cougar XR7. Completely stripped it down to the frame and removed the original 289-2v engine and builted and balanced a 347 stroker using only the best of parts including holley 4 barrel carb, edlebrock intake, roller rockers, multi cut values, flat top pistons, forged rods, billet crank and Hedman headers. Next we replaced the original 3 speed with a Tremec five speed transmission. We rebuilt the rear axle using posi 3:55 gears. Replaced all shocks, idler and front end bushings, ball joints and tie rod ends. We used the original rally wheels, trim rings and centres which look like new. On these wheels we installed new Cooper Cobra P225/70 R14 tires. We installed complete 2 1/2 inch exchaust with Magaflow mufflers. The body panels where reworked, painted 7 times and aligned better than new. The paint is Wimbleton White and is super smooth. All frame rails are clean, solid and undercoated. Vinyl top is new. Both bumpers, grilles and grille mouldings are like new. Door handles, taillamp housings, stainless mouldings are excellent and original to the car. All glass is original, tinted and like new with no chips or cracks. Complete engine bay is very clean, detailed and painted as new. Trunk is clean as new with new mat and liners. The spare is in place. All seats are original leather but have been dyed black. Headliner and carpet installed new. Original door panels are dyed black. Dash pad like new. Dash bezels and all instruments in excellent original condition. Armrest and handles like new. Console, shifter, steering wheel original and look like new. Radio is new Radio Sound unit with AM/FM and jacks for accessories. This vehicle has had a complete ground up restoration with all components rebuilt or replaced as new. It is like new in all areas with many performance up grades done. Reserve on this car is less than it cost to built. You can not built this unit for what you can buy it here. We will help with freight arrangements if required. Car is for sale locally so sale could end at any time. Good luck and happy bidding.
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Junkyard Gem: 2007 Mercury Mariner Hybrid
Sat, Dec 19 2020Once hybrid vehicles from Honda and Toyota proved to work well in the real world of American streets during the early 2000s, other U.S.-market manufacturers climbed aboard the gasoline-electric bandwagon. Ford introduced the Escape Hybrid for the 2005 model year and sales proved quite strong; its Mercury-badged sibling, the Mariner Hybrid, appeared the following year. The Mariner Hybrid never induced many vehicle shoppers to sign on the line which is dotted, despite gasoline prices going absolutely ape in 2008, though it remained available all the way through the Mercury brand's 2010 demise. Here's one of those rare trucks, found in a Denver-area yard last month. The Escape/Mariner Hybrids got amazing fuel economy for tall, truck-shaped machines, though the serious penny-pinchers with long commutes skipped anything built in the 21st century and began driving up the prices of the once-scorned Geo Metro XFi, gas-sipping champion of the previous decade. The Mercury brand was on the ropes by this time, with not much to distinguish the once-distinctive Mercury machines from their near-identical Ford counterparts. The 1999-2002 Cougar was the last Mercury sold here with no twin brothers over in the Ford showrooms. I do see the occasional Escape Hybrid in places like this, though such gas-saving small SUVs tend to retain their value well enough that it takes a crash to retire one. This Mariner Hybrid hit something hard and either flipped on its side or scraped a guardrail for some distance. The airbags deployed and, presumably, spared the occupants from serious injury. That's the good news. The bad news is that fixing this kind of damage to a 13-year-old vehicle made by a defunct brand just isn't worth it to insurance companies, hybrid-electric powertrain or not. We can assume that the battery pack lives on in another Escape/Mariner. Navigation, Bluetooth, and other features that were considered pretty slick in 2007. This truck was in pretty good shape until the very end. Jill Wagner proved that you can bury a Mercury emblem in volcanic soil and it will grow into a brand-new Mariner Hybrid. That's how science works! You can go to the same field and tap on a Mercury emblem, if you want to get a regular gasoline Mariner. Featured Gallery Junked 2007 Mercury Mariner Hybrid View 20 Photos Auto News Green Mercury Automotive History Crossover SUV Hybrid mercury mariner mercury mariner hybrid Junkyard Gems
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Ford says it will begin notifying owners during the last week of March.