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US $40,000.00
Year:1967 Mileage:1012 Color: White /
 Black
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Transmission:5 SPEED
Body Type:2 DOOR HARDTOP
Engine:347 STROKER
Vehicle Title:Clear
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
VIN: 7F93C651146 Year: 1967
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
Condition: Used

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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Translogic drives wood-burning Mercury Beaver XR-7

Sun, 31 Jul 2011

You read the title right, we're talking about the Mercury Beaver XR-7. No, Mercury never officially built a car called the beaver. This is the brainchild of upstate New Yorker Chip Beam, who owns and operates Beaver Energy, LLC. It runs on gases created by wood pellets fermented in a 2,400-degree furnace and fed to a supercharged Ford 4.6-liter V8.
By all accounts, it gets down the road just fine, and has pretty close to full power. The best part is, you can grow the fuel yourself and avoid patronizing big oil, if that's your thing. The only drawback that we can see to the Mercury Beaver XR-7 is the PVC pipe jungle occupying the space that would be the trunk under normal circumstances.
Still, if you're willing to smell like a mountain man and look like a bad Back to the Future knockoff, this ride is right up your alley. Click past the jump to see Translogic's take on this modified Merc.

Fitting Retirement: Grand Marquis last Mercury off the line

Wed, 05 Jan 2011

The signs have come down and retail production ended back in October of 2010. Now, the very last Mercury model has rolled off the assembly line. This last Mercury somewhat fittingly takes the form of a Grand Marquis reporting for fleet duty. It was built at the St. Thomas plant in Ontario, Canada, which is the same facility that continues to produce the Ford Crown Victoria and Lincoln Town Car for fleet and livery duty.
St. Thomas' days are numbered, however, as the factory is slated to close on August 31. When it goes, the Panther platform is likely to follow. So long, and thanks for all the fish memories.
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2023 Grand National Roadster Show Mega Photo Gallery | Hot rod heaven

Wed, Feb 8 2023

POMONA, Calif. — From an outsider's perspective, it would be easy to assume that the Grand National Roadster Show has always been a Southern California institution. After all, it celebrates the diverse postwar car culture of the region — hot rods, lead sleds, lowriders, and more. However, the show had its roots in NorCal in 1950 when Al Slonaker and his hot rod club showed their custom cars at the Oakland Expo. The GNRS moved to Pomona, California, in 2004. By then it had grown exponentially and seen about a dozen more car customization trends come and go. However, the show and its centerpiece award, the America's Most Beautiful Roadster prize, celebrate what is perhaps the first of those trends: the American hot rod in its purest form. Today, in its 73rd year, the GNRS is the oldest indoor car show in America. Annually it welcomes 500-800 cars, gathered into special themes like Tri-Five Chevys or Volkswagen Bugs. At this year's show, which was last weekend, a special hall was dedicated to pickup trucks built between 1948-98, including mini-trucks, groovy camper bed conversions, and resto-mods.  However, of all the vehicles presented, only nine are eligible for the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award. Winners get their names engraved on a 9-foot-tall perpetual trophy that was, according to The Ultimate Hot Rod Dictionary, the largest in the world when it debuted in 1950. Slonaker chose the word "roadster" initially because "hot rod" bore slightly negative outlaw connotations in 1950. Only American cars built before 1937 of certain body styles — roadsters, roadster pickups, phaetons, touring cars — are eligible, and they cannot have roll-down side windows.  Cars in the running for the cup cannot have been shown anywhere else before their debut at the GNRS.  Contestants for this accolade essentially build their cars to the a platonic ideal of a hot rod. This year the honors went to Jack Chisenhall of San Antonio, Texas, for his "Champ Deuce," a 1932 Ford Roadster. It's exactly what you picture when you think of a hot rod, but distilled to its absolute essence.  Other standouts included "Green Eyes," a two-tone green 1959 Chevy El Camino  with a heavily metal-flaked bed, "Blue Monday," a 1964 Buick Riviera lowrider, and a personal favorite, "Purple Reign," a purple and black 1951 Mercury. Cars may have started out as tools, but there aren't shows like this filled with custom refrigerators.