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68 Mercury Cougar on 2040-cars

Year:1968 Mileage:20000 Color: has small chips on the hood and where the hood and fender meets from being in storage that people were careless about other cars
Location:

Salinas, California, United States

Salinas, California, United States
Advertising:
Vehicle Title:Clear
Fuel Type:Gasoline
Engine:V8
For Sale By:Private Seller
VIN: 8F91F572750 Year: 1968
Drive Type: REAR WHEEL
Make: Mercury
Mileage: 20,000
Model: Cougar
Trim: Coupe
Condition: Used: A vehicle is considered used if it has been registered and issued a title. Used vehicles have had at least one previous owner. The condition of the exterior, interior and engine can vary depending on the vehicle's history. See the seller's listing for full details and description of any imperfections. ... 

68 cougar factory 4 speed with walnut shifter knob and reverse lock out.Painted 2 years ago and was kept in storage. Engine was a 302 and was stolen while the engine bay was drying,I found a 351 W from a 4 speed 70 cougar and that is what is installed, a 351 W with 4 barrel Holley 650 CFM,M/T aluminum valve covers, long tube headers and a T10 4 speed manual. Clutch is newer, the exterior has small chips on the hood and where the hood and fender meets from being in storage that people were careless about other cars,otherwise,the paint is still good, the interior of the car was completely removed and metal repainted with new seam sealer applied, the seats are fair except for the rips on the top of the back of all seats from people being careless and dropped heavy items over fabric . carpet was new when I put Her in storage. Dash pad is in excellent shape, bumpers need polishing, the trunk was repainted and has a new liner installed. I just installed a pair of monroe gas shocks in the rear to make the rear slightly higher ,installed dual long cherry bobms and side exit pipes.Lost a few items in storage which I would list below. The engine runs well and I have been driving here and ther while I am finishing Her. I recently closed the deal on a new house and I can not bring all of My toys and definitely not going back to storage.


Almost complete, I would say 99% complete, the following is a list of what's needed

1. Dash Panel for the driver and passenger,the original was stolen along with the engine.
2.Center caps for the wheels,Also stolen along with the engine. I have slotted mags right now with all four brand new tires, 14x7 front and 15x8 rear with 255/60/15 tires.
3. Needs to finish installing the headliner, I started it but I do not want to remove the glasses to tuck the edges in ,otherwise all it needs really is to tuck in under the rubber molding. The roof was sanded to bare metal and repainted so very nice under the headliner.
4.Need to reinstall the original radio that comes with the car.5
5. Needs package tray and rear speakers

 I will repeat and re emphasize again, the car is drivable , every time I list a car for sale, someone always asks the question if the car is running after I said that I drive the car here and there,the only reason I do not drive this car daily is because I have 8 other cars that I switch around and of course ,loud ,and neighbors hate it when I pull out at 6 am to go to work and they hear engine rumble .

 Nice rare muscle car, lots of automatics out there but not too many 4 speed manuals.Little elbow grease and little cash and You have a nice cougar.
Pictures coming soon, I am having difficulty uploading My pictures but will try when I get the teenager to help Me with the computer.

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eBay Find of the Day: Craterface's '49 Mercury convertible from Grease

Wed, 29 Jan 2014

Here is your chance to own your very own piece of greased lightning. Well, not the Greased Lighting, it's actually the black, flamed 1949 Mercury convertible that races against John Travolta in the classic 1978 movie Grease, and it's for auction on eBay Motors.
While it appeared in the film's exciting drag race in a Los Angeles storm drain, the hot rod was reportedly lost until last year, when the seller found it as a shell. He verified that it was the actual car with original builder, Eddie Paul, and sent the car for a complete restoration.
The auction includes original parts like the exhaust tips used in the movie and bent bumper from when it hit Travolta's car in the scene. The restorer recreated the scorpion stickers on the doors, razor hubcaps and license plate. He also installed a 1949 Mercury 255-cubic-inch (4.2-liter), flathead V8 and three-speed manual transmission with overdrive.

Junkyard Gem: 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis LS

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We've all been seeing the instantly familiar Ford Crown Victoria P71 Police Interceptor on North American roads for what seems like forever, though in fact the very first of the aerodynamic Crown Vics didn't appear until a mere 31 years ago. Yes, after more than a decade of boxy LTD Crown Victorias, Dearborn took the late-1970s-vintage Panther platform and added a brand-new, Taurus-influenced smooth body and modern overhead-cam V8 engine, giving us the 1992 Ford Crown Victoria. The rule was, since 1939, that (nearly) every Ford model needed a corresponding Mercury, and so the Mercury Division applied different grille and taillights and the rejuvenated Grand Marquis was born. Here's one of the first of those cars to be built, now residing in a Denver-area self-service boneyard. The Marquis name goes respectably far back, to the late 1960s and a Mercurized version of the Ford LTD hardtop. TheĀ Grand Marquis began life as the name for an interior trim package on the 1974 Marquis Brougham (also LTD-based), eventually becoming a model in its own right for the 1979 model year. Today's Junkyard Gem came off the Ontario assembly line in March 1991, making one of the very first examples built. For 1992 (and through 2011), the Grand Marquis was a Crown Victoria with slightly enhanced bragging rights. This one has the top-grade LS trim, with an MSRP of $20,644 (that's about $44,370 in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars). The corresponding Ford-badged model (built on the same assembly line by the same workers) would have been the Crown Victoria LX, which actually cost a bit more: $20,987 ($44,910 now). The very cheapest civilian 1992 Crown Vic cost just $19,563 ($42,045 today). There weren't any powertrain differences between the Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis in 1992. The only engine available was this Modular 4.6 SOHC V8, rated at either 190 (single exhaust) or 210 (dual exhaust) horsepower. The transmission was a four-speed automatic with overdrive. How many miles are on this one? Can't say! Based on the worn-out interior, I'm going to guess 221,719 miles passed beneath this car's wheels during its 32-plus years on the road. I've seen some very high-mile Police Interceptors, of course, including one with 412,013 miles, but Ford didn't go to six-digit odometers in the Grand Marquis until a bit deeper into the 1990s. Thanks to flawed speech-to-text applications on smartphones, the Grand Marquis is known as the "Grandma Keith" to many of us today.

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