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Sons 68 Mercury Cougar slight update


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The ‘68 Mercury Cougar my 19 year old son imported back in the summer has turned out to be an excellent buy, it hasn’t needed much work so far with just a new brake master cylinder needed to pass an MOT, we also replaced the starter motor, alternator and voltage regulator to cure some starting and charging issues and it’s fine now. All said parts came off the shelf from UK suppliers and were keenly priced.

The amazing thing is he’s managed to get insurance on it himself from a specialist broker for under a grand, so he’s spent plenty of time driving the car over the last few months and he loves it. He also managed too trace the grandson of the first owner of the car on the internets who remembered the car well and confirmed that his grandmother hardly ever drove it backing up the fact the car only has 48,000 miles showing....

Being a California car there is no rust anywhere, the paint is a bit tired but my son is happy to leave it as is, he likes originality. Here’s a few pics...

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Great pics :-)

The one alongside your Zodiac is fantastic.

A friend of my dad's had a Mk3 Zeff 4 with column change in same colour as your Zody. Off the road around 1975. Used it to tow trailers for his joinery business.

 

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Cougar reminds me of this. Early 70s Matchbox 68 Mercury Cougar in green. My one was an earlier version with different wheels.

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Love that car :wub:

Whats under the air cleaner 2 barrel or 4?

I want to go back to the coporate blue covers on Shitey not a fan of the bling on mine at present.

It’s a 4 barrel Edelbrock carb, the engine is a ‘J’ code high compression 302. She can shift a bit....

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How do you find the Edelbrock?

Need to change from my Summit (Holley Double Pumper Knockoff) and everybody keep recomending Edelbrock ;-)

Yes very good, never have any troubles starting her. Even a couple days back with the temperature in single figures she fired right up! Haven’t even tuned the carb yet either, other than turning up the idle. Can’t really go wrong with an old Edelbrock unit I’d recommend it...

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Does any other 19 year old have a car as cool as this? Struggling to get my head around it tbh, when I was 19 I was riding round on a shitty old mountain bike ffs

Yes the boy has done well, he and the car were featured in the Classic American car mag recently as it’s probably a given he’s the youngest owner of a Yank motor in this country, people can’t believe it when they see him behind the wheel!

He worked and saved very hard to by his dream motor, and is continuing to slum it daily driving the £500 year 2000 1 litre VW Polo I bought him as a first car when he past his test, a car which he really respects and looks after.

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How do you find the Edelbrock?

 

Need to change from my Summit (Holley Double Pumper Knockoff) and everybody keep recomending Edelbrock ;-)

 

If you can wait a month or two I can give you more feedback on mine. First impressions are great - started easily and ran smoothly straight from the box, but not been able to drive it yet.

 

 

Sorry for the thread tangent!

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