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1968 Mercury Cougar
About the 1967–1970 Mercury Cougar
from the generation archive
The first-generation Mercury Cougar (1967-1970) is a pony car built on a stretched Ford Mustang platform, with the wheelbase lengthened 3 inches to 111. Every Cougar left the factory with a V8, starting with the 289 and running up through the 302, 351, 390, and the 427 and 428 Cobra Jet big blocks. Hidden headlamps behind a full-width electric-shaver grille and sequential rear turn signals set it apart from the Mustang, and Motor Trend named it Car of the Year for 1967.
The story
Traded 1968 Ranchero for this baby in 1980. She came to me with a 302-c4,and I was young and wanted to go fast. Parked in 1986 in order to raise family. Now tring to make it something special again. — Tim Taggart
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