Everso and TTNuge. Here's some pictures of my 67 Cougar
01-14-2008, 07:37 PM
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Everso and TTNuge. Here's some pictures of my 67 Cougar
Just sits in the garage and not running at the moment. Will be on the road by summer though.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_211.jpg">
New interior like it rolled of the factory line
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_212.jpg">
The original deck of playing cards that came with the car
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_213.jpg">
Toggle switch on the dash. Way cool for 1967
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_214.jpg">
Original passenger side "Dan Gurney Special Car Of The Year" decal.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_215.jpg">
Side shot
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_216.jpg">
And another with my car by its' side. Notice the flat tire(slow leaker). Fully restored and ready for the road.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_217.jpg">
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_211.jpg">
New interior like it rolled of the factory line
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_212.jpg">
The original deck of playing cards that came with the car
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_213.jpg">
Toggle switch on the dash. Way cool for 1967
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_214.jpg">
Original passenger side "Dan Gurney Special Car Of The Year" decal.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_215.jpg">
Side shot
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_216.jpg">
And another with my car by its' side. Notice the flat tire(slow leaker). Fully restored and ready for the road.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/139726/scotts_pictures10_217.jpg">
01-15-2008, 04:26 AM
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very nice.......love those>>>>
always remember them as they had the progressive directional signals......unfortunately, that was not available on these.....
<img src="http://images12.fotki.com/v197/photos/8/89907/2408142/DSC00910-vi.jpg">
Unfortunately, Porsche was not electrical ANYTHING friendly....;-)
<img src="http://images12.fotki.com/v197/photos/8/89907/2408142/DSC00910-vi.jpg">
Unfortunately, Porsche was not electrical ANYTHING friendly....;-)
01-15-2008, 04:42 AM
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Wow, looks to be in beautiful shape.
Even the interior looks perfect. Full center console, love the dash and the toggle switches. I love the XR7 interior door handles, the way they flip over and pull up to open the door. Even the headlight covers look perfectly aligned when closed.
Nice work, she's a real beaut!
Trent
No pictures of mine, I'm embarrassed by it's current condition. But someday it will be done..... someday!
Nice work, she's a real beaut!
Trent
No pictures of mine, I'm embarrassed by it's current condition. But someday it will be done..... someday!
01-15-2008, 04:45 AM
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Funny thing is the sequential turns were basically mechanical
There is a mess of electrical stuff in the trunk too for them but the guts of the system was a little rotor, almost like a distributor, that would turn and send current to the correct bulb. Very few of the original systems still work but fortunately someone in the community has come up with a solid-state replacement. I still have a working original set up but will probably put in the electrical system when my car is street worthy.
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something very original about them......>>>
even tho i believe there were a few Lincoln's a bit earlier that had the same thing....the Cougar however is the vehicle in my mind that is the most famous for those....
Here is another kind of Cougar....;-P
<img src="http://images29.fotki.com/v333/photos/5/597155/5366915/DSC_2294-vi.jpg">
Here is another kind of Cougar....;-P
<img src="http://images29.fotki.com/v333/photos/5/597155/5366915/DSC_2294-vi.jpg">
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OMG...in the summer of 1972,
Feeling on top of the world with almost a couple hundred dollars in my pocket of tips for bussing tables from what I remember as the hottest looking waitresses in the universe, a friend of mine and I left work at Medinah Country Club somewhere past midnight, in yes my white 1967 Cougar XR7. I'm so cool White, with Black Leather interior, V8, sequential rear turn signals and THOSE toggle switches, I thought I was the ****...
Feeling invincible as it seems we do when we are young, I drove without abandon, pushing the limits of that car or more accurately myself, imagining myself in a Trans Am race, I took liberties with the center line as we booked home. It was very dark, a ninety degree blind left hander off camber was the challenge, I darted in for the quickest line, the soft suspension protesting as the tires of the day did what they could complaining...all song to me nevertheless, I felt the tail try to go but was proud of myself for hitting the gas and keeping it on the road...only to see a set of headlights directly in front of me, in MY lane...perhaps some hot blooded peer was imagining the same in the opposite direction...I'd never find out as I instinctively jerked the wheel right, and off the road, down and along an embankment, taking out 40 feet of chainlink fence that I still remember shredding the vinyl roof above us, as I fought to stay in the driver's seat, (flat and highly siliconed, I slid off...my butt basically on the center console), the seatbelt the only thing keeping me in arms reach of the wheel. Having had the good fortune of not flipping I found myself now in the woods, dodging mature trees until with the sudden and terrible sound of the vice clutch of two trees barely less than the width of the car locked us to a stop. And all was quiet save the hiss of coolant.
Luckily the windows rolled down, we had to climb out of those windows, as the doors were wedged against the trees. I sat in shock on the roof of my pride and joy which faithfully lay dead and totaled beneath me.
I have no idea how the police got there. It was perhaps only 10 minutes after the accident. An officer came up to the car, introduced himself, and flashlight in hand looked over first us, then the car. He asked me what happened, I told him, and he studied me. He said I have no idea if there was another car in your lane son as you say, and there are not ANY skid marks for me to judge, and you have not been drinking. Let's contact your parents and..."My parents are out of town sir on vacation, it is the first time they have left me alone"...to which he replied, "then I think you will have punishment enough" and wrote up the accident I guess to simply as running off an unfamiliar road in the dark. He issued no ticket and drove us home.
I learned a lot that night, about the kindness of people you don't know, about how fleeting life can be, how luck of survival versus the tragedy of death stand like those two trees side by side, and how a few inches or nanoseconds can play the difference. I learned about the reponsibility of having someone in your car as you drive, and how that responsibility involves their life. I learned that the first question from a parent should be "are you ok?" with sincere concern in his voice, as my father asked me when I called him, and that a summer before your senior year in High School without transportation and being grounded for 3 months was a small price for being alive.
That night changed me, changed my outlook, my preparation, how I view the world and most importantly, how I viewed myself realistically.
Thank you for posting the picture of that dear car, and reminding me again, of lessons learned.
Feeling invincible as it seems we do when we are young, I drove without abandon, pushing the limits of that car or more accurately myself, imagining myself in a Trans Am race, I took liberties with the center line as we booked home. It was very dark, a ninety degree blind left hander off camber was the challenge, I darted in for the quickest line, the soft suspension protesting as the tires of the day did what they could complaining...all song to me nevertheless, I felt the tail try to go but was proud of myself for hitting the gas and keeping it on the road...only to see a set of headlights directly in front of me, in MY lane...perhaps some hot blooded peer was imagining the same in the opposite direction...I'd never find out as I instinctively jerked the wheel right, and off the road, down and along an embankment, taking out 40 feet of chainlink fence that I still remember shredding the vinyl roof above us, as I fought to stay in the driver's seat, (flat and highly siliconed, I slid off...my butt basically on the center console), the seatbelt the only thing keeping me in arms reach of the wheel. Having had the good fortune of not flipping I found myself now in the woods, dodging mature trees until with the sudden and terrible sound of the vice clutch of two trees barely less than the width of the car locked us to a stop. And all was quiet save the hiss of coolant.
Luckily the windows rolled down, we had to climb out of those windows, as the doors were wedged against the trees. I sat in shock on the roof of my pride and joy which faithfully lay dead and totaled beneath me.
I have no idea how the police got there. It was perhaps only 10 minutes after the accident. An officer came up to the car, introduced himself, and flashlight in hand looked over first us, then the car. He asked me what happened, I told him, and he studied me. He said I have no idea if there was another car in your lane son as you say, and there are not ANY skid marks for me to judge, and you have not been drinking. Let's contact your parents and..."My parents are out of town sir on vacation, it is the first time they have left me alone"...to which he replied, "then I think you will have punishment enough" and wrote up the accident I guess to simply as running off an unfamiliar road in the dark. He issued no ticket and drove us home.
I learned a lot that night, about the kindness of people you don't know, about how fleeting life can be, how luck of survival versus the tragedy of death stand like those two trees side by side, and how a few inches or nanoseconds can play the difference. I learned about the reponsibility of having someone in your car as you drive, and how that responsibility involves their life. I learned that the first question from a parent should be "are you ok?" with sincere concern in his voice, as my father asked me when I called him, and that a summer before your senior year in High School without transportation and being grounded for 3 months was a small price for being alive.
That night changed me, changed my outlook, my preparation, how I view the world and most importantly, how I viewed myself realistically.
Thank you for posting the picture of that dear car, and reminding me again, of lessons learned.