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more about #cougar more comments → danio3834: Looks quite nice. Thats a $2000 car around here, maybe even $2500. The 351W is a good place to start if youre going to build it up. more » engineerd: Cougar had style Owner finds vile Jalops demand trial more » Novaload: We saw a lovely green first gen, top down, cruising along today. Perfect condition. The car was older than both of the guys in it. Combined. more » Alfisted: This doesn't get to me nearly as much as it would if it were a first gen. These beasts demonstrate that model bloat is not a new phenomenon. more » Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.: Oh, that poor, poor kitty cat. I saw a gorgeous '72 convertible at Cruise Night Thursday, it makes me sad to think it could have just as easily ended... more » AlienProbe: Do people even try to sell their cars anymore? I mean, seriously, the previous owner could have put a $500 sign on it and made some quick cash... Tha... more » JB_Finesse: It's a shame, but I can still consider the person who junked this thing human, unlike that total jizz-gargling fuckmonger who junked the '67 to fix up... more » Turboner: Oh, that'll buff right out. more » engineerd: The driver is 23. The picture is homage to his sugar mama. more » Six Flags Over Tomsk: Further proof that the amount of money a person has is often inversely proportionate to the amount of taste a person has. more » mricyfire: I feel like the owner lost a bet. more » Tinn-Can: Maybe it is a homage to the Mercury Cougar R8... more » Sloop_John_B: For the man who's already got a the Wolf T-shirt, we now have the Jaguar edition R8. And you thought the Wolf t-shirt was a panty dropper? Just wait... more » Jo Schmo: Personally I would have gone with three wolves howling at the moon. more » mytdawg: I want to paint the nose of my Vette like a P40 Tiger Shark. But we're talking about a $3500 car... And I'm sure the ladies will be just as impresse... more » -
#downonthejunkyard
1972 Mercury Cougar XR7 Has Used Up All Nine Lives, Now Faces Crusher
I've been hitting the junkyards quite frequently of late, searching for interesting Cash For Clunkers victims, and some heartbreaking non-clunkers are showing up as well. For example, this Cougar. More » -
#customcars
Huge Will Ferrell Fan Dedicates Audi R8 To Ricky Bobby
Actually, we have no idea what possessed the owner of this Audi R8 to paint a cougar on the hood, so we're just guessing that he needed to learn to to drive with his fear. More » -
#adwatch
The Seven Sexiest Auto Spokescougars
Automakers have been turning lately to sexy older women, a.k.a "cougars," to sell their cars. These "spokescougars" appeal to jean short-wearing moms seeking to feel sexy again and men seeking experienced ladies. Our seven favorites below. More » -
#autoeroticalbumart
Cougar Straddles A Cougar
One of our favorite albums this year is Neko Case's Middle Cyclone — and not just because of her booming voice. At 39, she's just barely a cougar, but what she's sitting on definitely is. -
#downonthestreet
1969 Mercury Cougar
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Everyone loves the Mercury Cougar, right? More » -
#downonthestreet
1969 Mercury Cougar
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We've seen a few Alameda Cougars so far, including this '67 (which later turned up in the wrecking yard), this '68, this '73, and this '75. Now we're going to look at a first-gen Cougar that's lived in the same neighborhood since I was a kid.
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#downonthestreet
1967 Mercury Cougar
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The Cougar wasn't just a rebadged Mustang, Torino, Thunderbird, or Contour- it was a legend! We've seen a few Alameda Cougars, including this '68 (which won the Favorite DOTS Mercury poll), this '73, and this '75, but we're overdue for another one. How about a mean-looking first-year example, complete with primer and missing lug nuts?
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#projectcarhell
Project Car Hell, Graverobber Edition: 1970 Cougar or 1972 Torino?
Yesterday, we saw the Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 Hell Project competition go to the '72 Volvo 1800ES by a Nixon-over-McGovern-style landslide, with 73% of the vote favoring the Volvo over the '72 Cougar. Today we're going topunishreward Graverobber for his run of incredible PCH tirades (such as this one, this one, or- my personal favorite- this one) by making him work harder for a PCH Tipster T-shirt than anyone else ever has. The deal I made with him: he chooses the cars, he writes the tirade for the cars, I include the tirade in the post... and everyone wins! Well, except for those who grumble about seeing Mercury Cougars in two consecutive Choose Your Eternity challenges, that is, but we'll pay that price. More » -
#projectcarhell
PCH, Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 Edition: Mercury Cougar Or Volvo 1800ES?
In possibly the most humiliating defeat for France since the whole Algerian débâcle, a French car lost a Project Car Hell challenge to American machinery, with the '61 Simca Aronde getting crushed beneath the rusted hulks of a pair of Lincoln Continentals... and that's with the Simca getting some help from one of the finest PCH commenter tirades we've ever seen (notice hereby given: Graverobber has raised the Commenter Tirade Bar to hitherto unprecedented levels). We'll need to give France a chance to regain its former PCH glory very soon, but we're going to get all political-journalist on your ass with today's choices. More » -
#downonthestreet
1975 Mercury Cougar XR-7
The Mercury Cougar has been reinvented many times, but we've only seen a couple of incarnations in this series. We've seen the lean and mean '68 Cougar and the Bloated Final Year Of The Rebadged Mustang Cougar, but what about the Farrah Fawcett-Approved Cougar? I found this appealingly rough '75 parked across the street from the '82 280ZX Turbo and quite close to one of Alameda's non-Buick Skyhawks. More » -
#downonthestreet
1968 Mercury Cougar
How is it that I've only had one Mercury Cougar in this series so far, and that a Malaisemobile? Even worse, we forgot about all about the 40th anniversary of the Cougar last, in spite of repeated reminders from the Colorado Cougar Club! Maybe the problem is that the bloat-o-riffic Farrah Fawcett Cougar managed to obscure our mental images of the sleek 60s cats. Anyway, I've photographed several of the sporty Mustang-based Cougars on the island and you'll be sure to see them in this series, starting with this '68. More »
