[LIZARDKING]

Greetings all. Nice site you have here, very informative, nice layout too.

What optional wheels were offered on a 69 XR7? I have hubcaps and want to go to a 14 or 15 inch orginal looking wheel. Magnum 500's would look good on my car, were they an option? What center cap would I use? Were the Mustang Rallye GT wheels offered on a Cougar?

This car will be shown as an unrestored orginal so I want to keep it stock appearing. For show duty I have the orginal wheels and hubcaps and the orginal tires that I can put on.

These cars look great from the factory so I dont want to alter the stock appearance.

Thanks

 

[Tim B]

Since you stressed originality, available from the factory wheels for a XR-7 or standard would be the 14" Style Steel wheels with the stainless inserts and trim rings withe blue Cougar center caps. I have them on my 1969 XR-7 (see link) The Mach1/Eliminator/GT slotted wheel with cap was available only on the Eliminator. Magnums were possibly added by the dealer or even later.

Click on "Custom wheels" at the site below, even though they are reproductions
http://www.classic-cougar.com/

 

[LIZARDKING]

Nice car Tim, what size tires are you running? I had a 91 SHO, great cars, never could make that EATC work properly.

 

[Tim B]

They are 215/70R14. What is EATC? I just sold the SHO last week, miss it already.

 

[Royce Peterson]

Magnum's were not optional on '69 Cougars. They look great though. Here's a '70 with some. Note that many things are wrong with this car where authenticity and originality are concerned:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1875350224

 

[dark7068]

yeah, shaker ram air (but he mentions its not original), no spoiler, snake emblem on fender, anything else????

Rick

 

[sixt9coug]

how about the missing ELIMINATOR decal on the 1/4?

 

[dark7068]

its there, look hard

Rick

 

[sixt9coug]

aahh i sees says mees..... guess i should have clicked the link for more pictures eh?

 

[LIZARDKING]

Those look nice on a orange car. I see a white 69 XR7 on ebay for 7k, owner says 36k actual mileage. The wife wants one, I may fly out and look that one over.

EATC = electronic automatic tempature control = headaches+cash

 

[72cat]

If you get it for her, make sure she joins the forum, we girls need more female company on here

 

[Tim B]

LIZARDKING


EATC, never had a problem with that. It only had 75K miles on it. BTW I edited my previous post on the tire size. As for the white 69 XR-7 on eBay take a GOOD look at the interior, ain't notin' original about it!!!!!!!

On the Eliminator the 428 emblem is wrong, if there even should be one at all. I like the mods....especially the shaker. But I'd be loath to modify a 428CJ Eliminator now.