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Hello all, I'm very exited to be writing this as it is about my latest cougar acquisition. Here's the story. IT all started when I purchased a standard parts car in Geogia, and to make things easy I was looking for a winch to pull it onto a trailer. So on I went to my local shop, and they asked me how much weight I needed to pull. I said the weight of a 69 cougar convertible, 3500 or so pounds. Well, they wanted way too much for the winch so I declined and was on my way out when a young man who had just started there asked me if I needed any parts for my car. "Well, I can always use parts" was my reply. He then preceeded to tell me of a 69 convertible that was only about an hour away that he had purchased, but then backed out on.
So I made the short drive and found it, languishing between a volkswagon beetle and an old sedan. Not that it looked like much, fenders on the hood, dirty, etc. So then I decided to purchase it for parts. (I have two other 69 convertibles). The junkyard owner preceeded to lift it up with a lift, and my jaw dropped. I saw what I thought were the floorboards falling to the ground. My jaw then dropped again when I realized it wasn't the floors, but just a bunch of tree bark, and the floors where spotless and rust free. Shocked, I handed over the $400 he was asking for it and had him set it on my car trailer. I asked him the the story on the car, and it goes like this: It was an original Florida car that was driven up until 1984 at the University of Florida (car still had 84' plates and UF parking permint) when it was put in indoor storage at the back of a business. It was restored off and on until 1999, when the store went under and the owner left it there. The new owners didn't want it,and so it ended up at the junkyard. I hauled the beauty home and after spending about and hour and a half getting it off the trailer unharmed (No rear axle, frozen discs in front). After it was unloaded, it was time to see what I'd bought. Well, here's a list:
69 XR7 Convertible
Absolutely ZERO rust! Rust free doors, fenders, floors, hood, trunk, quarters, need I go on?
Original motor/transmission
A/C car
Disc brakes
120k miles
" M" Code 4 brl
CLEAR TITLE
Tinted windows
Original AM radio
Console
Black leather RECOVERED seats in perfect condition
Origiomally Aqua mettalic in color
Pit- free chrome
Trunk full of parts - including pair of mint eyebrows and NOS gas door lens
Only major things missing are the rear axle and door panels
Needless to say, Im very exited about this project and plan to start restoring it beginning of next year. Expect to see me on here every once in a while looking for parts and adding updates. Sorry to write for so long, but I feel this is a story worth telling.
So I made the short drive and found it, languishing between a volkswagon beetle and an old sedan. Not that it looked like much, fenders on the hood, dirty, etc. So then I decided to purchase it for parts. (I have two other 69 convertibles). The junkyard owner preceeded to lift it up with a lift, and my jaw dropped. I saw what I thought were the floorboards falling to the ground. My jaw then dropped again when I realized it wasn't the floors, but just a bunch of tree bark, and the floors where spotless and rust free. Shocked, I handed over the $400 he was asking for it and had him set it on my car trailer. I asked him the the story on the car, and it goes like this: It was an original Florida car that was driven up until 1984 at the University of Florida (car still had 84' plates and UF parking permint) when it was put in indoor storage at the back of a business. It was restored off and on until 1999, when the store went under and the owner left it there. The new owners didn't want it,and so it ended up at the junkyard. I hauled the beauty home and after spending about and hour and a half getting it off the trailer unharmed (No rear axle, frozen discs in front). After it was unloaded, it was time to see what I'd bought. Well, here's a list:
69 XR7 Convertible
Absolutely ZERO rust! Rust free doors, fenders, floors, hood, trunk, quarters, need I go on?
Original motor/transmission
A/C car
Disc brakes
120k miles
" M" Code 4 brl
CLEAR TITLE
Tinted windows
Original AM radio
Console
Black leather RECOVERED seats in perfect condition
Origiomally Aqua mettalic in color
Pit- free chrome
Trunk full of parts - including pair of mint eyebrows and NOS gas door lens
Only major things missing are the rear axle and door panels
Needless to say, Im very exited about this project and plan to start restoring it beginning of next year. Expect to see me on here every once in a while looking for parts and adding updates. Sorry to write for so long, but I feel this is a story worth telling.
imp: :bandit:
