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Well after a bad year or two and having to sell the last couple of Cougars to help take care of family, and then to help move on from helping family, I have found myself a rust free 67 Cougar standard trim.
The story with this car is... I got an email from my clubs president passing on that someone was looking for a good home for this car, so being intrigued after reading the story I called to go look at it.
I arrived at a house with a couple of barns at the back. We went out to one of the barns, the PO opened up the door, and all I saw was this strait, rust free rolling shell. Turns out that the PO had to sell it as the city had purchased the land and was tearing down the barn within the next couple of days.. and if nobody bought the Cat it was going down with the barn.
I made an offer based on what he was talking about and I picked it up the same day they were ready to tear it down. Good timing!
The PO did allot of work to it in the past before storing it, like new floor pans, repairs to the cowls, subframe connectors, sandblasted allot of items like rear end, welded in extra support on the shock towers in the prone to fatigue areas, etc, etc.
I also got the contents of a full dry storage locker that had the complete remains of the car in it. In it all there was new suspension and steering parts, new Edelbrock carb, original 289, original C4 with a receipt of $1800 in rebuild and parts to withstand 400+ hp, 2500 stall converter, B&M Megashifter, beautiful like new tail lights, and nicely restored headlight assembly, and the list goes on and on.
So I get it all home and everything was labeled, tagged, bagged, and boxed by the PO so it made it so easy and every box I opened I had a smile on my face.
Now remember I just paid a third of what the rebuilt tranny cost.... For everything!
So here is my build thread, to finish off what this nice man started as he had the same dreams of the car as I have for it..
Now hopefully these posts won't go too far apart as I am also in the process of renovating the house that we bought 3 months ago, on a slight budget.
The story with this car is... I got an email from my clubs president passing on that someone was looking for a good home for this car, so being intrigued after reading the story I called to go look at it.
I arrived at a house with a couple of barns at the back. We went out to one of the barns, the PO opened up the door, and all I saw was this strait, rust free rolling shell. Turns out that the PO had to sell it as the city had purchased the land and was tearing down the barn within the next couple of days.. and if nobody bought the Cat it was going down with the barn.
I made an offer based on what he was talking about and I picked it up the same day they were ready to tear it down. Good timing!
The PO did allot of work to it in the past before storing it, like new floor pans, repairs to the cowls, subframe connectors, sandblasted allot of items like rear end, welded in extra support on the shock towers in the prone to fatigue areas, etc, etc.
I also got the contents of a full dry storage locker that had the complete remains of the car in it. In it all there was new suspension and steering parts, new Edelbrock carb, original 289, original C4 with a receipt of $1800 in rebuild and parts to withstand 400+ hp, 2500 stall converter, B&M Megashifter, beautiful like new tail lights, and nicely restored headlight assembly, and the list goes on and on.
So I get it all home and everything was labeled, tagged, bagged, and boxed by the PO so it made it so easy and every box I opened I had a smile on my face.
Now remember I just paid a third of what the rebuilt tranny cost.... For everything!
So here is my build thread, to finish off what this nice man started as he had the same dreams of the car as I have for it..
Now hopefully these posts won't go too far apart as I am also in the process of renovating the house that we bought 3 months ago, on a slight budget.
