Mercury Cougar XR7 all original matching Numbers and original 120k miles. Well looked after car with plenty of money spent on upgrades and replacing old with new. V8 4v J code, all extras, factory airconditioning, power steering , tilt steering, power disk brakes, double chamber booster, remote mirror, head consol with; open door -park brake - low fuel and seatbelt warning lights, centre consol with original factory clock, factory tinted windows and factory tint sun block windcreen. Black luxury leather interior with grained black leather inserts, Woodgrain dash with full factory gauges, light panel swicthing, and all geniune aircon vents. C4 auto and 8inch diff 3.00: 1 (single spinner) stainless steel rear axles. Car is from Salem Oregon, and I have the details of the last 2 out of 3 previous owners all from Oregon. The car is all genuine original except for the color which was changed from ice green to Madras blue, (also a 68 Cougar color option), by the owner who revamped the car in 1997 . I have all those reciepts and photographs. Marti report is available The has no body rust issues, or a disintergrating substructure.( Oregon is not in the Salt Belt) but it has some small bubbles in the corners of the doors just appearing. I Imported it November 2017 and have carried out lots of work: i have all the reciepts for viewing upon inspection Just to mention a few things Replace timing cover with new version (seal accessble from outside)old seal was leaking. New timing chain and gears (whilst accessable)and harmonic balancer New lower control arms and idler arms New power steering controll arm bushings, bolts and compression cover New edelbrock 650cfm New electronic distributor New MSD blaster hp coil One wire alternator adapter New double chamber brake booster (genuine parts) New brake light switch (at pedal) New Brake pedal pin and bushing Revamp all heater lines and cables Revamp aircondition condersor pressure sensor Regas aircon with current approved gas new aftermarket radiator expansion tank.(which were not a factory item in 1968) New transmission shifter bushings at floor assey. New washer water bottle and all new hoses and squirters, revamp foot pump New strut rods,bushings and clamps for front sway bar. New front heavy duty Shelby1 inch drop coil springs, new saddles new front shocks New Electronic motors for pop up head lights (replacing air casters) New indicator lenses and Led bi-colored lamps White parker/Orange upon indicating Body Deadner (TM) all interior New carpet underlay also (sound deadner) Led interior fitout and replace old emblems (interior) Revamp all dash panel switches Reface gauges and redone chome on dash panel New dash light covers (blue original color) New electronic indicator relay New electronic tail light/ indicator sequencer New LED plasma tail light globes New diff yoke seal (swaped out mineral oil for synth) New rear shackles, pins and bushes New leaf spring bushes New rear shockers (munroe air) New wheel caps , (cougar emblem) and many other small items here and there. All my replacement parts imported from Salem Oregon. The car was alway serviced by the previous owner but in the last few years his wife was using it as a daily driver, after being in his cave for 12 years. He said she was slowly killing it and that was killing him so he sold it. He recondtioned the transmision just before handing over to me .Its still the original C4 tranny that belongs to the car . (not change over) As you can see from what Ive done the old parts were in need of serious servicing and it got beyond him. I have all his details if you want to get in touch. In fact I have all the previous owners details All numbers matching Body, Engine, Diff, Tranny. This car is suitable for a collector as it would not take much more to bring up to concours.
