one of the sweetest unknown/un-recognized cars

[bighit8]

I know there is a lot of gear heads here, and the mini cooper thread made me think of this.I used to own one but could not afford to restore it at the time.Dumb move to sell it.Do you know what year make and model this is??Lets see who gets it first.Oh for a hint: look at the starter solenoid and its location.
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[garys]

70 Cougar?

[jonathan_sykes81]

Originally Posted by garys

70 Cougar?

Agreed, it looks like an Eliminator.

[bighit8]

Cougar eliminator yes.Year is wrong.

[DISCO]

Cant see the flip over lights, mine's a 67'

[bighit8]

Originally Posted by DISCO

Cant see the flip over lights, mine's a 67'

You have a XR7 right? The eliminator was not made in 67.It is a 69 in the pics.The first eliminator was late 68-early 69 if my memory is right.

[jeffj]

1969

[DISCO]

Yeah 289 four barrel/C-4. Eliminator was a 390 I believe.

[jeffj]

I think that is the 428 Ram Air Cobra-Jet.

My wife had a 1968 cougar with a 390ci when I met her. The FE block shoehorned into what was basically a mustang engine compartment, made for tight quarters compared to other cars of that era. We sold it several years ago and although it was a cool car in many ways, it was not fun to work on and always seemed to need something.

The one shown looks like a '69 model. 1969 was an odd year for many performance cars. It was a one-year body style for a lot of cars like the mustang, cougar, camaro, firebird and others.

That cougar shown is nice, but I'm more of a Pontiac guy and from 1969, this would be my pick:

[Chewyeti]

the Judge is in!

[freekengo]

I really don't know why those cars are considered HOT? Unreliable, handled like a bucket of jello, and had the aerodynamics of a barn. Oh, I know what it was good for! Burnin' rubber! especially with those pizza cutter wheel they called a tire!

[jasonmason]

'69 Eliminator, but it's already been said. Nice.

My parents had a 69 cougar when i was a kid, with the 351 cleaveland (swapped out the windsor) and an awful green vinyl interior that would melt skin. Sold it to get a minivan for their burgeoning kid count...sigh...

[Knuckledragger]

Isn't it a rebadged Mustang? It's got to be a Mopar for me..... (Mid-sixties at that.)

C.K.

P.S. I like the way this thread is going way better then the IPOD one..... Holy smokes.

[jeffj]

Originally Posted by Knuckledragger

Isn't it a rebadged Mustang? It's got to be a Mopar for me..... (Mid-sixties at that.)

Cougars and Mustangs have shared the same platform many times, but along with different front and rear styling, they would do strange things like make the cutouts on the mag wheels in the opposite place from each other.

There was a time in the seventies when the Mustang took a huge turn for the worse (Mustang II) and the Cougar went/stayed with a larger body style. Also, in the 90's, the Cougar shared a platform with the Thunderbird for a time and most recently was back to sharing with the Mustang.

[CPATCRASH]

It's a 69.