The Warriors of the Fort Bliss Warrior Transition Battalion (WTB) need your support to complete the restoration of a Classic 1968 Mercury Cougar. Mr. Tony Torango, owner of Body Masters Collision Repair Shop, El Paso, TX graciously donated his facility and his time to guide the Warriors through the restoration process. As you can imagine the restoration is quite extensive. Because of the scope of the project, along with the attention to detail needed, the soldiers must stay focused.

Click/Tap to View PDF What would a classic Cougar be without functioning sequential taillights? Frustrating, that’s what. Classic Cougar Community member coachJack has come to the rescue with his thorough guide “Everything You Wanted To Know About the ’67 Cougar Sequential Taillights.” According to coachJack, he started with Steve Citrone’s “Sequential Signals of the 67/68 Cougar,” which provides comprehensive information about the system. Next, he added the “Sequential Turn Signal And Emergency Flasher Systems” which contains essential information, working diagrams, wiring diagrams and a troubleshooting flowchart.

Click/Tap to View PDF On October 17, 1913, Henry Ford launched the first moving automotive assembly line at the Ford Highland Park Plant, the birthplace of modern industrial mass production. Line workers earned $5 per day, twice the average industrial wage at the time, and sufficient to allow the workers to purchase the product they produced, the Ford Model T. The American middle class was born. The beautiful buildings comprising the Ford Highland Park Plant were dubbed the “Crystal Palace” due to the openness and natural light afforded by the huge windows.

It was a great day to get together, the weather was perfect for bringing the cats out. Several attendees drove for more than an hour to attend. Set up began at 9:30 in the morning as slowly the members found their way to the Sycamore Picnic area. Ernie, as in years past, did an amazing job organizing the event. He was the first to arrive and began unloading his car with the various items he picked up, anticipating the arrival of help to set up the covered picnic area soon.

They Never Installed a 427 In Anything But a GT-E in 1968. Except When They Did… Okay, so what if I told you that there was this guy who says there was a ’68 XR7–that’s not a GT-E–built with a factory W-code 427 (impossible), has factory Whisper Aire® Air Conditioning (not available with a 427), painted white (of course, all unicorns are white…), and that it was ordered by a dealer in Texas for a retail customer, built on the assembly line, and it may still be in the hands of the original owner?

We are using an open source program called phpBB to support the forum. This does lots of great things for us. First of all, open source software can be modified to meet our purposes. We aren’t stuck with the way the developers’ believe things should work. We also benefit from the thousands of other users’ experience and efforts in extending the basic software by developing code that adds features–called “mods” with phpBB–so the Forum does more and we don’t have to spend our hard-earned money paying for it.

Like to Talk Cougars? Be sure to check out the new forums added to this site. The forum is run by and for Cougar enthusiasts. Our main focus is making this the best place for Cougar hobbyists, not advertisers. You have to be a bit of a web geek to fully understand what this means, but we think everyone will find the results speak for themselves. Lets take a short tour of the new forums.

What We Learned Today on MecuryCougar.Net Hello Mercurycougar.net – You may have noticed the server downtime yesterday. Today marks the dawn of a new day at Mercurycougar.net. I have, effective today, transferred ownership of Mercurycougar.net to Vertical Scope. Mercurycougar.net is now part of the automotive family of websites owned by Vertical Scope. This is a great thing for the Mercurycougar.net members. You will soon be introduced to Helena Ciardullo. She will be the new administrator for Mercurycougar.

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone Many of us didn’t fully appreciate the TCCN until it was no longer available. TCCN had become, for many users, the best place to learn about our classic Cougars and to get the technical information needed to fix the most common problems. And even if your car didn’t have a problem today it served as a wonderful place to while away the hours thinking about all of the things you might someday want to do to your Cougar.

April Fools day, 1966 marks the beginning of the Cougar story outside of Ford Motor Company. I think many of our less Cougar afflicted friends and significant others may find some dark humor in the date, but for us it marks the beginning of an incredible story. The story of how Cougar began is brought to you by the good folks of the Cascade Cougar Club, and in particular, Don Skinner Editor of the Cascade Cougar Club Prowler newsletter, with innumerable contributions from the collection of Jim and Elaine Pinkerton.

The Cougar Club of America held an informal meeting at the Carlisle all Ford meet earlier this month. The result of that meeting has been summarized in this posting from the CCOA website: Opinion: ClassicCougar Community.Com The Cougar Community needs more resources, and a healthy active national club is a vital ingredient in the mix. But the CCOA has not been able to fill this need for the past few years.

Congratulations to the Carlisle All-Ford Nationals Winning Cougars and Their Owners! 1970 Mercury Cougar XR-7 Owned by Shannon Terry Why is it the owners get the credit when the cars have to do all the work? Just kidding! Lots of hours of painstaking effort goes into every car, and we extend our congratulations to all that made the show. The thing this article really needs is pictures! If you have pictures of any of the winning cars, please send them to us so we can add them to this article.

Thanks a million to Bill for getting me the photos from the latest get together hosted at his place in Fountain Hills AZ. I know a few people are missing from the pictures but it looks like a great time was had by all. If anyone has any stories to share or discuss about the gathering I believe there is a discussion thread ongoing on the MCN forums. Consider this fair warning that any stories I see may make their way here 🙂 Photos compliments of Bill Basore.

Add it to your Blackberrys and day timers. It’s the big one. Check out the post by Steve on the MercuryCougar.net forums. “Now is the time to make your hotel reservations for the Mid-Atlantic Prowl. The Cougar Club of New Jersey & Pennsylvania and the Delmarva Cougar Club will be hosting the show again this year with . This show is held as part of the All Ford Show at Carlisle.

The first phase of data pages for our classic Cougars are now up and running. Check out the growing amount of data for the 1967 model year. This is however just a drop in the bucket and only the beginning of data assimilation for the site. So much of the data available for our fine vehicles is handed down by word of mouth, community forums and old Internet sites that can disappear at any time.

Not having the luxury of being able to attend the Colorado Cougar Club’s 2007 National show I’ve been digging around looking for info on the whole thing. A couple of guys posted some pics on MCN (which was cool) but when I stumbled across the official club website and saw all of the great pics they had of the event I was in heaven. Beautiful cars and uhhh.. guys where did you find all those fine looking young ladies 😉

How to use this site: We want to be the first place you stop for all of your Cougar Community information. Check out the Resources menu on the right side of the home page. You will find links to some of our favorite Cougar hangouts: MercuryCougar.net, TheCurb.org, and the CougarClub.org (CCOA). MercuryCougar.net is the busiest forum in the Cougar world. This is the place for continuous Cougar discussion. If you have questions, they have answers.