'69 Mercury Cougar

[Sherman 18]

I've been thinking about building a weathered muscle car for a while. So I grabbed this out of my stash. Latest AMT version of their Cougar.

Ground out the backside of the body with a Dremel. Then bunched in the holes with a knife.

Damaged the right rear quarter panel with a knife, file and Dremel.

Removed the right rear marker light and emblem.

Added styrene sheet to the back of the water pump.

That's all for now

 

[Skinny_Mike]

cool! Can't wait to see how this turns out.

 

[ij001]

I'm not brave enough to have-at-it like that, Jeff... I have the same kit (earlier boxing) and make no excuses for 'playing it safe' with mine !!.

Looking forward to seeing this one develop.



Ian.

 

[moon puppy]

Neat!

 

[Sherman 18]

Thanks guys. I'm trying to push myself a little on this one. I always bog down on details and shapes on cars. I'm really going to try and not do that on this project. That is one of the reasons it's going to be weathered.

 

[Sherman 18]

Some reference photos

Nice ones

 

[Sherman 18]

Reference photos

Rough ones

 

[Iron Mike]

My cousin had a blue '67, always liked that car, because no one else had one. Best wishes!

 

[moon puppy]

What a shame.

Dig the options, no AC which means you got hot air out of the floor or dash vents...AM radio but a massive power plant you have to use a can opener on to change the plugs.

 

[Sherman 18]

Got a little more done the other night

Hacked off the front wheel wells as they were no where close to what a Cougar has.

Cleaned up the firewall and drilled out the brake master cylinder mount point. The kit does not have a brake master cylinder.

The Boss 302 engine is kinda cool as they tried to make the lifter valley and they did a neat job with the heads as they can be modeled with them off.

Added some grandt line bolts to the intake manifold should look better than a blob that was molded

Transmission is ready for paint. I glued on a sprue to hold it for painting

 

[Sherman 18]

Body

Ford/Mercury bodies had pot metal end caps. This was really kinda sloppy from the factory. A lot of them did not match the body lines. There should be a panel line between the quarter panels and the front fenders. This is missing on the kit. I used blue tape to mark where the lines should be. I used a scribe to make the new lines. On the left fender I just sawed off that part.

End result

Next time the fender and cowl area

 

[Sherman 18]

My cousin had a blue '67, always liked that car, because no one else had one. Best wishes!

This is my wife's '67. My wedding present to her.

 

[Iron Mike]

Some cool modifications, keep it up.

 

[Sherman 18]

Thanks Mike

:salute

 

[Iron Mike]

Check the title, if the first owner is a Trent, then that's my cousin's. :laugh:

 

[Iron Mike]

My uncle always said "A Mercury is just a Ford with lock washers".

 

[Sherman 18]

My uncle always said "A Mercury is just a Ford with lock washers".

:idonno

You know growing up in a Ford family my grandfather always said never buy a Ford car if Mercury had the same.

 

[Iron Mike]

He meant that Mercurys cost more, he was a dyed in the wool, full on Ford guy. He worked auto parts back in the days you have to know your stuff. It used to crack us up when we'd ask what the plug gap was on a flathead and he'd rattle off ".030 and that's the 216 Autolite or H10C Champion". :laugh: Miss you, Uncle George! Always had time for a game of catch. :drinks

 

[Rhino]

I drove a 1970 Torino GT 429 back & forth to College, back in the day. Same Competition Orange the '69 Cougar Eliminator was. A muscular, sexy, car-model choice, Sir!