1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 XR-7 in Black & Engine Sounds & Ride on My Car Story with Lou Costabile 

That car is so 1967. What a unique year for design, Mustangs, Camaros, Cougars, GTOs. Nice.

A friend not mine's dad was a mechanic at the local Mercury-Lincoln dealership in the 60s. His dad bought a new 1967 Cougar that year. Dark blue with medium blue vinyl interior. I didn't realize these Cougar's were built on the Mustang platform. The Cougar seems so much bigger.

Now, that's a clean black cat! Ron's '67 looks and sounds great, and is perfect for Halloween! Thanks, Lou!

What a beautiful Cougar! I have always admired these more than the Mustangs mainly because of the hidden headlights and body-wide taillights of the same design. I’ve never seen the Cougar with these specific wheels, so that’s a nice touch. Thanks Lou for a great presentation!

Lou, a very well preserved Cougar. Clean and correct right down to that gorgeous 289's single exhaust. What I always liked about the styling of this model is how both the rear tail assembly and front grille are stylistically the same - somewhat similar to the Thunderbirds of the era...

Miss my '67. White with black vinyl top and black interior. Absolutely a joy on a road trip.

What a sweet little Cougar. The engine bay is spotless and overall super clean car. Always loved the sequential tail lights. Thanks for video guys, have a great day!

1967 was a high watermark in automotive styling. There was almost nothing by any manufacturer that was ugly. A great year!

Hi, Lou! There it is, the car that made Mercury "the sign of the cat" (ROWRRRR!!!). All those vertical bars in the grille and taillights give it such an aggressive look, and the instrumentation and the woodgrain and leather set off the interior just right. Like the ads in the '70s used to say, "It's like nobody else's car." Thanks to you and Ron for taking us along for the ride in this cool black cat!

awesome '67, with the iconic steering wheel "knob", only on the '67-doesn't get any better! thanx lou!

One of the most beautiful cars to come out of Detroit!

I love the 1st generation Cougar, beautiful stylish cars. This one is a beauty

My grandma had one of those, and it was a really fun car. If you sat in the middle rear seat you could feel the rumble of the engine.

Beautiful black cat!!! The Cougar had a sleek look with those hideaway headlights. From front to back this car looks so cool. A gentleman's hot rod for sure with a touch of European flair. Very cool!!!

Beautiful Lou! I expect that he spends a lot of time in that engine bay - it is pristine!!

I bought one just because of the XR7 interior. You wouldn't believe what a taillight lenses cost even back then.... Thanks Lou ..

Great story, wow its great to see it is a generational family owned vehicle. My cousin had one I was too young to remember much except it was greenish with a black vinyl top, he was in a horrific accident on his way to Michigan Tech for his degree in engineering, his jaw was broken and the car was totaled. Spent months recovering from multiple injuries but he did recover thankfully. Ended up working for GM and retired long ago.

What if there was no Lou Costabile? Well, there would be less automobile history, that's for sure! Thank you again for showing me a great car!

I must have missed this one. The early model Cougars are one of my favorite cars. Thanks for posting!

My first car. 67 Cougar XR7 with hipo 289, holley 650 4-barrel carburetor.

Le chat noir! The obsidian felinian! My parents bought their '67 Cougar new, and it was the first car I ever wrenched on. First car I street raced with and, later, first car I ever got into a pursuit with, against an L.A.P.D. Matador. Mom sold it to a family friend in '78. Snapped a timing chain in 2001 and I bought it back. Sits next to my XR7-CJ. Great looking cars, them Kitties.

My 1st Hot Wheels car was an orange metallic '67 Cougar...still have it today. Great style on the early Cougars!

Very nice Cougar! Ron has done a great job with it and is a wonderful caretaker for this cat. Thanks for bringing this one to us Lou!

Thank you Lou for sharing this beautiful black 1967 Cougar. These cars s are beautiful. Thanks Lou!!

very nice Cougar. I have always liked the hideaway headlights and the tail lights and the clean styling. Used to be a guy in my little country town, many years ago (40+), who had a Cougar eliminator in red with a 428 Cobra Jet. Kind of got me stuck on appreciating the Cougar.

My second car was a ‘67 XR7, light green metallic with black vinyl top that I purchased used in ‘72. My mother lived until 1999 and I had several cars over that time. She said my Cougar was her absolute favorite and even had a photo of me standing next to it in a frame on a wall all the way to her passing. Mine also had a 289 2V which was respectable power that got relatively decent fuel mileage for the time. One criticism, Lou. You cannot review a first generation Cougar without showing the rear sequential turn signals! 😉 Thanks for the review. 👍 ~ John

THE 67 IS MY FAVORITE AND BLACK MY FAVORITE COLOR ON IT ITS A BEAUTY

Cool car! The 1967 and later Cougars were based on the Mustang chassis, until it grew up and used the mid-size Ford chassis and then downhill after that. The top Cougar was the XR7 GT, which could be had with the 320 HP Marauder FEM 390. The next year's 1968 version could have had 390 HP 427 FEM V8(the same side-oiler as the Cobra used) and then later the 428 CJ, which was also an FEM engine. The FEM(Ford, Edsel, Mercury) engine was introduced in the late-50's(with different displacements, ofcourse) and was made for decades.

Another nice Cougar. The same year 289 that Ford put in the Mangusta made well over 300 hp, it was the predecessor to the Boss 302 and 351. The real term was HO even back then. Cheers 🍻

The Cougar looks great in Black and gold. Lou, didn’t the 67 and 68 Cougars have the rear lights where I think it it s called sequential turn signal lights like the 65 and 66 Thunderbirds? I always liked those. That is pretty neat that Ron held on to this Cougar all these years and took great care of it also. 👍

Ron's car is purrrrrrfect! Thanks Lou!

Rare cars! I remember back in the early 70s, a neighbor had one and I was only like 10 at the time but thought these we're so cool...what with the headlights and the sync taillights especially. Man..those we're the days...seeing all the muscle cars to come, on the showroom floors with my dad... I wish you'd feature a gsx or gs...

Great design in and out. One of my favs Lou. I love Mercurys 👍

What a BOO-tiful black cat! Ford Motor Company and it's Lincoln-Mercury division ran full two page, full color ads in 1967 featuring the all-new 1967 Thunderbird 4-door Brougham, the '67 Lincoln Continental, and the newly introduced '67 Mercury Cougar with the headline "Introducing the "Half-Cars: Cars that are half car and half YOU!"

Love this video Lou! In my opinion '67 is the best year for Cougars, and they just look so classy in black. You're right, I've always wondered what Ford was thinking with the oil pressure gauge on the passenger side. It's one of the great automotive mysteries!

This a Great !!! Car is beautiful. Happy it's stayed in the family all these years. man, '77, i'm dating a girl who has an older brother and foster brother in the Marines (Okinawa). Year later they're discharged and the brother buys a super clean first gen Cougar, metallic green with a different vinyl top,,,hounds tooth ? Long time ago. He has this a year or so and trades if for a Ford Pinto Wagon set up like a custom van back in the '70s (porthole window, custom paint and graphics, etc). It had a V6 and he loved it, more so after taking a tire iron to a collapsed cat converter. I never knew why he gave up on the Cougar.

At the Sign of the 😺 . Remember those commercials. Nice

It purrs and growls like a real cougar 🐈, this is just awesome. The hideaway lights just make the car. When they're off the front looks a lot like the back and it works so well. Instead of it being boring, it looks pretty damn stylish. The red lines are a nice touch too. The red spices up the all black car. You got the black, you got a bit of red and some chrome - the perfect recipe for a late '60s pony car. The interior looks a bit european, but in this case this is a good thing. Really nice car, I like it more than Mustangs. I got actually a picture of a Mercury Cougar on my wall, because it's in a calendar for this month 😀

Beautiful engine bay 😍 Beautiful car😍 Thanks Lou!

Beautiful car always liked them!I had a 77 but 67 was my favourite.

I have always loved these XR7s! I love how they took a Mustang & moved the interior up a notch or two😎

that is one beautiful machine, I just love the red line tires, they always make cars pop out, I am jealous

You just keep finding those beauties Lou! Nice job!

What a great Cougar!

Nice, they sold quite a few of these here in Australia in right hand drive configuration back in the day.

My all time favorite Cougar. I remember seeing my first one at the local Ford-Mercury dealer. Still like them to this day.

Great segment on a great cougar. Ron really keeps that car in excellent shape. Nice that you pointed out a lot of the detail that most folks would not pick up on. Am actually wondering what Ron is working on now as the car seems to have been fully restored. Thanks for bringing this video forward Lou.

If I was ever going to own an old car, that would be it - sexy and gorgeous all in one package :-) Thanks Lou for bringing us this video

Clean immaculate restoration!!

Ron has one beautiful Black Cat 🐈‍⬛

Boy I miss those hidden headlights , beautiful car !! Do you ever get to drive any of the cars you show us ?? 👍👍

The Mustang's cousine 😎👍 Love em both

This may be the coolest car you've had on the channel!

Back in 1974.. I sold a used 1968 cougar to a lady who had a last name of Black... and as the xr7 was gold She had us at Downtown Chevrolet, MPLS.. paint the car Black for the then high price of $375 dollars.. another true story from my memory warehouse.............

Very nice. Notice how the Cougar XR7 tried to emulate the Jaguar XKE (E-Type)? Their names are very similar, and also the dash, with its Smiths-like gauges, center clock, imitation wood grain steering wheel, and toggle switches. Not quite a Jag, but also a very cool cat indeed 🐆

The '67 Couger was based on the Mustang, '68 and later they were based on the T-Bird, that's why the '67 looks so lean and clean. Because of their light weight, the 289 4V moved it along decently and handled well. I almost bought one, by 1969 they weighed over 2 tons with the FE 390 engine, and were luxury cars.

Beautiful car. I have a 68 XR7 and its attention getter too💯

You got it looking good my uncle had one just like it brings back memories

Impresionante estuvo ese Mercury Cougar 67' XR-7 en color negro. Ese interior con el panel de instrumentos en “madera" se veían exquisitos! Por último, las tomas y el recorrido por esos suburbios, haciendo de fondo, lo hacían verse genial! Saludos cordiales!

A beauty!

Wow what story and a very cool car good job again LOU

What a sweet piece of machinery! Love this car-Thanks again Lou

It's an awesome car and it is really good in Black

nice car. Awesome video Lou

Just a classy car....Purdy!!!

i had the hotwheels version of this in a racing set with the stingray as a xmas pressy.that is such a cool classic.

Nice vid Lou!!!!!!!!

Hi Lou, how are you doing? Thank you for a great video and a cute Cougar!

Cool story behind it too!!

Not a Ford guy. But. Love the older Mercury! This is a cool car.

Great car the restoration is going good

😳 sensational!! Thanks Lou. I’m sure I’ve seen one on the road in my life but I’d honestly have to say: Once would have to be it! And I only wish that it’d been more like a number of times to see such a beautiful piece of machinery 👍🏽

Very sharp Black Cat!!

mercury had the best styling of all brands in the golden days, for my taste at least

Very good looking car!

One of my favorite pony cars! ✌️🇺🇸👍

Kitty car, looking smart, thanks guys.

I wonder why ,with the 289, it didn't have dual exhaust? two barrel or four barrel? Amazing how he has kept this car for so long. The engine bay was super clean.

Well Louis you did it again you struck a nerve in my history in my past. I had a 1974 cougar XR7 that I had just painted but I did not want to drive it through the winter months in the Syracuse New York area. My best friend's sister had a 1967 cougar that she wanted to sell. It was not nearly the pristine shaped that this one was in so I used it as a winter rat. It too had the 289 and it was quite dependable. I love the way you keep finding me treasures.

Very nice

Nice!

A mustang that went to college! If you showed the sequential tail lights I missed it, but it's a cool feature of this car. There's a guy here in town that has one of these but its been resto- modded with top of the line suspension and brakes.

Clean!

That's one ExtRa nice cat 😁

Good morning Lou, what a beautiful car I always liked these cars all the way up to 76 and the other sibling the Montego. The taillights I always thought were so cool, The Eliminator was a Beauty also in the 69 Shelby Mustang the taillights are from a Cougar. Thank you for another Awesome Video.

Sweet

Yes very nice car

Love the cougar out of the big 4 of the late 60s sports cars the cougar in my opinion beats out the Camaro and the firebird and the Mustang

I have a 68 Cougar XR-E in 1/64 by M2 in my die cast collection BTW..

Nice 😀

Another great video Lou. I always used to look over the Cougars until a couple years ago and when my Duster was in the paint and body shop there was a 1970 Grabber Yellow Cougar Eliminater that was in the shop beside it and after that I really stated liking the Mercury Cougars. So does your son get to drive the Viper very often? When I was 16 years old I rarely had the opportunity that dD would let me drive him somewhere in his 55 Chevy. I'm 30 now and I have got to drive the car maybe 20 times or a little less. That car is his baby.

Goodday Lou, What a sweet riding Cougar, it goes to prove you don't need all the bells & whistles, sometimes less is best. I was hoping for the pop open headlights & sequencial indicators. By the way I got my 1968 Oldsmobile Hurst 1 : 18 Diecast Model. Your number 1 Fan in Australia Louis Kats from Melbourne Australia ☺ 👍 ❤

My frend had one 390 4 speed. Dark blue dark leather interior. So much nicer than a mustang.

nice

A Cougar is a lot like a mustang, only better :) I love all the muscle car Cougars. That one had a very nice stance, as the back end always seemed to be a little low to me on most Cougars.

My first car at 16. Wish I would have never sold it. Mine didn't look as good as this tho.

chingon

will we get the big brother Cyclone? =D a 70 cyclone would be quite a find!

Do me!! Haha I’m 17 with a 67 Mercury Cougar! Her name is Lucy!

Valve covers are from a 69 302, I'm the second owner of a 67 since 1977 here in north California he said the 289 was 225hp, not right it's 200 with 2v, 225 with 4v my 289 is 312hp with speed parts thanks!