My first car was a 68 302 4barrel with the exact same color scheme (although mine was a black vinyl roof for added pain in the ass). I WISH i still had that car! I'm stoked for you.
Nice work. I recently purchased a 67 cougar. Was forced to do engine work and suspension work. You tube helped me replace and adjust everything that I needed to know. Keep up the awesome work.
Nice Cat! Had the 69' 428 SCJ with only the go fast stuff... No power steering or air. Those 302's do very well, even the 289 had a 300+ hp version. Yours has a healthy sound. Yes, and cute lights 👍
Man, that exhaust note was on point Great job on the video, ill look forward to others later down the road, whether on the cougar or any of your other cool rides.
Looks great man! Keep it up! Try and keep it out of the rain for sure. I hope to get another one in the next year hopefully in at least as good of shape as yours. I had a 67 many years ago-sold it before I went overseas in the Army, then later a 68-I just could not afford to fix up the 68 at the time with kids and had to get rid of it.
Hoped you can track one down, lots of good cougars still out there! I’m from Texas so the climate here makes it pretty easy to keep a car from rotting, This car gets driven rain or shine , and Probably always will haha
Nice progress on a rare 3-pedal Cougar. If you haven't checked your timing chain on the stock bottom end 302, you ought to. We had an expensive fiasco in June with our '68 - original nylon-coated cam sprocket went out 229 miles from home. Six exhaust and two intake valves on the 2-month old Edelbrock E-street heads were damaged, and the tow home was $1200.
That’s brutal, I’ve already swapped the nylon toothed timing chain, drove the car for quite a few months before I did , and it jumped one tooth, not enough to bend any of the valves but enough to not run right there was a whole lot of slop in it and not much nylon left on the gear, it’s a double roller now all metal , I hate those nylon toothed timing gears
I'm 67 and been the owner of my 67 cougar with a four speed since 1977. Did all the work myself.i work in a restoration shop,4 wheel dics, electric headlights motors, roller bearing in the spring housing.i drive every few weeks in north California. p.s we hate headers in our restoration shop, they will kill your power steering hoses on your cougar asked me how I know after three times thanks!
Nice! All my cars are manual steering for the most part so no power steering hoses to kill for me , I love a set of long tubes. If I ever do power steering I’ll skip all the factory ram style power steering and go with the Borgeson conversion, I would probably do custom hoses to run the lines out the fender apron and in the fender to keep things clean and not have hoses cluttering up the engine bay
On your nugget gold headliner. Call SMS Auto Fabrics and get a sample. Their nugget gold is the closest I have seen. Not available at your normal big box part people NPD, MAC’s, etc.
Hey I wanted to ask something else as well, Have you had electrical issues with anything like the turn signal indicator lights, and gauges background lights? Im having problems and don’t even know how to read the electrical map
Nice ride bro!! 2 thumbs up on having it as your daily driver. I'm sure that engine will handle a bit more cam. What's the rattle when it's idling?? Exhaust leak?? Again 2 thumbs up on driving that cat.
Thanks🤘🏼No exhaust leaks that I’ve found, The car may have a burnt valve on the passenger side but that noise comes and goes so I’m not sure yet. I have a different set of heads I’m going to run when I get ready to cam it
@@houstonihaveacarproblem6291 right on wasn't sure if I was hearing things or not. What kind of heads are you putting on it ?? Now that I watched it again your probably correct ( it is your car, of course you would know it better than some dude watching a video. ). Again Nice Ride!!
Nice man, congrats on restoring it, by any chance do you know where I can get that chrome bezel that goes around the windshield wiper space? Small detail but I can’t seem to find it in wccc or anywhere
At one point WCCC had the trim for around the wiper switch on their website, used, as far as I’m aware it’s not reproduced, as for the door panels , that cougar emblem came on cars with the “Decor” interior option. I’m not sure if that badge is reproduced at this time. I was lucky and when someone recovered these door panels at some-point in the cars life they had just covered over the original panels you see in this video. The very first video I posted of this car the door panels still had the layer that someone added when the car was reupholstered at some-point, I pulled all that off to uncover the original door panels
@@houstonihaveacarproblem6291 got ya man thanks for the response, I’ll probably get a whole new door panel upholstery so it looks nice like yours, more vids of the cougar or any other muscle car would be cool. Thanks again!
The rear has new leafs spec’d to the spring rate from an R code cougar, the front is stock original coils. The front sits a little higher than I’d like but I’ll get to that eventually. Wheels are 15x8.5 rear and 14x7 front the backspacing is 4.25 for the rear and I think 3.75 front. The rear would probably be better if it was 4.5 to keep it a little further in from the fender lip
I had a 73 mercury cougar xr-7 with a 351 Cleveland. I loved that car . But I live in Pennsylvania so the song remains the same . It rusted out and got shot full of holes by a redneck.
How far the tires stick out from the fender wells is going to depend mostly on the backspacing on your wheels. One of the cougar forums probably still has a sticky post on wheel backspacing specs that work on our cars
