1968 Mercury Cougar GT-E 427 Muscle Car Of The Week Video #59 

Remember when these came out in 1967 always loved the looks of the 67 and 1968 Cougar just plain beautiful inside and out

The 67-68 Cougars are one my top five drop dead gorgeous cars I’d own if I had the right opportunity! This one is an unbelievable beauty!

Beautiful car i love it, I had a 1970 XR7 with a 351 C. It's was my pride and joy! 😎

The eliminator with a 428 is what I drove in high school,but it didn't look like the gt-e. Absolutely beautiful

It's quite possible that in 1968, only the Cougar was produced with a 427 engine. However, the owner's manual for the 1968 full-sized Ford shows the 427 as an engine choice. But then again, it also shows a 4-speed manual to be one of the transmissions available.

The engines sounded so much cooler back then.

A friend's cousin had just bought one earlier in the day one Saturday in early 1980 when I ran into them at his house. It was a 1968 GT-E 427. I still remember that he paid $5,000 from a local classic car salvage yard that dealt in wrecked or sitting sometimes engineless classics and muscle cars.

The one Car I should’ve never sold!

This is the kind of car you only see in magazines.

My father had a green 68, my brother had a red one and I had a black XR7. These videos take me back.

When those cars were new my friend's all liked Mustangs. I liked the Cougars. That GT-E is gorgeous. 👍

What a beautiful beast, I love its rarity....

What's not to love, luxury and performance, in pretty much a sleeper package

To bad they didnt produce 1,000's of these 390 hp 427 cougars

You didn't mention it but the 390hp 427 had a hydraulic cam setup instead of solid lifter.

Love it, very rare car....

my grand mother had a 1968 cougar very nice car olive green!!!😃

It was definitely good thinking by Ford to put disc brakes and radial tires on this car they were state of the art for that time.

I had a 67 Cougar, kinda base model but had a few options, such as, full length console, bucket seats and a few other minor things. When I bought it, it was basically dead, the engine had been swapped for a 351W, the auto was a beefed up C6 and the diff had been robbed from a Australian delivery Valiant, engine was destroyed as was the trans, I rebuilt the 351W and C6 and fitted a 9" slippery, man was it fast, I redid all the suspension with later Australian XF Falcon discs, upper/lower control arms, radius rods ball joints etc etc. I loved the thing, the saddest thing ever was I was in an accident with my other car, a 79 FSJ SJ Cherokee 360/T-400/BW1339 full time 4WD, I had no insurance on my Jeep and it cost 30k to restore it, the other driver also had no insurance, so I was screwed, I didn't like the idea of my family suffering from something that was not their doing and I sold my beloved Cougar to buy and restore another FSJ, probably the biggest regret of my life, I have pined for my Cougar ever since.

What an absolutely stuuning gorgeous car! God Damn, Ford got it right numerous times. [Cougar/Mercury/ Lincoln etc].

If you have a ford 427 street car you have something special.

I had a 1967 Dan Gurney special 390 interceptor cougar with a C6 taxicab transmission this 390 was 610 hp board 40in over crank and cam10/10ed 314/525 Ford race cam 4:10 gears I walked many a car back in the day with that bad boy

Neat car! This one is the 427 low riser FE big block. Related to the 427 medium riser used in Cobras and other muscle Ford's!😁

2:18 I was hoping he'd hold the gas pedal down a little longer, but I understand this is a super rare car and it shouldn't be thrashed for no reason. It's widely accepted that these engines made 400 to 410 HP at the crank. 390 HP is a bit underrated. The bottom ends on these engines were tough as balls, too. They actually stayed together which is more than you can say for a lot of other super stock engines back then.

The 67-70 Cougars will always be my favorite Cougars.

So much better looking than the Mustang !

That car Should be in a museum

Beauty, comfort and the legendary side oiler. What more would you want. Good one Kevin -- thank you.

Great and good looking car

Kevin, great video and shots! A few notes for you though..the XR-7 package was really nothing more than a luxury option package that affected the interior only. It included the simulated wood grain dash and switch/cluster package, leather inserted seats front and rear, and lighting alternatives. Nothing more than that. Also, the 427 was the more common engine brought with the GT-E package and the phasing out of the Sideoiler was really the reason the 428CJ was introduced late in the 1968 build cycle. It had everything to do with timing of the order from the dealerships. There were 357 GT-Es made with 427s and 37 with 428CJs (of which only 3 had 4 speed transmissions, none in 427 cars) Thanks for the promotion of the GT-E Cougar. It is a fantastic car!

Ok I’ll jump in Had a 68 in the touquise ? Color. It was beautiful and so cool. I was about 19 at the time. Met an ambulance at a huge intersection in the rain, and thunder with ac on and huge traffic. he went through the red light, never saw him and we hit corners. Running through the rain to phone to get another car (going to an important gig). Parents brought me another car. Ambulance had a heart attack victim in it. Had it been anothe second, he gets me in the drivers door. Banged me head and knee but made it to the gig. I just can’t remember what we did with the car. Traded or sold or what. Police ticketed me. When to court with a lawyer and judge toss this after one question from my attorney to the ambulance driver. that car was the coolest I ever had.

I have seen a green 68 Cougar with a 428 Cobra Jet, is sold in 2015 at the Owls Head Transportation Museum.

Awesome car. I heard some of those Cougar Eliminators came with Boss 302 motors in them.

Again awesome presentation. Would be nice if you mentioned a aprrox range value of any car's current value, just to get a sense of how special these cars are today.

My friends cousin bought one like this but blue I think from a body shop/project muscle car lot in the 1980's for $5,000. Surprised me when he said it was a 427 car but I knew even back then that he had scored big time.

very sweet Cougar

I've seen two Dan Gurneys (one in Canada) but I've never seen a 427 Cougar yet in the metal. I am surprised it didn't burn more rubber than it did, though.

AWESOME ! ! ! !

My first car when I was 16. 1968 cougar, yellow with peeled off vinyl top, black interior, 302 4bbl. Paid $150 for it in 1981. I blew the motor by putting about 10 cans of stop leak in it. Long story about stupid things 16 year olds do, lol. I sold it to a junk yard for $175. I personally like the interior of the regular cougar with console better than the XR7’s. I’ve always wanted that car back. This one is awesome. I better Mustang of the day I’ve always said.

The 67 and 68 were the best looking Cougars. ..

Like hearing the fact's from you! Love to hear the motors alot more!

1974 in Brookline ,Ma I responded to a car for sale ad and lo and behold it was a privately owned 68 Cougar GTE , lime green with vinyl roof. I crawled underneath and saw that it was indeed a side oiler 427 with only 22,000 miles. I passed it up and today still wonder what hell was I thinking! note: asking price was $1800.00 !! Oh well...

What a BEAUTY!!!

Hens teeth! I've never seen one in person, and I worked at Olinger Lincoln Mercury in the service department!😊

Great show, thanks! Got any Comet f/x cars?

Nice car

Great car! I just love this channel!

Love this car

Love it ! Wonder if any were produced with a 4-speed, vs the auto, behind the 427 ?

Beautiful car

SWEET!!

Love It,.

Very nice!

427🔥💪🏽CougNutt

The Ford 427 side Oiler probably the best motor ever and the 429 Cobra Jet who are the best race motors ever nobody beat no one

1968 Mus let Car Of The Week Looks clean well kept up.Red on Red

I had a 1967 Cougar XR7 with the factory cragar type wheels. Then 1980 sold it for 500 dollars to paint a Mustang. Damn I miss that Cougar.

Yay, W code goodness!

Unique machine. Love the paint, hrdtop, GTE option, even the rims. Not a fan of the whitewalls, and C-6 tho.

My first car in 1991 was a 68 cougar. Just a regular pedestrian model... non xr7, 302 4V heads (68 only heads) 230 horse if memory serves... automatic, non working a/c, non working heat, non working power steering... light blue like an Omni... enough plastic to hand form an 87 fiero

Always hard to get the hidden headlight grills to line up.

Wow. Nice

Unique car

Gorgeous

Love it.

THE ST. Valentines Day Muscle Car:::::::::::::::::::::..........................

Seeing this car I can't help but wonder if anyone who was lucky enough to own one ever put the dual quads on it, just for the fun of it.

Nice vary nice.

I'll trade my Cougar for yours! Gold XR7 with the 302 Windsor with the four barrel.

Kevin go on the Mopar guy I still appreciate the Ford and Chevy muscle cars of the era they all produce really great engines also

I like that, “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”. Nice.

AWESOME FORDS...BEST CARS IN THE WORLD. COPY CAT CHEVY'S COULD NOT MAKE ANY CAR WITHOUT COPYING FORD.🇺🇸💜

Always a fan old the cougar. In fact ivw always liked them better than the mustang's.

Definitely ❤

In high school I had a 67 GT with a 390 and T10 4 speed tranny. Fun car to say the least. Unfortunately in my early 20s I needed money and sold it. Yeah, pretty stupid...

I,M WATCHING IT A SECOND TIME DID I MISS THE REAR END GEAR RATIO

She's a Texas car?

I think iam in love

In 1990 my neighbor was selling a mint condition 68 cougar for 500 bucks. I was still in junior high school but I really wanted the car. Sadly I didn't have the money 😭

So rare that many people even heard of Merc

And I thought I knew my cars! I was born in '62 Hmm!

The Electric Razor.

I had a 67 XR7 289ci No A/C and a 3 speed manual..Black leather interior..😟Sold it after 6 years..😭

Scuttlebutt has it ferd underrated their big boy engines by 100ish horsepower, not unlike the other big manufacturers, they all did it from what I've heard. I just saw them wreck a nice 69 Cougar on CHiPs tv show from the 70s, they also toasted a 69 GTO too,what a waste those campy shows were wrecking muscle car history. Sweet ride though,Merc definitely got this bad cat right! ▪☆☆☆▪

Much better lookin than the Mustang mk1

👍🏻👍🏻

Hp rating's we're much higher than the manufacture's would advertise back then to keep the government off of their backs. Mass produced high volume vehicles had to have a limit set for (advertised) hp. But actual hp was always higher.

Nifty......

68. Torino with hydraulic cam single 4 bbl

What a beauty. The loss today on performance styling is no chrome trim(imho). The all plastic even though much lighter just looks bad...maybe the eruption styling is nice but american body plastic just looks bad.

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We made an art form of bashing ford's back in the day....but the bowtie bunch got a kick in the teeth everytime the owner of one of these 427 GTE's came out to play. The only one I ever saw back in the day that was a 427, not 428. This guy/car made a believer out of us guys in our area. I am sure it was not stock as the owner was a Tech at the Merc dealer, but S O B that thing hooked up and ran!!!

Xr-7 was onlu a trim level which came with woodgrain dash applique, woodgrain in console, door panel pockets, over head console with toggle switches as well as extra switches on dash and emblems located at the c-pillar and did not make it automatically a vinyl top car although most I've saw we're indeed vinyl top cars but i have saw hardtops as well. The 427 was the only engine available for several months of production (I forget exact number) but in the last few months of production the 427 was replaced with the 428cj. Also all GT-E 427s had the same engine code in the vin and the 428cj had only one engine code and all GT-E's were two tone paint broken up at the lower trim like you stated but its argent gray and all of them are that exact color.

Umm, I believe the W-code was not a side-oiler but instead, it had a hydraulic cam and lifters. Also, Ford didn't put 427's in Mustangs. Lots of 428's and later, 429's, but no 427's !

This must be the CAT that caught the Pony?

The only Ford model I’ve ever “coveted”.

Real nice car. Here in Canada, every Cougar I've ever seen was a rotted out piece of shit...sure is nice to see one so shiney and new. Not to mention it's probably worth five hundred thousand bucks!!

I read that they built two Cougar Boss 429's, are they still extant? Those would be the ultimate find if only two were built.

Needs XR7 Trim and a 4 speed.

I like it of course there would be several other cars I would take before it but I like it in fact at least the states that I've been in and or go to currently you almost never see a nice older cougar and I think it's a shame in fact cougars are often so ignored well my son and I actually my son got me into it haha we collect adult collectible diecast cars and although there have been a few cougars made they look like crap LOL now that one there and I know a lot of people like it I wish it did not have a two tone I would enjoy it more if the entire exterior was red and the interior was white but that's just me and the brothers have to look for the best cars they can get their hands on they don't modify them and with that being said I'd say they found a Jewel there