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Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: Black88LS on July 15, 2008, 10:05:45 AM
Well here is the story of my DD car. I was getting extremely sick of 15mpg in my 01 F-150, so i drove by a local shop and happened to notice this forlorn cougar sitting out behind the shop. I went in and asked the owner if it was for sale, he said sure $400 as thats what he had in it. I took a look at it, it has a very clean interior, only thing is the dashpad is cracked(arent they all). well it had a bad headgasket as thats why it was sitting, i put new headgaskets on it, had the heads magnafluxed and checked out, no cracks and they are in great shape, i put it all back together and am drivng it now. I've been driving it since Wed last week and i've went about 300 mi to 2/3rds tank of gas, so as far as good gas mileage its awesome, just gotta get the A/C fixed now. Here are some pics of Before and after, i just ran out and snapped these real quick. these are the before, and if you notice in the after pics i repainted the bumpers where they were fading out. I'm still sunburnt from doing that haha. Its dirty too, she hasnt had a bath in a week lol

(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg289/ozzman4790/Cougar001.jpg)

(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg289/ozzman4790/Cougar002.jpg)
Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: 85bird on July 15, 2008, 11:09:27 AM
Wow.  nice find.  I'm never that lucky!
Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: irv on July 15, 2008, 09:30:35 PM
hmmm. fep forums have one just like yours in your
home town, too.nice find .enjoy.--irv
Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: Black88LS on July 16, 2008, 01:55:37 PM
Quote from: irv;227566
hmmm. fep forums have one just like yours in your
home town, too.nice find .enjoy.--irv


thats because i posted it over there  too :D
Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: GREYSHADOW on July 16, 2008, 04:48:10 PM
Awsome....Not a bad lookin Cougar!!!

 I got my 88' from a friend that let it sit for 4 years. He was not going to do anything with it so I helped him with his nouse restoration for what equated to 10 hrs and he gave me the car.

I have about $100.00 in parts into it thus far and it is just about road worthy sans a few odds and ends.
Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: vinnietbird on July 16, 2008, 05:14:57 PM
That's the way I found the Sport,it was behind a fence at a salvage/towing business.I found it by accident.Glad I did.Now,every part replaced later,still rebuilding it.LOL.Nice looking Cougar,especially for the money.Very nice.Get one of the dash caps from Ebay.takes a little time and patience tpuppies it to fit,but very nice in the end.Again,nice score.Any mods in the future?
Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: irv on July 16, 2008, 05:16:22 PM
i know. i :D was just funnin!--irv
im on both forums too.
Title: Brought a Cougar back to life
Post by: Black88LS on July 16, 2008, 09:47:35 PM
Quote from: vinnietbird;227681
That's the way I found the Sport,it was behind a fence at a salvage/towing business.I found it by accident.Glad I did.Now,every part replaced later,still rebuilding it.LOL.Nice looking Cougar,especially for the money.Very nice.Get one of the dash caps from Ebay.takes a little time and patience tpuppies it to fit,but very nice in the end.Again,nice score.Any mods in the future?


any mods? hmmmm i got a K&N i'm going to put in the airbox,  5% tint the windows, fix the AC, i want some black mesh wheels with silver lips(enkei,Prime)Black XR-7 grill,subwoofer in the trunk stuff like that, its a gas mileage car. right now i'm getting about 25mpg
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