http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mercury-Cougar-XR7-1985-MERCURY-COUGAR-XR7-/290776736697?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item43b3a4e3b9#v4-42
Such a simple squiggly stripe down the side...but with 20k miles, that had to have been done "back in the day". I feel like the car would be a standout at a car show 10 or 20 years from now.
"Turbocoupe" no surprise as to what's under the hood of that...Cougar XR7...what would someone expect as they walked up to the open hood? Not that single valve cover!
Be a sweet ride, less the Miami Vice graphics lol
Nice clean car but 2 questions someone might know. Did these come with a black grille? and whats the large cat head emblem in the trunk for?
Agreed, loose the dated graphics, along with the shift .
No, the earlier XR-7's had chrome/argent grilles and headlamp bezels (same as GS & LS) so those have been painted. The beltline trim and lower appear to have been painted as well because the chrome strip in the beltline mouldings is now black and the three stripes along the bottom should be gray and not black.
Other than the "clutter" I'm not seeing what you are in the trunk though??
I think he's talking about that big cat head emblem on top of the spare tire. Not part of the car as far as I know....
Ahh, see it now, I had to crank up the contrast on my monitor. Not sure what that is from, but yeah, it not a factory '85 piece.
I wish my trunk liner was in the same condition as this one!
That was for sale several years ago. Can't remember if it was ebay or some other site though.
That stripe makes it a chick car.
I'd rock it.
TOTALLY rad to the max. Fer shurrrrrr....
As clean as that car is, I'd replace the shift and cruise with that stripe. :D
I'd have to loose the miami vice graphics and the flintstones shift , but the rest of the car sure looks clean.
I too, remember that car being posted before. Hard to forget that stripe.
It was on craigslist last year. I think he was asking $7-8k for it.
I was HOPING you'd like it :D
I should have grown up in that decade...
You missed a lot of fun man.
This car is right out of that era, no question.
I would also change the shift though.
Yeah I don't understand *that* at all. Is it a shifter or wine bottle? LOL
The shifter looks like a wine bottle top. Other than that I'd rock it :).
LOL, not really sure i could. Nice shape and good example
you didnt miss much, just the music,,,but you can get it all today.
That very car was indeed on eBay many years ago. I was the person who posted the thread for it, actually. I always wondered what happened to that car; it obviously hasn't changed much.
That car was on CL here (Detroit CL) and out of Plymouth Michigan for 3 years in a row and I think the asking price was always $7500. It was an older guy that owned it. I talked to him on the phone once about it. He had all of parts to put it back to original when it was last for sale by him (including the 10 holes that may be the actual 10 holes in the picture; when it was for sale here it had chrome rims of some sort on it to really set off the graphics!), so it is possible that those factory pieces would come with it.
Nice Car.
Cooter
http://www.lamoureuxford.com/used/Mercury/1985-Mercury-Cougar-951b2b9c0a0d064901464fee8001c3e0.htm
Now found at a Ford Dealership. I would've bought it for the $3500 it hit on Ebay...
More than likely on consignment.