http://poconos.craigslist.org/cto/4825477862.html
Reminds me of the forum member up in Canada who had to sell that pristine low-mileage one to someone that promptly stuck it in the snow and salt. :( Hopefully the ask keeps it out of potential "beater" status. I think we're reaching the point where that won't happen anymore, but you just never know.
Saw one of these in the junkyard a couple of years ago in line to get cut up. Still had the turbines on it and everything...car was not in horrible shape either.
Good to see he dropped the price. He was asking significantly more a few months back
The driver side fender has been repainted.
I looked at one about 10 years ago or so somewhere near Biglerville, PA that also had paintwork done to the driver side fender with almost the same mileage. It had 27K miles maybe? He was asking $5K or $5500 but I walked because I didn't want to pay that for a previously damaged car. I can't remember though if the one I looked at had a moonroof or not. I wonder if this is that same car. I think whoever bought that car I looked at flipped it. I saw it listed later on by someone else for a higher price. Maybe this is the person who bought the marked-up car and trying to sell it after these nine or ten years for what they paid.
Did these cars get factory pin stripes?
yes, white factory pin stripes
I also see no buck tag
this one does not have the ultra rare gold trim grille,, too bad
anyway,, this looks like a nice find
. Good catch. I see it now.
Yea, mine doesn't have the pinstriping but it was common.
Was it applied at the factory and listed on the Monroney sticker or applied at the dealers?
I should have been more accurate with my wording. The owner of the 20th I looked at was firm on $5000 or $5500, not asking which implies flexibility. At least he wasn't flexible at the time I looked at it. He could have wavered with time possibly.
Standard paint stripes were not available on any 20th from the factory:
http://www.coolcats.net/fox/20thanniversaryoptions.html
Any striping was added on at the dealer or aftermarket.
There was another one recently that I didn't look at closely enough (there was one or two pictures and that's it) and I think it was also in PA somewhere. Front 3/4 view in the bright sunshine in a nice-looking neighborhood. I think that price was right about 5,000. Higher miles.
Would make sense to pinstripe at the dealership. Not all but plenty of box Panthers have it too.
Was this the same one that was asking over $9K? Looks like it.
Right I do remember seeing it almost 10K.
I wonder what happened to the louvered hood custom one on LI, he was down to 7500 and then the ad disappeared. I wonder if someone finally snapped it up. Had a claimed 19k on the odo.
I'm about 90% certain you need to buy this. You just don't own enough cars.
Go on vintage wheels.com and do a search for 1983-88 Cougar. Prices are shooting up....
thanks,, I was assuming all the docs show pin stripes ,, assumed it was standard meaning these showed up at the lots with the white pin stripes from the factory
....Sometimes I feel like I'd like things to be more simple again. But my "collection" pales next to C2G's. And he seems to be handling it alright so I should buck up eh? :)
I would love to have a fresh, low-mile 20th like that. The temptation to give it the stealth-GT40 treatment would be too high though. I think I would have a legitimate no-holds-barred poll/discussion among the entire forum of what the course of action should be. This is the place. We're the overlords. And we should have a say in how the preservation of the artifacts we hold dear are preserved, if possible.
Keeping 12 cars on the road isn't too bad provided they are fairly sturdy to begin with. There have been a few cars here and there that had me thinking but I had to really assess which vehicles I would rather have. I had to be really really picky when deciding not to pursue some of these and repainted panels on a $6800 car is a good example of how having too many cars already prevents me from buying another. The lower the price though, the less picky I become to offset the overhead of having another car to look after. 10 years ago on the 20th I looked at very similar to (or maybe the same as) this one, it was the repainted panel on a $5K or $5500 dollar car that didn't justify the acquisition. Buying the car is the easy part. Once you are stuck with it, there's a bunch more that comes along that can't be recovered at the higher prices. So if I'm going to sink unrecoverable time and money into a car, it has to be a car that checks all the boxes. If the time and money is recoverable, that means the purchase price is low enough to warrant said acquisition. This case doesn't fit those requirements for my cirspoogestances.
Fortunately for the car, the price is high enough like someone else said, that the chances of it ending up in daily driver status are less but it can still happen.
You've hit the nail on the head and I'll admit that I've been learning that as I go a little....but then again, life changes. And repairs/improvements I thought I'd have time for 2 years ago, I no longer do.
I'd like to keep one of these factory 5.0 cars stock but the low power output makes it hard. I've never really been opposed to leaving the exterior and interior of one of theses cars stock and modifying the engine, even if it was a pretty low mile car. My reasoning is that none of these cars will be worth mucho bucks like a 60's muscle car. I mean an 88 XR7 that looks completely stock on the inside and outside but sports a 347 topped with a set of TW 205 heads and a Trick Flow R intake would be cool. How is a car that looks completely stock and minty until you pop the hood and see that engine not awesome?
Don't remind me! That was local, and it was me who saw it in a snowstorm (and have seen it a few times beating around since then). God, I wish I could have saved that car, but was in a different situation then. Were that to happen now I guarantee it would be mine...
Yes. I was 99% sure it was you that saw it.
Ahhhh...can't save 'em all right?
Same car? Doesn't look like a factory VIN sticker on that left fender and the buck tag is missing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercury-Cougar-20th-Anniversary-like-an-XR7-/301830593083?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4646815a3b:g:g1IAAOSwSdZWdvER&item=301830593083
It's had a R-134A conversion done. What is that blue sticker on the upper intake for? I've never seen that before.
Hopefully someone here buys it. Still a nice car. Hopefully the buyer notices the anomalies to allow for an informed decision and possible offer.
Wow. Sounds like it sold for $6,600...? If I am recalling correctly, the ask was $6800 in that CL ad.
Can't say I expected that.
That's higher than I thought it would go for.