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Brought a Cougar back to life

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



Brought a Cougar back to life

Reply #1 –
Wow.  nice find.  I'm never that lucky!
===85BIRD===
:birdsmily:

Brought a Cougar back to life

Reply #2 –
hmmm. fep forums have one just like yours in your
home town, too.nice find .enjoy.--irv

Brought a Cougar back to life

Reply #3 –
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

Brought a Cougar back to life

Reply #4 –
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.
1988 Cougar LS 5.0 (currently parting out):cougarsmily:
1989 Mustang LX Notch 2.3 (Project):ford:

Brought a Cougar back to life

Reply #5 –
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?
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

Brought a Cougar back to life

Reply #6 –
i know. i :D was just funnin!--irv
im on both forums too.
 

Brought a Cougar back to life

Reply #7 –
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