Hi, I'm new here with a 1987 Cougar 20th Anniversary
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alright cool! i rarely see other fox cougars around here. there are several mn12 ones around here, and more frequently i see the new little one, but rarely any 88 or earlier cats. and sadly the ones i see arent usually in very good shape.
and jkirchman,
dont worry, im never getting rid of this one. like the buick, the sentimental value is just too strong. if you knew who my dad was you'd know how close we were and how much he meant to me and inspired me. the fact that these were his creates a very strong connection. my mom says i shouldnt think he would feel bad knowing i sold the buick if i did, but its not that so much. i would feel im losing a link between him and i if i ever sold the buick OR the cougar. within a few years i think id like to get a cheap py beater car and keep the cougar usage low, if money permits. though coming up are my first two years in college. though ill be going to RPI in troy, nearby, no car allowed your first two years. even after im still gonna live on campus, so itll see little use.:D after college i would think id be able to afford a little beater. i care about the cat that much. i want that thing to be like a time capsule years from now.
i did not mention it before, but we also have a 1979 Triumph Spitfire sitting in our shed. at our new house we moved into 6 years ago, we had a large shed delivered a couple years afterward, with a garage door on the front. this car sits in there, well protected from the elements. it sat for 12 years outside his parents house and didnt deteriorate much from that. in our old house he brought it back home and got it running and registered and he took me and my brother for rides in it for two summers. the battery tray was about rusted away from the old battery leaking acid, but he made one that he dropped into the hole out of sheet metal. he got a new ler and tailpipe for it. some of the paint is a little faded, and there's a CD sized rust spot on the trunk because my grandfather used a cinder block there to hold down the cover 
dad was always a little annoyed with him for that. the convertible top windows cracked one day when he folded it down, theyre old and need to be replaced. the car has almost 27,000 miles on it. my mom says it never saw winter, it would be a terrible winter car, and it was his car for fun back in the '80s. also a keeper. my little brother wants to drive that when he can drive in a couple years.
there was also the 1958 Triumph Tr3 in the garage the buick was in, in the next stall over. that was about as rough, maybe less, but the interior was kind ratty and we sold it last year because we'd like to clear out that garage (lots of other junk there) and hand the keys back over so we can stop paying rent on it. the buyer was a friend of my uncles and a friend of my dad's somewhat, hed get a kick out of this guy getting it. hes working on it this winter, will fully restore it.
almost done! theres a 1931 ford model A frame and part of the body sitting under a tarp next to where the spit was since the late 60s when he went off to college. the engine and trans are in our shed, many body panels, wheels and tires up in grandparents' attic, where the fenders currently on the Buick sat, for about an equal amount of time. the other fenders were very rusty and had the wells for sidemount spare tires. when he bought the car in 1968 he thought it would look better with sidemounts. so the original fenders got to sit in dryness for 30+ years, unmolested by anything. hence my choosing to swap them. :D
lastly i gotta mention the 1980 porsche 924 he bought a couple years ago. he was gonna get a 944, he told me he was gonna get the S2 with the big engine, then turbo that and have a 944 that friggin hauled @ss. this friend of his lives out in the boonies sort of about an hour from here, and was down on money, so he helped him out and bought this thing for like $1200 or something i dunno. the head was ruined, the guy didnt know jack, messed up the VALVE timing. yeah so major repair. i recently found the replacement head sitting in our basp00get, oily and in a plastic bag. in our shed in a box are a bunch of intake parts. the car is still at the guy's house, i believe that garage stall is a dirt floor:dunno: when we went to see it i was younger but i think it was alright. we dont know what were gonna do with that but its not taking up space here so my mom isnt worried about it. i wish i had infinite time, id friggin put it together and drive it or store it somewhere it wont deteriorate.
so YEAH my dad was a car guy in the worst way, it always annoyed mom just a little. she feared hed turn the place into a junkyard 
but the buick and the spit are keepers for sure.
sorry if these long posts bother anyone, but i feel i oughta tell about my dads collection, its kinda funny even to me when i sit there and think about how friggin many cars we own.
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