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1969 Mercury Cougar XR7 from ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret ... restoration undertaken by the man who found it in a classified ad in the late 1980s. He originally just wanted it for the engine ...
The same issue of the magazine with the Cougar ad also has this Studd Cologne masterpiece of 1960s-style misogyny, providing inspiration for the Cougar buyer who needed to prop up his Y ...
The Mercury name has since been applied to a ... According to the brief description in the ad, this Cougar "Drives perfectly!" It's so good, in fact, that it's claimed to feel "like a new car." ...
Lots of ads of fantastically dressed models out walking their exotic felines became an ongoing element of the Mercury marketing aura. The Cougar growl ended every Mercury ad. And yes, that’s ...
We're talking about the Mercury Cougar ... Almost 12 years later, a Cougar fan came across the ad when he found an old issue of the aforementioned magazine at a swap meet. On a whim, the fan ...
There were cougar-shaped cookies and cougar-shaped burger patties given away, live cougars used in print and TV ads, and Lincoln-Mercury built an entire brand campaign around "the Sign of the Cat." ...
Mercury Cougar XR-7 is one of the few models that left the factory with the GT-E package; the Marti report confirms the low ...
The sleek lines of Mercury's new ... rekindled the Cougar dream with a '70 XR7 convertible he found in Arlington, Virginia, for $1,700 via a Washington Post newspaper ad. The drop-top Cat became ...
By the time Gord spotted the ad for this Eliminator ... Gord also learned there were just 2,267 Mercury Cougar Eliminators produced for 1970, with 192 equipped with the 428ci CJ engine and ...