1970 Mercury Cougar - BigMatt23

I fell in lust with Cougars after I bought my beater of a '70 in 1996. It had a 351 4V with FMX transmission. It was a screamer, but it was way beyond the point of salvation, so I had to junk it and get something "more reliable"

After graduating school and getting a real job, I was finally able to get a decent project car, and luck would have it, there was an original owner '70 on Craigslist about 45 minutes from the house. I jumped in the truck, and after about 3 days of haggling, it was mine.

The original owner had passed away in 2002 and left it to his daughter. They really had no room to store it, so they finally had to get rid of it. Luckily for them and for me, I will never get rid of "Big Red" as they called it.

It was a 65,000 mile unrestored time capsule with new dual exhaust, factory power disk brakes, air conditioning that works and a Montomery Ward bias-ply spare tire in the trunk. No cracks in the dash and not much rust to speak of.

I had a quick paint job put on it and redid the interior myself. I plan to build a windsor stroker and drop it in with a C6 behind it.

Now is the time to have some fun with it.

I plan to rebuild the original 351C 2V and keep it for when it is time to do the final restoration.

Thanks for reading...