1997 Cougar with 291 miles on BAT
$4,000 USD
Lakewood, New Jersey
Not without changing the intake manifold! That still has the all plastic one.
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Note the pic of the spare tire. Is that how they came, i.e., the outboard side of the rim facing up inside the trunk?
Mine is in the trunk facing down. Not that it matters I suppose.
Mine is in the trunk facing down. Not that it matters I suppose.
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Our three MN-12's have all been outside up. Though the jack is sort of held down by the wheel, which never looked quite right. Wheel is secure, the same as in the picture.
Does it need to be flipped, with the jack on top?
Al
Maybe this is a running change we didn’t know about but on my 94 it’s inside up and uses a shortish J hook and plastic wing nut that secures down the center of the wheel to a loop in the the well.
Jack under is correct, or at least it was on mine(I’m pretty certain the spare was untouched by both previous owners before I got it). It’s placed all the way at the back of the well under the tire rather than the wheel. Some newer Mustangs have the jack inside the wheel but the one our cars came with is too wide to fit inside the 15” space saver.
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Good catch. So maybe this was a rental...which for some reason never got rented (?).
Avis used to brand their cars. That could explain why the chrome is pitted on a 291-mile car. Could have been an employee purchase.
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How so?
Sun damage from being parked outside instead of in a garage.
Or just crappy plastic chrome from the 90's.
It’s not even plastichrome it’s more like rubberchrome, it’s basically a chrome foil laminated over a flexible strip which is laminated under a translucent layer of a cellophane like material. Doesn’t take much to get it to oxidize and pit.
If it were sun damage the headlights would look like ****
If it were sun damage the headlights would look like ****
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All of our 96 Cougar chrome trim was corroded looking. I always thought it was from humidity.
I remember someone from out of town having a T-Bird rental car, Laser Red. It was a guy that was hooking up with this girl, whose friend I was trying to hook up with. When we all left, the guy was peeling out in the parking lot. Right tire only, of course! Definitely a V8, and it was either a 94 or 95, since it was 1994 IIRC. Good times!
Al
I remember someone from out of town having a T-Bird rental car, Laser Red. It was a guy that was hooking up with this girl, whose friend I was trying to hook up with. When we all left, the guy was peeling out in the parking lot. Right tire only, of course! Definitely a V8, and it was either a 94 or 95, since it was 1994 IIRC. Good times!
Al
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A unicorn like this should be put into a museum or collection.
And I'm always curious about their history...such as why this car was bought, then left almost untouched & undriven for nearly 30 years.
A good thing about situations like these are the photos, such as the undercarriage & engine. Being that spotless & virgin, they're good photos to save to use as reference photos of what they were like when they rolled off the line.
And I'm always curious about their history...such as why this car was bought, then left almost untouched & undriven for nearly 30 years.
A good thing about situations like these are the photos, such as the undercarriage & engine. Being that spotless & virgin, they're good photos to save to use as reference photos of what they were like when they rolled off the line.
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That is strange. Why would an Avis rental have such low miles? Maybe it was bought by them but they got rid of it at an auction right away for some reason. Or it somehow sat for several years?
The 96 Thunderbird I had few years back had the same mark in the trunk. It was originally from Florida. It had a decal on the outside of the trunk that was removed at some point. I could tell by the outline; the paint was less faded where it had been.
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IDK besides the V8 it is a very stripped down model. If it had some premium RPO codes and the sport pack it would be a lot more desirable for collecting.
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