This is my entry to the Jurrasic Park forum project, its a 1969 Mercury Cougar. My reason for choosing a Cougar is partially due to the age old story of the one that got away. Back in highschool when I was looking to buy a car one of the ones I looked at was a 68 Cougar with the 351C. That car would have needed a ton of work so we had to pass but there was still a little part of me that still wonders what I could have done with that car. Models of 68s are far and few between so I had to settle for an AMT 69 kit. In my opinion this kit while it has its high points it lacks a lot the tooling is old the front inner fenders are all wrong so I decided to do it one better and scratch build my own more realistic engine bay. Things kind of got away from me and I ended up scratching my own, exhaust, headers, turned aluminum pulleys, taillights etc. as well as modifying just about every other part of the kit in some form or another. The engine block came courtesy of the AMT 62 T-bird and the SOHC parts from the AMT 68 GT500 kit. I also added the vinyl top to give it a bit of a sleeper look. I ran into a few complications in the final hours but some how I managed to get her done.
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That color looks awesome on that car. The paint looks perfect.
Excellent attention to detail.
That is awesome.

Haim.

Great Job.

How did you do the vinyl top ? Looks very good.

Brian, very nice build and improvements across the board.

Chris

Thanks guys. Builder I used a light mist coat of EZ liner truck bedliner spray paint over flat black primer. Basically I followed Gators tutorial up to the point where he starts to lay the mist coats of black enamel paint on, since I was in a time crunch and didn't have time for that I went looking for a canned solution and stumbled upon the bedliner by suggestion of my brother who had used it on the push bar of his truck.

Looks great, especially the engine, paint and vinyl top.

Brian, this build is really amazing... So many aspects and it is all so clean... Great engine and top... Love how crisp everything looks. Nice work!

Nice clean build. I especially like the engine.




Don

I love the rake it has. That nose down attitude makes it look like a big kitty ready to pounce on its unsuspecting prey!

The SOHC fits in the Cougar way better than it ever fit in the '68 Shelby. I had to really shoe-horn it into Shelby. The detail work on the Cougar to great, it's not a kit you see done very often and you did it justice.