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Home :: Projects :: Jurassic Park :: Mercury Cougar 427 SOHC
Build-Up Discussion   Gallery #4841
Project   Jurassic Park
Description   Mercury Cougar 427 SOHC
Category   Muscle Car
Model Year   1969
Screen Name   BrianP
Date Added   Saturday, December 31, 2011
Page Views   1,091
Comments   This is my entry to the Jurassic 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 high school 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.
Kit Maker   AMT
Decal Maker   Kit
Driver   N/A