A local senior citizen bought a 67 standard brand new in the Fall of 66 and owned it for 30 minutes before it got T-Boned. They drove back to the dealership the next day and bought a replacement 1967 Mustang and parked the Cougar in the driveway. Since the car was not hurt that bad they always planned on fixing it but never did. A young local guy spots it and wants parts for his 68, mostly he is after the MINT lt blue interior with console. He calls us wanting to sell us some parts and of course we want the whole thing! He brought by the MINT grille today and told us somebody else bought the car for the fenders and hood this AM. What a shame the car fell into the wrong hands, neither seller or buyer knew what they had and the car is now blown to the wind… I saw pictures and the car should have been saved. I will post the grille pictures on our site, only 57 mile grille we will ever see I am sure.
Are people really this dumb? They couldn’t see the value in keeping something like that together long enough to get a feel for what was there? Ugh…
This is sad news. Since the rest of the car was sold for the fenders and hood, what happened to the rest of the car, couldn’t it be tracked down?
Some people really are clueless.
That’s right up there with the Oregon wrecking yard that destroyed 1 of 5 1966 GT 350 convertibles.
wish they could find what was left. Would love to have the shocks off of that car!
That is a crying shame. It’s hard to believe someone could miss the value of keeping the car together. Sad…sad…sad.
Steven
The parts are being used on two different 68’s to boot! If the car was being sacrificed for 2 or 3 really rare 67’s it would be at least somewhat understandable… I just emailed the guy and asked him to forward the pictures he showed me on his Iphone. The car has been stored mostly outdoors so it had rust in the trunk and a few other issues but still!
How much would a '67 standard (289, right?) really be worth? Assuming the damage from being t-boned were fixed (wouldn’t that be expensive, lots of body work and paint at a minimum?) then how much would the car really be worth? I’m not saying I’m happy it got parted out, but it seems totally logical to me.
If the guy has a valuable or rare Cougar that needs interior to be correct, especially if he’s going for concours correctness, then the value of that interior to his car might be more than the value of the entire damaged '67 standard, no? Aside from the unbelievably low miles, there’s nothing especially valuable (money wise) about a matching numbers '67 standard is there? Do the low miles make it that much more valuable, dollar wise? They do mean it needs major work, right? Total engine rebuild, all gaskets everywhere replaced due to rotting, etc? Gas tank shellac. Tires with permanent flat spots? Problems abound?
I’m just saying I can see how this would happen. Just because the guy owns a '68 Cougar doesn’t mean his #1 concern is to protect all vintage Cougars. He was probably more concerned with his own car, and jumped at the chance. I’ll be the first to admit to having a saved search for thunderbirds to pull a 429 out of (man do they sell cheap!), and then whatever happens to the car…
Way too logical… This site is for Cougaraphiles, logic rarely enters the picture.
Lol. I do not doubt for one second that a place like this is full of people carrying the torch, and that is very very important to the survival of the breed of cars we all know and love.
It is kinda scary to think that eventually almost all of these cars will be gone. Getting parted out sure doesn’t help. But even the ones that are lovingly restored can eventually end up totaled in an accident, lost in a fire or flood or whatever…
It is pretty scary.
No mater if the car was worth lots or not, the fact that the car had so few miles on it is unheard of and worth fixing. Look at cougar #1, Im sure there was enough work to be done on that car, to get it to where it is today. Is cougar 1 worth a lot of money, maybe it is, maybe not. The fact that it is what it is makes it worth having and something we all think is cool! Im not saying that this car with only 57 miles that just got parted out, was not worth fixing, but 57 miles,…come on, well worth fixing and I think most of us would have jumped through hoops to get it as well.
Since this just happened I imagine still think that this car could be found. A hood, 2 fenders and interior could be put on from another car and still be worth having.
I could not agree more. 57 miles is unheard of and that is what made this car special. I saw an episode of What’s My Car Worth and they featured a Boss 429 Mustang that did not run (bent push rods) and was a 5 on a scale of 6. It was rough and it valued at 100k. You would be upside down on a restore because of its condition. But it still was a Boss 429. This Cougar might not have been that kind of rare but the 57 miles set it apart. Just my thoughts.
Steven