I have recently received a Marti Report for my 1968 Cougar. According to the report my car is equipped with the Canadian Spring Promotion option. Does anyone know what this?
So far all I have been able to find out is what is listed in Cougars by the Numbers. This package was only available in 1967 and 1968 and on standard cougars. Since it is only available on standard cougars I’m wondering if it would be an interior package. If anyone else has a car that lists this option I would be interested to know what the have for interior since my car is kind of unique. My interior is all original and I have standard door panels, Decor seats and an XR7 steering wheel. It also has the padded window trim around the driver and passenger side windows. My trim code is also different, it is 1BB, other than something being substituted, I’m not sure what it means.
I would be interested to know if anyone has ever seen or owned another cougar equipped like this.
Close, but not quite. It was to comemmorate the ending of hostiliies between the State of Michigan and the Province of Ontario.
It seems those silly folks in Windsor determined that they could effectively “own” the North American automotive market simply by destroying the Big 3’s factories in a winter invasion of Detroit. But they made a couple of wrong turns in the middle of Lake Michigan and ended up bogged down in a protracted (and deadly) fracas with a bunch of drunk Youpers. As the battle wore on through, winter turned to spring, and the malcontents decided to head north and east, and pester the Newfies.
The “Canadian Spring” Cougars were the nicest Cougars found on Canadian lots; and they sold like hotcakes. Too bad the good folk of Ontario were unaware that the nomenclature was FoMoCo’s too-subtle way of thumbing it’s collective nose and hollering “NEENER, NEENER!”
Okay , so it’s not even a passably fair example of my warped sense of humor - SORRY!
It’s been a very long week and Wednesday hasn’t ended yet. Cut me some slack.
That was so authoritatively well written, can’t believe you had me going until your ‘full disclosure’ at the end…may you burn in hell for this (eh, nevermind. Monsoon season in Yuma will be here soon enough)…
Dave, I think the season is starting early… it’s cloudy outside for the second day in a row, and it’s not yet mid-May! What is this? I’m pretty sure it’s from your ‘neck of the woods’ and that stinks! By the time your “patchy ground fog” gets across the Laguna Mountains and the Imperial Sand Dunes, it’s at just the right altitude to dump rain on my haystack. Gonna have to leave the house early and throw a tarp over my supply of “horse chow”.
Yo Dawg, sorry for the weather we’re sending your way. I set up a couple fans in the backyard to blow that back out to sea, let me know if it helps. And keep that alfalfa “horse chow” dry, tarps are much cheaper than vet bills!
Come on guys… You completely ignored his question and went on to yuk-yuk amongst yourselves. This often will make a new member not come back if what he is after is true Cougar content.
To answer the question, most of these “special packages” were really not very special at all… Take for instance the “Dan Gurney Special”. You got uglier than usual “turbine caps” and a sticker in the window. Often all it was was a color and “special pricing” which really was not too special in the end.
In the USA the Cougar 1968 Spring promotions were the introduction of some of the 1969 colors and a free set of full wheel covers. What color was your car originally?
No, the interior would be too expensive to change in any meaningful way. There was no unique steering wheel for the xr7 in 67 and in 68 the only thing different about an ax7 wheel was the wood-grain insert in the pad. Share some pics!
Here are a couple of pictures of my interior. I apologise for the shot of the seats, they are blue, the color came out really bad. The reason I wonder about an interior package is according to Cougars by the Numbers, the Canadian Spring Promotion was only on standard cars not XR7s.
As you can see the interior of my car is a bit unique. Like I said on my first post it’s all original.
I don’t think there is much of a mystery here. The seats and steering wheel insert have been replaced. While it’s hard to tell from the photo, the seat upholstery doesn’t look original to me. Why do you believe the interior is all original? Lots of things can happen over 44 years.
Jeff, when I bought the car in 1993 from the original owners I recieved a binder full of bills for everything ever done to the car. It includes every oil change, a cylinder head job in the late 70’s and any other maintenance done to the car. There is no mention of interior ever work being done and when I bought it they told me it was all original. I have not done any work to the interior and it remains how I bought it except installing a new stereo.
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