Very Interesting!! This is a web-site featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car you have ever owned.
Pick the manufacturer, the year and the model. Enjoy!
Anybody else think that '67 sits too low in the back?
I was thinking the same thing.
It’s just the “cougar” sitting on the trunk lid!!! LOL
It’s that classic “two bodies in the trunk” stance.
Okay, am I remembering this incorrectly or did I once read that, when one of the first “Unveilings” of the Cougar ocurred, the car -a white one- was driven down the ramp of the glitzed-up LST (“Landing Ship - Tank”; ask a Marine or Soldier from the 1950’s or earlier) by none other than the singer Vic Damone; as a personal favor to Lido “Lee” Iacocca?
Dudes with names like Damone and Iacocca, one doing “a personal favor” for the other… the term “two bodies in the trunk” doesn’t seem so far-fetched; at least not to this redneck of Northern Irish extraction. I think I hear a bass sax with a snare drum and stand-up bass, and maybe a muffled coronet; quietly playing a slow blues riff in the background.
Just sayin’
Footnote: I’ll have to dig around and find my 15-20 year old, dog-eared paperback copy of “Ford, Then Men and the Machine” to verify; but I think that is where I read this little tidbit. This may take a while (the book’s buried in a box in the deepest darkest recesses of a seldom-explored closet), so if anybody has a copy, dig it out and corroborate or shoot me down.
I love Google. Jumping on there was MUCH easier than digging through that dusty closet!
A quick search of keywords brought up a webpage from Mr Steve Eitzen; quoting part of an autobiography from Iacocca as part of his “restoration” of TCCN.
RIGHT HERE: http://www.theclassiccougarnetwork.com/tccn3/history/design/iacocca/iacocca.html
i think they were a tad low originally. Fatter tires automatically came with Hi-Jackers.
Even the video promos showed a low rear.
Just my 2 cents
Jean