May 2012 Ride of the Month Nominations are Now OPEN!

Cougar Community Ride of the Month
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This thread is where you will put nominations for

May 2012 Ride of the Month!
All you need to do is to identify the car and the owner. A picture of the car would be helpful if you can locate one.

As a reminder, here is how it works:

You can nominate any Cougar, even your own. All nominations must be seconded.

We will nominate cars until the 25th of the month,
then vote from the 25th to the 1st of the following month, and announce the winner.

A new thread honoring the winner will go up just as quickly afterwards as possible. Then we start all over again.

The winning car will be pictured at the top of the Forums header for the month, and then included in the ROTM calendar.

The CCC.COM Ride of the Month is officially sponsored by:
West Coast Classic Cougars!

ROM Winners get:

Free Shipping on any order in the 48 states or a huge shipping discount on shipping any where else in the world.

A genuine WCCC Tee Shirt

A genuine WCCC Hat

Anything else Don feels like tossing into the box for free. (like packing peanuts or air? LOL!)

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I’ll nominate Mike Cole’s '70.
It’s important to remember that most of the Cougars around here are projects, and Mike has done a good job sticking with his and keeping to a unifying vision for his car. Not sticking with it and not keeping with a unifying vision is how you wind up with what Art calls a Garage Potato. Or a “fastcat.”

Having been through a lot of drama with his engine, having put on new wheels, doing bodywork to prep for paint, and having exercised a lot of patience and budgetary discipline, Mike has willed his project to this point. And he’ll will it to completion, if he keeps it up.
There’s a lot to be learned from him, for the members who have cars in various stages of completion or even the ones with a new project and are just starting to pop their daydream bubbles with a sharpened pencil and calculator.
Mike’s sensible approach to building his car has made one with a solid running gear, and a nice set of wheels/tires. He’s added some nice touches like the gauges and kept us all in the loop by documenting way more than he had to do when he has a family that probably needs his time more than we do. He even asked for our input on the wheels.
He’s a really great member of the community, and his approach to his car is one more members could model to get their cars finished by continuing progress.
Also, it’s Cleveland powered. :beerchug:
It’s not the prettiest. It’s not the most rare. But, it is a good example of how you can keep on keeping on, even in a bad economy, with your project cat.
So, I nominate Mike Cole’s car.

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I’ll second that! Just because of his ricer spoiler! haha JKJK!
For the record I love cougars with spoilers.

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Harry’s '69 Eliminator.

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I’ll third that just because of the gray primer on the fenders and the cachunkachunk sound the engine is making!

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I’ll second that!

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In the spirit of the shaman’s “project” nomination, I’ll nominate ahunt’s project. Here’s a guy that has been travelling between Chicago and California working, pursuing his Doctorate in Physics, AND has a Cougar project…DETERMINATION. Bravo, Adam!!!

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I’ll second Adams “Quantium Cougar”.
Id also like to nominate Mo/T3’s “Sooner cat” for the same reason - saw it go from heap to the increadably sweet car it is today ( and hes still not done with it).

I think its great to see a WIP cats get nominated we were all there (still are/ planning on being fairly soon/ or getting ready to finish up) at one time or another.

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I’ll second that. John

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Ya gotta love MIKE’s FASTCAT

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What a way to return from vacation. Thank you, Todd and Chris.

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I agree. I love Physics, but grad level stuff is hemorrhage inducing. Mad respect. :beerchug:

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Ok seeing that the trend is work in progress nominations I will nominate Yorgie’s copycat vert. I have enjoyed watching the progress on this conversion. He’s done it as a “cheapskate” with well thought out solutions to big mods. Well done and a good looking ride. :thumbup:

Steven

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And I’ll second the nomination for CopyCatVert.

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This is probably the most interesting group of nominations yet. There are a lot more projects out there than there are finished cars. If the site gets big enough to support it, may be we could do a project of the month as well as a ROTM?

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I’ll second or third Hunter’s (ahunt) project. What he’s been doing with what all else is on his plate is remarkable.

On T3’s "Sooner Cat (AKA: The Heap) because they’re all Heap’s until they’'re done and his is still a work in progress…

Talk about a project… This guy never restored a car before. Yet he dragged this thing from a Steer Pasture in Oklahoma (yes a steer pasture because according to Sgt. Foley, the only thing in Oklahoma are steers and queers) :poke: and he did EVERYTHING himself. Most of the stuff he’s not only never done before, but he’s also never seen it done before either. But he asked a lot of questions from a lot of people and he actually followed the advice given him unlike some others.

He completely ripped this thing apart,got it media blasted, did the bodywork and paint himself in his house garage (TWO-TONE no less), installed the engine and made up a hydraulic clutch assembly himself, and is currently putting the finishing touches on the interior. ANd he did all of this while working full-time and being active in the lives of his two young boys. Having two young boys myself, I know firsthand how involved that is. So to be able to continue to focus on a project such as the Heap is to be commended. But perhaps the most impressive thing for me is that he did all this while having to ask permission from his wife for EVERY purchase since she gives him his Allowance that he’s allowed to use on the car. :shh: And since no one has linked any pictures yet… stand by.

http://www.classiccougargarage.net/showthread.php?tid=103

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I dig the works in process theme. I’m holding my breath for the month where the theme is people who lucked into already refreshed cats and are just barely learning how to keep em healthy. Lol.

I wonder about repeat selections of the same vehicle? I’m totally down for ahunt’s car, and add my nomination to the pile, but I can pretty much promise I’m gonna be nominating him again after he is “finished”, whatever that will mean. I guess we’ll have to call it when we see it.

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I must say “The Heap” is quite impressive. I never saw the pictures before except what you’ve posted here.Thanks for posting the link to them Mark. Mo you’ve done a fine job with your car. Heck you even have a cool garage from the pictures. I have to say my favorite picture is the big Oklahoma fan! http://m217.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/mo2872/okla_homa.jpg.html?o=82 :thumbup:
Steven

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LMAO, thanks, guys, it’s been, and continues to be a fun project. I’ve learned a ton, thanks to fellows like all of you, willing to pass on the garnered info. As for the “big” Oklahoma fan, that is a pictorial explanation of the PROPER way to say the states name…there’s supposed to be a pause in the middle…“Okla…homa”…Forgot that was in there, actually!

This link may provide some of the missing links in the resto-chain…started it before TheRktmn transferred the thread that Mark linked over to CCG from The Curb…http://classiccougargarage.net/showthread.php?tid=74

Post #7 on that thread has a pic of my boys in the gutted car…the little guy turned 6 this week!!! WTH, over?? How’d THAT happen?

Most of my progress was made late at night, after the boys were asleep. Wifemate gets up pretty early to work on her forecast(weatherbabe!) for the energy traders, so she crashes early. Me being a night-owl, I’d hit the garage, and work on wrecking the place until the wee-hours. 1-2 a.m through the week, later on the weekends, sometimes all night. Plenty of time for sleep LATER!

Like I said, I owe a lot of people a beer or two, Mark being one, Leon, TheRktmn, Bill B., Royce, geez, the list could go forever. Oh, and SeanD, as well! BTW, he DID sell his car, if any were wondering. Spoke via email late last week.

And, while The Heap/Allowance/SoonerCat is now driveable, I’ve a laundry list of items I want to do, not only for looks(spoiler/scoop), but also functionality(a/c, fans, Probe conversion, custom console). Some are in progress, others will just have to wait, cuz like Mark said, “The Boss” is pretty tight-fisted, and it may take a ride or two in 100*+ with no a/c to convince her that is a “must have”!

Thanks again for the nomination!

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I’ll second that!
:beerchug: :dogpile: