60% off every in-stock item/free shipping (orders over $50)
I just scored a headliner for the '67 for $25, 2 Sport seats for my kid’s project truck for $75/ea, 2 1967 Car of the year window stickers for $3/ea.
Here is the best Cougar deal on their site. I just submitted and order for 500 of them!
http://www.mustangsunlimited.com/Cougar/Body/Valance-Panels/Front-Rear-Valance-1967-1968-Cougar.axd
Seems like their prices on some items are rather inflated to begin with. Our price on a white 69 headliner is just over $100 normally.
It’s really quite a sad day for Mustang and Cougar owners alike. They are down to just a skeleton crew and almost nothing on the shelves. I don’t like this at all… They were great wholesale customers for many years and referred MANY customers to us on a daily basis. I used to do things like order pizza for the entire company.
I’m tempted to check out with one of those $0.00 items to see if it goes through…
I tried to order one, but they’re saying it’s invalid now, and won’t let the transaction go through. =(
Yeah, I tried too. Although 121.00 for the two ain’t shabby either.
I noticed that much of the stuff that is out of stock shows a price of $0.00. When you try to order it, it won’t let you.
This is pretty sad. When I first got my Cougar in ‘95 I used to salivate over the Mustangs Unlimited catalog and wish I had the dough to buy stuff.
Got a great deal on a set of Mercury man center caps. This can’t be good for the hobby.
I did both of these last night when I placed an order. It’s great to get good deals but I hate to see small businesses go under.
Whats happening over there, .?
i thought there would be a huge market , and they looked pretty slick, great online presence ?
Has SSBC finally bite the dust yet also ?
Don, do you know what led to this ?
I do have a little insight, nothing drastic, just a series of small and medium sized unfortunate events over time that added up.
When they closed the other warehouse there was a little rumble about them closing talking to someone at NPD a few months back. I have always been concerned with this hobby dying with those of us who are Gen Xers. The Millennials don’t have the drive or gumption we did, must less mechanical ability.
My 36 year old son in law still has daddy doing his work. How do you not know to change spark plugs? He said the car was running rough and mileage was down. All six plugs were missing the electrode.
-Keith
Yeah, if it doesn’t throw a code you can look up online, most kids today don’t know what to do… And those kids are few and far between anyhow. I was in for an alignment on my daily driver recently and some milenial girl was in there paying to have wiper blades changed…
That’s why I’m trying to foster interest in my kids while they’re small. I have to work out the care plan for my cars when I’m gone. 
Don’t cry for the death of our hobby just yet. The MU thing is not indicative of the overall health of the old car parts aftermarket. Look @ SEMA, it just just keeps getting bigger & bigger, and even if it’s not all geared to us old farts, the kids are all over it.
My kids have been wrenching w/me since they were very small, and now as late teenagers, they pay their bills/go to school & keep their fleet of dirt bikes & high mileage cars running (I’m always willing, if not happy to help them, lol).
Working on cars is still alive for the next generation, it just looks different than it did when we were coming up.
PS - make sure you are letting those kids DRIVE the old cars! Wrenching is not usually enough to light that spark, but some BFG aromatherapy (as Leon says) might just move the needle!
I know classic car insurance policies prohibit this if they are under 25, but fuckem, I say. Under the right conditions, I have & will roll the dice on an uninsured loss if it means my kid will have an appreciation for what exactly it is that we love about these cars.
As a by-product, my kids are NOT angels, but have never taken an unauthorized joyride in my vehicles (& I leave the keys in them). No need tor Ferris Bueller, because I let them drive the cars whenever they want.
My kids are amongst the few privileged out there that were born and raised in an auto parts store and wrecking yard. They all can use a cutting torch, back up a trailer to pull a car out of the berry vines and put a clutch in their car with very little over-site from Dad. But when it comes right down to it, the cars of my generation are not theirs. They buy 3rd hand Honda’s and Subarus, sometimes for as little as $100 just as I did with Cougars back in the day. Sure, they love to borrow my cars for prom but in the end they have other interests and that is OK. I remember when I first got started, watching the Model A crowd at swap meets thin out each year and thinking that would be “my lot in life in a few decades” and so it begins… The difference with our cars is they span the generations better than Model A’s as they are more useful and can be upgraded to more modern standards easily. When my grandfather retired in the late 80’s and got into flipping old cars he wanted nothing to do with Model A’s, it was all about Muscle Cars! Yes the field will narrow and adapt over time, less rotisserie restos will be undertaken but in the end the cars live on and continue to be enjoyed.
Well said & love the pics.
PS - the pic of your son in the high chair is priceless (spitting image of you) & I hope he launched that screwdriver @ your head 15 seconds after you took the pic.
LMAO 
Well said. My Grandfather used to let me drive to the store outside of Hood River starting in the third grade. This picture was taken right after my 14 year old learned to drive a 4spd in this 429 Torino with 60k miles. Worth the risk for a memory him and I will share forever!
I learned to drive when I was 14, In mountains in Big Bear no less. I never drove an automatic until I was about 27. After I finished my Shelby last year and started driving it it was like I had never stopped driving a standard transmission. Then again, I am used to multi-tasking on the flight deck.
I enjoy my coffee so I am going to have to buy one of those consoles that drop in and can be easily removed.
I enjoyed the pictures, Don. Brought back a lot of good memories of much similar times with my father. Especially considering I have very limited time left with both parents having terminal cancer.
-Keith