This one popped on my local craigslist search. What a great example of the 4 door Cougar with it’s nice original condition and low miles. Seeing all those original hoses in the untouched engine bay for this model year is cool as nobody saved them. Hope it goes to a good home and stays preserved.
Land Yacht Ahoy!
I like it. They are only original once!
A well preserved relic from the depths of the dark ages.
It’s always nice to see well-preserved cars like this, but man that’s ugly. What happened, Mercury??
Poverty caps and no trim rings? Looks like the only option was cruise. Budget LTD with Merc emblems
Wow. Grandma’s car, or what?
My thoughts exactly!!
Calendar car?
Whenever I look at that era of a Cougar it just draws my eyes right to the front fender. 
Not as classy as the Villager Wagon
It’s got my vote! April. Definitely April. Oh! You could have the month of April in TWICE! Have Grandma’s Cougar for the first one, then some other cool Cat for the second one. You flip from March to April and see Grandma’s Cougar - D’oh! April fools!
I thought someone should copy the pictures here so when the add ends we can still see them for a while longer.
It is a well preserved one. But I have to agree not desirable to me anyway. But I do hope it finds a safe place and proper care.
Basically a 4 door version of my first car (LTD II). Except mine at least had the engine turned facade on the dash and a split bench with fold down armrests. You could fit four high school kids across the front and the back. Used to make my beer money by charging them $5 apiece (yes beer and gas were both a lot cheaper back then). I hope it goes to a good home. Nothing wrong with land yachts, it’s just that they shouldn’t have called it a cougar. Maybe a woolly mammoth.
The interior reminds me of the 74 Elite I has as my college commuter car. Same era.
The Heat and AC controls way over on the driver’s side was always a strange feature on these cars. I guess it’s to keep the passengers from messing with them while you’re driving. LOL!
Is that the car from the TV show Highway to Heaven?
It’s got my vote! April. Definitely April. Oh! You could have the month of April in TWICE! Have Grandma’s Cougar for the first one, then some other cool Cat for the second one. You flip from March to April and see Grandma’s Cougar - D’oh! April fools!
+1 
it just draws my eyes right to the front fender.
I’ll bet there’s as much steel metal in that front clip as in an entire ‘classic’ cat!
badcatt: Thanks for capturing the pix.
Someday maybe there will be a 'Cars of the ‘70s Museum.’ Yikes.
Do you guys remember thinking, “Will they ever make cool cars again?”
BTW, one of the fellows over on the BOSS 302 site who works deep inside Ford says 2018 will be the end of the
current era of horsepower. It will be coming to an end thanks to the EPA, etc.
I think they make that claim about every ten years. What’s funny is ingenuity ends up finding a way to make performance under whatever the EPA (really just a taxing entity designed to find yet ANOTHER way to tax away jobs to some other country. Sorry. I got on my political soapbox) strong arms them into doing. I remember watching an episode of Top Gear (the British one), and them talking about how a 5 litre engine ('91 Camaro) could only put out 175hp and their own response being, “I know. It’s the ridiculous emissions standards American manufacturers are forced to work within!” So much for all of those people who claim we should be more like Europe because they are SOOOO much better and the air is SOOOO much cleaner.
I can remember when Ford was talking about abandoning the rear wheel drive v8 platform on the mustang back in the 80’s. They ended up with enough hate mail from ‘Stang owners that the idea was scrapped very quickly. I wouldn’t get too excited or worried. That being said, you never know at this point with the way things are heading. I think this weekend I’m gonna’ do a big smoky burnout in front of the recycling center to voice my disapproval and send a photo to the EPA. That oughtta’ help things.
The EPA guide lines create jobs in the auto industry. Car manufactures have to develop,test, manufacture new technology to meet the guidelines which create jobs. The sad part is those costs get past on to the price you pay for a new vehicle.