Yes, that’s why it’s at my house. We will take care of some of the mechanical and cosmetic issues without disturbing the originality of the car.
Thanks for the reply Jeff - My G also has a replaced hood with a GT-E hood scoop. It was also my theory that when the hood needed replacing that the GT-E scoop was all that was available.
Ultra cool stuff!
Any possibility to get a pic of the hood pin lanyard were it’s attached to the hood? Very interesting pics for sure. Thanks.
This is probably a lot to ask, but that car is so original…
Could you guys set up a photo bucket account (free!) and then shoot about 10,000 pictures of every possible detail? Those little zip locks are cool and I have never seen those on a car. I have feeling the hood is not original to the car can you shoot pics showing the location of the hood scoop relative to the back of the hood? GT-E and G scoops were not mounted in the same spot.
Those rubber straps with the pin lock have been available in reproduction for some time. The Ford part number is C1VF-19B915-A. AMK sells them for $6 each. They are used on 1967 Cougar with factory air and also for the 67 - 69 cruise control harness.
Tell Don to put them in his catalog so I don’t have to order from Max every time.
And that dear friends is why Royce gets the big money… or at least he should LOL!
Don, were you listening?
Actually… Those were one of the first items ever placed on our site years ago and have several applications in the 67-70 Cougars, appears they were first used on the 61 Lincoln. I just had never seen one still in its factory location in conjunction with a tilt column. I will have to modify my listing to include tilt and copy it over to our tilt section. Another thing I learned by observing this car, these strips were painted black! I always thought they were left bright. I love the education a time capsule like this affords.
Hey, Mr B - SPAMMER ALERT!!!
My first time catching it before anyone else!
I would also like to see detailed photos of this car, and read more about its condition today. Anytime a car that is mostly untouched turns up, we can certainly learn from it and appreciate the detail that was put into the design.
Someone asked for some photos of the GTE scoop and location on the car as well as the fasteners used to secure the lanyards to the hood.
OK. I tried to attach photos but I can’t figure out how to do it. Any suggestions?
Go to Photobucket.com and make an account. Load your pictures there and then once the pictures are loaded, don’t click on the picture, just pass the curser over the picture and you will see a drop down menu. Go to the bottom of that where is says image code and click on that. It will save that picture and you can past it here.
If you have a lot of pictures to load on photobucket, you can load all of them at once. When you click upload, you will see the file you have on your computer that has all the pictures, you can at that time select all of them and they will all load all at once.
One thing, when posting/pasting you pictures here, hit the enter button on your key pad twice. This extra space will help the image codes not to run into each other. In other words make sure you have a blank line between each picture code.
Great thread and a wonderful car. Getting to see how a mostly untouched Cougar was put together is neat. It’s kind of like a history lesson. I can’t wait to see more pictures. On the non-sunroof G’s did they keep the factory headliner? I know they have a sunroof switch but was curious about the interior sunroof panel. In one of the interior shots showing the overhead console I’m not sure if I see a headliner seam or the edge of a panel.
Steven
This thread explains exactly how to attach photos.https://cccforum.discoursehosting.net/t/howto-post-images-in-the-forum/86/1
Or you can email them to me and I will post them for you!
billb at classiccougarcommunity dot com Put in the @ and the . remove the spaces. If I put the email addy here intact it generates a ton of spam.
Steven;
In the non-sunroof G’s the same basic stock headliner was used. At least it was this way in the non-sunroof G I just sold that still had its original headliner in it.
Thanks Scott. That must be the headliner seam I see in the picture.
Steven
The sunroof headliner in my 4 speed G is original and it has mitered corners in the front. Other cars I have seen were the same as standard roof cars, so there may have been some variance.
The sunroofs were installed in various ways during production. Initially they were installed at the American Sunroof facility. Later AO Smith bought tooling and did some of the sunroof installations but was botching them horribly. They then tried a separate fiberglas cover interior panel. That proved time consuming and costly, so they brought in the AO Smith guys to operate the tooliing and install the sunroofs at AO Smith.
So you have early and late sunroof installations that should have the corners specially sewn, and a batch in the middle with the fiberglas panel and a stock sew pattern.
Bill and Royce thanks for helping with my sunroof question. Cool history lesson about how things were changed durning manufacturing at the different locations.
Steven
Oddly enough the 4 speed car has the miter corner headliner and the plastic panel in the front. I think you meant plastic instated of fiberglass? I have three or four of the plastic ones, but I have never seen fiberglas.
I’ve only seen them installed, never had one out of the car in my hands, so if you say plastic then plastic it is.