The mercury Cougar sports car race of the NASCAR car born

Also, you may have thought that the mercury Cougar automatically that the origins of mercury Cougar car were nothing more than a whale version of simple Ford Thunderbird car size. Many are surprised that the history and development of this classic American sports car was rather, the legendary from the NASCAR Mercury "Pony Car", that nothing was but but "Butt" at the circuit of trans am automobiles.
Originally Lincoln - Mercury (as to the time of the luxury end of the Ford Motor Corporation), the idea of the development, design and marketing-a small sizes developed sports car. The germ of this idea began in February 1963 with the idea in the works of this smaller sport type vehicle in the North American automobile market are sold.
But it was the success of the Ford Mustang product, the finally the pedal the metal (or the design and marketing employees OK and budgeting of part mental project financing). It is said that nothing is a project of the automotive industry as the potential of the excellent sales figures and profitability. Even the name of the vehicle product "Cougar" is not entirely unique. Cougar is in the same vein as "Mustang" - as Slim Fast racing animals.
Although the PUMA on a 111 wheelbase similar to the Mustang car sports car was built, the Cougar was shorter than his cousin - Thunderbird 3 and half inches instead. Under the elegant sheet metal was the Cougar a Mustang, so to speak. In reality the Cougar with his cousins - the sporty Mustang and dourer family vehicle - the Ford Falcon (which product is best known in the Canadian market as Ford Frontenac.) The Ford Mustang had the most luck born from the Ford Falcon product line. Mustang enthusiasts debt thanks to a so-called "family" compact car. The Ford Falcon allows that Mustang project as well as the Cougar product a car fast car, cheap to produce and develop a good and long-lasting platform. Even the pinch of the early Mustangs was a direct copy of the Falcons.
See all the splendor of his elegant sheet metal of the Cougar, all Mustang with the exact same Falcon was front axle and a solid rear axle with four leaf springs. A base made 289 cubic inch V-8 200 bhp (gross), but the real action came in the guise of a 390 cubic inch V-8, the 320 HP. A GT option include a performance handling package and power disc brakes, which front more standard drum brakes replaced. Finally special GT wheels completes the package.
It has been said that, like the Jaguar had introduced Lincoln Mercury Chief Designer of the Cougar as an elegant European sports car mark 2. How was it that went the Cougar race?
1967 Turned Lincoln Mercury to bud Moore the point man for a shot at the SCCA TRANS-am Championship. Team Cougar from driver, Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, formula 1 driver Peter Revson and NASCAR driver Dave Pearson came in the second on the Ford Mustang team. In 1968 then under the aegis of the Moore driver DeWayne "Tiny" playing capture Lund in the NASCAR Grand Touring Championship.
So where and how the Cougar have wrong go and wishy washy bloated luxo kind of sports car at the end of a rather not be defined until the end of his life of automobile production? What this product and projects be reversed was the lack of true understanding of the direct mercury as well as employees and managers, what this car market was clearly proven Ford. It can be said that they at best uninterested and the worst at a loss and were greedy. This lack of market focus, as also not to know and the perception of the needs and desires of potential Cougar customers market was the Cougar's undoing. By the 1969 launch of the Cougar was a little longer and wider. From then on it was only a brief decent in Landau roofs as well as give the Opera Windows, styling and options of the day. This downward trend and spiral once started the Cougar was inevitable. The happy years of the early Cougar - you remain especially first Cougar model years from 1967 to 1970 a time when the Cougar was booming roar of dual exhausts and the sign of a car that had some bite to it.

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