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This is an all original survivor car. The first owner purchased the car new in Denver in 1972 and I bought it from this individual in 1978. This person put most of the miles on it with mainly highway use. It is the XR-7 model which has full instrument gauges and other upgrades over the base Cougar. It has always been adult owned, maintained and driven. It is a beautiful car that runs and drives excellent. There is no rust and it has never been wrecked. The factory vinyl dash cover is in perfect condition with no cracks. It has always been garaged from day 1 of my ownership. The car has simply been well taken care of and is an original Q code vehicle as indicated by the 5th digit of the VIN.

It has had one repaint and one new top. The wheel opening and rocker mouldings are NOS factory originals. The interior, engine compartment, trunk and undercarriage are all original. The top boot is in good condition and the car includes the original factory vinyl boot jacket. This boot jacket is shown in the photo of the trunk. The power top works perfect.

The engine is the 351C, high output Cobra Jet Q code V-8. It has a 4V 4300-D carburetor. 4V carburetors on Cougars in 1972 are fairly rare. Most of those that did come with the 4V had the 4300 base carb. This car has the very rare factory 4300-D, 715 CFM carb. It is a go fast, if you want it to, vehicle and is considered one of the last in the muscle car era. It has factory dual exhaust with rear staggered shocks. The engine does not smoke or use oil.

The car has newer radial tires along with the following rebuilds: C-6 auto transmission, carburetor, power steering pump and cooling system pump. All new valve lifters, valve springs and push rods.

It has the factory AM radio with 8 track option. The steering wheel has the rim blow for the horn which was also an option. The car comes with the original owner's manual along with other dealer and factory paperwork. All are in excellent condition. Maintenance records are also included.

Early 70's convertibles in good original condition are getting hard to find. You can hop in this one, put the top down, then drive and enjoy! I am selling this car as I simply have not been driving it that much the past few years and need to start downsize.

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Junkyard Gem: 1995 Mercury Tracer Trio

Sat, Feb 5 2022

With the rise of Radwood, cars with exaggerated characteristics associated with the 1980s and 1990s are cool again. That means some combination of pastel and/or neon colors, squiggly squeezed-from-toothpaste-tube graphics, nonfunctional decklid spoilers, giant TURBO badging, and kicky youth-centric nomenclature are required if you want your wheels to be considered in compliance with the sacred tenets of Radism. I do my best to find rad machinery while crawling around in car graveyards, and since I came of driving age in 1982 I know a bit about the subject. Today's rare Junkyard Gem shows us the Mercury Division's belated attempt to sell fun cars to rad-leaning youngsters: a Tracer Trio, found in a Denver yard a few weeks back. The Trio package added 310 bucks to the cost of the $11,280 base Tracer sedan (that's about $575 on a $20,925 car in 2022 dollars), and it got the hip-and-trendy young buyer a leather-wrapped steering wheel, seven-spoke wheels, a decklid spoiler and these rad fender badges. I'm going to say that the much louder graphics and candy-cane-colored displacement badges on the Pontiac Sunbird W25 out-radded the Tracer Trio by a mile, but then Pontiac generally out-radded everyone in those days. Even Plymouth got into the act with such radness as the Breeze Expresso and Sundance Duster (we'll overlook the anti-rad Horizon Miser here). Perhaps tellingly, Mercury, Pontiac and Plymouth all got the "Old Yeller" treatment not long after the Rad Era ended. The Tracer name always went on Mercuries built on Mazda platforms, starting with the Australia-built, Ford Laser-based 1987-1989 cars and then continuing with Mexico-assembled, Ford Escort-based 1991-1996 cars. That generation of Escort/Tracer was mechanical twins with the Mazda Protege, itself the bridge between the 323 and the Mazda3. Some Tracers got the a 1.8-liter Mazda engine that was related to the Miata's engine, but this one has the pure-Detroit CVH 1.9. You're looking at 88 horsepower right here; the Mazda 1.8 offered 127 horses. At least the original buyer of this car got the base five-speed manual transmission instead of forking over $815 extra (about $1,510 today) for the four-speed slushbox. As a 29-year-old slacker living in San Francisco's Mission District and driving a hooptie '65 Chevy Impala sedan at the time, I would have taken the manual transmission without the Trio package, had I been forced to buy a new Tracer.

Report: Lincoln getting all of Mercury's ad dollars

Mon, 03 Jan 2011

Now that the curtain has closed on Mercury, Ford Motor Company will redirect all of its marketing dollars for the oft-overlooked brand to the Blue Oval's luxury outpost, Lincoln. In speaking to Automotive News, the chairman of the Lincoln National Dealer Council, Bob Tasca, Jr., said, "You'll see a lot stronger presence in the advertising of Lincoln in 2011."
Lincoln spokesperson Christian Bokich reminded AN that the automaker is "preparing the way for seven new or significantly refreshed vehicles" that will be launched over the next four years, and the largest ad blitz in 2011 will focus on the refreshed MKX crossover, as well as the MKZ sedan and its hybrid counterpart. Following that, Lincoln has plans to launch a completely overhauled version of its Navigator SUV, an all-new C-segment vehicle and the overhauled 2013 MKZ, which Tasca says will be "strikingly different from its Ford Fusion sibling."
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NHTSA probing 2000-2003 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable models over throttle issue

Mon, 29 Oct 2012

A potential issue with the speed control cable collar has got the 2003-20003 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable under the spotlight of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. If the collar breaks it can cause the throttle to be stuck open.
The issue is limited to vehicles with the 3.0-liter V6 Duratec. There are just 50 complaints so far out of 310,000 cars, but the NHTSA has begun an investigation into whether a recall should be issued.

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