the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VSCCA/permalink/10163105677107371

'69 Cougar that was on the TV series ‘”Supernatural,” and in a movie, is going to auction

https://www.mecum.com/lots/1152706/1969-mercury-cougar/?aa_id=719496-0

https://fordauthority.com/2025/10/1969-mercury-cougar-driven-by-dakota-johnson-heading-to-auction

Miss Seat Belt of 1966.... thank you Raymond!

 Why so many Miss Seat Belt promotions? 

Because car makers were not required to install seat belts until 1966, and the govt put a lot of pressure on the public to start putting them in old cars, for safety, after that, but didn't make it a law to use them every time you drove, until the 80s. 

New York started in 1984, with only the front seat occupants. By 1996, all states required the use of the seat belts. 

A lot of people REFUSED to wear the seat belt then, because so many people had survived crashes by being thrown free of the smashed/crashed car, and they know they would have died if they had been wearing a belt. Yes, my uncle Tom survived smashing his 55 Chevy because he was thrown free. 

Well, don't fall asleep at the wheel, and you won't crash. 

Ya know? 

https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/categories/category/cars

Interesting... a Cougar with a fastback, from JF Kustoms (they made that yellow Riviera about 10 years ago)

 https://www.jfkustoms.com/
https://www.hotcars.com/700-hp-fastback-cougar-mercury-should-have-built/

last week, I spotted this Cougar being used as a commuter at lunch time, in the business district

'70 Cougar Eliminator drop top

I wonder, does it make sense to try and sell a 170k car on Ebay?

Ever see a hood stripe like this? I can't remember ever seeing a stripe on a Cougar

https://www.ebay.com/itm/305620162193

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/rare-1969-mercury-cougar-xr-7-convertible-flaunts-428-cobra-jet-ram-air-muscle-1-of-96-235456.html

1969 Mercury Cougar XR7 428 CJ Ram Air convertible 1 of 96 produced. A DSO 84 Ford Executive lease car.

some fun vehicles in the Disney movie Million Dollar Duck, and shocking for a Disney movie, an Intermeccanica Italia

if anyone realizes they have these cars because the license plates match.... that would be epic!

here's my guess why it's in this movie (there are only 4 ever in tv shows and movies according to IMCDB)... it's made in California, and, the came company made the Apollo GT, and Vette Ventura and Disney used an Apollo GT as the Thorndyke Special in The Love Bug. I'll guess they made a deal to get their cars into Disney movies   https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-thorndyke-special-64-apollo-3500-gt.html

they crashed it? 

https://www.imcdb.org/v077602.html

to see the list of all the cars in this movie https://www.imcdb.org/m66728.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_GT

the interesting cars in the Disney movie The Worlds Strongest Man

 

notice the Cougar parked on the left

Looks like they disguised the Meyers Manx badge with a 60's flower sticker

1949 Rolls Royce, it was also in the Love Bug! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-love-bug-scenes-in-san-francisco.html

and what is amazing is that the Rob Reisner Bathtub show car showed up in the scan of Dexter's (Kurt Russell) mind

with the bikini model, of course

What car are they using to pose in? A 72 Cougar, and it never showed up in the show

I did a google image search and there are no red drop tops showing up in "That 70s Show" with these door handles

https://www.imcdb.org/movie_165598-That--70s-Show.html

https://itrolls.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/the-cars-from-that-70s-show/

nice Cougar, a family hand me down

 story at https://www.hemmings.com/stories/curiosity-saved-this-1968-mercury-cougar

Mikael Forsman went with a fire-ramp truck conversion to haul his trans am-style Cougar

https://mothers.com/blogs/power-tour/2017-power-tour-epilogue

The Wall Street Journal ran a story on a guy who bought a Cougar, in his early 60s, because in 1972 he ws inspired by Diana Riggs driving one in a Bond movie

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/his-mercury-cougar-puts-the-car-in-carpe-diem-82d37422

for the abridged version of the story, https://journal.classiccars.com/2023/02/20/my-classic-car-her-majestys-cougar-xr-7-convertible

what a cool collection of dragsters (thank you Terry F for sharing your advertising that goes with this Drag Team!!)

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=120752&page=19