Tiger89

Fabulous! Our family car from '67 to '73 was a '62 Cadillac Park Avenue Town Sedan 4-door hardtop with the shorter rear deck. With stiffer rear shocks and a heavy-duty hitch from J.C. Whitney, it would tow a loaded 2-horse trailer. I heard Apollo 11 land on the moon over the Wonderbar radio while riding up I-81 in Virginia with my Dad. Thanks for sharing your beautiful model.

Marc Nellis can cast the Cougar tail light lenses for anyone missing them.

Exquisite, that MPC chassis is so much better than AMT's '67-'69 Cougars.

Beautiful, I had an unbuilt '68 kit for a couple years before finally finishing it early last year. I couldn't stand that engine bay, so grafted the front frame section from Revell's '68 Mustang. That was my first attempt at a vinyl top. It's a replica of my real '68 302 XR7, except I used the big block 390 in the kit. Btw, Mercury never offered a passenger-side mirror, not even as a dealer accessory, but one was made up by Scott Drake about 10 years ago, and it's really needed in modern traffic. Finishing up a '69 Eliminator 428, so once it's done, I'll post a couple pics with the '68.

Beautiful! I also built this one as a kid, and maybe should have bought the one for sale at O.P. Taylor's in Brevard, NC. They had the Garbage Truck and Tarantula there too. I recently completed the Paddy Wagon, another Tom Daniel creation that I built almost 50 years ago.

I think the ProShop kits were painted and assembled in China, maybe in one of those plants that made the Danbury and Franklin Mint diecasts that have been closed for several years. Parts were numbered in individual bags; I guess in 1999 the person assembling the kit I had was tired! Anyway, I also foiled over much of the silver paint on the trim.

I bought one of these kits online, and recently finished it. There were two identical tail lights, two identical front bumper halves, and a couple other missing parts, so I had to use a Hobby Lobby coupon to get a newly-re-released Edsel to finish it. I won't buy any more ProShop kits for that reason.

Thanks for the complements. I resumed building models earlier this year after about a 25-year break from the hobby. That Cougar kit was in its original side-opening box for a couple years before I finally decided to tackle it. It and the '67 AMT kit are getting scarce and valuable.

Beautiful, I bought the kit this summer on sale at Hobby Lobby for $7.99, so looking forward to building it.

Beautiful Cat. Here's a '68 I finished earlier this year.

Fantastic, here's one I finished earlier this year.

Just posted some pics of the '68 Cougar I finished earlier this year.

A pair of Diamond Blue '68s. I used another Revell '68 Mustang kit for the front chassis section and engine bay on the Cougar. The GTE hood was a resin piece found on E-bay. I used custom-mixed Tamiya acrylics through an air brush and wish I'd used the can of aerosol automotive touch-up lacquer that I forgot I had. Both models have some flaws, but they were fun to build. Keith Marks decals used for the Cougar, and the tiny pinstripes were hard to work with. The 1/1 Cougar is an XR-7, 302/automatic. It would really be nice if Revell would do a '67-'68 Cougar like they've done recently with their new '67 Plymouth GTX.

I've resumed building models earlier this year after about a 25-year break, and will probably share some photos of a few soon. Replicas built of the full-scale '68 Mercury Cougar XR-7, 1970 Honda Trail 70, and '94 Mustang GT I currently own were all finished this past spring and summer. Currently working on a Tamiya Eunos Roadster, Dyno Don's Eliminator funny car, and AMT's Sunbeam Tiger. N-scale model railroading is my other indoor hobby. 60, and recently retired as a Merchant Marine engineering officer.