1967 Mercury Puma GT

[Bucky]

Wellll......here it is.......back on the bench!
 

[Bucky]

I worked on the Cougar dashboard to get it to fit the Mustang interior tub:

I'm fiddling with the front seats and console, now. Pics when I get a bit of progress.

[Wm David Green]

This is all great stuff and looking forward to the result.

I prefer the 1969 Mercury Cougar to all of the stock 60's Mustangs.

Of the Ford Mustangs, I like the 1971 to '73 models.

 

[Bucky]

Thanks, Mr. Green! I'm plodding along with it. LOL

I share your opinion about the '71-'73 Mustang, especially the fastback(Sportsroof).

In the Cougars, my favorite is the '67-'68 body style.

I used the engine block, trans, and heads for this build:

The induction setup came from the Cougar kit. The distributor is from Kris Morgan at MAD.

Test fit in the engine bay:

 

 

[rustybill1960]

Keith

How is the build doing?

Anything new?

Really liked the body work, may have to try a conversion

Thank You for sharing

Later

Russ

[Bucky]

Haven't done much in the last few days. Trying to clear the bench of two other projects that are closer to the finish line. Hopefully, I can get back to the Puma later next week. I appreciate your interest in this project.

[Everfree Customs]

On 11/22/2017 at 9:22 AM, Bucky said:

I might have had a hard time chopping up an unbuilt original. This old gluebomb had seen its better days, tho, and I thought it was time to recycle!! LOL

I also come across gluebombed versions of desirable cars. Recycling is good!

[Bucky]

That looks interesting!

[Everfree Customs]

Thanks! And you're doing an excellent job on the Puma. I can't wait to see it done.

[Tom Geiger]

Very cool project. The marriage is so obvious you know Ford had at least a design study on this back in the day.

When you are finished, you could display it with some pseudo factory information on this rare one off car!  

[Bucky]

I probably should catch up with the work on this one. These are the seats and console from the '68 Mustang kit. I added a small bit to the console so it would match up with the dash:

Then, I decided to whack the seats away from the console:

Console is coming along:

A little tweaking, here and there, and it should be okay.

[James2]

 Looks really good, This is the post that inspired me to build this.

[Scott8950]

This will be nice when its finished. Nice job on the roof it looks great

[Sam I Am]

WoW !   I have been wanting to do this to the 1:1 for years. I owned a couple nice drivers over the years and the last one I had I wanted to do this. A friend of mine at the time was getting pretty good with Photoshop and he asked me to send him a picture of driver side  rear. This is what he did with it.

[Bucky]

Thanks, fellas! James2, that Nova looks great! Glad my messing around got you motivated!

The Photoshop pic in that last post makes it look like a natural! Mercury should have offered them like that, IMHO!

[Sam I Am]

42 minutes ago, Bucky said:

 

The Photoshop pic in that last post makes it look like a natural! Mercury should have offered them like that, IMHO!

Yes, I have always thought that Mercury missed the boat on this. What's nice is that you can purchase a kit to turn your hardtop Mustang into a fastback.....and use it on a Cougar. ?

[espo]

Glad to see this is back on the work bench. 

[Bucky]

1 hour ago, espo said:

Glad to see this is back on the work bench. 

Me, too! Bench time has been scarce, lately.

[Bucky]

I added some half round strip to the grille:

 

This pic shows the hose connection for a Cougar:

This is the radiator I took off this Cougar when I got it:

Not too hard to move it:

I filled in the openings in the firewall where the molded in hood "hinges" would have been inserted:

More to come..........