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Confessions of a Cougar-holic
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Hi, my name is James and I'm a Cougar-holic. My story, well, I was raised just outside the San Francisco bay area in a small town called Pleasanton, California. At least it was a small town when I lived there. The Good Guys show would start a few years after I left. My father was a sort of car guy. He loved cars, but just never found a car to get passionate about. At one point or another he's had an Austin Healey, a '65 GTO 'vert, a '67 XKE, and a '67 GTX. He actually was about to buy a 300SL Gull wing but decided on buying the Austin brand new instead. Unfortunately, I got older and the need for family cars interfered. He was still out there every weekend washing, waxing, and keeping ahead of the maintenance on everything he owned.
Fortunately my uncle lived nearby and was always working on one of his Thunderbirds. I learned to drive on his knee in a '64 Thunderbird at age 7 and was cruising the farm roads around his house in a '67 Thunderbird at age 10. Just up the road and back.
By the time I got my license at 16, I had helped my father or my uncle with everything from tune-ups to engine rebuilds, mainly FEs. I even helped rebuild a 1919 Cat and the flathead on an 8N tractor.
Just before my sixteenth birthday, a neighbor was selling his '71 Challenger 340 T/A six pack for $2500.00. My mom thought, "Too much car." My dad thought, "Yuck! Mopar! (He hated the GTX.) My uncle was against anything not Ford blue. So instead I got my dad's '77 Ford Ranchero GT with all the smog minus the cat's and with dual glass-packs. Just think what the T/A is worth today!
Well, the muscle car bug wouldn't leave me alone and I got the first of my Camaros. Of course it wasn't fast enough, so along with my cousin we changed this, added that, and looking back it probably spent more time waiting on more money than time on the road.
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Welcome to the ClassicCougarCommunity website!
How to use this site:
We want to be the first place you stop for all of your Cougar Community information. Check out the Resources menu on the right side of the home page. You will find links to some of our favorite Cougar hangouts: MercuryCougar.net, TheCurb.org, TheClassicCougarNetwork.com (TCCN II), and the CougarClub.org (CCOA).
MercuryCougar.net is the busiest forum in the Cougar world. This is the place for continuous Cougar discussion. If you have questions, they have answers. Pretty soon you will be pontificating right along with the best of them.
TheCurb.org is the road house of the Cougar world. Grab beer, sit down and smoke 'em if ya' got 'em. The Curb is home to Cougar enthusiasts with an attitude. You have to have a sense of humor to get the vibe, and it will be helpful to appreciate the finer points of Monty Python: "that rabbit is dynamite!" Full membership at the Curb is by invitation, check out the site for details. (membership may require shrubbery)
TheClassicCougarNetwork is, in my opinion, not just the best Cougar information site ever, it is the best collector car site ever. Discontinued in 2002, the TCCN represents countless hours of work by a dedicated group of individuals directed by Steve Eitzen and Gary Weisenberger. You will find in depth detailed information about Cougars, Technical and how to articles covering many of the most common challenges, and great reviews of some of the nicest Cougars out there. Ultimately, TCCN was more a full time job than a hobby, and new publication came to an end, but TCCN still stands as a great model for how a collector car site should be run.
CougarClub.org is the home page for the Cougar Club of America. The CCOA is currently struggling to find its place in the world of Internet chat groups and online publishing. Publication of the At the Sign of the Cat quarterly publication ended in 2006. We miss the magazine and wish the COOA the best of luck as they work through their difficulties. At this time, we recommend that you check with the club before sending in membership application to determine what benefits the club is currently able to provide. On the main menu you will see a button for local club contacts. You may find a club in your area that can fill many of your needs. Be sure to check back for any changes to the status of the CCOA.
Why We Are Here:
ClassicCougarCommunity is here for you. The purpose of this site is to bring together as much Cougar information as possible. If you have news about Cougars, or have Cougar related documents you would like to share with the Community, this is the place. And even better, the next time you do a repair or modification on your car, take a few pictures, write it up and send it to us for publication.
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Mercury Cougar Introduction Program
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April Fools day, 1966 marks the beginning of the Cougar story outside of Ford Motor Company. I think many of our less Cougar afflicted friends and significant others may find some dark humor in the date, but for us it marks the beginning of an incredible story.
The story of how Cougar began is brought to you by the good folks of the Cascade Cougar Club, and in particular, Don Skinner Editor of the Cascade Cougar Club Prowler newsletter, with innumerable contributions from the collection of Jim and Elaine Pinkerton. This material was previously published by the Cascade Cougar Club in printed form as well as on a CD that features two bonus articles that did not make it to print. I am sure the entire Cougar Community shares my gratitude to this fine group of folks for assembling this information and making available to us here.
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