68 Cougar

[city_ofthe_south]

Mods:
-Grille. I never liked Cougars because of the grille so I ditched the hide-away headlight type grille and set it back.
-Bumper. No bolts, lowered the sides from stock.
-Wheels are from a late model Mustang.
-Mirrors based on a 98+ Mustang.
-Door handles are just made up really.
-Trim. Various trim and lights are gone. What you would call the rocker panel trim is removed but I think to get this look some body work would be required to flatten out the rocker panel itself. Shaved drip rail, painted the rest of the remaining trim charcoal.
-Paint, as crazy as this sounds, I based it on Cranberry/grape juice ...... yeah. So far it looks different on every screen I've put it on so it's probably gonna look off to all you too. I wanted it to be different.
-Staggered size Hoosier racing tires for getting real serious.
I'm going to be making several versions of this, including a more nasty flat black road warrior version and then some stripes and paint variations too.

[FreddieCougar]

Glad to see Cougars getting some love...
It's hard to do anything with that grille opening, that's a good idea you have.
Tim

[city_ofthe_south]

Originally Posted by FreddieCougar

Glad to see Cougars getting some love...
It's hard to do anything with that grille opening, that's a good idea you have.
Tim

no doubt on both accounts. i'm still playing with it and i'll post up some more PDQ, cause i've got a couple other ideas that need to get outta my head for the grille. i don't think this would be difficult to fabricate irl either - just some inserts to clean it up and some simple buckets for the lights.

[mlomaka]

Looks good. There are a lot of little touches you did that really work. It would be nice to see some more Cougars. Intersting color. I am going to have to go home and look at it that monitor.

[city_ofthe_south]

Originally Posted by mlomaka

Looks good. There are a lot of little touches you did that really work. It would be nice to see some more Cougars. Intersting color. I am going to have to go home and look at it that monitor.

Thanks. I have a flat screen CRT and a regular old CRT at home, both look different, then I put it on 2 other machines that had flat pannels and they both looked totally different. Anywhere from nasty brown, to copper to almost correct. It's supposed to be just a really red copper in my head. It's probably been the trickiest color I've tried to create that's for sure.

[ZVT]

Looks even better bigger!!

I know what you mean about the color I had major problems trying to match the khaki jeep color on that 77 buick century I did.

[city_ofthe_south]

Originally Posted by ZVT

Looks even better bigger!!

I know what you mean about the color I had major problems trying to match the khaki jeep color on that 77 buick century I did.

Jeep color? That Suburban I did was supposed to be a jeep color ... is it just kind of medium brown metallic? We compaired my print to the guys actual Jeep and it wasn't too far off. If it's the same color, then yeah, tricky but it looks like you got it pretty dang close too ... or at least it does to me. Colors like that have to look right ... if it's supposed to be silver or red or blue, then it can look different from screen to screen and people get the general idea - but odd colors, no, subtle differences can make them totally wrong.

[city_ofthe_south]

flat black with the stripe, no lights, turn sigs are opened for brake venting


this one has a little grille detail to bring in some of the factory look

[city_ofthe_south]

[DWMotorsports]

Love the stance.
I think it needs concealed headlights, IMHO Cougars look ugly w/ the exposed headlights.
I got the stance pretty close with my '67...
Great to see a lil Cougar love