My favorite kind of car show too. No time requirement.  No entrance fee.   No make / model / year restrictions.   No participation trophy.   Just show up and look at a wide variety of cars, talk with a wide variety of car people and still get home with plenty of time to do other things with your day. Win!   For anyone in the Portland, OR area, we have two major C&C events every weekend. Portland C&C at Langer Entertainment Center in Sherwood, OR. Orchards C&C at the Vancouver Mall in Vancouver, WA. And don't forget Beaches Weekly Cruise-In at Portland International Raceway every Wednesday through the summer (this one does have an entry fee, but it's well worth it). *Wow!  Please excuse the odd formatting.  The "bleep" police are out in full force today! ... View more

Regarding the Cougars being the highest FoMoCo movers... I track and document Eliminators for the CCOA and Eliminator Registry, and the '70 Eliminator sales have far outpaced the '69 Eliminators. Currently the availability of a '70 Eliminator for purchase is almost non-existent, whereas there are about a dozen '69 E-cats on the market at various price points and conditions. I would say that the '70 351C Eliminators are moving up the fastest, gaining about 50% in value in the last few years. The laggards in the Eliminator crowd seem to be the '69 CJ's. You can still pick up a nice '69 CJ Eliminator for around $60k or so. However, Eliminators in general remain a "rare find". As I mentioned, there are only about a dozen of them currently listed publicly. So if you are looking for a specific color or drivetrain combination, you need to be patient. When one you want does come available you need to be quick because there are 50 other guys who also want that '70 Boss 302 SDP in Comp Orange and Houndstooth. ~Mike B. CCOA #9557 https://classiccougarcommunity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16053 https://www.facebook.com/groups/473220306059769/ ... View more

When I bought my '70 Cougar Eliminator I wanted to put vintage plates on it ~ ideally something with "428" on them since my car has a 428CJ. I contacted a guy in my State that specializes in vintage plates and he sent me pics of an "NOS" set that he had. They had never been used and were still in the DMV envelope. Yep, those were the ones! They are so perfect that when I went to the DMV to register them the little old lady behind the counter read them and said "MEW... oh these would be great for a cat lover!" Why yes, yes they are 🙂 ... View more

When I bought my '70 Cougar Eliminator I wanted to put vintage plates on it ~ ideally something with "428" on them since my car has a 428CJ.  I contacted a guy in my State that specializes in vintage plates and he sent me pics of an "NOS" set that he had.  They had never been used and were still in the DMV envelope.  Yep, those were the ones! They are so perfect that when I went to the DMV to register them the little old lady behind the counter read them and said "MEW... oh these would be great for a cat lover!" Why yes, yes they are 🙂 ... View more

I think the big failure on Ford's part was putting their Eluminator in an old truck instead of an old Cougar. A blah-gray electric pickup? Meh. A competition blue (aka grabber blue) electric '70 Cougar ELUMINATOR? Hell yes! ... View more

I think the failure was putting it in an old truck instead of an old Cougar. A blah-gray electric pickup? Meh. A competition blue (aka grabber blue) electric Cougar Eliminator? Hell yes! ... View more

He will if enough people hit him in the wallet 😉 ... View more

Freddy wears his red scarf because he has a horrible scar on his neck from where they tried to hang him but didn't succeed in killing him... Oh wait, that's a different movie >.> ... View more

With apologies to 5th Generation Shelby owners, it was really the supercharged 2003-2004 Mustang Cobra that kicked off the gonzo era of muscle car performance. Unfortunately there was no competition for it. Camaro was dead and Challenger hadn't been revived yet. ... View more

You have to keep in mind that while Muscle Cars were "new" for the Boomers and hold a special place for them (and rightly so), they also hold a very special place in the hearts of us Gen-X'ers. For many of us, "used but not quite used up" Muscle Cars were our first cars. Our high school parking lots were full of old Mustangs, Cougars, Camaros and Chevelles, with some Impalas and Darts thrown in the mix. Gen-X'ers are coming into their own right now, making big bucks, paying off / down their houses, putting a kid or two through their last years of college, and planning for retirement. As well as planning what the heck they are going to DO during retirement. For many of us, that "someday" Muscle Car they want own, or that "someday" restoration of the Muscle Car that's been "rotting" in the garage or side yard is quickly becoming a reality. Also, you have the Millennials that grew up on video games featuring some of our favorite Muscle Cars. That is going to keep things warm for decades to come. ...unless they ban gasoline. In which case we will be relegated to track events and an annual "old car day" when you can pay $250 to drive your "planet killer" for one day only. ... View more

"a gathering of tens of thousands of motorists driving classics down the Motor City’s main drag. Her conclusion: The event has a carbon footprint of roughly 400 metric tons of C02, nearly equivalent to the annual footprint of eight U.S. households." They are concerned about EIGHT households worth of CO2 from one of the biggest car events in the country?? Hell, we have about 130 MILLION households in the US, adding almost 4 MILLION a year. Yeah, we should totally put a stop to living life and having fun ~ y'know, in the name of saving the planet. Excuse me if I'm not at all concerned with the pollution equivalent of EIGHT households. ... View more

You need to zoom in on the bottom left corner to see any sort of curve in the data. Even then, it is still fairly "L" shaped. Consider how few "collector" cars sell for over 1 million dollars. Also consider how few cars with over 5000 built are consider "collectible". You can pretty much throw away the data outside those ranges as not being pertinent, IMO. Even if you look at Mustang, with a high production volume and relatively low collector value. The collector value is not the same for every Mustang, with lower production CJ's priced significantly higher than high production 6 cylinder cars. On the flip side, "rarity" does not always equal "valuable". You can have your "1 of 1" car that was built in yellow with a red interior... and that doesn't mean it's going to have high value. I think the take away here is that desirability is the major impactor on value. And as we know, that can shift over time as the buying public's tastes change (consider pink, black and silver paint colors, mod tops, and even unrestored "survivor" cars). ... View more

Ok, I couldn't read the whole article because I kept getting tripped up by the implication that Ford gets to decide what is and is not a Mustang. No, they don't. We decide. Let me explain. I'm old enough to remember when a letter writing campaign resulted in the Ford Probe NOT becoming the new Mustang. And while I'm not old enough to remember this one, I'm told that a letter written to Mr. Iacocca had an impact on the trend of larger and larger Mustangs, resulting in the down-sizing that gave us the '74 Mustang II. Look through ANY group of comments regarding the Mach-E and you will clearly see very few people defending Ford's choice to call it a Mustang and slap a pony on it. Don't get me wrong. I have no beef with electric vehicles, and I look forward to the day when we get a REAL electric Mustang and not an SUV with phony pony on it. ... View more

"...you are going to sink a lot of time and money into a car you aren’t even sure you enjoy driving." ^THIS is the most important piece of the article! The first thing I tell anyone I know that has bought or is considering buying a project car is: Get it running and driving first. Anyone who is new (or new-ish) to project cars should get the car running and driving safely, and then take it out and drive it. It doesn't matter that it looks or sounds or drives like cr@p, when you are cruising that ratty old thing around town you are going to figure out if you enjoy the experience or not. If you don't enjoy driving it then why would you ever spend more money trying to restore it? Sure, you might decide that it needs upgraded power brakes or power steering, but if you can't picture yourself cruising around in it after it's finished, they why continue with it? Find something else that does move you. Besides, a running, driving car is much more fun for the rest of the family than a stripped down body and stack of boxes! ... View more

You are exactly right: none of us would have heard of it if they didn't call it a Mustang. The equally funny thing? No one who buys this electric SUV is going to do so just because they put a pony on it and called it a Mustang. So why alienate the real Mustang people by putting a phony pony on an SUV? Why not just call it something else? ... View more

I think they wanted to appeal to a YOUNGER client base. Those 20 and 30-somethings with a family to transport. In exchange they have alienated the older client base, with more disposable income, by prostituting an icon beloved by them. They should have just called it something else instead of putting a phony pony on it. ... View more

I think it's funny that the author initially states that "this is absolutely a proper Mustang", and then goes on to describe it throughout the review as an SUV! Sorry buddy, but a "proper Mustang" is NOT an SUV, just as the Mach-E is NOT a proper Mustang. You can put a phony pony on an Explorer just as easily and call it anything you want, but that doesn't make it a "proper Mustang". Ford could have called it anything else and it would still be what it is: an electric SUV. And it would still have sold / will sell just as well to the people who don't know about or care about real Mustangs. Hell, even if it eventually comes to out perform real Mustangs, that's ok! It wouldn't be the first time that the Mustang wasn't the horse-power flagship of the Ford fleet. I don't need another SUV in the household. I'll save my money for a proper electrified Mustang, thank you very much. ... View more

@StanF - re: video games. ... View more

I've owned my Eliminator for about 7 years, having bought it from the original owner in 2012.  But it certainly wasn't a garage queen cream puff!  He used to race it (it was hand-lettered on the passenger door when I got it), and got in several accidents with it too.  The vintage bodywork is starting to show its age now, but it runs and drives, and has that "well loved" look that always gets attention.  It is a numbers-matching car and was mostly complete, as far as the expensive and rare parts go.   I'm sure I'll restore it someday.   For now I'm gathering the necessary parts and sheet metal, and just driving and enjoying it!   I take it to various local shows when I can, and try to get to Beaches Cruise-In on Wednesday evenings at Portland International Raceway a few times a summer.  Hopefully we'll get some car shows in once the COVID lockdowns are lifted!   What is that guy looking at?? Photo by Flying-A Photography 428SCJ   I also help track and document Eliminators for the Cougar Club of America and the Eliminator Registry.  If you or someone you know has an Eliminator, please contact myself or the Eliminator Registry! Mike B. EliminatorSearch@CougarClub.ORG ... View more