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lilbush
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new here(crimson cat and black magic, both `83)

Post by lilbush »

This is how my story begins. back in 1991 I purchased a black capri with gold stripes and a "cougar" head on the fender. it was mint except for the noise from the tranny. Eventually the 4-speed craped the bed. apparrently the noise was the transmission being dry. snapped the input shaft in half. I was 17 didn`t know any better.

so I go to school to become a body man. learn the trade, get a job.

put a decent stereo in her. one 15" sub with two 10" subs. it was loud. I go to the movies with a girlfriend to come out to the hatch all prided open. you know the rest of that.

so i`m trying to find a hatch for it so my pops finds a wrecked 90 GT. I go to look at it and it had a tree in the engine compartment, but the hatch and ground effect are perfect(see where this disaster is going). so I basicly turn it into a 1990 mustang gt, complete with quater glass.

later down the road I see a black magic in a mustang mag saying there were only like 450 made. :( . but I saved all the parts thankfully. it needs ton of work as of right now, but a fellow foreyed may buy it.

now I can save this c.c. from that same fate. I just need the front seats, the wheels and a four banger.(great gas mileage)
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Post by negusm »

The front seats are going to be tough. The best bet is going to be trying to have a custom shop redo the seats in closely matching material.

The wheels are Cougar TRX wheels. They were supposed to be gold (although the fact books show a set of normal silver ones). If you find regular Cougar TRX rims, you should be able to send them out to be plated in gold.

The four banger...why not try a 4cyl Turbo motor? You can get halfway decent gas mileage if you keep your foot out of the "turbo". :wink:

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Post by Larry d »

Mike I have only seen two cc sets of wheels both were silver Cougar
TRX, one set mine and one set on Rufus Wells car. I took mine off to save , because I'm driving the CC some.
lilbush I saw a bubble hatch on this classified sometime back don't remember the date.
Why did the seats disappear my CC has seats from a later model SVO.
Originals would be nice. Larryd
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