AlainDurand: Newly importated from Oregon, this first generation Mercury Cougar was one of the stars of the June rally
AlainDurand: The 1967 Cougar was based on that year's refaced first-generation Mustang
AlainDurand: it gradually tended to shift away from performance and toward luxury, evolving into something new in the market — a plush pony car.
AlainDurand: The introduction of the Cougar finally gave Mercury its own pony car. Slotted between the Ford Mustang and the Ford Thunderbird
AlainDurand: A full-width divided grille with hidden headlamps and vertical bars defined the front fascia —it was sometimes called the electric shaver grille