One of the most BEAUTIFUL muscle cars ever built...stellar resto.

Imagine listening to 1970's tunes cruising in this bad boy?

One of the best looking of them all...mean and beautiful like a, well... like a Cougar.

Thanks Lou for letting me know about this car! One of these got me into trouble. As a senior in high school, I had a nice conservative-looking 1971 Ford Ranchero Squire. Ofcourse the standard engine was a 351C-4V and had a C-6 automatic. I thought it was pretty hot and a real sleeper. I enjoyed blowing stock SS396 Camaro's off the road. Well, one evening, after dropping a date off, I was innocently driving home on the main drag. A person driving a Cougar Eliminator was looking for some action, and I gave it to him, kinda. With runs from stoplight to stoplight, he was always a little faster than me. At the last stoplight, I realized that my car definitely wasn't faster and wasen't even in the same class of performance. My hood didn't have a hood scoop and the Cougar did. I decided to give him a smoke-show. I put my car in neutral, watching for the cross street light to turn red. Soon as my light turned green I floored it and put it into 1st gear. My tires lit up and I filled the intersection with smoke. All you could see was dim headlights in the smoke. Well, I ended up laying two streaks of rubber 175 ft. long. How did I know? One of the motorcycle police officers went back and measured while the other officer wrote the ticket and put the length on it. The only time I ever came close to burning rubber like that again was at a decommissioned dragstrip and I was on my motorcycle. It wasn't until years later that I learned the Cougar Eliminator had a 428. That guy was just playing with me and I never had a chance!

Too cool....Cougars are under rated classics. This one is just in the stratosphere. Priceless

69 and 70 Muscle Cars were the very best of all time !!! This is a beauty of a Car, to bad it's not a 4 speed is all.

IF ONLY CARS WERE STILL PRICED LIKE THAT!! BEAUTIFUL

I owned one of these 1970 Cougar Eliminators in the late eighties. It was the same color. Although it had a custom 351 Cleveland motor (with "ram air" package) and auto transmission with 4.11 gears. It also had power windows which this car clearly does not have. Other than the latter, it was identical. Unfortunately mine had detrimental rust in the forward frame. It was fun while it lasted. Then I sold it, with the warning about the frame, but the purchaser wanted it so bad he didn`t care. Very nice car indeed. It used to hold its own on the street in its day.

Lou, this car is so well design ( the shape ) ,almost any colour will looks good on it ,because its pure beauty ,man !

I'm a LifeLong 65 to 73 Mustang Aholic , with a Very Soft Spot in my heart for old 68 to 70 - CAR - Cougars also ... As Soon as I saw this one - yes I got Misty with All The Visual Pleasure of it . Kelly , I TOTALLY AGREE !! Those sexy slow blinking ( winking ) tail lights , alway caught my eyes Too . BEAUTIFUL

Beautiful rare car . Great video . Congrats Gord and Kelly :)

Sweet! Thank You Lou. Peter Brooks.

Duke great story that's awsum u could do that ,and best the car was still alive n well...rock on welcome to America.

I am a 442 fan, But I give respect to these machines!

Awesome car congrats on your dreams brother, my dad always had Ford's and Mercury's from Orange motor's in Albany NY.

Lou you are the muscle car man! Most of these cars have a wife included! Ever ask a price? This is truly the Holy Grail of Muscle Cars! ! !

Always had a spot in my heart for the early Cougars with the hidden headlights. Love the looks. To think of $5K back in 1970 that was a lot of money for a car. You could buy a lot of car for that $$$. THANK YOU LOU and GORD

That one immaculate vehicle have to have a safe place to park it . That clock was beautiful at knight .

Beautiful car. Loved those Cougars.

I love the video I have a 428 Super Cobra limited edition 1 I love that car keep up the good work man

Wow! I learned something today! Very cool! I love it!

I've always been a sucker for cars like this!

I think you figured out by now I'm die hard Mopar. But I love these cars. Around 35 yrs. ago, my dad adjusted the points, added headers, and set the carb. on a 69 or 70. I was in my early teens. But I still remember dust falling from the rafters, and the old one piece garage door creaking shut, from the vibration. I'm pretty sure it had the 351. It had the old Cragar SST on it. This car appears to have Alberta plates on it.. Nice car.

I saw this same car on the show room floor at Frank Andrews Ford Lincoln Mercury in Roseville Calif. Ended up having a 67 then a 68. Both small blocks great cars.

Ching,ching,ching!Thats proper Cougar!Gorgeous Orange!

Exceptional vehicle. These cars were so terribly underrated.

Best compliment I can give wow

Stunning looking car!

Great video Lou, Awesome car too! I had a chance to buy one of these cars, a 69 or 70 (I cannot remember for sure) with a Boss 302 engine, 4-speed trans, in good running condition, but rough paint, for $1200 about 20 years ago. I went to the bank to withdraw the money and while I was gone another guy slipped in and offered them a little over double ($2500) the money for it and just like that it was gone. I was almost sick when I got back and found they had already accepted his offer. I always think about it and wish I had had the sense back then to take cash with me in the first place. Seeing this one brings back that sick feeling of loss and what could have been.

This is a BUILD... beautiful car.

Beautiful car !!!

Watched video more than once love the car very cool

Love the color bought a duster twister competition orange from the factory

Beautiful

I always kinda wanted one of these...A friend in High School had a 69 GTE 427 I think it was, but it never was in running condition...I remember I was just starting my career as a mechanic, and the big block Cougars were ALMOST as much fun changing the Spark Plugs, as a V-8 Chevy Monza....LOL

That man owns a beautiful car

In 1970 I lived in Eastchester N.Y. There was a Lincoln Mercury dealer I walked by on my way to school that had a yellow Eliminator brand new sitting on the lot for months and months. I think the sticker was 5800 bucks. That was a lot of money in those days when you could have bought a 1970 LS6 Chevelle new, for $4200 .

Just gorgous

Back in those days I was a young teen my friends dad worked for Mercury dealer one day I was over and his dad had brought home one of these he was working on. He was heavy drinker and had gotten too wasted we hid his keys we didn’t want him wrecking this car. It was awesome, orange with black stripes big block and 4 speed

love that colour

I want that car!!!! What a beast

AWESOME

My cousin bought a brand new 1970 yellow Eliminator 428 cj 4 speed . It was so fast that it would set your head back in the seat making it hard to raise away. He would hit third gear 20 feet from the car in front of him and scare the hell out of me. I was thinking he'll be putting on the brakes but he hit third instead. These car are very rare.

I bought a 70 Cougar in 1977 for $700. Drove it 3 yrs and sold it for $750 to a silly girl who wrecked it within a week. If I'd kept in a garage without touching it I could ask $10,000 today no problem. The body was rust free, no dents. The dash was cracked on top and the seats were worn. Suspension needed a rebuild but drive train was flawless.

Nice Video thanks for sharing BTW do you know how many ram air Eliminators were produced?

I'm a Mopar guy but first gen Cougar's are one of the best looking and classiest muscle cars of that era in my opinion. I'd love to have a 68 Cougar GT-E 7 Litre(preferably an early production GT-E with the 427 Side Oiler but a 428 Cobra Jet would do just fine)or a 69-70 Eliminator BOSS 302. Always liked the 67-70 Cougar's better than the Mustang's of that era. Mustang's are a dime a dozen and Cougar's were a nicer car overall

What I did want to say was I was lucky enuf to see one of these cars it was out on the great American highways at a Stuckey if u remember those,we were getting gas I don't remember what we were driving but this car comes in pretty calmly quiet I just remembered seeing it briefly because it went were I couldn't see it getting gas,I just remembered the guy leaving and thinking that thing is rare I never seen any car in that color ever,and I collect Cudas and challengers,but the guy was shifting beautiful and the motor was big and all factory,clean an tite I wish I could say he took off down the highway like the way I do but he went down a road respectively did show off that was 40 years ago and I haven't seen one since driving or even at a car show....thanks by the way I alway like the 68s and 69 cougar,please don't tell know body...thanks.

My grandpa had a 428 cobra jet

Wow had one exactly like that on the 70s but with a boss 302. I regret till this day I sold it!

Nice car

She's a beauty

Nice, but nothing on a 68 GTS DODGE DART 440

Does it come with navigation and back up cameras?

whats the cold code?

Nuts to the mustang, the cougar was developed first!!!!!

not a fan of Ford but what a beautiful machine.

Not my color choice, but a stunning Cougar nonetheless!

Simply beautiful and sexy as hell, you're a lucky guy Lou and so as the owners of the car.

Body shop jail, probably more the rule than the exception, unfortunately.

Spend all that money and then stand back and stare at it. I couldn't do it.

How on earth does it take 19 years to restore a car??

I like that you are showing these cars, but it would be MUCH better if you allowed the owners of the car to talk and tell their story about their car. At least twice, they began to talk about an interesting aspect of the car, but you quickly cut them off so that you could continue dominating the conversation. 1. The guy began to talk about the article that caught his interest in the 1970 Cougar Eliminator, but you brushed it off and changed the subject. 2. The lady commented that her favorite aspect of the car are it's sequential turn signal lights in the rear. That was an obvious opportunity to show off that feature to the viewers, many/most have probably never seen that rare feature. It would have also shown that you were respectful of their opinions about their own car. But once again, you immediately blew it off and moved on. All I'm saying is that it's best to let the person who owns the car, knows the most about it, and who spent over 2 decades working on it, to be given adequate time to educate your viewers about it. When you dominate the conversation, it seems that you are trying to make it mostly about you.

Great car; Do you people know that NHRA has completely eliminated Mercury from the stock and super stock programs !!! Cars like these cannot compete at NHRA events !!!

Jesus Christ that is a stupid sick muscle car! I would walk right by Zl-1's hemi's and ls-6's Shelby's all of them! People make NO MISTAKE! THIS IS A $100-150K CAR! ULTRA RARE XXXX 1000! STUPID SICK! THE ONLY ONE YOU WILL EVER WITNESS!

Great car but automatic? No thanks

They called him jail cat because he was a poosy in jail