This one arrived in good shape yesterday

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This arrived in excellent shape yesterday anyway. It's "Dyno Don" Nicholson's 69 "Super Cat" Cougar 428 Cobra Jet. It was the 1969 Car Craft Magazine Project Car featured and built by "Dyno Don" in conjunction with Lincoln Mercury, and Coca Cola. If you remember the "Mod Generation" and "Flower Power" times, you will see those influences in this car. It was featured in a series of Car Craft magazine issues in 1969 as built by "Dyno Don". He balanced, blueprinted the 428, and added some of his personal tricks and touches. It was then shipped around the country to various Auto Promotional Events. Additionally "Dyno Don" took it to various Races to make exhibition runs during a major NHRA event.

At Auto shows Lincoln Mercury had the exhibit of this car with "Dyno Don" in attendence. They had a slogan of, join the "Streep Scene". It was a word derived from Street/Strip combined to make one word. I know, it sounds corny to me too! But what they did have which was neat, was an early version video exhibit as part of their display. It was comprised of two seats behind a screen in which a person was able to sit alongside "Dyno Don" and go for a trip down the dragstrip as if you were in his race car. Possibly the first type of virtual reality video. This was in the "Dyno Don" Funny car that he campaigned with the name "Eliminator" on the side of it. It was most likely the origin of the name for "Cougar Eliminator".

After this, the "Super Cat" was turned over to the Coca Cola Corporation to became a give away contest car. Coca Cola expanded on the "Eliminator" theme in their contest by saying become a "Thirst Eliminator" by buying a coca Cola card, and enter the contest for the car. You would see this full page contest ad on the back of many car magazine covers. MPC model company made a model of this car in that time frame as well. When it was found several years ago, it still had the original graphics/names and logos as it had not been re-painted. But it was severely faded and deteriorated, requiring extensive restoration to the way you see it here.

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Another angle.

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Coca Cola Contest ad

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Awesome car, and a great history behind it!

Does it still feature the same engine/drivetrain as it had back then?

How did it perform, when Dyno Don drove back then,


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[COPO PETE]

That is a neat car with neat history.... even for a Ford. And your right.... it does look much better than the Olds! That is unbelievable!
Peter

[DarrenX33]

Neat stuff. Thanks for sharing with us first Kevin. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[Belair62]

WOW what a beautiful car...Kevin how are you prying these cars out of Sixtiesmuscle ? I saw that car from beginning to end of a very extensive restoration.The work was done from start to finish by Performance Restorations here in Mundelein Illinois.The lace work is unbelievable.Mike you should have called me when this thing got home ...we could have taken it for a test drive !! Now it's a thousand miles away already !! Finding parts for a Cougar is probably harder than finding parts for a Pontiac...Kevin...there were models made of this car back in the day...

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Kevin
Do you have any before pics? Nothing like modified cars that's for sure!! Cragars, candy paint and lace. Can't get much better than that.

[Stefano]

Cool car Kevin, but has anyone ever seen Belair62 and SixtiesMuscle together at the same time. I have a theory, put a mustache and Wig on SixtiesMuscle and I don't believe you could tell the two appart [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[DjD]

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Very nice!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img] Something about lace that brings back warm memories!! (paint jobs and women [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] ) I'd ask for a close up of the lace with less glair but I don't want you guys to get the wrong idea!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]