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9 years ago
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My car was cut to bits!!!!
It wasn't any good anyways... It's kind of ironic though how it came to be a pile of scrap metal.
One yearish ago a 97 Mercury Cougar XR-7 showed up for sale at a mechanic shop near me, and it was a killer deal. The car had a great engine with all kinds of new parts due to its age, and was a pretty clean car. It could've used some fresh paint but who cars it's old enough to vote... But I just couldn't see cutting up a perfectly good car just to raid it's engine and transmission for one car and the rear end for another car. It then would have either been parted out or turned into a drag racing toy just for giggles. But instead we convinced my cousin to replace a dead SUV with it and a few months later she pulled out in front of a sedan traveling at 60 mph and the cougar's passenger door was shoved in over 1 foot. Both cars were single occupant luckily, and both had just minor injuries, but both cars were totalled. The cougar was traded back to my dad who fixed the old SUV up for it, as the engine was still good and his truck needed it. Recently we found a better engine and transmission in a salvage yard that I had planned for a project, when we decided that he would use the junkyard one and I would use the cougar's. Well today was the last day of cutting the car to bits, and I mean bits. Roof, back window, in front of the seats it was cut then split into two roofless half's of the back of a car, the engine was cut free from the frame, and now it sits with an engine and transmission bolted together, with a front suspension system beside it, the firewall and windshield with dashboard still in(bent to hell) and wires wrapped around it nearly 2 times, a driveshaft laying on the dirt between that and a whole independent rear suspension system. And as we finished up an irony hit me... If we had bought the cougar' ourselves it would have prevented 2 crashes. She would have been able to see in the SUV and wouldn't have pulled out in front of another car, and my dad's classic truck would have been getting surgery to have the cougar's suspension installed, so he never would have tried to rush it into driving state and it wouldn't have got hit. Now it is just a heap of metal on a flatbed trailer...
The engine is going in a 95 F150 pickup just to be different, the front body clip and rear bumper and tail lights are being hung on a 99 explorer frame and making a modern interpretation of what a UTE would look like in a Mercury, because I don't remember if they ever made a UTE... A convertible 97 Mercury Cougar didn't exist so that is happening too.... A convertible 97 Cougar 4x4 UTE, I'm calling it the Murrcury Bobbedcat...
But damn was it fun to use a sawzall and death wheel to turn a $30,000 luxury sports car into a pile of metal and parts... I got done cutting the roof off and stood up, lifting the roof with me and walked away!!!
It wasn't any good anyways... It's kind of ironic though how it came to be a pile of scrap metal.
One yearish ago a 97 Mercury Cougar XR-7 showed up for sale at a mechanic shop near me, and it was a killer deal. The car had a great engine with all kinds of new parts due to its age, and was a pretty clean car. It could've used some fresh paint but who cars it's old enough to vote... But I just couldn't see cutting up a perfectly good car just to raid it's engine and transmission for one car and the rear end for another car. It then would have either been parted out or turned into a drag racing toy just for giggles. But instead we convinced my cousin to replace a dead SUV with it and a few months later she pulled out in front of a sedan traveling at 60 mph and the cougar's passenger door was shoved in over 1 foot. Both cars were single occupant luckily, and both had just minor injuries, but both cars were totalled. The cougar was traded back to my dad who fixed the old SUV up for it, as the engine was still good and his truck needed it. Recently we found a better engine and transmission in a salvage yard that I had planned for a project, when we decided that he would use the junkyard one and I would use the cougar's. Well today was the last day of cutting the car to bits, and I mean bits. Roof, back window, in front of the seats it was cut then split into two roofless half's of the back of a car, the engine was cut free from the frame, and now it sits with an engine and transmission bolted together, with a front suspension system beside it, the firewall and windshield with dashboard still in(bent to hell) and wires wrapped around it nearly 2 times, a driveshaft laying on the dirt between that and a whole independent rear suspension system. And as we finished up an irony hit me... If we had bought the cougar' ourselves it would have prevented 2 crashes. She would have been able to see in the SUV and wouldn't have pulled out in front of another car, and my dad's classic truck would have been getting surgery to have the cougar's suspension installed, so he never would have tried to rush it into driving state and it wouldn't have got hit. Now it is just a heap of metal on a flatbed trailer...
The engine is going in a 95 F150 pickup just to be different, the front body clip and rear bumper and tail lights are being hung on a 99 explorer frame and making a modern interpretation of what a UTE would look like in a Mercury, because I don't remember if they ever made a UTE... A convertible 97 Mercury Cougar didn't exist so that is happening too.... A convertible 97 Cougar 4x4 UTE, I'm calling it the Murrcury Bobbedcat...
But damn was it fun to use a sawzall and death wheel to turn a $30,000 luxury sports car into a pile of metal and parts... I got done cutting the roof off and stood up, lifting the roof with me and walked away!!!
