Mercury's take on the Ford Mustang, the Cougar arrived in 1967, right when the muscle car wars were heating up. But even though it was just as fast as its FoMoCo sibling (and better-looking in my ...

Mercury felt the Pontiac GTO needed to be taken down a peg, so it built this to help in that endeavor.

Dennis Collins has been hunting rare classic cars for years now. He's usually after low-production first-gen Ford Mustangs and old Jeeps, but from time to time, he spices things up with something ...

Big Detroit station wagons were the North American family-transport kings from the middle 1950s through the late 1970s, and the Ford Country Squire was one of the most iconic of the bunch. As was ...

With a "low-slung, crouched-for-action" look, sequential turn signals (which stopped working within a few years on nearly every Cougar ever sold), and "deep-foam" bucket seats, the Cougar was indeed ...

When I met Gilles Dupras, I was cruising the Back to the 50's car show in a five-window pickup owned by Tim Tullo of Fatman Fabrications. I just happened to look to my left and spotted a Gilles' '57 ...

The 1949-51 Mercury is the quintessential custom car. Thousands of them have gone under the knife in the last five decades, so it's a little surprising to discover how little aftermarket support there ...