When I saw this car at a Denver self-service yard, I had to wonder if Ford really sank so low in the late 1990s as to make this godawful crypto-laundau roof a factory-installed option on the MN12 XR7. I haven’t been able to find any references to such an abomination in any of my reference books, so it’s probably a safe assumption that we’re looking at an aftermarket conversion. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1990s, 1997, 1997 Mercury Cougar, cougar, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, Ford MN12, Ford MN12 Platform, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Mercury, Mercury Cougar, MN12, xr7
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