SoCalMetro posted this shot of a two-headed Cougar at the Cohort. Why, it’s so…clean…and un-cluttered. Which drives home the point that well over 50% of the problem I have with these cars is the rear half, not the front.
Now if they’d grafted a T-Bird on the other end, this would really be something.
Wow, nice, the little filler piece between the doors is very well done. The paint color and those particular hubcaps really help the overall aesthetic as far as I am concerned. I just can’t imagine it looking as good in brown or black or with different wheels/caps.
They must have done a good job connecting the two frames. It doesn’t look like there’s any sag in the middle.
I agree. It looks very in-cluttered. The Eldorado behind it, not so much.
Twice the cat and none of the mess!
These definitely had one of the more attractive faces of the brougham epoch.
I remember seeing an episode of CHiPs, where a two-headed car was causing mayhem on the freeways. Maybe it was this car?
I distinctly remember it was a 77-79 Cougar, so you may be right.
I’m going to safely say it’s definitely the same car, look at the license plate.
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_814167-Mercury-Cougar-1979.html
Excellent work, detective!
Wow. That’s some great detective work. And an awesome car. Love that plate. I wonder how many people watching CHiPs would have understood the XR14 reference.
That was my first thought when I saw this, thanks for verifying!
Yes, this car was incredibly dangerous. If I remember right it was passing a truck when another car changed lanes to pass. Seeing the front of the car, the driver panics and loses control which causes a horrendous chain reaction of destruction which thankfully only caused minor injuries.
But I may be confusing it with, oh, pretty much every other episode. 🙂
I find myself thinking of Dr. Doolittle!
We need a writeup on the CX500 below. Looks like a custom. Sadly, I never got around to putting mine on the road 🙁
That’s a CM400T custom
with ComStar wheels! Ooohhh… Now that’s a classic!
I can’t tell for sure in that pic, but they might be the later variant…reversed comstars
I’ll take your word on it. I can’t blow it up enough to tell. Overall lines look similar to the CX500 custom.
Bonus to the guy who gets to park his bike under it for some shade
I agree Thunderbird on one end and Cougar on the other would be even better. I have to wonder how long ago this was created. I’m guessing it was closer to when the donors were made than it is to today.
Around here there used to be a body shop who took a pretty new Ram Pickup that had a pretty strong front end hit right up against their building that originally was on a corner where it would have been a highly plausible collision. Of course their name was on the sides and tail gate and they had rigged something up so the flashers were going during regular business hours. When they moved they took it with them but in the new location it didn’t have the same impact so to speak.
Perhaps you newer readers might have missed this PN gem:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/curbside-classic-bi-directional-dual-440-powered-1973-dodge-coronet-police-pursuit/
That’s what came to mind when I saw this!
The lead photo could be a strong basis for one of Al Jaffee’s ‘Fold-ins’ from the back of Mad Magazine.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html?_r=0
Suicide door prototype for the 2017 Lincoln Continental?
This is on Fairview near Santa Barbara airport, I drive past it every day…
Are those red reflectors beneath the clear lamp lenses and a tag lamp on the -ehh- back end?
With details like that, maybe it was road legal at one time?
Oh… I’ll call ’72 for the Eldo.
There was a Chevy Citation like this used for a bail bondsman place here a few years ago. Haven’t seen it in awhile. Never took pics.
At first glance, I was getting a late 60s Oldsmobile vibe from this, but then I looked closer. Yes, pretty clean styling, but putting two front halves together shows how the fender/belt line slopes downward from front to rear. That slope gives this one a bit of a swaybacked appearance.
Still, this one is much more presentable than the Crosley version that hangs out at Lafayette Indiana’s Dog N Suds drive in.
I like it. Somehow, it just…works. And the fact that it’s a TV star is that much more interesting!