Eugene doesn’t call to everyone. But for those that hear its song and can dance to it properly, well, the results can be…seen everywhere, especially in the off-beat cars, trucks and old buses. Certain predictable themes re-emerge regularly, like the hippie-buses in rainbow paints, as well as the old VW buses. But it can take different forms too, like this personalized Mercury Cougar, hardly a typical Eugene-mobile. But a bit of work can make even the most unlikely car dance to the drum circle.
I’m not going to leave much commentary, as this car speaks quite well for itself.
FWIW, Dutch Bros is a regional coffee drive-through chain.
Why am I not able to place this V6 emblem? It’s so familiar.
Can’t leave things stock on the inside either.
And must have requisite chihuahua on dash.
The back end has not been neglected.
Trunk vents; every car should have some.
Are you ready to move to Eugene?
We did know that the constitutional amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment did not apply to cars.
Perhaps there should be a constitutional amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment to cars….
Probably came from here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Chrome-Metal-V6-badge-emblem-for-Ford-MUSTANG-GT-CS-Cobra-V6-Logo-/290966545074
’50s Ford 8’s had ’em with an 8 of course.
I was thinking mid-00s Escape, but the vee is too widely angled and shallow. They did have V6 emblems if equipped with rhe Duratec 30 for a few years.
V6
FWIW a Google search for “V6 emblem” turned up two hits in the top 5 results that match our Cougar’s. One from eBay, one from a custom parts wholesaler. Seems to just be a generic aftermarket bauble. Very similar to 1950s GM V8 emblems in the rake of the vee.
I’m tellin’ ya, it’s a retro design based very closely on the ’50s Ford V8 emblems. Only V6 emblems even similar at all were ’60s GMC, and they’re not it. Chevy isn’t it either.
Just live in the general area.
GAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll stay here in the redneck, conservative South, thank you very much.
Then again, its no worse than a brougham.
You inherit a car you hate. Why not make it into a joke to turn the glares into smiles. The chihuahua doll should at least be a Cougar.
Way too much dutchie passed to the left hand side for this bro (or sis).
To each their own, I guess. If I had to face this every morning I’d skip the Dutch Brothers until after I got to work. No need to be more cognizant of this than necessary.
Overdone by modern standards, but Harley Earl would have considered it criminally short of “entertainment”. Needs at least 100 more pounds of chrome, filling every available square inch.
Agrees.
If every “custom touch” was restored back to stock except for the retro V6 emblems, it would look good.
Only in the People’s Republic of Eugene….
Ok I’ll mention it, the owner (hopefully) has spent too much time at Pep Boys and/or with a JC Whitney catalog. Though Walmart does carry quite a bit of that stuff also.
I feel sorry for the car. It deserves better. If it could talk I think it would say – just kill me. I would rather be a refrigerator.
A refrigerator covered with magnets, maybe ?
My Dad used to say that a car like this looked like someone had driven it through a Western Auto Store. Remember those? Or were they just in the Midwest? I knew as a kid I used to buy a few trinkets for my bike at our local one. In fact, I bought a set of Porta- Walls for my ’51 Chevy there the first week I had my license.
Western Auto stores were in eastern WA as well – one was my favorite store as a kid (got all of my bicycle and lawn mower parts there, and they had auto parts including tires in the back).
We even had them in the east for a little while–there was a Western Auto in Greensboro, NC in the 90’s. Back around the time they sponsored Darrell Waltrip’s NASCAR racer.
Consider the “decorations” as theft deterrents. NO ONE would, in their right mind, want to steal this. And it anyone should steal this, you just tell the police to look for an auto accessory store on wheels.
I wonder what their home interior decorating looks like.
Yeah that’s a Pep Boys V6 badge modeled on the V8 badges of yesteryear. I have one of those V6 badges on the rear of my Highlander just because Toyota didn’t see fit to call out the big engine on every model.
It was too much to ask to spend a couple minutes with a tape measure to get the racing stripes on the trunk lid centered?
Or maybe buy a roll of black instead of silver duct tape for the bumper? Bring that axe Eugene, and don’t be at all careful with it.
It’ll take the rest of the day to unsee that.
Wonder if it has a name? How bout “FINGERNAILS?”
As in…on a chalkboard…
I was just looking again at all the nauseating multi-coloured fake fur inside. I presume the vertical grey piece hanging down over the instrument cluster is to hide the stereo as a theft deterrent, or to cover the hole left from lack of stereo?
Anyhow, I noticed there is a box with a bunch of white buttons ahead of the armrest. Is that the control box for one of those musical car horns they used to sell that would play different tunes?
I agree, the control box next to the shifter looks like it goes to a musical car horn. I suppose it could instead be an old alarm keypad or even just a random item like a phone dialer (for visual effect only). Hmm…
What this car really needs is a full fabric landau top,with the rear side windows covered in.
I would love to see the reaction when that thing drives up to the portachere, at The Hotel ZAZA in Houston! Especially if an elegantly dressed sophisticated looking couple exited from it!
I have a feeling the owner won’t be voting for Donald Trump…if at all…
Lipstick on a pig? Oh , hell , have fun with it I say.
My daughter sent me a picture of this in traffic a while back, nice to see some close ups.
Well, there goes the adage, “Everything is greener, on the other side of the fence.”
Why leave Massachusetts, if the West Coast of Oregon is like THAT? 🙂
I don’t have to move to Eugene, to find that kind of automotive tackiness… I have tons of that around my own neighborhood. Lol
The immigrants here, I guess, feel the more Autozone add-on garbage you add to your car, must mean you’ve really made it, in their country.
We have a word, for that type of auto over-the-top flamboyancy… It’s called “Guido”.
Wouldn’t want to drive that thing at night…..headlights so yellow put 1 black dot on each and can swear would make good yellow eyes
Maybe it has jaundice.
Poor poor Cougar. It must be bazaar for these people when they personalize a Cougar like this and they see mine, which is definitely personalized, executed in the complete opposite manner, actually improving on it.
And the NASCAR banner on the windshield, even if for hipster ironic effect, is wrong. these Cougars were raced in IMSA.
Wow 4 pairs of faux port holes or vents and a peel and stick hood scoop too. I’m gonna call my broker and see if I own any shares in peel and stick auto gadgets. Another low buck customizing trend I see a lot of is to yank out any plastic parts of the interior, instrument panel bezel, door handle bezels , radio, havc surrounds ect. and rattle can paint them. To say nothing of the fact that they never fit correctly and fall out when you slam the door having most of their retainers broken off or missing.
Wonder where that hood ornament came from? At first I thought the headlamps were wrong too, but they just look odd due to the missing corner lenses plus a generous panel gap.