74 Montego

Mama always told me these cars were worthless. She was right. The market seems to concur. Too bad, neat cars.

1974 MERCURY MONTEGO CHERRY CONDITION

Man, I don't care if worthless. That thing looks CLEAN.
For $650, I could drive it for some time as is...but then the bug to update hits, like an AOD or 5 speed, and it all goes down hill from there.

Still she is a nice car. Worth the money IMHO.

Andy, maybe it's just you me and Steve that see the value in that thing.

What's with those San Fran cars going so cheap? A set of Magnum's and that thing would look pretty nice. Too bad I'm half a country away.

Over on Ranchero.us Trikar has been posting that thing up every time it pops up on Craigslist. It started off at around $2000 about a year ago and has been slowly creaping down to the present $650. Gotta wonder when the owner is gonna send it to the crusher.

He's NOT going to send it anywhere if I can help it...

I'm going to go see it tomorrow

My 1974 Mercury incident occured on: Thursday June 12, 1986 05:15. My best buddies 1974 Mercury Cougar XR7 351C 4V Premium fuel car traveling from Denver to Price Utah, went off the left side of the road when the driver (my other best buddy) fell asleep... Upon hearing the RUSH of the gravel under the left wheels he awoke and violently jerked the car twards the right side of the 2 lane highway (route 6/191 Greenriver to Price), upon reaching approximately half way through the proper lane he violently turned left, a weak attempt to turn a 3,500 lb 75 mph car straight again...
At that moment the right front axle decided that since it had been riding withought bearing grease all the way from VAIL Colorado, that it would just plain old SNAP... Which it did, and, when the wheel & rim and brake drum went off into the desert, the drag of the LCA and lower ball joint gouging up the highway sucked the front end right off teh road and out over a 15 foot drop where we ended up doing 2 end overs, and rolled about 3.5 times landing on the roof...
I was disloged according to the lone driver who saw the accident, at somewhere between the last flip and the second roll.... I was in a back brace for a year, on crutches for 6 months.. Real fun when you're 19....
Horribly scarred, adn with a surgically installed moustache I'll never be able to remove...

I've ACHED to get back into a 74 XR7 since that day...

This is only a lowly 2V Cleveland, and it's a Montego, but it's SO DAMN CLOSE I just think I might have to have it....

I send an e-mail...

Bring her home Gary. Bring her home.

I just talked to the man... Tags expire this month... He's 111.9 miles from here...
That compiled with the fact that my wife just missed her Advancement again is going to put a HUGE damper on things...

I might not be able to get it... I did fix the Gal brakes though

Originally Posted by Mikelonis

Andy, maybe it's just you me and Steve that see the value in that thing.

Ah, you know me all too well.
I actually spoke with him a week or so ago about having some work done on his Ranchero, but I really wish he would get to work on that 74 MX coupe he has...

I was thinking more along the lines of some nice 15x8's, and some nice 295/50/15's all around.