1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 390 Big Block

Cougar was highly successful in the wildly successful SCCA Trans-Am racing series with Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, and Ed Leslie driving Cougars for Bud Moore to several high-profile victories. In fact, the Cougar team almost took the Trans-Am championship that year. In addition to the 289 V-8 in several power ratings, street Cougars were also available with the GT package including Ford's 320-horsepower, 390 FE-Series big-block V-8, dual exhaust, beefed suspension, 3.251 rear end, and standard 3-speed manual transmission. Buyers could also specify a 4-speed manual transmission or Merc-O-Matic automatic. The GT package was quite popular with 8,464 Cougars produced with it for 1967. Of them, just 2,673 were based on the upscale XR7 hardtop model, which included leather bucket seats, full instrumentation