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Yep - process is pretty much the same as before.

Thanks to the technical team!

- Phillip

Testing to see how posting a photo goes on the updated forum -

- Phillip

I'm sure most know this - but just in case.... GT-E Cougars had unique grills - blacked out with twin horizontal chrome bars running across the middle.

I've sent this pic on to the GT-E Registrar.

- Phillip

Looks to be a 289 Cobra? Besides the snout and hood scoop it says "289 Ford Racing" on the side.

Also, there is a GT-E Cougar lurking behind it on the other side of the fence.

Any info on when and where this pic was taken?

- Phillip

Thanks for adding the XR7-G Cougar history to THE best 1968 Shelby webpage!

- Phillip

From the November 1967 issue of Sports Car Graphic.

- Phillip

An ad I scanned from my copy of the Thursday, January 14, 1971 edition of the Southern MotoRacing newspaper.

- Phillip

Just to clarify my statements - I don't know that the Cougar branded (white jacket, red stripes) Hertz jacket I have in my collection is legitimate.

This yellow and black Hertz Sports Car Club jacket for sale on eBay looks like the one that I have, which I know is for reals.

- Phillip

Well, Hertz had quite a lot of these branded advertising/promotional items created, with more than a few dedicated to their "Sports Car Club" program.

I know that these items were given away for marketing purposes as gifts to clients and business partners.

What I don't know is if they were also offered for sale to John Q. Public. I've never seen any sort of a catalog or price sheet. Anyone remember walking into a Hertz office back-in-the-day when the Sports Club program was active and seeing stuff for sale?

At one point I had at least four of these jackets. I sold two and kept the nicest one plus a Cougar Hertz jacket (not convinced that one is legit).

The one I have is complete and in nicer shape than this jacket plus it fits me so it is probably an XL.

- Phillip

You may already know about this resource, but just in case you don't

http://www.thuntek.net/cougars_unlimited/

- Phillip

Just watched the video, which is terrific BTW.

Was surprised to learn that Dean Jeffries painted the Cougar II. Don't believe I have ever heard that tidbit.

To me, another example of how interwoven the fabric is of the production cars that we love, and the hot rod and custom car community that was so vibrant at the time (think TV/Movie cars and model kits) being tapped behind the scenes by the manufacturers.

- Phillip

Looks like a '67 Shelby in the background.

- Phillip

Ha! - Don has on one of my Delmarva Cougar Club t-shirts.

- Phillip

^^^ as well it should be!

For several of these (including your B9 Cougar Ed) I used a test printing that my printer runs on scrap shirts for me to approve before we go to press.

As for wearing them - I have multiples of every shirt I create so plenty to wear. Plus more than a few I can't fit in anymore 

- Phillip

Thanks Pete - Yes, the stitching is a nice touch that the quilter suggested.

I simplified a couple of the vintage Mercury Cougar logos and provided vector art that her machine could then trace.

- Phillip