Photo: No Reserve Classics
Coyote motors and old Mustangs feel so last week these days. It's almost like, as with GM cars and LS motors, people got a little tired of seeing the same combination of car and engine be put together over and over again in a sea of custom cars that, while brilliant in their own way, might start to feel derivative after the third or four hundredth helping. Instead of another heaping helping of Coyote Mustangs, why not try something similar but different? We're talking about this 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator. Safe to say, it cleanses the pallet of all those endless Mustangs.
This restomod Mercury was done up thanks to the No Reserve Classics shop based out of Green Brook, New Jersey. With a prime location almost smack dab in between NYC and Philadelphia as its home base, this 1970 Cougar had one hell of a team to transform it from just another muscle car into a rabid, snarling restomod so bursting at the seams with machismo that we're surprised that literally being Vin Diesel isn't a prerequisite for ownership. Back in the day, gen-I Cougars left the factory with a plethora of different V8s rangine from the 289-cubic inch (4.7 L) Windsor motor all the way to the uber-powerful 428-cubic inch (7.0 L) Cobra Jet motor jetting 335 horsepower.
Well, it's safe to say this five-liter Coyote engine with its 400 and change horsepower rating straight out of the crate has all those old engines done and dusted. Add on a wailing Roush supercharger to the top of the engine, and you suddenly have an engine capable of keeping up with the latest and greatest in modern sports cars with its supreme capabilities. The engine is paired like fine wine and cheese to a Tremec five-speed manual gearbox fed by an all-aluminum driveshaft to an awaiting Ford nine-inch rear end. As if this car would be caught dead wearing a GM rear end or some blasphemy of the sort.
It's one thing for a restomod to make metric you-know-what tons of power and be awesome at the quarter mile drag strip. But thanks to a custom-built front sub-frame with tubular control arms and a fancy quad-link rear suspension running Ridetech coilovers with HyperCo springs, this Cougar carves canyons with a similar tenacity to AMG and M-Division cars that Europeans routinely site as living-proof of their domination over American hardware. Well, thanks to this amazing restomod Cougar, these people can carry on huffing some weapons-grade "copium," as their M3s and C63 AMGs struggle to put any distance between themselves and this old muscle car on a circuit track. Congrats all around to No Reserve Classics for one of the most unique Coyote swaps we've seen all year.
Well, it's safe to say this five-liter Coyote engine with its 400 and change horsepower rating straight out of the crate has all those old engines done and dusted. Add on a wailing Roush supercharger to the top of the engine, and you suddenly have an engine capable of keeping up with the latest and greatest in modern sports cars with its supreme capabilities. The engine is paired like fine wine and cheese to a Tremec five-speed manual gearbox fed by an all-aluminum driveshaft to an awaiting Ford nine-inch rear end. As if this car would be caught dead wearing a GM rear end or some blasphemy of the sort.
It's one thing for a restomod to make metric you-know-what tons of power and be awesome at the quarter mile drag strip. But thanks to a custom-built front sub-frame with tubular control arms and a fancy quad-link rear suspension running Ridetech coilovers with HyperCo springs, this Cougar carves canyons with a similar tenacity to AMG and M-Division cars that Europeans routinely site as living-proof of their domination over American hardware. Well, thanks to this amazing restomod Cougar, these people can carry on huffing some weapons-grade "copium," as their M3s and C63 AMGs struggle to put any distance between themselves and this old muscle car on a circuit track. Congrats all around to No Reserve Classics for one of the most unique Coyote swaps we've seen all year.
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