If you grew up in Southern California, you know the look: blue-and-gold plates, opera windows glinting in the sun, and just enough chrome to catch a passerby’s eye on Wilshire. This ’79 Mercury Cougar ...

The pony car kicked Detroit’s floodgates open in 1964, with a double entrance from Plymouth (the Barracuda) and Ford (the Mustang). For three years, the zoomachia had a very one-sided facet – the Blue ...

The 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 arrived as a calculated answer to a question Detroit had barely started to ask: what if a pony car could feel genuinely upscale without losing its bite. Built on familiar ...