Around the time Ethridge tested the cars, Mercury's Fran Hernandez and Bud Moore were working to build a Cougar Trans-Am race team, a team that would feature drivers Dan Gurney and Parnelli Jones ...

Some say the narrow victory cost Mercury the chance for a second year of Trans-Am racing, as Ford didn't want to compete with itself—and possibly lose—and so elected to back just one team in 1968.

Aligned with Ford for many years during his racing career, Dan Gurney’s direct ties to Mercury’s Cougar came about when Gurney was appointed to manage Mercury’s Cougar SCCA Trans Am race ...

It is, however, a perfectly harmless term that applies to qualifying a particular vehicle or engine for participation in various racing series with stock classes. Basically, for a stock car to be ...

Two very different cars from Mercury are up ... this gold-over-blue '68 Cougar Trans-Am tribute was built ... To remain competitive on the vintage racing circuit, the Cougar wears a special ...

While privateer Cougar Trans-Am cars were seen ... But you'd be mistaken if you thought Cougar performance was limited to various types of endurance racing. The Mercury Division had long been ...