Both were leaving immediately
after the Sahara for an extended
tour in Australia, so there was precious little time to
spare and decisions had to be made.
It is finished in its original two - tone Black and Tan that looks especially nice even three decades
after it was applied by Tiffany Motor Coach but obviously there's much more to the coupe than just paint, cool cars like this that are built in the same tradition of the Excalibur and Zimmer add century - old class and distinction to more modern components, that's where you get the custom swoopy fenders, decorative exterior exhaust ports, 2 exterior
spare tires, full - length running boards, and bright wire wheels and of course the classic - style trunk with leather straps but beyond the grandest of grand
touring appearance are the fundamentals you want for example, the doors are unaltered from the original Mercury Cougar body, the same goes for much of the main glass and underlying components, so maintaining this one - of - a-kind appearance is much easier than it might first seem.