CLASSIC CARS: Loose spark plug wire saved 1969 Mercury Cougar from being sold

Aug 14, 2023

1969 Mercury Cougar

“A loose spark plug wire is the best thing that ever happened to me,” Richard Bliss claims. It all began in the autumn of 1968, when Bliss was a young lawyer and learned he had been accepted for Air Force pilot training in Texas.

With that knowledge he knew the first thing to do was to get a hot set of wheels.

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