The handsome analog timepiece from the dash of the 1984 Mercury Cougar.

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Murilee Martin

It has been a while since our last installment of the Car Clock of the Week series, so let’s go back 38 years to a time when the Mercury brand still existed and most Mercuries had cool-looking clocks in their dashboards.

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Murilee Martin

I was wandering the rows of a car graveyard just south of my home in Denver when I spotted this Walnut Metallic 1984 Mercury Cougar. I decided the car wasn’t sufficiently interesting to become a full-fledged Junkyard Treasure, but I took a peek inside to examine the clock. The ’84 Cougar was a Fox-body car, close cousin to the Mustang, but it got nicer features than its cheaper relative.

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Murilee Martin

Sure enough, there was a sharp-looking analog clock in the middle of the faux-wood dash. Generally, quartz timepieces from Ford products of the 1980s will work, so I didn’t bother to test it.

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Murilee Martin

After some fastener removal and some gentle prying (I don’t want to break any trim pieces that a Cougar owner might want to buy), the clock was exposed and ready to be harvested for my hoard collection.

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Murilee Martin

I dug through the cassette tapes I found in the car, but I’m not a Streisand fan and they stayed behind.

For five bucks, the clock was mine! I hooked it up to power in my garage and it worked perfectly. Look for this clock in a future junkyard boombox.

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Murilee Martin

Built by Borg Instruments in Wisconsin.

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Murilee Martin

I was working on building a new pinhole camera at the time, so I used the Cougar clock as a test subject; this shot was the result of a three-hour exposure. You’ll see some junkyard shots from this camera in the near future.

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