427 Cougar Eliminator?

[bill dedman]

Back in '68 or '69, HOT ROD magazine had a feature story (and the car was splashed all over the cover of the magazine) about a 428CJ Cougar Eliminator, and this particular car had a 2-speed rear end.
I'm not making this up... I couldn't.

I don't remember the details, but it was a Ford 9-inch carrier with some kind of spur-gear arrangement at the front of the pinion, that was sort of an like an old Halibrand Quick-Change, turned around, so the driveshaft input was driving this gear arrangement which could be 1;1, or 1.3:1, or something like that.

Anyway, it was a street/strip dream, or, seemed to be. Deep gears for the strip and a 2.75:1 for the hiway, all in one third member.

I never ever saw one in person, so they must have had problems of one kind or another, and didn't produce many.

Anyone else ever see one of these?

I think that it was called a "STREEP" rear end.... no kidding (street/strip = STREEP??)