His Mercury Cougar puts the car in Carpe Diem

Joe Carter63, a real estate investor who lives in Moreno Valley, Calif., in his 1970 Mercury Cougar convertible, he told AJ Baime.

I was raised by a single mother in Hollywood, California. We were poor and we used to go to the 49 cent theater to see reruns. In 1972 the James Bond film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ was playing. That’s where I first saw a Mercury Cougar, driven on the big screen by the actress Diana Rigg. It was love at first sight, the car, I mean, even though Diana Rigg came in second. A song in the film was “We’ve Got All the Time in the World”. The thing is, we don’t.