Late in my teenage years, I’d formulated a plan with my father: We’d get the biggest truck and trailer we could without going to truck driver’s school, and then we’d ramble around out West and down South, picking up old cars and trucks that hadn’t rotted to the rooftops. Had we done that, and had […]

Since I posted that photo of Ray Russell’s Gadabout, I’ve been thinking about a similarly shaped and similarly sized homebuilt roadster that, like the Little Jewel, ran in the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car a few years back but never garnered a response.
Back in January 2007, Bob Werner sent me these photos […]

For 1967, Mercury was the man’s car. Apparently for ‘68 they let any ol’ horse-ridin’, cat-ownin’ girl behind the wheel too!
So the question is, did Mercury catch hell for their ad campaign in ‘67 and try to make up for it in ‘68? Or is this just a hilarious coincidence?