The other day, Jeff posted a couple ads, for 1967 and 1968 Mercury Cyclone GTs, and noted how Mercury itself couldn’t seem to decide whether the Cyclone GT was a manly man’s car or a manly woman’s car. One perhaps doesn’t even need to see those ads to figure out that it’s a man who […]
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?
Reading the story of the troubles Bill Hill had in identifying and researching the Albatross, Peter Arno’s Mercury-chassised one-off swoopster, one can’t help but wonder how differently the search would have turned out if Hill had the Internet at his disposal. Sure, there’s even a Wikipedia page on the Albatross nowadays, but the page doubts […]