What an opportunity to show off another of my mechanized loves...
I just happen to have a '64 Merc Park Lane 4 door hard top with Breezeway
rear window:
http://www.pencilneck.com/merc2.jpg
I've been looking long and hard, but can't see any similarity to my '72
Imp. ;^)
Can anyone point me to a pic of the '66 Chrysler that Dick mentions so I
can do a comparison for myself?
DD <--- a lover of old steel, no matter what factory it came from!
At 11:18 AM 05/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>It's possible, because Engel was at Mercury for awhile, I believe. I would
>have to check, but I think he was. And usually they are designing cars 2-3
>years out-- at least they were at that time. So it's possible that the design
>for the '64 was already done by the time Engel left in '60 or '61 (again,
>sorry, I can't remember the exact dates he left).
> > I just returned from a car show in Idaho, and there was a 64 Merc, that
> > looked very much like a 66 chrysler,........was the Elwood influence
> > at Ford that long?
> >