With the billowing clouds of vape vapor smoke you see emanating from their vehicles these would be a great feature to make a comeback for venting their interiors.
The secretary and “dreamboat” boss relationship is a bad idea honey. Better keep things platonic at the office. Also why is the secretary to the advice columnist doing the reading of letters and taking dictation via the intercom instead on doing these in her office? Annie must moonlight at the local Mercury dealership.
The advertising is on the silly side, but these were very nice cars, roomy, comfortable, quiet, with a smooth ride. Motor Trend magazine called them an outstanding product. Thanks for showing this.
That is not true. Meteors were sold in parallel to Mercury. My father owned a 1964 Mercury Park Lane 4 door Breezeway sold in Sarnia Ontario and built in Oakville. He later owned a 1969 Meteor Montcalm S-33 and in 1974 bought a Mercury Marquis. Canadian Meteors were a detrimmed Mercury bodies in 1963/64 and had Ford interiors, prior to that they had been uptrimmed Ford bodied cars. Ford Canada also had the Monarch line from the early 50's to the early 60'sThe Meteor brand was sold into the 1980's but by then in the post Auto Pact world they were being built in St Louis.
Thank you for such an awesome video!...The Mercury Breezeways are some of my all-time favorite cars and I didn’t even know they were “the smoker’s car”!!...We actually test drove the 1965 model at the dealership when I was a kid and it was a very quiet comfortable ride!!!...Unfortunately dad was a chevy impala guy…
One of my aunts had this car, a lt tan/golden color (l think it was a '57). I was told that it was one of the first cars to have push-button "everything", & one of the first cars with power windows. I've ridden in it a few times, when l was about 6 or 7
This actually is a cool feature. I remember my aunt's (mother's side, They favored Ford.) car (A Mercury, but I forget what year_) with this. My Parents (then) bought Chrysler products (based on my father's side's habits..). EVERYONE ELSE had General Motors cars - "Normies" in today's lingo... But thanks to me not "taking sides", I became a Buick/Cadillac guy. 🤷♂️
I had one, me and a buddy were going surfing and had our surf boards between us out the rear window, Stopped by cops and ended up picking up papers on the beach for a weekend.
Thats what happens when you try to keep a story short. The rear view mirror was obscured by the boards. A police officer was coming towards me and I noticed in my drivers side mirror he turned around after he saw us. I tried to hide in an apple orchard for 15 minutes or so, and guess what, he was waiting .@@autochronicles8667
By 1963 Mercury had fought back from Robert McNamara's insistence it be simply a flossier Ford (and if he had stayed rather than become JFK's defense secretary, by 1963 both it and Lincoln would have been gone) and again had more distinction, worthy of a higher price point.
@@MisterMikeTexasPark Lanes first appeared in 1958 replacing the Turnpike Cruiser as Mercury's top of the line. The 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser had the reverse slant "breezeway" retractable rear window. The styling of that car was considered too radical and it was quietly dropped. The 1958 - 1960 Mercurys did not offer the retractible reverse slant window at all. The Park Lane in 1958, 1959, and 1960 was Mercury's competition for Buick and Chrysler. Prior to that Mercury was considered competition for Dodge and Pontiac the next to the bottom line cars for Chrysler and General Motors. The 1959 - 1960 had distinct larger bodies than Fords. The 1958 - 1960 Lincolns and Continentals had huge unit bodies. The 1958 - 1960 Continentals also offered reverse slant retractable windows. The Park Lane series was dropped for 1961 when Mercury returned to being a dressed up Ford and moved downscale. Although the breezeway styling reappeared for a few years beginning with 1963 Mercurys, and Park Lanes reappeared as the top line Mercurys in 1964, for several years, they were still perceived, accurately, as dressed up Fords and no longer competed with the near top line Chrysler and Buick. One big advantage General Motors Corporation had over Chrysler Corporation and Ford Motor Company was that each of General Motors divisions had its own distinct engine and sometimes suspension well into the Seventies whereas Ford and Chrysler had several different bodies for different divisions, but engines and suspensions were shared across the complete range, making them, with rare exception, badge engineered versions of essentially the same car.
@@mikeakers3453 Eventually, all those different divisions' engines became costly for GM, also, and they consolidated and shared powertrains throughout their divisions. And a lot of their products became the same thing with maybe different sheet metal, or different trimmings. This partially contributed to many car brands becoming redundant, and being retired. I think Plymouth was the first to go since AMC, then Olds, Pontiac, Saturn, other GM brands, and over at Ford, Mercury in 2010. So sad. Detroit could have tried to save some of them, imo. As for "Turnpike Cruiser", if I could play guitar and keyboards, I'd start a band, and name it "Turnpike Cruiser". That would be a cool name for a band. 😊
If the system developed a stream of air that wouldn't muss a woman's hair, it wouldn't blow a man's hat off his head either (and women wore hats as well)
I see it as: once people were tougher and were able to laugh at almost everything and focus on solving actual problems. Nowadays everyone gets offended by everything and this has progressively (pun intended) eroded freedom of speech. In my country a TV presenter has just been canceled because OFF SCREEN he catcalled women (some of them even defended him iirc but cancel culture does not care!)
the world was smaller that's for sure... And this is the other way around... The woman in this video would be getting cancelled for "stalking the boss", that's sexual harassment, isn't it? :) And the advice lady also for saying "she knows something inexpensive she can give her boyfriend cheap but won't mention it" would get in trouble back in the day.... :)
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This is one of the most clever dealer films I've ever seen. A truly wonderful car
yeah a fair amount of work went into this one.... Was a different company that produced this.
I still have my Mercury Breezeway best car ever my dad had one too.
, he loved it too.
I really like this one... i checked marketplace but none for sale :)
What a delightful era when cars offered unique features.
This was a pretty interesting feature, and it has been incorporated into vehicles many times since in different forms. It was always a nice feature.
@@autochronicles8667I’d love to see a list of cars with rear window retraction. I have a Honda Del Sol, so there’s one.
With the billowing clouds of vape vapor smoke you see emanating from their vehicles these would be a great feature to make a comeback for venting their interiors.
that would be funny, the vape crew would love this and they could see
That breezeway window was a great idea, to bad there are no cars today that offer that feature. Great video
some vans have opening side windows, but I doubt you'll ever see this again.
I didn’t know they made a 2door breezeway, looks pretty sharp, I want one and I don’t even smoke.
I started shopping but they are nearly impossible to find.
The secretary and “dreamboat” boss relationship is a bad idea honey. Better keep things platonic at the office.
Also why is the secretary to the advice columnist doing the reading of letters and taking dictation via the intercom instead on doing these in her office? Annie must moonlight at the local Mercury dealership.
Yeah this film would not survive today... I think all the responses were about s3x...
The advertising is on the silly side, but these were very nice cars, roomy, comfortable, quiet, with a smooth ride. Motor Trend magazine called them an outstanding product. Thanks for showing this.
No this car is amazing, I would love to find one in reasonable shape :)
In Canada, the Mercury, was discontinued, and replaced by a Ford Canada Division, called Meteor, which was a cross between a Ford and a Mercury.
That is not true. Meteors were sold in parallel to Mercury. My father owned a 1964 Mercury Park Lane 4 door Breezeway sold in Sarnia Ontario and built in Oakville. He later owned a 1969 Meteor Montcalm S-33 and in 1974 bought a Mercury Marquis. Canadian Meteors were a detrimmed Mercury bodies in 1963/64 and had Ford interiors, prior to that they had been uptrimmed Ford bodied cars. Ford Canada also had the Monarch line from the early 50's to the early 60'sThe Meteor brand was sold into the 1980's but by then in the post Auto Pact world they were being built in St Louis.
@@stuartkynoch7289 Not in U.S, the Mercury was discontinued in Canada after the 1962 model year.
Not so. The Meteor was created to give Mercury dealers a less expensive car to sell.
Thank you for such an awesome video!...The Mercury Breezeways are some of my all-time favorite cars and I didn’t even know they were “the smoker’s car”!!...We actually test drove the 1965 model at the dealership when I was a kid and it was a very quiet comfortable ride!!!...Unfortunately dad was a chevy impala guy…
yeah Ford was know for its nice ride.
They were not called "Smoker's cars".
One of my aunts had this car, a lt tan/golden color (l think it was a '57). I was told that it was one of the first cars to have push-button "everything", & one of the first cars with power windows. I've ridden in it a few times, when l was about 6 or 7
This actually is a cool feature. I remember my aunt's (mother's side, They favored Ford.) car (A Mercury, but I forget what year_) with this. My Parents (then) bought Chrysler products (based on my father's side's habits..). EVERYONE ELSE had General Motors cars - "Normies" in today's lingo... But thanks to me not "taking sides", I became a Buick/Cadillac guy. 🤷♂️
Brand loyalty was a very real thing in the day.
Dear Annie looks like Aunt Bea on the Andy Griffith Show
I would n like to fond one of those 2 doors Montereys with thst Breezeway window, 390 and bucket seats.
me also... not easy to find.
I wonder if it would help clear out farts.
Even smelly siblings this would be great for..
I never thought of that!! Nothing worse than getting hotboxed by farts😅
Especially when the guilty driver locks the power windows so they cant open@@JensSchraeder
Great video! Thank you!
Yeah Ford made some good ones :)
I had one, me and a buddy were going surfing and had our surf boards between us out the rear window, Stopped by cops and ended up picking up papers on the beach for a weekend.
that seemed extreme :)
Thats what happens when you try to keep a story short. The rear view mirror was obscured by the boards. A police officer was coming towards me and I noticed in my drivers side mirror he turned around after he saw us. I tried to hide in an apple orchard for 15 minutes or so, and guess what, he was waiting .@@autochronicles8667
wow, only about 13% of the country smokes, we are making progress in the USA
Funny thing is that my 2021 F150 has a power rear window. I use it all the time in summer.
Get that Boss a razor too, to shave the back of his neck 😆
lol it was 1963... men didnt need to trim... there was no manscaping :)
Maybe he was a wolf!
A straight razor razor and forget to take your nerve medicine before you use it on him.
🎉How do you crank a window? 😮
By 1963 Mercury had fought back from Robert McNamara's insistence it be simply a flossier Ford (and if he had stayed rather than become JFK's defense secretary, by 1963 both it and Lincoln would have been gone) and again had more distinction, worthy of a higher price point.
Can you turn up the volume? My tablet is set as loud as it goes and I can barely hear it. Thanks! 😀👍
Ill try to turn it up a bit next week
@@autochronicles8667 thank you very much!
Did the Park Lane offer this, or just Monterey?
I had to do a little research and remembered there was no Park Lane series from 61-63, but it came back in 64 and then was available in both series.
@@friendofdorothy9376 I don't remember the Park Lane disappearing then returning. I'll have to check my history sources again.
@@MisterMikeTexasPark Lanes first appeared in 1958 replacing the Turnpike Cruiser as Mercury's top of the line. The 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser had the reverse slant "breezeway" retractable rear window. The styling of that car was considered too radical and it was quietly dropped. The 1958 - 1960 Mercurys did not offer the retractible reverse slant window at all.
The Park Lane in 1958, 1959, and 1960 was Mercury's competition for Buick and Chrysler. Prior to that Mercury was considered competition for Dodge and Pontiac the next to the bottom line cars for Chrysler and General Motors. The 1959 - 1960 had distinct larger bodies than Fords. The 1958 - 1960 Lincolns and Continentals had huge unit bodies. The 1958 - 1960 Continentals also offered reverse slant retractable windows.
The Park Lane series was dropped for 1961 when Mercury returned to being a dressed up Ford and moved downscale. Although the breezeway styling reappeared for a few years beginning with 1963 Mercurys, and Park Lanes reappeared as the top line Mercurys in 1964, for several years, they were still perceived, accurately, as dressed up Fords and no longer competed with the near top line Chrysler and Buick.
One big advantage General Motors Corporation had over Chrysler Corporation and Ford Motor Company was that each of General Motors divisions had its own distinct engine and sometimes suspension well into the Seventies whereas Ford and Chrysler had several different bodies for different divisions, but engines and suspensions were shared across the complete range, making them, with rare exception, badge engineered versions of essentially the same car.
@@mikeakers3453 Eventually, all those different divisions' engines became costly for GM, also, and they consolidated and shared powertrains throughout their divisions. And a lot of their products became the same thing with maybe different sheet metal, or different trimmings. This partially contributed to many car brands becoming redundant, and being retired. I think Plymouth was the first to go since AMC, then Olds, Pontiac, Saturn, other GM brands, and over at Ford, Mercury in 2010. So sad. Detroit could have tried to save some of them, imo. As for "Turnpike Cruiser", if I could play guitar and keyboards, I'd start a band, and name it "Turnpike Cruiser". That would be a cool name for a band. 😊
In 63, all Mercs were Montereys. In 64,all series offered this feature.
I am SURE more than a few Men's HATS (which were a big thing!!) blew out the "Breezeway Window" back in the day!!!!🤪🎩
If the system developed a stream of air that wouldn't muss a woman's hair, it wouldn't blow a man's hat off his head either (and women wore hats as well)
I see it as: once people were tougher and were able to laugh at almost everything and focus on solving actual problems. Nowadays everyone gets offended by everything and this has progressively (pun intended) eroded freedom of speech. In my country a TV presenter has just been canceled because OFF SCREEN he catcalled women (some of them even defended him iirc but cancel culture does not care!)
the world was smaller that's for sure... And this is the other way around... The woman in this video would be getting cancelled for "stalking the boss", that's sexual harassment, isn't it? :) And the advice lady also for saying "she knows something inexpensive she can give her boyfriend cheap but won't mention it" would get in trouble back in the day.... :)