Ah the WONDERS and TREASURES to be found on YouTube! While (virtually) cruising around there recently, I stumbled across a couple of NIFTY old ads for one of my 'top-5-or-so' FAVORITE vintage rides!--- The Mercury Cougar!
The 'Classic Cats', (especially the '67 through '70 models!) in my mind anyway-- are EVERY bit as COOL as their cousins-- the Ford Mustangs. Virtually the SAME vehicles 'under the skin', Cougars sometimes don't get the respect and appreciation (not to mention mass-media hype and attention!) I think they deserve! Maybe if good 'ol Steve McQueen had driven a dark metallic green 'Cat, instead of that 390 GT 'Stang in the movie 'Bullitt'--- things might've turned out quite a bit different! (There have been LOTS of other movies & TV shows with 'Stangs prominently featured--- but you get the idea!)
Not that I'm moaning & groaning about classic 'Stangs getting attention! They ARE pretty much my ALL-time favorite 'vintage rides' after all! I just feel that the Cougars need to be treated maybe a little less like the 'unwanted step-children', and more like the COOL and SLICK-looking close-cousins that they REALLY were!
Anyhoo-doody-roo, here's a pair of 'classic ads', for a pair of VERY CLASSY cars! The '68 and '69 model Cougars! The picture and sound quality isn't that great, but our TVs back in those days weren't that great either! Just pretend it's 1968 or '69---your 'outdoor antenna' isn't picking up the local station all that good (maybe a storm-system's causing interference!)--- and enjoy!---
