It's vintage drivin' time. Eric wheels a piano-black 1965 Mercury Park Lane Marauder and interviews its discerning owner. Music - "Nasty Magnus", Count Basie
I bought a convertible meteor Montcalm which is the Canadian version of this. I then saw this video and ended up buying a 1 owner 1965 parklane breezeway in black on red fabric interior. This video really peaked my interest in these cars. Thank you! I’m almost done restoring the parklane and the meteor has a little more work to be done
Beautiful! I read in a article a long time ago that Ford stopped making the 390 around 1969? But they had made so many that they installed them, mainly in trucks, up to 1979? My years are probably off a bit, but I think you get the point. One of the most reliable power plants ever made for certain. These mid sixties big Ford products are, by a huge margin, the most reliable cars of their day, and even hold up well vs the new cars of today.
Nice Mercury, and a very nice owner with a good car story. The interior view on the drive shows the bright metal trim around the window openings, a very cool feature that looks fine and finished with all windows down. When I was a young kid in the late 1960s, my friend's parents had a 1965 Monterey 4-door that we rode in often. I remember it well because my friend's father let their neighbor give it a paint job that had tree debris and bugs all over under the paint. You could see the bugs clearly....
You're exactly right. The Park Lanes are just cool man. And yes, the '58-60s are individualistic and fun as well. Enjoy your '65 and thanks for watching!
I miss the Mercury line. I owned a 05 Marauder.This is a beautiful car.Better to pay the price for a clean car than to overhaul one. Life is too short. Buy it and drive it
As a little boy I just loved my Dad's 63 Meteor. I used to sit in the driver's seat for hours on end. The Winged Messenger made me love all cars Mercury
The Mercury is just the right mix of luxury and style, not ridiculous not understated, some day my 2006 Ls Ultimate will be like this and its piano black clear coat to.
Iam the youngest of 4 brothers and 2 sisters. My oldest brother had a brand new white 1965 Park Lane when I was 5 years old. As far as I can remember his was a 2 door, but what I remember the most was the AC. Our Father had a new 65 Galaxy 500, 4 door post and no AC. I remember asking him why he didn’t get a 2 door with AC. Maybe if he had gotten a 4 door hard top Galaxy, with AC, like the Park Lane 4 door hard top in this video, I may have given him a break !!
@@ronalddaub5049 I too wondered about that....! I knew Ford never built a twin-cam, but still, there were some factory freaks that saw the light of day thanks to racing initiatives. Ford did built an SOHC 427, but like most things that demonstrated Ford's superior engineering, NASCAR started whining on GM's behalf and banned it. Same political nonsense they imposed in the 80s when Chevies kept getting humiliated on race day by Thunderbirds....so a restrictor plate was invented.
I"ve been fortunate to drive my fathers 59, so I bought a brand new 65. Both were 2dr hard top Park Lanes. Mine was a 4 spd. Both cars are very unappreciated...
Beautiful old Mercury. I hope you take it out on the interstate and run it up at about 70 -80 mph for a few hours and let that old 390 get some of the exercise they were designed for, if you tires, and brakes are good! I bet that old girl would still hit 100 mph with no problem.
That's not a 4-door sedan. But rather, a 4-door hardtop. They were also available as station wagons. You could probably even get the 410, back then. The first Marauders were the Tri-Power 400 h.p. 430 c.i.d. M.E.L. (Mercury, Edsel, Lincoln and even Thunderbird optional) wedge-blocked engines. FoMoCo didn't do the legend a favor, through applying this title to smaller engine options
Beautiful car I just picked up a 1966 mercury parklane with the original 390 in it was rebuilt 10 years ago low mileage yet and I also got a 1965 mercury Monterey along with it no drive train though. Plan to restore the running one and play with the other.
Andree, I need to meet you. I am Rebecca, I was raised with a 1965 Mercury, and I just bought one in top condition. I live in Northern Virginia. I would love to meet up with you and our cars to meet. Rebecca. I think my grandma had the Montclair but looks just like this. It was a Marauder.
A classic indeed. What a fabulous guy. It was a privilege spending a few minutes with him and sharing his enthusiasm for the Park Lane. You can't fake class and Andre surely had it. I look forward to seeing him again down the road - Eric
The Parklane goes all the way back to 59 the Montego and the Monterey has switched positions at least once as being the top besides the Park Lane but the Park Lane did not start + 63 or 4
Where's the 300hp 390 V8???????? The 300hp 390 had a 4-barrel carb(4V), NOT an 2-barrel(2V) as pictured. If you are going to mis-identify the engine, what not say that it was a 410 or SOHC 427? That would be more dramatic. lol
Beautiful car but why are they calling it a twin cam, that engine is refered to as a sohc single over head cam- one cam per cylinder bank, total of 2 Cam's, and it's a 427 not a 390, these guys don't know crap, he mentioned a falcon 6-cyl 289 WTF
The name of the program is "Twin Cam". I have just watched 3 videos of these cars and all of them had a 390. There was a 427 available as an option. He said Fairlane, not Falcon as the car he was originally interested in.
Technically this isn't a "4 door sedan." It's a 4 door pillarless hardtop. Mercury also produced two- and four-door pillared sedans, as well as a "Beezeway " 4 door sedan with a blocky reverse style roof and retracting rear window. And, of course the most popular was the 2 door pillarless hardtop coupe...
Scared to show engine click bait bullshit on twin cam I have grandads 2 dr ht with special order 427 SOC engine this is called cammer engine this car has base 390 yawn 🥱
