Best Cars of the 1970s: 1974 Mercury Marquis Brougham Night Time Preview - A New Arrival
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2022
- Just in! This 1974 Mercury Marquis Brougham Hardtop. Listen to that 460-4V V8 purr. This is one of my favorite cars of the 70s.
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Nothing better than those seventies Marquis Broughams!!! You got a good one with the best wheel covers & the twin comfort lounge seats!!! Good job 👍👍
Steve McGarrett would definitely approve of this beauty!!!
The car looks sharp! The dealer sticker is from a dealership in my area, and they’re still in business
I appreciate the care taken by the gentleman unloading the car from the trailer.
I had a 94 cadillac fleetwood brougham as my first car. Paid cash when i was 21 in 2015. Those old cars had amazing personality, unique styling, power, and not to mention that heartwarming sound every time you’d turn over that cast iron v8. I miss that car but love so much to see old cars from the past preserved so well like this. 👍🏼
My dad had a ‘92. It was so plush and comfortable.
These cars make my ‘03 Grand Marquis feel like a Honda Accord.
@@KayakTN I have a '69 and an '03 Marquis. The O3 has an outstanding ride AND handling. But I have the LSE model which was the high performance version.
92 was the last year of the square body broughams. I would’ve liked to have gotten my hands on one of those, especially with d’elegance pincushion leather seats. Always loved all the chrome around the interior door handles for that generation. But loved by bubblebody 94 nonetheless!
My Grand Marquis has the Precision Trac rear suspension. I absolutely love it. It’s a joy to drive.
I usually drive it during the summer when the AC compressor on my hybrid kills my MPG.
Love it! The neighbors seeing the transport truck and saying “oh it’s just Adam getting his 70th awesome like new vintage car” cheers Adam, thanks for sharing
Had a 1977 Grand Marquis in high school loved it and never will forget the memories of passing many cars at over 100 mph that 460 didn’t get on step till about 60 lol!
I remember when these cars were new. I'm getting old.
me too I'm still crazy after all these years ,
A great car from my favourite period,the 70's.
Great looking Mercury 😍 the interior and front end look high end. Competition for a Lincoln and Cadillac
Gorgeous !!!!! I loved these as a young kid when they were new I was 8 years old. Still love them at 56 She’s a beauty
It is a beautiful car. I bet it rides sweet!
Great find Adam. Love a chocolate brown Lincoln Mercury product.
Beautiful car!! Congratulations!
When I was a kid, my uncle had a merc just like that. Brings back memories.
Beautiful car.
Beautiful, can't wait to see it in the daylight.
Congrats on expanding your Marquis collection again.....I did grow up with these.
Folks, Adam has acquired such an impressively large fleet of land yachts, should we start calling him Commodore? 😁
He can change the channel name to, "Commodore Adam's Land Boating Club".
..wow...land sailing at it's finest.....nice addition to the fleet.....
It's nice to see these cars preserved
Beautiful car
I'm doing restoration project on a 1972
Same color pattern.
Can't wait to see more. Thanks for posting!
Wow, what a good one. I love all the interior courtesy lights everywhere!!!
I never would have believed that so many examples of these great old cars would have survived. Thanks for proving me wrong.
Not many do. I just have a lot of them ;)
Have you made a business out of them, buying and selling, or have you just amassed a wonderful collection?
Just beautiful. Such presence and so classy, with that purposeful burble from the exhaust letting you know there's something substantial under the hood. Looks like it's been carved out of a solid steel ingot.
Spectacular car. Congratulations Adam!
Just stunning!!!
Congratulations! I can hear the joy in your voice🙂
Love love love that car -had a 1976 in 1976 - best car I ever owned 👍
I learned to drive in one of those! Thanks for the memory!
When I was young, my family had a 1973 Galaxie with a 460 and C6 automatic. (It also had a locking axle.) It was green and very similar to this car. All those interior lights bring back memories.
I had two 73 Galaxies as a teenager in 1978, 351 and 400. Sweet memories!
Nice, thanks Adam!
Wow is right! 😎 The previous owner(s) did a spectacular job preserving her. Those seats are beautiful!
I love these cars, so elegant. Hard to imagine that the much loved 460 cu in of this era only put out 195hp in these cars. These engines should easily put out power far in excess of 300 hp. The huge displacement is making you pay in poor gas mileage for performance you never get.
Great addition to your collection Adam. Fans of the original Hawaii five o television series will surely view it as iconic since a triple black version was the third and final car used by McGarrett. It even reappeared decades later when the show was rebooted.
Nice one!
I leared to drive in a '77 two door Grand Marquis, 460 love that engine! You have a excellent car Adam!
What a sweet ride is right! It looks to be in amazing condition, nicely optioned. I look forward to learning more about it during the full review. And: the trunk release will work when the key is on. ;-)
Ah yes! Thx Dennis.
Beautiful car. My girlfriend’s father in high school had a beautiful optional green one with a dark green vinyl roof and white vinyl interior. Great 460 engine.
Great purchase
Hey Adam, what a beautiful car! I've got a 74 monterey, last year of the monterey, out of only thousands made. Mine has been in my family since my great grandma bought it new in September 1973. It's basically the same as the marquis except the marquis are a bit nicer. I'd love to see more videos of this one
I'm surprised the neighbors weren't peaking out the windows to see you latest arrival! What a beauty. Yeah, switch out those heater hoses for sure!
Better than Christmas! That car barely fit in that trailer, no wonder the driver was super cautious
A real survivor. Nice car.
Adam is a wonderful steward of these classic cars ..
Your toybox is overflowing with awesomesauce. You need to do a review of this wearing flaired trousers, flowery shirt, and kipper tie for maximum 70sness
That's what I have been saying since this channel made its debut!!! Then again, Adam may be too bashful to be comfortable in period correct costume 😉
My Dad passed down a 74 Marquis Broughm and a 69 Mark III. They both had very low miles. I added about 10,000 to each and gave them to my two oldest. Both are still under 50,000 miles. Still look showroom new...I still have 82 Lincoln Continental with less than 38,000 that will go to my youngest one day. Still a daily driver...great cars!
Wow. So Cool.
This was my first car
Hand me down from dad
I had the b pillar model
Very rare to see the hard top which makes me envious
This amazing
460 was great
I grew up in a 73 Marquis Brougham much like this one, Family Truckster green with a white vinyl top. I have very fond memories of that car. It still exists, put out to pasture on my dad's grandparents farm. I actually like the four door versions of this era Marquis more than the two door that I know you have a few examples of. To me, it is the epitome of a 70s family car. My dad always said it was one of the best cars he ever owned. One of the very few he bought brand new for a growing family.
Yes, the four door... what a dramatic look
That's a.beauty for sure
I love.the build quality of mercuries
Very handsome land yacht. 👌🏻
A time capsule of luxury!
I drove many miles in my friend's '74 Marquis Brougham. His was a pillared hardtop which was equipped almost exactly the same as the featured car except his had a regular clock instead of the digital one.
I remember the brown brocade fabric being sort of rough feeling. I'm not sure if this was due to age (the car was only a few years old then) or perhaps because it had been treated with a dealer applied fabric protector. Maybe it just came that way from the factory. The interior was almost overwhelmingly tobacco brown.
The car left us stranded on at least 3 separate occasions. It would chew up starter motors and may have had a ring gear problem. The car also had a sluggishness before its transmission reached 3rd gear which was eventually found to be caused by a vacuum hose leak.
I still remember the look of the car's front end when just the parking lights were turned on while my friend waited for me at the curb.
My friend later had a '78 Town Car. The Lincoln's light beige velour interior was really plush by comparison, but the Marquis interior was still quite nice for the time.
Boy another beautiful Mercury. You certainly are lucky to find all these wonderful luxury cars. The interiors on these I think rivaled Lincoln and Cadillac cloth. Oh, and there is nothing like the door closing sound of these FoMoCo products, from about '63 on up through the '80s. Such a crisp and solid sound. Thanks Adam for yet another great one.
Wow! Cheers 🇨🇦
Props to the dude backing the car off the trailer in the dark and on camera. It would be tricky enough in the daytime.
That’s Luxury And Power !!! And Great Looks 70s Cars Rock!! I’m A 70s Kid .. Love Those Land Yachts!!!😂😂😂
A REAL unboxing video!!
Impressive car
Interior and exterior....sweet colors.
Awesome vehicle.
I bet if you push backward on the turn signal lever the steering wheel will tilt.
Column looks articulated.
Thanks for sharing.
Yes. It does.
Wow, I missed this one somehow. Was looking back through the video catalog and saw. I love just about any of the old Ford/Lincoln/Mercury cars that have the flip up headlights.
We had a 1969 LTD with a 390 and it was a great car. We received it as a Wedding Gift in 1980 and it was a really great car, great ride, power , brakes, handling and the mileage was surprisingly good, especially on a trip. It would roast the rear tires. My cousin had replaced the carb with a 600 cfm Holley and it had 2.25 dual exhaust with long quiet Ford mufflers and resonators. The Holley was an alternate reality. The engine rpm would rise quickly and the C6 so smooth that you would bury the speedometer amazingly quickly with the sense of urgency most engines would show. I would love it if you found a mint 1969 with the FE C6. I had owned them through the years and not one a diss appointment. I have a 1965 LTD that we have built into a bracket race car. Wonderful car in all ways.
Another one to add to the Extra-Chocolatie wing of your collection. Sweet!
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Thanks for the great memories!
Awesome car I love mine
Amazing car. Absolutely beautiful. Beautiful Interior. Engine compartment looks brand new. Do your neighbors ever gossip amongst themselves and say "Why does Adam keep unloading "Gangster Cars" in the middle of the night?"
I learned to drive in a 1965 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special White Solid Top with a Blue Cloth Interior in 1974 on the backroads of my Mom's home town of Bird City, Kansas. Dad bought it used (2 years old) in Riverside, California after he made sure it would fit in our garage. It was 19 feet long and 6' 8"" wide and had a 133" wheelbase. Very low milage. My Dad always had an eye for good deals. The only drawback was 1973 when we lived in the Washington DC suburbs during the OPEC gasoline crisis. Most stations would only sell 10 gallons. This car had a 26 gallon tank. We got by. Dad road the bus to work at the "Puzzle Palace". Subway was being built. I road the bus to school...during the early years of forced desegregation busing of inner city DC students to my school in the suburbs. As a kid, I traveled all over the US in the backseat of that car. After I turned 16 and learned to drive, I learned a few other things in that giant backseat.
Great Memories.
I love these Cars. Thanks for preserving them.
Sweet!! Good lookin brown!!👍👍
A beauty!
This car has literally been kept in a time capsule nearly, captured in it's prime
Beautiful car Adam, can't wait to see it in the daylight.
Most of us get packages from Amazon, but it's always Christmas at Adam's house :)
What a luxury car should be!
Wow looks great I have been trying to find car like you get it’s hard
Gotta love the sound of a big block in the evening!
love your five-0 machine .awesome car.
STUNNING
Wow that is super. Such a real step up from the ford
that marquis brougham was a staple on hawaii 50 from 1974 til the end in 1980
The video we needed to see is how the driver got into the car when it was in the trailer to back it out of the trailer !
Or did he have to remain inside the car for the duration of the trip? LOL
Remember these well from when I was growing up in the 1970s!
I noticed it was a four-door hardtop immediately. How cool is that? Another awesome find! Do your neighbors peek out of their windows to see what 'new' car Adam got? Do any of them come over to look at your cars? Got to love the mid-60s to mid-70's full size cars. This Merc was almost as nice as a Lincoln, at a lower price.
It’s interesting that so many nice old cars come from, like this one, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, etc….harsh winter salty road rust belt states. Loving owners squirreled these cars away to protect them. As a kid growing up in Michigan we coveted southern cars-no rust. Now 40 years later living in Texas all car guys here find tired, dried out, sun bleached originals that need complete restoration even if they were garage kept.
When you drove up in this car somewhere, you and everybody else KNEW you arrived. Beautiful Mercury. Is that Ford Ginger?
Yes. Ginger Glamour Metallic.
I not sure but I think the key must be in the on position for the power trunk release to work. It was for security .
God I have a 71 Continental 4 door but I would love a hard top Mercury like this
Looks like a brand new car
Clearly someone cherished it
Cherish is the word I use to describe...........😉
Dad was a Chevy man until '75 when mom was adamant that she did not want a Caprice Estate but a Ford Country Squire. He came to like it so much so that when the local Ford dealer told him that '78 would be the last year for traditional full-sized Fords he bought mom another Country Squire and got himself an LTD Landau sedan. Those cars were awesome interstate cruisers.
Yep. I have a similar sentiment to your dad. I still love my GMs, but 67-74 full size Fords are special cars.
Living room on wheels love land yachts 👑
Never has a color scheme made me think of a fifth avenue candy bar, until now that is.
The build quality of the big Ford products of that Era was truly superior to GM and Chrysler. The door test is always a good start.
Yes and the interiors stood up betterthan most at the time too.
GM trim, paint and interior quality seemed to really have taken a step back on the 71-76 full size cars, I had a 1966 and 1975 Cadillac, the 75 was the top of the line GM built limo, and the 66 was a regular sedan, the 1966 was far better. I had two 1973 Galaxies, better quality than the 75 Cadillac, though the engine, trans, etc of the 75 Cadillac was fine.
You must have the best neighbours in the world! 🤣
The key needs to be on in order for the power trunk release to work
These are not cars sir, they are museum pieces. Every one you show should be on displayed ! 74 is great. 72 and 73 were as well.
WHAT!!!!!!! Would love to be Adams neighbor
Brocade upholstery…classic.
No power vent windows, that is a bonus.
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Have to wonder why the commenters who dislike these kind of cars bother to watch and then comment on them. Interesting phenomenon.
Because they come up in our feed. I've drove these cars. Absolutely no road feel, and normally under powered. I believe the Chevy Impala or a Pontiac Bonneville where a lot better car. Just saying.
Did the 74 marquis sale? I loved um..
Just a little FYI. The Marquis Brougham’s that didn’t have the B Pillar were called a Hard Top Convertible. You could open all 4 windows with no obstruction.
I don't believe the literature called them that. The 4 door pillared cars were called "pillared hardtops" and the hardtops were called, simply, "4 door hardtops". See the brochure from 1974 here:
oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Mercury/1974%20Mercury/1974_Lincoln-Mercury_Brochure/1974%20Lincoln-Mercury-10.html
Some Ford trunk releases needed the key on.
Doesn't the key have to be in the accessory position to operate the trunk button? I am pretty sure my Grand Marquis were both like this.
Other than a nicer dashboard and the better GM compressor, stepping up to a Lincoln did not really get you that much more from 70 - 74. However, the price difference was pretty steep. I always thought the Mercury was the better-looking car anyway.
I had a 78 Town Car, and really liked it, but the build quality seemed to be no better than my 73 Galaxy. In 1980 the Lincoln became essentially a trimmed up 79- Crown Vic / Marquis, but a super pleasant car to drive no matter.
Adam, this collection is incredible!! Where on earth do you store all these cars? Do you have a museum?
I absolutely love your collection of cars and would die to have just one of them unfortunately I live here in the Northeast these type of cars just do not exist, even online, I searched every day it all depends on the geographic location that you live in that's going to get your chances of getting one of these nice cars
Yes. I get many cars from around the US. Expand your radius a bit. I have bought many cars from the NE. This car came from CT. So did my Mark III.
That must smart Nate! Adam snatched one right from under your nose! 🤪