Description
Mercury Marquis – Full color 10″ x 13″ ad for the 1970 Mercury Marquis. The ad headline announces “The 1970 Marquis. The medium-priced car with the most dramatic styling since the Continental Mark III”. Shown in the ad is a Brown Mercury Marquis parked in a field of brown grass while two people stand quietly next to it. They discuss it as though it was gold, talking about it’s “majestic grille” and it’s “emerald-cut taillights”. They come close when they compare it to the Continental Mark III. They also say that it has, as standard features, many items that are “available only as extra-cost options on most cars”. The Mercury Marquis was available, in 1970, in nine different models, distinguished models it says.
Source: November 18, 1969 Look magazine.
