Vintage Mercury Bobcat Ads Reveal The Truth About Life In The Seventies

by Paul Niedermeyer

Published: December 17th, 2009

vintage mercury bobcat ads reveal the truth about life in the seventies

Pictures tell a thousand words, so these are going to spare me some. What more could I say anyway? More seventies-era glamor, pick-up mobiles, and drag-racers’ favorite funny cars follow:

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Obbop on Dec 18, 2009

Reading the various comments above I am unsure whether to laugh, cry or sigh. Maybe all three. At least we lived to see the turn of the century. Any bets on seeing the next one?

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- John Fritz on Dec 18, 2009
  
  We'll see it but not as the country we currently inhabit. The US Government will have definitely run its course by then. This will be a very different country in 2100, not recognizable from what it is now.
  
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Skor on Dec 18, 2009

If Rodney Dangerfield was a car, he'd be a Pinto. With that said, the Pinto was by no means the worst of the 70's auto abominations. Ever ride in a Plymouth Volare?

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