1981 Mercury Marquis Colony Park

351 V8 engine. Looks really nice for $4200.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/payson-1981-mercury-colony-park-wagon/6834597408.html

 

Oh! It has the 351! How come my colony park doesn’t have a 2 way tailgate?!

 

Cause maybe your back window rolls down, giving you the wonderful magic 3 way tailgate? That’s only my assumption.

 

Is that leather or pleather?

 

I believe it's leather. Couldn't find a 1981 brochure on-line, but the '80 brochure does mention leather was available, so I would assume that would be accurate for 1981 as well.

 

Looks the same for 1979.

 

Looks like leather in 1979.

 

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Does anything in the US have actual leather say, post WWII? It’s my understanding that the legal definition of leather was stretched to include a dyed cowhide emulsion sprayed on to a polyester/synthetic backing. I have been buying ‘leather’ cars for years but the back of the seating surface is never quite like an actual leather glove or coat. Well, I did have a King Ranch ford. That might have actually been real leather but I was never convinced. Tell me how to tell leather from pleather and I can go check a pile of cars out in the yard. I hav just assumed they are all fake.

 

First off I love your pun... the definition of leather was stretched..... I know some of the “leather” cars I have from the ‘80’s a lot of the seat backs are still made from vinyl. But the leather seems real on the seat surfaces themselves. Don’t know. That’s a good question

 

A lot of brochures over the years have clearly stated ‘leather-trimmed seating’....

The pun wasn’t intentional... just the late night coming out.....

 

From what I understand, there's lots of different 'grades' of automotive leather. They leather you'll find in a Rolls Royce ('Connolly' - ?) will be much thicker than the leather you will find in a 'regular' vehicle. Also, some of the upholstery surfaces may be substituted with simulated leather - vinyl.

 

The key is the term "leather seating surfaces" meaning the actual backs and bottoms of the seat - the parts you actually touch when you are seated. The rest of it? Vinyl, at least on most cars.