Hello all,just recently bought this car it is a 1968 Mercury Colony Park,390 ci,auto,black interior,cruise control,8-track and fold down seats in the rear,have been getting it back to roadworthy status, planning on using it to haul a nostalgia type altered roadster I am building,have had a couple wagons before but this is my first Ford product.
Welcome pete! Cool '68...going all McGarrett on us! Sounds like it is pretty loaded...nice! You'll enjoy this great forum, and all us wagon-lovers! David
I liked that he had the same car for a couple of years, rather than getting a new one every season like most tv shows did back then.
He drove that Park Lane from '68 until '73. The episode where it blows up, McGarrett almost tears up. http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/50mercury.htm FoMoCo provided cars for that show, and they wanted to move him into a new Mercury for years, but Jack Lord loved that '68. OK, pete, I'm done with the hijack. David
Thanks,years ago a buddy had a 2 door that he always called "McGarrett",this car has been sitting for a while it is pretty solid I just put a new dual exhaust on and had to get it running on all 8 cylinders,found a couple bent pushrods,I will put some more pics up as we fix it up,does anyone know where I can find a pair of front park light lenses??
to the wagon train, draggin. I love the lines on those 68's! (I met Jack Lord. He liked him better than I did.)
then they got him a Marquis like my lowrider.. anyhoo........ to the board !!! those are one of my fave Mercs.. ....typical...missing front park lenses i may know of some lenses...i think...maybe...
Hi, Silverfox. What do you mean that Jack liked himself better than you did? I never met him, but I've come across comments from people who did - at the grocery store or mall - and they say he was very nice. To this day, people in Hawaii only have kind words to say about him.
