Great find!
My dad bought a new '58 Mercury Monterey 2dr hardtop when I was 6. That's the first of car I really remember, and looking through the first 58 Mercury brochure link really brought back memories!
Many of the brochures of the 50's and 60's were hand-drawn color illustrations, and the designers often used their imaginations to enhance the real or imagined proportions of the cars to make them look bigger, longer, lower, wider.
Watching the online streaming of the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auctions this weekend, I was amazed at how I've misremembered the proportions of so many cars I grew up with and thought were beautiful at the time. Many are far less comely that I remembered!
And yet the 1969 Camaro, even in a fairly modest build like this,
http://www.autoweek.com/storyimage/CW/2 ... o-1969.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is still an absolute work of art with the gentle sweep of the top of the front wheel opening flared across the front fenders and into the door, (fake) louvers on the leading edge of the rear wheel opening, and the top of the rear wheel opening flared across the rear quarter panels. Not a modern styling sensibility, but IMHO, still nicer than the current generation Camaro.
No wonder resto-mods built on these Camaro bodies are bringing over $200,000 from my generation of recent retirees seeking to, uh, 'drive' some pleasure out of their hard-earned retirement funds!
Thanks again, Jake.
