I remember this and other cars from the '70s. I loved them then, (even though the "Road and Track" crowd despised them), and I love them even more now - classic cars which are reminiscent of the beautiful classic cars of the '30s....

I see this as the peak of "traditional" full size Fords.

Keep posting these Ford commercials. Reminds me of my youth.

My Family owned the Local Ford/Mercury Dealership. I remember traveling in a car just like the Dark Brown one. My younger brother and sister and I would stretch out on the back seat and floor board (with pillows) We where 10,12 and 14 years old. Try that in today’s car’s.

@gregraines1599

3 жыл бұрын

I’m 6’ tall and could lay down straight in the backseat of my first car- a 1971 LTD.

@SpockvsMcCoy

3 жыл бұрын

A Lincoln-Mercury dealership or just a Mercury dealership?

@philbyers3336

3 жыл бұрын

@@SpockvsMcCoy A

@philbyers3336

3 жыл бұрын

@@SpockvsMcCoy A Ford/Mercury Dealership. Not a Mercury/Lincoln.

@SpockvsMcCoy

3 жыл бұрын

@@philbyers3336 Okay, I was aware that Mercury was sometimes not paired with Lincoln and even had their own standalone franchises.

These cars were surprisingly reliable for that era. My grandparents bought one brand new in '78. They took good care of it, but the next two owners beat the hell out of that car until the late '90's / early 2000's.

These commercials are so calm compared to today's where the car is racing down the road with jittery camera shots.

@fordmavericksosx3569

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. And the guy voicing the ad isn’t using the word aggressive every 10 seconds like they do on most new car ads today.

@fujifrontier

3 жыл бұрын

There is absolutely nothing relaxed or relaxing about today's junk.... Hard riding, hard seats, thin tyres, stressed-out 4cyl lawnmower engines and if it has any hint of soft comfort, car-review soybeards write shitty articles about how it wasn't "performance oriented" and cry they couldn't throw it into a corner at 6.5G's or whatever

@manoman0

3 жыл бұрын

@@fujifrontier Yes, amazing. When luxury meant soft suspension, velvety seat cushions, one-finger-steering and rubber band acceleration, inaudible gear shift.

@scootergeorge9576

3 жыл бұрын

@@fujifrontier - I have no idea what you are talking about. My Ford Fusion both rides and corners great. The 3.0 V6 has good power, is smooth and economical. It's obvious that YOU are the clueless one. The best cornering street legal cars in the world barely top 1.0 G on the skid pad.

@fujifrontier

3 жыл бұрын

@@scootergeorge9576 thanks bro 👌🏿

One of my favourite cars of all time. Greetings from England.

My family bought a well optioned new '75 LTD Landau with the Landau Luxury Group. It was a silver blue glow 4 door with dark blue vinyl top...essentially identical to the model shown in the thumbnail image attached to this video. It was one of my all-time favorite cars...I felt that it rivaled the '73 Mercury Marquis Brougham and later '78 Grand Marquis that my extended family owned, and they were also wonderful cars. Our Landau shared all of the luxury features and even most of the same interior fittings as the Grand Marquis, but with a slightly shorter footprint. I've always held the '75 through '78 LTD Landaus - particularly when fully optioned - to be "sensibly-sized Lincolns". Four years later, we purchased a 1979 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, and the LTD became our second car. I loved that Fleetwood - it was a stunning car - but other than a few small features, it offered little beyond that of our LTD. Furthermore, the Cadillac had an absolutely inferior back seat...while the Ford's was perfectly straight across and could comfortably seat three people, our Fleetwood Brougham had a curved backseat (both the bottom and especially the backrest cushions) which "threw" all three occupants together toward the centerline of the car. So, on those occasions when we carried three people in back, the Caddy stayed home in the garage, and we relied on the Ford! I recall how in 1977 Ford advertised that the LTD "kept its size" in the face of the newly downsized Chevy Caprice, and even boasted how the LTD was dimensionally close to the similarly rescaled '77 full-sized Cadillacs. At the time, perhaps Ford was desperately promoting an old dinosaur against GM's boldly rethought and progressive new cars. But, as someone who grew up with both the old "big" LTD and newer "small" C-body Cadillac, I look back and appreciate the reasonableness of Ford's promotion.

The LTD Landau always seemed more upscale compared to the Caprice Classic.

Very beautiful classic.

My grandparents had one of these back in the day .. very comfortable...

Writing Value in the same font as Ford and putting it in the logo was clever.

My Grand-Uncle had a Landau coupe in gold... solid with presence!

I had 2 of them. The finest car ever built. Mine lasted 35 years until it got wrecked.

Jack had a hell of a comb over…

I had two of them 75 76. Never had a minute of trouble out of them . They couldn't out run a turtle but it rode & drove great.

I was in highschool in Los Angeles in 1975 and I remember these commercials.My father worked 4 Rockwell and 1 night he came home and told us that they filmed 1 of these Ford LTD commercials in the parking lot where he worked.I think it was either in El Segundo, Seal Beach or Downey California.He told me he met Hugh Downs.If U can find this commercial somewhere on KZread it was a blue car on an angle and the ground was wet because it rained earlier that day.

@SpockvsMcCoy

3 жыл бұрын

Also, much of Ford's promotional advertising (magazine ads and brochures) in the 1970s was done in the Coachella Valley including the College of the Desert.

My folks had the Landau in the brown metallic shown in the first clip, with the soft brown cloth split bench as shown. It was one comfortable car, and drove smoother and quieter than my current 2010 Lincoln Town Car. Not a lot of zip, but still comfortable after a 600 mile drive. That's not going to happen in today's cars. They traded it for a 1985 Toyota Cressida, in metallic brown, of course, my mom's favorite color. The Cressida was basically a Supra sedan, which gave a "push you back in your seat" takeoff which they both loved, and it was far easier to park. But 300 mile trips would leave you squirming a bit. Thanks for a great video!

Ford was really on a roll during this time(mid 70's) Besides freshening up their lineup with higher levels of trim, interior fabrics, etc. they were prominently featured in tv/shows produced by Aaron Spelling as well as popular films. Add to it great marketing campaigns with lots of magazine ads and detailed commercial spots, they didn't have to worry much about the competition!

My neighbor had one, and took me for a ride a couple of times. I was blown away by how quiet and solid it felt.

I owned this car. I had a 1976 LTD Landau. It was equipped with a 400 v8, split bench with "reclining Passenger seat," am radio only (unfortunatley - but worked and sounded great!). Yet this car had 4 wheel disks brakes. It was a gold/bronze color and it looked as new. I kept it that way. In the hot summer heat it had new car smell. The Hood was like glass how it was polished. It had coil springs and NO leafs. I got compliments from many. It actually handeled very well I thought. Yes it was a huge heavy car but it was very well balanced and the rear end never broke away. You could drive it fast in corners and trust it. But the hubcaps would fly off!! I had to get out and retrieve them at times. I drove this car for a few years in the 90s. It also had the fold down head lights - they were vacuum powered. If you had any vacuum leak the lids would just stay up. It was a good car once I got it reliable. It was great!!

AWESOME CARS!

Had a 77'... best riding car I ever owned...FILCO AC was soo cold, it would "run ya' outta of it"😏

Understanding the history of automobiles gives you a good understanding of how economics work. The 70s are the decade of the energy crisis, yet they kept making boats that ducked up gas, and people Co tinued to buy them. This gave the Japanese an opportunity to forsee the future and capture and retain large market share, while the big 3 continued to lose and never recovered.

@louiscormier2203

3 жыл бұрын

Ya that is basically how it has unfolded.

I just love these old car commercials 😍 takes me back to when cars still had cool names!

I have a 1969 Ford LTD and I love it! It's incredible & powerful handles well now that I replace the front end!

@larkatmic

3 жыл бұрын

I have a 69 Mercury Marquis. It drives like dream! Love the bench seating

@Akasnacker

3 жыл бұрын

👍

The crazy double-digit inflation of the 1970's was making car prices jump several times a year. By 1975, Ford gave GM sleepless nights by holding the sticker prices on their big cars. I still remember some of the Ford, Mercury and Lincoln "inflation fighter" special editions - content delete cars. Ford also created "seasonal special editions" available with limited colors and trims to keep prices low. And "Regional Edition" cars like the Northwest Edition Torino and the Southwest Edition LTD - neat end-of-the-year tricks to clear inventory!

Take your living room with you! I remember these big yachts. What a great time period.

Ford: Standard size cars *Proceeds to show a land yacht

@scootergeorge9576

3 жыл бұрын

"Full size" would be more appropriate. There were Sub-compacts, compacts, mid size, and full size cars in American lexicon.

@styldsteel1

3 жыл бұрын

You just don't get it. What a brilliant, unique thing to click and clack about.

@scootergeorge9576

3 жыл бұрын

@@styldsteel1 - Cluck? ; )

The first car I drove was a Ford LTD Landau coupe. I was 14 🛥

I'm still driving my 77 Landau.

My foster parents had one, but it was Burgandy, 460 cid, loaded. Went on dates with it. Lots of room. ;) m

Oh boy, do I remember this car! When my parents were looking for a house the real estate agent had a 2 door version. My sister and I sat in the back, it was a floaty, ride and the longer it went on the more car sick my sister got. Finally I had to yell at them to pull over before she threw up on all that velour upholstery!

I owned a 78 Thunderbird with a 302 and loved it.

@styldsteel1

3 жыл бұрын

The 302 is too small for the 77-79 birds.

Back in the day when cars came with two sofas.

I wish America built cars like this again Instead of big gas guzzler SUV'S This car did better in gas mileage Than today's SUVs

Just look at that white wagon tho, what a gem.

Commercial 1 = "There will be no distracting backgrounds or people." Commercial 2 = "I guess maybe we need backgrounds and people to sell this thing!" LOL!

It’s amazing how they don’t talk about value or lower sticker prices anymore! None of them have value anymore!!!

@styldsteel1

3 жыл бұрын

Are you taking about today's government compliant silver or gray jelly beans,?

The car that thought it was a house, or the house that thought it was a car. Take your pick. If you listen very carefully to the chimes in the second commercial (1:00), they are the exact same ones as in the Disneyland Read-Along Books & Records/Tapes we all had as children!!!

@stephaniebibb9102

3 жыл бұрын

The pixie dust sound!

Interior trim levels on Ford LTD surpassed competitors' cars. Ford LTD handled safely and predictably on slippery roads. Although Chevrolet was a quicker car light-to-light. Ford was a cruiser, and made a run from NY to LA with sometime triple digit mph velocity feel like a run to the supermarket. Ford LTD was a superb, reliable road car -- the best of this era.

@DrOlds7298

3 жыл бұрын

Also on an Autobahn,though of course not like the cars over there like a Benz or BMW?? (Military Family,we took ours to Germany...twice!)

Great design. Miss the big old American sedans

I love the fact that the "Limited Edition" extra-cheapo LTD came with an upside-down steering wheel (that's the "Limited" part, I guess...)

@otisthetowndrunk3613

3 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it, I noticed that too LoL

@bobtepedino5661

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisthetowndrunk3613 You do Mayberry proud, Otis.

@socalltd

3 жыл бұрын

from 69-74 the two spoke wheel was straight. the 75-78 wheel had a downward offset this is not centered The base model was called custom 500 and was available till 74. it was offered in 75-78 for fleet sales only to taxi and police orders.

@cj-fh4nx

2 жыл бұрын

@@socalltd This limited edition would have been the last Custom 500 offered for public sale in the US.

@socalltd

2 жыл бұрын

@@cj-fh4nx 74 was the last year for the Galaxie 500. Custom 500 was only for police, fleet rentals and taxi in 75. LTD was the base model, LTD Brougham and Landau as the top series 75-78. Inflation was everywhere and it looks like Ford did this "special edition" for those who would not consider a full size unless discounted or by promotion. The Ford full size was the top seller of all ford models in the 70's

My grandpa bought a 1973 Thunderbird in 73, He died 3 months later. Handed down to my mom, The car sits in a garage has only 36,000 original miles. Window sticker is still on the dash and plastic bag cover still on the seatbelts. A Jefferson Airplane 8 track is still in the player.

Cool video thanks for the upload I had one I loved that car

I have seen them in a while !

Our forklift pick these cars up like nothing when loading them in and out of the crusher. As a kid I enjoyed riding in these nice cars. Everyone felt safe and used to say they were heavy. When a grew up and got into the salvage business I quickly realized how easy the John Deere 544k moves them around.

Love the backing music on the first two 🤔 all that’s needed is a pack of Pall Mall 100s and I’m back in the 70s

I love that car !

No more hidden headlights

I remember a customer (John Osborn) at the Shell Station I worked at in El Cajon Ca. 75 Ford LTD Landau Broham. Seeet car, opera windows, courtesy lamps in back seat, etc.

Of course I remember those. They used to be assembled in oil-fed Venezuela, with a 400 engine, no emissions equipment, and no headrests. People like the Landau model because it slightly reminde them of the Lincoln Continental. At 30000 (1976) bolivars was quite a bargain against a 80000 bolivars Mercedes 280S.

Long, low and very luxurious. I can NEVER use those terms with today's cars. Today? Silver and gray jelly beans.

"Hundreds, and hundreds of dollars less" . Nowadays that sounds comical. Ah, the good old days when things were normal and America was tougher.

@geodot595

3 жыл бұрын

trump weakening America. last 4 months he was gutting the pentagon.

@otisthetowndrunk3613

3 жыл бұрын

LoL holy shit! Imagine being this clueless.

@21stcenturyfossil7

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, Americans were too tough to drive cars with any hint of road feel!

@styldsteel1

3 жыл бұрын

@@geodot595 you just don't get it. Compare San Francisco with Dallas Texas.

@99Hudson

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, just as we were cutting and running from Vietnam, and the economy was in the toilet. Runaway inflation. Watergate. Good times. .

Those were the days when cars had room. Now you pay more for less.

@fujifrontier

3 жыл бұрын

That applies to every single thing these days, and our jobs always saying "do more with less" 🙄

@burningblue1254

3 жыл бұрын

@@fujifrontier Ha ha yes.

@dmer-zy3rb

3 жыл бұрын

the cars back then were wide yes, but actual legroom was mediocre or even downright bad.

@burningblue1254

3 жыл бұрын

@@dmer-zy3rb you needed to get the powerseats!

@manoman0

3 жыл бұрын

Not so sure about the "less". Less big, for sure. Let's face it, even a small Hyundai i20 has more tech than you could ever want. I'd say you get quite a good value from today's cars. They're creatures of their respective time, that's it.

These cars were really a work of art in México this type of cars were brougth by politician and businessmen and they were really cars.

My parents owned a Dk.Blue/White '75 LTD 4dr (but not the Landau) from 1975-85. And because my Father was a career US Army NCO,that LTD went around the world twice! (Two postings to West Germany) Bit of a handful driving it down some of those little narrow 12th-19th century streets with cars parked on either side,though!!!

I had a 77 2 door LTD, I miss that old party barge!!

Looks like a cross between a merc and ford...

Valla clasico de ford LTD Landau V8 muy guapo

This was essentially a Mercury Marquis with different header and tail panels.

My first car

This was when you could fit a washer and dryer in the trunk and maybe even throw in a couch🤣

They were rather commonplace back then, as it was also the heyday of the large American sedan.

I think you made a typo in the title, you put LTF, otherwise, great video!

Running mate to the Mercury Grand Marquis. Sadly, there was no De Sade option package available. ; )

Back then semi luxury

Holy Crap !!!!..........Where can I get one ???

Ah the mid seventies, we drove land yachts, and no American cars were fuel efficient, you'd have to find some way to tweak them to be a little better with gas mileage

Cada época do ano tinha seus lindos modelos d carros. 😷😷😷😷

When glitz and girth were everything even on a working man's budget!

We had a 72 LTD Brougham with 400 Cleveland

It's funny how all those things they advertised as luxuries are standard on base level cars now (except the V8). Automatic transmission, WOW! Power steering, WOW! Power brakes, WOW! And forget about that V8 engine. Todays 2.0 4cyl engines put out more power than those V8s from the 70s.

@audiofiil

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot steel belted radial tyres, WOW!

@SpockvsMcCoy

3 жыл бұрын

Up until the early 1970s, automatic transmission, power steering, and power brakes were optional on full-size Fords, Chevrolets, and Plymouths. If someone had not purchased one of those new cars for a long time they might have still thought they were optional.

Me gusta el carro un Ford LTD Landau 1975; mi abuelo materno Jesús Ángel Fuenmayor Villalobos Q.E.P.D; mi tío tenía uno; pero lo heredó de mi abuelo; la Reina Clarisse Renaldi tiene uno así; soy José Rafael Grange Fuenmayor saludos.

I had a 76 ltd landau

My dad had a blue LTD that I believe was a Landau. And I believe it was a 1978. Automatic Climate Control as well!

Why was the steering wheel upside down on the Ford Special Edition models...they also looked way more plain than fleet model LTD's with no exterior bright work, whitewalls, or full wheel covers, just center moon caps.

The lower price limited edition didn't have the hood ornament. I wonder how many people went and got a drill and drilled the hole and put the thing on there.

My mom had a gold on with the leather seats

My dad and mom drove The ford . mom Loved her Chevy Caprice Better but Dad Had to trade it and Man she was Mad

Now available at amazon

Those cars double as two bedroom condos in California if you can find them.

yea give me the one with a half a stack of wood on the sides...

@coolhandluke1503

3 жыл бұрын

We only have pine ones left

Yeah buddy they say "wow" alright

Just how much bigger, longer, heavier, and costlier were the cars that they replaced?

You can tell Tarantino directed this commercial because it has an in the trunk shot.

Was that the car that John candy drove in the movie Uncle Buck ? Lol

@christophersantana5895

3 жыл бұрын

JOHN CANDY DROVE A MERCURY GRAND MAURQUIS.

Looks just like a Mercury Marguis I once had.

I got lucky in the back of that car

Also made in Australia.

Greetings from Landau…

Lol i have this exact car

"Standard Size" = 4795 pounds, with up to a 460 cubic inch v8

The 2 door was the Barnaby jones car

Yo quiero uno 🙋🇲🇽🇲🇽

Miss the 1970s

Hugh was simultaneously doing a commercial for mens hair dye.

3:30 He Man commentary.

2:44 and it comes with an upside down steering wheel!

Rip HUGH DOWNS