After reading the Hot Rod Network article Rare Factory Photos and Juicy Triva about the Mercury Cougar I saw some great photos and I started thinking. What are some of my favorite photo advertisements of our Classic Mercury Cougar’s? What are some of yours?
Here is one of mine:
^^^ That is one of my favorite photos Steven - it is by an outfit called “Boulevard Photographic”. That company was started in the mid-1950s by photographers Jimmy Northmore and Mickey McGuire. They did outstanding work, including the '69 CJ I posted below.
While I admire their work greatly, I have a real “love/Hate” relationship with BP. Their masterful and creatively staged automotive photos for advertising and marketing were hugely instrumental in the demise of the use of illustration.
^^^ Groovy for sure - Right On!!
Great images guys. Philip I read briefly about Boulevard Photographic and they were cutting edge in the way they photographed automobiles back in the day. I know this is more than a photo but here is one of my favorite Mercury Cougar TV commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDyZcavdJug
Steven
Here is a good one of a big cat.
Steven
^^^ Illustration - I love it! 
Oh, if only the cars looked in reality like they do in the illustrations. “Longer, lower, wider!”
Gotta wonder whatever happened to those 2 phat cats 
