Mercury Brougham

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The Mercury Brougham was the Ford Motor Company's flagship Mercury model during its two year run from 1967-1968. As it was basically a trim line of the Park Lane, it is sometimes called a Park Lane Brougham. Powerful and luxurious, it was offered as a four-door sedan, a four-door hardtop and, quite rarely, as a two-door hardtop (1968 only). Viewers of the 1968-1980 CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O may recall Jack Lord's character frequently squealing tires throughout Honolulu in a black 1968 Mercury Park Lane Brougham four-door hardtop. The 1968 Brougham vehicle was used well into the 1970's during the series run, and was featured during the opening credit sequences until the Hawaii Five-O series end in 1980. Sometime around 1976 or 1977 Jack Lord's character began using a current model Mercury Marquis, again a black 4 door sedan.

The Brougham nameplate was later applied to the Mercury line to the Marquis until the early 1980's when the Marquis became the Grand Marquis in the Mercury lineup.