1975 Ford LTD Landau Commercial - With Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs for Ford and the new LTD Landau

[@SirEpifire]

I daily drive a '78 Landau. No regrets, fun car, joy to drive.

[@jerryolson3746]

My Dad's favorite . The full sized Ford . Thank you for the video , Mr . Tramain.

[@luisbencomo1568]

My brother had one of these beauties. His was a V8 460 engine. Smooth ride!

[@thomasofone]

Had the 77 Grand Marquis version. Loved it.

[@jankypop-a-matic58]

My parents bought a brand new '78 Colony Park Woodie Wagon with the 460. That thing was a cruisin' delight! A venerable "Lincoln Wagon". 😁

[@OnTheRoadWithDan]

My grandparents had a 75 as well, was my grandfathers last car he had before he passed away, remember that it was their 1st car that had AC in it and he loved it.

[@oliasofsunhillow7116]

A friend of mine at the time, his dad bought a brand new 1976 LTD Landau coupe, sky blue, dark blue rear landau top and interior, and in 1979, he traded it in for a 1979 Thunderbird, sky blue, white top and dark blue interior! The were both sharp looking cars!

[@williamdolyniuk7804]

Yeah had a 78 thunderbird with prototype command start. Loaded .oh they all wear out.

[@davidallen5776]

Ford called it Silver Blue Glow, but sky blue sounds about right. It was the most popular shade of blue that was ever mixed!

[@klwthe3rd]

@@williamdolyniuk7804 what is the prototype command start option?

[@marquiswilliams485]

In my opinion the LTD Landau were the most luxurious of all the LTD'S.

[@OsbornTramain]

That's not opinion, that's an actual fact!!!! They were spectacular and very classy

[@georgewilson1184]

We had the 75 country squire with the landau option group But I have a confession the 74 country squire Brougham had one time seats that were more plush than the 75 landau and the 74 Brougham was nicer than the 73 Brougham

[@quad8track253]

@@georgewilson1184 That is true but the 1973 LTD at 60MPH rode quieter than an airborne glider.

[@georgewilson1184]

@@quad8track253 I remember when I was a kid all those car company commercials on TV and. Yes the Ford LTDs on their quietness & smoothness and the Mercuries & Lincoln’s

[@quad8track253]

@@georgewilson1184 That's true. I was referencing an ad for the 1973 LTD ad that's in the National Geographic magazines of that era.

[@bjluvit9348]

Love this car in a 2 door coupe.

[@georgewilson1184]

I love coupes no one makes coupes any more except for the Challenger there are sports cars but I am talking big luxury coupes I speak coupe language the language of kings

[@dodgeguyz]

Had a 78 LTD Landau 2 door as my first car. Loved it. I miss it. It was a gas guzzler but was a great cruiser!

[@klwthe3rd]

What color was it? Exterior and interior? Being the Landau did you have the optional rear wheel fender skirts?

[@dodgeguyz]

@@klwthe3rd It was the cream color with the same color too and same color interior. It didn’t have the skirts. Didn’t look like it was ever optioned with them. It’s was the 400M 2bbl.

[@caddyman1962pp]

Our first NEW car bought in 75 for $4750

[@2W3X4YZ5]

My first car. It stood the test of time.

[@paulhoffman778]

That was sharp looking , and the brown looks good on that style!

[@Foxonian]

My aunt had that car in dark blue. Always felt like you riding in a Lincon Town Car.

[@valkpedia1139]

i own a 1975 ford ltd landau the same exact one as in the commercial but with red interior, black paint, without de rear fender flares and with the 351m/5.8l v8 whit 150 horses and 370 nm, it floats heavely on the road and is joyfully heavy around 2200 kilo's or 4800 - 4900- lbs but that just makes corners fun and long roads very comfortable.

[@karlsmith4160]

Ford GM & Mopar Did What toyota Will Never Do & That's Make Timeless Classic Automobiles

[@bjluvit9348]

Got to agree with you on that one buddy. 👍👍

[@superbird4351]

No one’s going to remember the corrolla as the most badass car of the 90’s

[@MattExzy]

@@superbird4351 Probably because lots of them are still on the road and being daily drivers - they're not broken down 'classics' always needing restoration.

[@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge]

Yet these 70s Land yachts were seen as the same disposable junk as Toyotas and Hondas are seen now back when these were 10-20 years old.

[@nicklikesradio]

@@superbird4351 they weren't designed to be classy. They were designed to be cheap economical reliable cars.

[@davidallen5776]

No luxury model could ever be complete without the features shown here.

[@seand2711]

So gorgeous. Wish I could buy one.

[@hunterstandridge5651]

My dad has a 1977 Ford Ltd with 287000 miles on it

[@Big_Ben1988]

Every car company think they gangsta till Ford pulls up.

[@AllEyezOnDeRozan]

RIP HUGH DOWNS

[@8092DJ]

when he die?

[@CL-bq9ul]

this ad is so chill

[@MisterMikeTexas]

I was 11 at the time. These cars were common. I'm sure that 460, when picked, felt like the good old days just a few years before the mid 70s.

[@michaelroberson6490]

I grew up in the Motor City and we always owned GM vehicles. But I can remember as a child in the late 70s we were next to a 77 LTD at a traffic light as it was nearing dark. When I saw those front headlights flip out and the lights come on, MAN! I yelled out “ man that’s sweet “! My dad laughed. We had a 72 Caprice Classic, but that was a bad Ford! It had a moonroof, wire wheels (possibly aftermarket), a CB antennae, chrome curb markers, and burgundy tint to match the car! And if you’re old enough to remember, whatever those rubber straps were hanging from the rear bumper! Yes DETROIT! At one time we really were building iconic automobiles!🚗🇺🇸👌🏾

[@1911beauty]

Michael Roberson I feel that way about the Buick Park avenue in the 80s and early 90. It represented security and stability for me. I have an 89 and even tho I can buy what ever I want now, I can bring myself to get rid of that car. Our world looks the way it does because we sold the dream lock stock and barrel to the world. It makes me sad. Younger children will never know the comfort and accessabilty of the luxury from those years. In those days regular working class people could access so much more material wealth than they ever could today. while I blame most of these stupid changes to our economy on both parties, I blame our inability to see it on people who were never ever socialized to understand it, you had to live it! Liberals think you can create a program or send someone to school to give them access to more material wealth. No fuck no. You have to create massive growth and material wealth. The cup has to freakin run over. I work with groups who keep thinking that the u.s has to create more fucking tax and spend policy's. What we have to do is create more job growth in every sector of the economy. Stop the fucking regulation. Stop the fucking taxing. Stop the fucking protectionism. Stop dealing with social issues like abortion. Get out of people's bedroom and fucking build build grow grow. Stop pushing these meaningless degrees and i have several. This doesn't mean everybody shud. The internet, cell phones, TV, and the markets will deal with stupid stupid states that want to take people's rights away. Prime example, who wants to move to Alabama? No young upwardly mobile tech guy is moving to Alabama. Charlotte pushed that ban on gays andpop culture to a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars and jobs. watch them roll out two or three gay families in fall 2020 to show how gay friendly they are.🤣 Now how conservative is Texas? You know how many big the gays are building houses, working 6 figure jobs, adopting babies, and jukin at the Disco tech.🙄 Girls the issue is to dayum much government rushing in. Don't march. Don't sound the alarm. Close your fuckin purse and move the fuck on out. I guarantee you they will give you all the free abortion and gay marriage licences when these cities hemersge people, jobs, culture and the tax base. I lean conservative. But I'm gay and married. The local economies look a lot like the cities love and desire for the gays. If you want to destroy any chance for ecomic growth in a region, start whole selling 1960s family values, closing abortion clinics, and denying gays the right to do anything. You'll see your economy crumble. You won't need a tax plan, judge race, or anything else. Conservative social policy's kill the soul. When the soul is gone, fiscal growth is certain to follow. If you want a fiscal boom, bring in 100 black and white gay boys honey dressed in the latest anything from Ralph Lauren, banana republic, and Zara, graduated from ivys and research ones. In five years you'll have a pooping down town urban life, 200 new 350,000 town houses and homes, 77 adopted baby's and a brand new superintendent tonclesn up the schools, the sale of BMW, Mercedes, and Audi will drag the sale of that new Buick regal up and just watch the marriages recall the need to for fabulous cattered affairs. We don't need government or policy's . We need people living out loud in love, having great sex, driving new cars and building houses. Old stupid asses crying bout shrinking economy s. Yes it shrsnk cause you put it in the dryer🤨

[@klwthe3rd]

Yeah the hidden headlights on the upscale LTD Landau and Country Squire wagons made those cars look so elegant. I love them.

[@magnificenthonky]

If those rubber straps were what I believe you are referring to, they weren't rubber straps. They were metallic straps to ground the car, to release static electricity. It would have been part of the CB radio system. There was a theory behind that, but I've forgotten.

[@georgewilson1184]

Yeah back in 75. My parents brought home a new LTD country squire wagon with the optional Landau group super soft vinyl which proved to be pretty tuff that wagon did many chores a lot of vacations a lot of hauling me and my friends to games and other events and pulled our travel trailer and a horse trailer and I learned to drive on that girl a real trooper and that landau interior looked good 15 years Later of course all those years it was my job to clean & detail that chariot in side & out ah the memories ah the memories have you driven a Ford lately

[@klwthe3rd]

What color was it? Exterior and interior?

[@georgewilson1184]

@@klwthe3rd exterior was a light yellow green sounds funny but that is what it was called my Mom picked that color inside was dark green Motor was a 400

[@mexicanspec]

According to the internet, this car equipped with the 351 V8 had 149 HP. The Mexican version equipped with the same size engine had 250 HP. The Mexican car has much more punch.

[@alanbiagini3016]

The good old days when cars had style…….

[@jankypop-a-matic58]

When I was a kid, my parents bought a brand new '78 Colony Park Woodie Wagon with the 460. That thing was a cruisin' delight! A venerable "Lincoln Wagon". 😁

[@caillou4110]

R.i.p. Hugh downs

[@landyachtfan79]

The car that thinks it's a house, or the house that thinks it's a car. Take your pick.

[@CrestwoodRocks]

I miss those cars

[@aaronwilliams6989]

Me too man, but only if the gas mileage was better back then.

[@CrestwoodRocks]

@@aaronwilliams6989 those used more gas than today's cars unfortunately

[@aaronwilliams6989]

@@CrestwoodRocks Heck yeah. That's my point. They used WAY more gas. Like less than 15 mpg on the highway.

[@OMENAPUUROOMENAPUURO]

I WISHD ID HAD CAMARO. FORD LTD AND 2 BARRACUDAS 67-69

[@thoughtfinder]

My dad owned one of these. It had a nice ride but Ford suffered body rusting problems in the 1970s. The back bumper fell off the car.

[@williamdolyniuk7804]

Yes new cars were grandiose....

[@weasel884]

today i declare on destroy dick December 1st 2018 i have become a ford man because of how this commercial was presented. my love of gm after 20 years has died today. the elegance of these cars of the past and how ford doesn't shove things down your throat is what caught my attention.just some really nice music to let you look at a car,a really nice car. classy and simple.

[@EricJamesHanson]

It was a 5,000 lb. car. I saw road tests of '75 LTD Landaus in several magazines. Who were they trying to kid with this ad. It was BIG, comfy, cushy-own it. It was designed to replace your 72 LTD or Torino or Caprice.

[@OsbornTramain]

Sorry, no it wasn't that heavy, it was heavy but only 4,403 pounds in the base LTD form.

[@EricJamesHanson]

Motor Trend did a 3 way comparison test of the 75 LTD Brougham Landau, the Caprice Classic, and the Fury Gran Sedan. The Fury and the Caprice each came in at about 4700 lbs, that day, and the LTD tipped the scales at exactly 5,000 lbs, which is not surprising, because the base LTD without many of the weight adding accessories would indeed be hundreds of pounds less. Interestingly, that same summer of 75, Road Test Magazine tested a Marquis Brougham which also came in at 5,000 lbs, maybe just a little more. I used to prep. 73 and 74 LTDs and Marquises at Ripley & Fletcher Ford/Mercury in South Paris Maine, and I was amazed at the huge differences in equipment levels from one LTD to the next.

[@OsbornTramain]

@@EricJamesHanson yep, depending on what's ordered, the weight could clearly climb, I was just pointing out that it's base weight was only 4400 pounds.....I'm sure with trailer towing packages, largest engine, air conditioning, stereo systems with as many speakers as possible, power window motors and power seat motors....all adds a massive amount. But, a base LTD, only 4400 pounds. They did come in various levels for sure. I worked for a Dodge Dealer at the time and I can remember fully loaded Royal Monaco Brougham Diplomats vs, just a plain old Royal Monaco.....with no options.....

[@aaronwilliams6989]

The Caprice was a Chevy.

[@caddyman1962pp]

Our first new car $4750

[@JohnDavis-zo4xl]

Smooth, quiet ride. 14 mpg.

[@waterheaterservices]

The all new 1975.....which is a retrimmed 1973. Anyway, good cars!

[@EricJamesHanson]

Indeed-a mild reskinning of the truly new '73 Fords

[@1983jblack]

The front and rears were new for '75 yes but the coupe was all new since it wasn't a hardtop anymore.

[@HFCT-pe4xx]

Name of the song ? I love this song, thanks

[@danielshon]

Power & elegance !

[@johnerwin9024]

We had one; not the 'Landau' edition; remember the car had its share of electronics trouble for some reason, not the 1st owner, but hell yea, spacious-

[@1983jblack]

My parents had a '77 and they always told me its "brainbox" was messed up and would cause it to stall out even while moving at say, 30-40 mph. Keep in mind they bought it brand new and the Ford dealers didn't have an answer for its troubles

[@GabrielAlmeida-xw7wd]

Oohh shit, I drove sometimes this car in GTA San Andreas and I didn't know!

[@bcroadgeek5404]

The LTD Mod?

[@chrisbergamo]

Do you know if Ford used this LTD Landau name before or after 1975? I'm asking this because we had in Brazil from 1971 to 1975 a Ford LTD Landau and before seeing this advertisement I've never thought that USA Ford used this name.

[@OsbornTramain]

I believe Ford USA started using the name Laudau on the LTD in 1975, but they had previously used the name landau on the Thunderbird as far back as 1963 I believe.

[@gojoe2833]

The Brazilian 1971-75 Ford LTD Landau was basically a U.S. specification 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 4 door sedan with updated grille and taillights. Ford of Brazil could continue to use the 1966 car because they did not have the emissions and safety laws of the U.S.A that forced Ford to redesign the car,and Brazilians loved the car as it was. Ford did not use the "Landau" name for the big LTD until 1975, previously it was called the "LTD Brougham."

[@aaronwilliams6989]

They used it into the early 1980s.

[@javierplaza6756]

Ford ford ford naicidos fuertes

[@ksr2059]

Ok I love this music. Does anyone know this composition or any other music like it?

[@DamnStraightM35A2]

Muzak?

[@mk202]

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[@metalox88]

nice Buy

[@chronicstitcher7933]

My mom had one.

[@8092DJ]

What does LTD stand for?

[@OsbornTramain]

LTD is the abbreviation for the word Limited. You see Limited used quite often in automotive terminology. "Limited" edition. Buick 225 Limited is another example.

[@8092DJ]

@@OsbornTramain Thank you

[@kyboy5]

Road salt eats those 70s Fords up

[@joseluisherrera4669]

What's the name of its Mercury sibling?

[@OsbornTramain]

Depends on the trim level of the car....Ford had the full sized Ford LTD Landau with all the bells and whistles, but their full sized inexpensive car was the Galaxie, where Mercury had the very Fancy, Marquis, but they also had the full sized less fancy, Monterey and in Canada, the Meteor

[@joseluisherrera4669]

OsbornTramain Thanks ! Now i understand It better .

[@sherryhannah498]

Jose Luis Herrera Marquis or Grand Marquis

[@angelicasilberstein3928]

Cherilyn Hannen Thanks , Gracias !

[@oliasofsunhillow7116]

@@OsbornTramain, the Galaxie and the Monterey names were both dropped after 1974 in favor of the new lower priced LTD and Marquis base models! Then they added on more upmarket sub-models over them!

[@billmalec]

And it was still a boat.

[@simonf8902]

Who’s Hugh Downs ?

[@OsbornTramain]

He was the host of the Today Show on NBC with Barbara Walters thru the majority of 1960's and into the 1970's. He moved over to PBS do do work there on documentaries and TV shows. I past away recently on July 1st 2020 at the age of 99

[@fordmavericksosx3569]

Great looking car! It's a poor mans Marquis.

[@ImaOkie]

The quintessential Mafia staff car with that extra large body storage trunk , why geez you could fit 6 or 7 snitches in dere no problem ? Even if they were as big as Tony , hey hey Tony ...Imma just kidden around , c'mon Tony put the gun away , no Tony ... don't shoot !!

[@Keplerb-od1lr]

What the hell was longer and heavier than this boat

[@socalltd]

The Thunderbird, Marquis, all Lincolns and a few Cadillac's in 1975.

[@georgewilson1184]

Chrysler New Yorker Plymouth Gran Fury Dodge Royal Monoco Oldsmobile 98 Buick Electra 225 Pontiac Grand Ville

[@popcultureaddict733]

A Peterbilt with a trailer attached?

[@joserafaelgrangefuenmayor7744]

Me gusta el carro; mi abuelo tenía uno; ese era el carro que tenía antes de morir; cuando murió; mi tío se quedó con el carro

[@Sinsteel]

No background, no music, no beautiful people, just large white text all over the screen.

[@johnlewinski6359]

What full size cars back then still had standard transmission??

[@aaronwilliams6989]

By the mid 1970s standard transmission was pretty much extinct in full size cars.

[@socalltd]

1972 was the last year for a 3 on the tree on the Custom and galaxie 500. have seen other makes have manuals in 70 or 71 in their base models

[@georgewilson1184]

70 threw 72 ford full-size custom could be gotten with standard shift on the column