4Z67R516945

VIN:         4Z67R516945                                        St. Louis, MO assembly

Car:          1964 Mercury Park Lane Marauder 2 door

Engine:     427 Super Marauder                              427 8V - 425 Horsepower

Codes:      Body - 63C                                            Park Lane 2-Dr. Hardtop Fastback

(the code information listed below is based on information known about the car and not from the warranty plate)

                Color - X                                                Burgundy

                Trim - 56                                               Black

                Date - 18L                                             18 November, 1963

                DSO - 41                                               Chicago

                Axle - 5                                                 3.50:1

                Trans - 5                                               Standard (4-Speed)

It is likely that the invoiced car and the car pictured are the same car, but it is not 100% guaranteed. They were reported by two different sources. The invoice does not state the color of the car. The pictured car matches the invoice options listed except that it doesn't appear to have seat belts, but they could have easily been removed in this era. There were only about 23 of these cars built (Park Lane Marauder 2dr R) based on what we know and it seems unlikely, though not impossible, that more than one of them was sent to Milwaukee. For that reason I'm treating them as the same car here.

This car was sold new by Laev Motors in Milwaukee, Wisconson. The original owner's brother posted this invoice and made comments about the car in 2017. He said;

"I found this invoice in some boxes of paperwork after my Mother passed away. This was a car my brother bought.  I was only 10 years old, and all I remember was going for a ride and almost soiling my pants.  It only had F78 14 tires and they never stopped spinning.  Wish I had that car now.  Not sure if it's true, but it was supposedly one of only a few made."

(This report and pictures are from someone who saw this car in 1966)

Saw car on Jack White's used lot in a suburb of Milwaukee Wi. for $1888 in Feb of 1966 as pictured. Original wheel covers were gone and possibly the wheels too. Everything else was intact.

Car was on the lot for several weeks during which time my girl friend and now wife Karen-19 at the time - tried to purchase it. I couldn't buy it because I was in college and broke but I knew even way back then how special this car was. Being under age per Wisconsin law she needed her dad's signature to purchase it. Her dad  was a Rambler driver at the time and after seeing it on the lot  he was unimpressed with the size, noise and lack of P/S, P/B and A/T and was probably upset with me as a crazy boyfriend trying to maneuver his little 116 pound daughter into such an "impractical" car.

Eventually it sold but stayed local in our city of West Allis. We would see it on occasion peeling around town  getting hammered. It was always dirty and that beautiful paint look awful with its coating of winter salt. Shortly after the sale it showed up at the corner gas station getting unknown repairs. The next time I saw it it was back at the dealership sitting outside the repair shop with the hood off and  W/O an engine. A week or so later it appeared with a 390 4V under the hood and back on the lot and that about did it for the car of my dreams.

Pictures Feb. 1966

A 19 year old Karen had high hopes to own this car, but dad wasn't on board