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Holy moley! That's a darn good catch! The taillight in that one picture looked a lot like a Lincoln Continental, though, didn't it? Or did they use the same taillight on the Mercury? I'm going on eBayMotors right now to check out '78 Mercurys!
The Kim Jong Il car is a '75-'76 model, the '77-'78 models had the more narrow grill.
What's weird is seeing all those newer Mercedes behind that old boat.
I just had a thought on those Mercedes: what if they don't belong to North Korea? What if they were utilized by some visiting Chinese dignitaries? Or they could be North Korean, who knows? Very interesting.
Recently in another picture of kim jong il taken while greeting some dignitary, it showed a bunch of Ford F-350 trucks in the background.
If you do a search on the internet you'll find all sorts of info about his intermediaries/buyers all over the world that secure whatever he wanted. Pretty much everything he ate, owned, slept on, came in internationally and it was all the best stuff money could buy. He even had a rotating plethora of all the best hookers the world could offer.
It seemed like a poorly written question with dubious meaning to me, "of <what> in?" which is why I gave two possible responses.
"Or if you're saying how Ford feels about it, I imagine they don't really care. The cars have been debadged."
I will say though, I bet that the guys that built these things - on the UAW line as well as at the coachbuilder - had no idea that they would someday end up being shipped illegally across the globe, used in the funerals of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and used in parades in front of millions of oppressed people during the interceding three and a half decades.
I'd just have figured it'd spend a few years shuttling around some rich dude and then getting used in livery for ten years before being owned by a pimp/drug dealer or scrapped...
I wonder what it says about Kim Il Sung that he picked the Lincoln over a Soviet ZiL. Hurts my feelings just a bit
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