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Cool Old Press Photos: ’57 Mercury Child Safety Vest


Cool Old Press Photos: ’57 Mercury Child Safety Vest

We had to smile when we saw this neat photo and release in our recently located pile of stuff. It’s a press release featuring Mercury’s Child Safety Vest that was shown in these press photos for the 1957 model year.

We have no idea if this ever made it to a production car or if it’s simply something that the PR department dreamed up to show how hard the engineers were working to make the cars safer.

When the release mentions the advanced safety features of the car we’re wondering if they mean the dashboard that will decapitate you in a wreck, the steering wheel that will impale you like Dracula or perhaps the crumple zone…ok there was no crumple zone.

So did any of you old fogies out there get strapped into the safety vest?

1957 Mercury Child Safety Vest

1957 Mercury Child Safety Vest press release


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