Dennis Hopper, director/writer/co-star of Easy Rider was on British TV selling Ford cars. (sellout with a career failure late in life)

The 1999-2000 Cougar wasn't too bad... and a couple years later just before killing off Mercury and the Cougar, they added superchargers

The B 17, Blonde Bomber, seems to have been autgraphed by Betty Grable

and there doesn't seem to be anything much on the internet about this B 17... or if that really is her autograph.

Why they were using babies as mission markers is a good question, that is a pretty strange choice

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205364034