Old Ford pics

[FiveSevenLiter]

Sorry to nitpick but that is not a Mercury, it is a Ford Monarch.  Sorta like calling a Kiwi an Aussie.

The picture is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island and has Hugh's old home of Port Angeles in the background.

[mustang6984]

Nice truck...love the color too!

[FiveSevenLiter]

Holy **** Green, I have been driving it since 1987.
351 Windsor and a C6 automatic.
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[djfordmanjack]

Sorry about that, should have written Canadian 'Merc' as I was just referring to the comparable US models. Of course you are right. I am aware of the Monarch Brand, and that the US Fords were Mercury in Canada. I have owned 2 Canadian built Fords before. As a matter of fact I was thinking about buying a 56 Monarch just a few weeks ago, which became available here in Austria, of all places. 

btw. you might find it interesting, that the 1962 Mercury Comet I had was built in Canada for export to Europe ( kmh speedo). Yet it was branded  'Mercury'. I think that is interesting to know that Canadian plants obviously made a difference between export and home market. It would be of interest to me, what the Comets were branded in Canada back then.

That shoreline scenery is very, very pretty !

Sorry to nitpick but that is not a Mercury, it is a Ford Monarch.  Sorta like calling a Kiwi an Aussie.

The picture is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island and has Hugh's old home of Port Angeles in the background.

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[RICH MUISE]

The appropriate name for the green on the truck....................those words actually came out of my mouth when I saw the photo, lol. It's absolutely perfect looking, I think just became my favorite pickup. Thanks for posting that pic, I think I'll print it off, or maybe make it my desktop. (my wife will never notice the neices are gone

[FiveSevenLiter]

Thanks - a lady in a early 60's Cadillac pulled up next to me at a stop light, all her windows were down, I could see her in her door mirror looking back and she said 'Holy Shi* is that green" another time a Mercedes pulls up beside me, an elderly gentlemen with an English accent says, "you didn't leave any green in that can".  When I was building it everyone said not green, once built everyone of them changed their opinion.

Comets in Canada were branded Mercury.

Monarch was a rebranded Mercury so Ford dealers had a line to compete with Mercury.
Mercury trucks were made here, some exported to Mexico and South America.  I found out after buying two of them that Ford did not put the 255 cubic inch engine in them.  They had the same 239 inch flathead as the Ford, but when Mercury trucks were advertised they went by torque rating not by cubic inch.

Coastline, I Google Mapped that site yesterday and see they have built condos there.  When the picture was taken, it was wild and untamed.

[mustang6984]

That is the best color for that truck! I love it. I'll fess up now...if it comes up missing one morning when you get up...it'll be on it's way to Missouri! LOL!!!   

[djfordmanjack]

Green truck is supersweet !!!

Now I have to ask what were the Falcons branded in Canada ? and what about the British Fords like Pop, Anglia and later on the Cortina ?
Any chance the Capri was imported as well ? Any German or Australian built Fords in Canada ?

Comets in Canada were branded Mercury.

[djfordmanjack]

Now here I have a nice bit of trivia for all diehard Ford guys. 

That is obviously Henry Ford II in that pic, but I hear you say, whats that eggshaped thing he is stepping in ??

a 1960 German Compact Ford called the 17m Taunus P3 ( 1.7Litre L4), which originally was designed in Dearborn as the 'Cardinal'. But obviously dropped from the US line because of the introduction of Falcon and Comet.

The saying goes that German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer picked up Henry Ford and they were expected to use Adenauers staff car, a luxury Mercedes Benz.
Somehow. Only somehow, something 'went wrong' with the Mercedes, and Ford Cologne sent 3 brandnew Taunus 17m to pick up and escort Mr Ford and Mr Adenauer to the German Ford works that day. As seen in photo below. That's some oldschool PR work !

[FiveSevenLiter]

Falcons were branded Ford.
British Fords were British Fords, we had Anglia, Cortina and Lotus Cortina.  Have not heard of Pop.
Capri was available through Mercury dealers.  There were a few Taunus' here but I do not think they were bought through a dealer.

[FiveSevenLiter]

This is what I started with.  It was given the name Potato Truck because it was brown and lumpy.
Flathead, three speed on the column, nice little stocker.  I was backing up and the shifter pushed the main wiring harness into the fuse box and the wires in the middle of the pack melted.  So in went the Windsor, C6, disc brakes, new paint, new interior.  It did win a Goodguys Trick Truck award, and is still getting tons of attention, even though it was finished 22 years ago.

[mustang6984]

Yea...strange how little incidents or findings can change the direction of a car/truck rehab. My buddy and I were going to do a quick clean up and drop a motor into my Courier in spring of '16 and then head to MI for the Woodard Dream cruise (he was 73 at the time and that is on his bucket list) We were two days into it when we found the floor was toast front of the storage box and the wiring was worse than I thought...and the motor we were gonna use was in no shape to go anywhere near motor mounts.
Now...I am relocating to MO, he is coming with us..we adopted him cause his kids are...well...yea you know...and so we will be trying to get it done to head up there hopefully in '22. Luckily he is in better health than some 57 year olds I know.

[rmk57]

Holy **** Green, I have been driving it since 1987.
351 Windsor and a C6 automatic.
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  Reminds me of the green on the label from Old Style beer.   

  Was a guy in Deep Cove in the 60's where I grew up that had flat bottom boat that was that color green. Had an Olds engine in it and he called it "Olds Style" painted in the same script. Thought it was pretty funny.


 

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