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At the local cruise (parking lot walk around) saw two odd ducks:
First a guy pulls in with a mid 50's 2 door 2 tone Mercury wagon. As he gets out of the car I say "I didn't know Mercury made a 2 door wagon" he says "they didn't, this is a custom job".
The car was pretty and looked factory. Owner says he bought it 2 weeks ago after chasing after it for a couple of years. The prior owner took a 4 door 56 Mercury wagon and converted it to 2 door "Nomad" style including changing the rear post of the front doors to lean forward. Car had a front and rear Mercury fascia, beautiful red & white two-tone paint separated by ‘just right’ chrome trim. It really did look factory and the owner made it clear it was not Ford wagon with a Merc front clip.
Unfortunately no pics
Second - a 1967 'all original' light blue factory 4 speed 396 Caprice with rallye gauges. There was window sticker that listed the dealer location at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Not sure how rare but I met a guy on the '08 Power Tour who was driving a 1966 factory 4 speed big block Caprice and he said they only made 10 BB/4 speed Caprices in '66
At the local cruise (parking lot walk around) saw two odd ducks:
First a guy pulls in with a mid 50's 2 door 2 tone Mercury wagon. As he gets out of the car I say "I didn't know Mercury made a 2 door wagon" he says "they didn't, this is a custom job".
The car was pretty and looked factory. Owner says he bought it 2 weeks ago after chasing after it for a couple of years. The prior owner took a 4 door 56 Mercury wagon and converted it to 2 door "Nomad" style including changing the rear post of the front doors to lean forward. Car had a front and rear Mercury fascia, beautiful red & white two-tone paint separated by ‘just right’ chrome trim. It really did look factory and the owner made it clear it was not Ford wagon with a Merc front clip.
Unfortunately no pics
Second - a 1967 'all original' light blue factory 4 speed 396 Caprice with rallye gauges. There was window sticker that listed the dealer location at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Not sure how rare but I met a guy on the '08 Power Tour who was driving a 1966 factory 4 speed big block Caprice and he said they only made 10 BB/4 speed Caprices in '66
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