I can't find any photos of Mercury Rancheros. I don't ever remember seeing one but I may be wrong. But I did find this.
That was me, not a navigator. I was thinking a 48-52 L-1 or a 66 L-100. I have full detailed visions in my head movies. Shinys buddy and I talked about this at the swap meet. Here is my heap.
Friendly banter,..good to see. Those Canadian half 'n' half cars were exported to British commonwealth countries too. New Zealand, South Africa, Australia etc. There are a lot of RHD flathead 6 powered late 50's mopars in NZ, and other strange 'phantom' American cars. I have a RHD 1957 Mopar in my driveway (partscar) which is RHD, Desoto front clip, Plymouth from the windscreen back, and powered by a poly 313 Cu In V8 I believe the 313 came about because commonwealth countries had a tax on cubic capacity and the 318 just tipped you into the higher tax zone. It's still a 318 but with factory mods to shave off the 5 Cu In.
Ford of Canada unloaded all their leftover Edsel gauge clusters on the RHD exports. The Meteor trim was used on the Oz "Star" models too.
Speaking of Ski doo, here's a 61! Yes, part of the laws in Canada required the use of "unique" vehicles, canadian only so to speak. Thus the Meteor, Mercury Truck, Parisienne, Canso, etc...............
The Mercury M-100s that I owned all came with 223 in-line sixes or Y-block V-8s, just like the Fords. The Bigger trucks had the 332 V8 which is from the Lincoln Y-block family. There's no Mercury engine heritage in Mercury trucks that I know of. I put a 351C from a 71 Cyclone GT in my 56 Merc, does that count?
Here's a Canadian joke for ya.... But you need a Canadian Nickel to tell it. Here goes.... How do you make the Queen smile? Turn her over and scratch her Beaver!!
I have a granary full of 255 Mercs out of grain trucks. Ford of Canada sold them to anybody who wanted a new flattie, and most rebuilders preferred the 255. A waitress in North Dakota once asked me what the difference between a Canadian and a canoe was. "A canoe sometimes tips!" I informed her that up in the frozen North, we pay our employees so they don't have to beg! All those transplanted Canucks down there are actually a good thing, they are raising the average IQ of both countries!
I cetainley hope I,m not the only Canadian that believes in tipping well for good service! Something my father taught me....
Yup. I always tip well (when deserved) too. As for the guy who said Canucks pay well so we don't have to beg for tips... I deliver pizzas at night to get spare cash for my hotrod projects. I get paged when there's a delivery so I have to stop what I'm doing, get in my car, drive over to the pizza joint and do the delivery. For this I get $3.00 per delivery. It's a small town and some nights I'm lucky to get one call. Paid well...I think not. Some people tip and some people tip well (which I am very greatful for), then there's the people who apparently figure I'm loaded with cash so they never tip. It's frustrating.
I am a proud Canadian. I am proud of our relationship with the US. I really like what I am reading here.
Meteors were only sold in Canada... Now, Im not sure about overseas.. your other questions a good one, but I wouldnt know.. Onebad.. thats the productive answer..
The topic of Mopars came up earlier...Fargo trucks in Canada were sold new at Chrysler-Plymouth dealers. The Dodge dealers there, sold the Dodge trucks. Fargo and DeSoto trucks were the Chrysler export truck throughout most of the world. All of South America, the Middle East, and most of Western Europe would've seen a Fargo or DeSoto-badged Mopar truck versus a Dodge-badged truck. You will still see the DeSoto and Fargo brands in Turkey, Syria, and Crete. A Turkish company uses the names under license, but their trucks have absolutely nothing in common with the North American Dodge trucks. Their pickups and Carryalls look much like a cross between a Jeep Wagoneer from the mid-'60s, and a Tonka truck of the same time period. The larger HD OTR tractors and trucks look even more like Tonkas!
Q. Why do Canadians do it doggie style on Saturday nights? A. So they can both watch Hockey Night In Canada .
No mystery! It was a Canadian invention! Robertson Screw In 1908, square-drive screws were invented by Canadian P. L. Robertson. Twenty-eight years before Henry Phillips patented his Phillips head screws, which are also square-drive screws.The Robertson screw is considered the "first recess-drive type fastener practical for production usage." The design became a North American standard, as published in the sixth edition of Industrial Fasteners Institute Metric and Inch Standards. A square-drive head on a screw can be better than a slot head because the screwdriver will not slip out of the screw's head during installation. The Model T car made by the Ford Motor Company (one of Robertson's first customers) used over seven hundred Robertson screws.
so thats why all the model A's I've worked on had robertson screws,I didn't know about the T's(never worked on a steel one)
Early this week I came across this shabby, well worn, Merc truck while on a bit of a road trip along in my opinion what must be one the most beautiful stretches of desert highway in Canada (Hedley to Osoyoos). It was all there, hood was in the bed, complete flathead, even one of the rare "Mercury" hubcaps was still on the truck. I wish I'd felt comfortable enough to poke around a little more and get a photo of that great "Mercury" horn button on the 40 Ford type steering wheel. Did these trucks come with the larger journal mercury crank?
The pickup would be a '46/'47. Didn't all Fords / Mercs use the 239? It was the 239 that first had the larger crank journals. I like the example of the rear bumper and brackets, you don't see too many of the pickups with the bumper.
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