With the truck gone I actually got to do a lil well needed maintenance pn my Nova... new front shocks, oil/filter change, lil tightening here & a lil there... etc!
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MercuryMac
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A while back I mentioned that I had mounted some cast off white-walls on steelies. Well I took them out to the machine shed and bolted them onto the Model A. Today was the first day it was sunny in a while so I took a picture for you. It's -22*C which is about -6 or -7* F right now.
Ol Blue, Your truck is painted the same as mine only different!!!
bob w
Still crazy after all these years!
Mac, looks like you've got a lot of raw material to work on over the long winter.
earthman
Fascinated by rolling objects!
earthman
Fascinated by rolling objects!
Love WWs MercMac. 
earthman
Fascinated by rolling objects!
Finally got the Mcyl out from under the floor of the '42 and on to the firewall
where it belongs.
where it belongs.
MercuryMac
Builder Junky!
05snopro440
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If you got rid of that green junk in the corner you'd have more room for cars
Seriously though, you look like you have some awesome tractors and some awesome car projects!
Dr Crankenstein
Rocket Surgeon
What's the coupe in this shot, Mac?
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Yankee Transplant
He started out with nothing, he still has most of
looks like a chevy ha Doc ? I love coupes
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MercuryMac
Builder Junky!
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong Yankee, that's a long door '48 Monarch coupe, [Canadian Mercury], to go with the '47 Mercury sedan next to it. I was hoping to make a chopped short door coupe '47 Mercury out of them.
Snopro, that's a John Deere 730 and was my main farming tractor for ten years in the late seventies and early eighties.
Hidden to the north of that '47 Merc are two rough shoebox Ford coupes one, on either side of that banana yellow '57 Fairlane.
Snopro, that's a John Deere 730 and was my main farming tractor for ten years in the late seventies and early eighties.
Hidden to the north of that '47 Merc are two rough shoebox Ford coupes one, on either side of that banana yellow '57 Fairlane.
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smallfoot
He's rockin' the "Nuttin Special"!
MercuryMac
Builder Junky!
AH, the use of another language!
Thank you Smallfoot.
Thank you Smallfoot.
Dr Crankenstein
Rocket Surgeon
Common sense isn't common. (Sorry, Mac. I couldn't resist!)
Thanks for the ID, Mac.
If I may expand on the subject... Mac knows the difference, I'm sure, just a pet peeve I'm going to air here...
A Monarch is a Monarch, a Mercury is a Mercury, a Meteor is a Meteor and a Ford is a Ford. No such thing as a Ford Meteor or a Mercury Monarch, they're different "brands".
Ford of Canada created Meteor and Monarch to meet a price point and provide parity among its dealers.
- Meteor was a Ford based car with some Mercury flair and similar trim... an upscale middle-priced brand available to Ford dealers.
- Monarch was a Mercury based car with some Ford cues and similar trim... a lower priced brand available to Mercury dealers.
Many years later, the Meteor and Monarch names were revived as Mercury and Ford models. Those cars were Ford Monarchs and Mercury Meteors... strange, but true.
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MercuryMac
Builder Junky!
I can't argue with you Doc, on all of that information.
The Mercury and the Monarch in the late forties have four inches longer front fenders, which look cool, but throw the proportions off even further on those post-war cars. These coupes had too small of a bum, even in the Ford, and the Mercury blew the poor proportioning to dizzying heights. I think this is why the late forties Fords haven't caught on like some era cars have in the hotroding community.
The Mercury and the Monarch in the late forties have four inches longer front fenders, which look cool, but throw the proportions off even further on those post-war cars. These coupes had too small of a bum, even in the Ford, and the Mercury blew the poor proportioning to dizzying heights. I think this is why the late forties Fords haven't caught on like some era cars have in the hotroding community.
hansgoudzwaard
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I used to subscribe...
To C.C.
I remember reading this back then.
I don't make a study of this, but I thought it was well presented.
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/auto...-day-classics-canadian-ford-branding-history/
To C.C.
I remember reading this back then.
I don't make a study of this, but I thought it was well presented.
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/auto...-day-classics-canadian-ford-branding-history/
Dr Crankenstein
Rocket Surgeon
Thanks for the link, hans. (I had it bass-ackwards. Meteor at Mercury dealers, Monarch at Ford dealers. )
Have you seen a Frontenac lately?
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) Have you seen a Frontenac lately?
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hansgoudzwaard
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Not lately.
If I find one of these tho', I'm keeping it.
A bike tail light?
Or turban ornament?
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earthman
Fascinated by rolling objects!
This is what i didn't get done. I did not hear about it until it was over. Rat Rod Addiction cruise to Tortilla Flats.
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Got my 50 Pilot inside and pulled the seized flathead. A build tread perhaps.
That show looked like fun Earthman. My first photo. Got it figured out.
Got my 50 Pilot inside and pulled the seized flathead. A build tread perhaps.
That show looked like fun Earthman. My first photo. Got it figured out.
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