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| 1953 Mercury Monterey |
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Price: $15,900 |
Last Updated 5 hours ago
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| Year: |
1953 |
| Make: |
Mercury |
| Model: |
Monterey |
| Trim: |
N\A |
| Engine: |
302 V8 |
| Fuel: |
N\A |
| Color: |
White |
| Miles: |
49825 |
| Stock #: |
5919 |
| Body Style: |
Wagon |
| Condition: |
Used |
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Vehicle Description
1953 Mercury Monterey Hardtop The Mercury Marque, gone since 2011, where it won't be long before the last Mountaineer ends up as a refrigerator and a new generation of auto buyers forgets the brand ever existed. But it had a pretty good run.  Take this V8-powered 1953 Mercury Monterey hardtop.  It's a stunning car -- light, compact, decked with chrome yet still somehow restrained, at least compared to what followed.  The ad asks us to Imagine tingling, jet-smooth, alive-with-action performance and visualize a kind of construction that builds a car as a whole..  Take a 60 minute test drive and you'll see for yourself. Gosh people in those days has sooooo much spare time, what happened? For consignment, a lightly modded and slightly rodded 1953 Mercury Monterey hardtop. This car has a different from factory engine and slight mods have been made to the bodywork, but it retains its original charm. On the rockers we note faux lake pipes, some frenched headlights, a wide arm side spear, and an ultra wide and expansive looking rear continental bumper with a simple inflated tire tube in the middle. This car may have more on the back end than the front, which to many is an attractive feature. ( More junk in the trunk? I'll go for that!) Exterior Yeah yeah there's junk in the trunk, but upfront will not be outdone with the chromed double D sized dagmars leading the way in front of the toothy grille and affixed to the wrap around bumper.  A long hood scoop is chromed on its edge, and on either side are frenched headlights in single circular form. Laser straight and rust free steel is bathed in a nice coating of white paint throughout.  This finish is not without faults, there is ample bubbling on the wrap under lowers as well as chipping in various areas that are starting to turn to surface rust.  There is also plenty of chrome trimming to accent it, including some wide trim side spears, window surrounds, lake pipes, chromed wire wheels, B-pillar wraps to go with the wrap around glass, rear quarter bump out trimmings just before the rear tire and massive rear tail light bezels.  Of course we can't leave out the larger than life continental bumper. Dual exhaust peeks out of the back bottom and the spare on the bumper is sans its covering or tire for that matter, as it is simply an inflated tire tube mounted on a steel wheel. Wide whites wrap the 15-inch chrome wire spoke wheels and some search lighting is on either side. What exactly were people looking for???  Fill me in so I can write about it. Interior Here we go off to the interior races with red uppers in vinyl and a curvaceous chrome delineator along with actuators and cranks and then some slightly soiled cream vinyl lowers and a red vinyl armrest in the middle.  The sills are red painted steel and match the vinyl pretty well. Sills on the passenger doors is chipped and peeling. Inside, 2 large benches welcome passengers with short tuck and roll inserts in vinyl and red vinyl uppers and bolsters. Seat belts have been added and these reside under a red vinyl headliner that is nicely preserved. Red carpeting is on the floors and the car has some flaming graphic floor mats. A large two tone white and black steering wheel with slightly cracked bakelite rim and a full interior chrome horn ring is fronting the original dash. It is an impressive array of futuristic rounded over panels protruding from the dash front which has a central crescent visored speedometer and two side trays with dice topped levers for airflow, temperature controls, and fan speed to drivers right. Below are more knobs and pulls for various controls and the ignition.  In the center of the red painted full metal jacket rounded over dash is a clock and just below an aftermarket AM/FM/Cassette radio. Below this is a trio of aftermarket gauges in a faux wood panel. Dice are being rolled all over in this interior as toppers for the levers, shifter, and e |
Vehicle Options
Variable Speed Windshield Wipers,Instrumentation,Heater/Defroster,Electric Clock,AM/FM RADIO |
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