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1953 Mercury Monterey, All Original Car, Excellent No Reserve on 2040-cars

Year:1953 Mileage:53100
Location:

Riverside, California, United States

Riverside, California, United States

1953 Mercury Monterey, same owner since 1960. 255 flat head factory V-8  with Merc-O Matic transmission. 53,000 original miles on a 100% RUST FREE California black plate car. Car is all original with the exception of the front and rear seat and headliner being redone many years ago and wheel covers. Chrome, stainless are the original and are in excellent condition, paint is the original and has great patina. body is exceptionally straight.  Dash is perfect. The is the anniversary edition car. Everything works, runs and drives fast and smooth. Car always garaged and well taken care of. Again, this car does not have a ANY rust anywhere. Great old original car. California title with up to date registration. I have the 2014 tag for the rear license plate. No reserve, sold to high bidder. Please call with questions or offers on the car. 951-776-9603   photo DSCN6219_zps9504ca94.jpg  photo DSCN6220_zpsbf959038.jpg  photo DSCN6222_zps0069c9fe.jpg  photo DSCN6223_zps49ba19f5.jpg  photo DSCN6218_zps11672003.jpg  photo DSCN6217_zps750c79a7.jpg  photo DSCN6216_zpsf961c688.jpg  photo DSCN6215_zps9aa7ec72.jpg  photo DSCN6214_zps02369db2.jpg  photo DSCN6213_zpsc77c0242.jpg  photo DSCN6212_zps4883ef5f.jpg  photo DSCN6211_zps49544aab.jpg  photo DSCN6210_zpse119b944.jpg  photo DSCN6151_zps47758161.jpg  photo DSCN6149_zps82d7b53d.jpg  photo DSCN6143_zps50d18dea.jpg  photo DSCN6137_zpsfed2b7a6.jpg  photo DSCN6130_zps6a2ff3e0.jpg  photo DSCN6234_zps3870c6d8.jpg  photo DSCN6233_zps041cbd64.jpg  photo DSCN6231_zps9a51d597.jpg  photo DSCN6230_zps15e350de.jpg  photo DSCN6229_zpsac590417.jpg  photo DSCN6228_zpsbf00e576.jpg  photo DSCN6227_zps36a46225.jpg  photo DSCN6226_zpsc317b70b.jpg  photo DSCN6225_zpsf27fe7b0.jpg  photo DSCN6224_zps5d4b56ef.jpg  photo DSCN6148_zps63c13cb6.jpg  photo DSCN6147_zps2bc3c2eb.jpg  photo DSCN6146_zps4df3316e.jpg  photo DSCN6145_zps1f727552.jpg  photo DSCN6129_zpse8839f10.jpg  photo DSCN6125_zpsbaa2cafc.jpg  photo DSCN6122_zps19ce871e.jpg  photo DSCN6120_zpsbbd04526.jpg  photo DSCN6119_zps3d1fc97b.jpg  photo DSCN6118_zpsd7295cb4.jpg  photo DSCN6113_zps95ffa6bc.jpg  photo DSCN6111_zpse96c11af.jpg  photo DSCN6154_zpse4689db3.jpg

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Junkyard Gem: 1993 Mercury Topaz GS Sedan

Sat, Aug 13 2022

As long as the Mercury brand existed — a period spanning the 1939 through 2011 model years — nearly every Mercury sold in the United States was more or less a redecorated Ford model. The Torino had its Montego sibling, the Crown Victoria had the Grand Marquis, the Cougar was based on everything from the Mustang to the Mondeo, and so on. Naturally, when the folks in Dearborn developed the Ford Tempo compact, a Mercury version had to be created. This was the Topaz, with the official launch of both cars taking place on the deck of the aircraft carrier often referred to as the USS Decrepit. You can't make this stuff up! The Tempo/Topaz, also known as the Tempaz, has largely faded from our collective automotive memory by now, since it broke no significant new engineering or styling ground (this story would be much different if Ford had only put the amazing straight-eight "T-Drive" Tempaz powertrain into production) and didn't have any endearing features other than being a cheap domestic competitor to the Toyota Corolla and Nissan Sentra. Still, close to 3 million Tempazes left North American Ford and Lincoln-Mercury showrooms during the 1984-1994 period. As you'd expect, most of these disposable cars disappeared from both the street and the car graveyard long ago. It takes a very special Tempaz for me to break out my camera while I'm patrolling my local wrecking yards; generally, this means an ultra-rare all-wheel-drive version or at least a very early model in super-clean condition. Today's Junkyard Gem is neither, but I took one look at this spectacular Bordello Red crypto-velour-and-slippery-plastic interior and recognized that this was no ordinary junkyard Mercury. It appears that Mercury had dropped the idea of clever names for base-grade seat fabrics by the time of the Topaz, referring to this stuff as just "cloth" in all the brochures I could find. That's too bad, because Mercurys had cool names for upholstery (e.g., Chromatex) in the old days. The interior is in very good condition but the steering wheel shows substantial wear, so I think this is a high-mile Topaz that got meticulous care from its owner or owners. Ford used five-digit odometers on these cars until the end of production, however, so we'll never know if this reading indicates 65,404 miles or 365,404 miles. The body is very straight, but there's some nasty corrosion behind the right front wheelwell.

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It's taken four years of study, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has finally closed the books on its investigation into rollaway accusations surrounding 1.56-million Ford SUV models.
The probe, which centered on the 2002-2005 Ford Explorer, 2002-2005 Mercury Mountaineer and 2003-2005 Lincoln Aviator, ends without the federal agency calling for a recall. According to The Detroit News, the investigation was closed due to a "low number of complaints" - NHTSA documented 180 such complaints that resulted in 14 crashes and six minor injuries, but the number of incidents have been slowing. The suspected defect rate for the trucks' automatic transmissions was found to be 4.4 per 100,000 units, and the brake-shift interlock mechanism failure rate was judged to be even lower at 3.4 per 100k.

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The rust issue in the rear wheel wells of 2004-2007 Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans has finally led to a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into the matter in 2011, said investigation being upgraded to an engineering analysis a year later while NHTSA tried to figure out how many model years should be included in the assessment.
Ford has decided to recall all of the 230,000 minivans potentially affected, namely those sold in salt-belt states and countries like Canada. The excess rust in the rear wheel wells was also able to prevent the third-row seats from locking to the floor of the minivan. To repair the problem, owners can take their minivans to dealers, and the dealers will place new panels in the wheel wells, replace the third-row seat mounting brackets and relocate the latches to an area away from any corrosion.
Ford says it will begin notifying owners during the last week of March.