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  1. Interesting article from a Pontiac magazine... Pic from the Hemmings article ... https://www.hemmings.com/stories/car-culture/this-1956-meteor-rideau-flashed-brightly-to-help-ford-grow-across-canada/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=EDaily&utm_campaign=2024-08-01&uemlid=edd443be080701c85bc07bed2a28853c3574282a17a86c999688a395e6f61ce8 And there was a Collectible Automobile issue a few years ago that had a '56 Meteor on the cover, accompanied by an article on the Meteors written by Perry Zavitz.
  2. A little backstory from a Model Roundup bulletin... "First we have the arrival of the unique and authentic 1968 Mercury M-100 Pickup. Larry Thompson, owner of Moebius Models, sent us this history and asked us to share it with you. Apparently, Erik Solie from Larry's staff brought the idea of doing a Canadian Truck to Larry showing him a picture and explaining, "these were done for the Canadian Market". With large swaths of Canada's rural outback without a Ford Dealer in the area. Ford Motor Company, needing to sell their popular F series pickups in Canada decided to release a special version of the F-100 pickup under the Mercury moniker as M-100's. The truck was a big success in Canada and vintage models are very collectable today. Larry further reflected, "Having many customers in Canada that build our kits, why not dedicate a model to them! Along with not needing much incremental investment to produce the kit, why not indeed! As a huge fan of Canadian Sports and his loyal Canadian customers, Larry got excited and greenlighted the project. The box art is dedicated to Terry Ryan one of the original box art guys for Pegasus Hobbies. (Pegasus is another popular Thompson business) Larry remembers fondly as he and Terry traveled frequently to Detroit to see the Red Wings play. Both are avid Hockey fans and therefore the background of this kit looks like a Hockey arena in honor of Terry. There is also a logo on the truck for Terry's company. On the marquee is a tribute to Terry Ryan, “Thanks for the memories!". The box art for this kit was done by Scott Willis, a contemporary and friend of Terry’s. Larry concludes, "As you can tell this project has a lot of history for us, hope you enjoy" Ah, the sweet memories. Terry, this one is for you! Canada this one is for you! What a great idea for a kit!" Funny how info can get all twisted out of whack on the 'net. After the war, Ford had some catching up to do after the elder Henry finally 'retired'. Ford and Lincoln-Mercury were split into separate dealer streams, much like GM and Chrysler had already done; Chev/Olds dealers selling the Chevy trucks and Pontiac/Buick dealers selling the GMC trucks. Dodge dealers sold their namesake trucks and the Chrysler/Plymouth dealers sold the Fargo/Plymouth trucks. The Mercury truck was marketed by the L/M dealer network. It's possible in smaller towns with just one or the other type of Ford agency they sold either type of truck. One Merc I owned had been originally ordered by a Ford dealer. Another interesting tidbit is that '66-'68 Mercs were built at both the Oakville and San Jose plants. The US built trucks were meant to bolster supply for western Canada, as the Oakville plant ramped up overall production due to the removal of tariffs hindering production for the US market. Thanks Moebius, for finally doing one.
  3. Answer's in the last part of my statement; not dissing the build itself. Just my 2 cents, ymmv. The FE was available as an option in all years and payloads from '65 up; the 240 six was standard. Mid-year '69 was when the 302 was added to the list.
  4. Nice pic! You can hear that blower whine and feel the rumble from the pipes Looks like a break to let it cool down...
  5. Wow! Great finish and stance
  6. Wow. That's hard to look at... perhaps those blue hubcaps were more fitting for this toylike rendition than we suspected...
  7. Crossed paths with it about thirty years ago at a friend's shop in London where it was receiving a fresh coat of pearl white.
  8. Very well done! Great thinking on the hood letters.
  9. Be nice to see an exclusive Mercury truck photoetch fret, with representatives of each generation This '68' will be another great one in their bump series for the mass market facebook assembler crowd but the adult market... is still looking.
  10. Does anyone make that color anymore ?
  11. Sure, through places like Dearborn Steel Tubing, like they did with the F100XL drag truck 427. There were no correct engine mounts in the catalogs before the F-series FE came on-line in the summer of '64.
  12. True, there must have been test mules for the FE in the earlier sixties trucks, but it didn't replace the Y block officially til '65. Alternators, twin I beams and the 240/300 six made their first appearance that year too.
  13. You'll never guess what happened here.... Friend with an old farmhouse found this on the floor one day; knocked off the bookcase at the bottom of the stairs. Looked a little further and sure enough, evidence of something making laps around the kitchen. They're such calm, collected little critters. Imagine one on a toluene high... Investigating further, he found they'd chewed through the drywall in the attic into a closet and commenced touring the house. He picked up a rat zapper to place at the bottom of the stairs and six visitors later, peace was restored
  14. Box might work on other years as well...
  15. Danged if you do, danged if you don't
  16. There's a few sites that show details/info on where it was filmed; a lot of it around Calgary. https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,65423
  17. New unbuilt one currently on offer in the trade section
  18. A couple of great reference books written by noted historian Perry Zavitz help fill in the gaps...
  19. Ringside seat for some aerial combat... a golden hawk running off a couple of scruffy crows Too bad I didn't have a camera handy. A couple of years ago, a hawk nailed a magpie out of the sun and rode it screaming into the ground.
  20. Best (and last) one he had was in a walkout lower floor.
  21. A drive down the old highway, complete with cambered curves still intact ... and a couple of afternoons massaging an old long-shedded 44 finally resulted in a very smooth running tractor Had to resort to swapping carbs with a stuck parts tractor; a blessing that it was actually clean and had new floats. Worked on it with an 85 yr old guy, one of those veterans that's worth his weight in gold; has the energy of a forty yr old.
  22. Layout of dad's would often grow to fill available space; often a large percentage of basement.
  23. Until now, most of the aftermarket cabs were based on the moeb trucks. Some good engineering in those kits but they somehow seriously muffed the proportional translation from 1:1 to scale. These prints look beautifully done, capturing most of the subtleties moeb missed. Right down to the correct heater controls on the dash that were '67 only. Just need to convert the '68 inner door handles to the lever '67 type.
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