Big Breezy: 1963 Mercury Monterey Custom

Today’s first feature is a Mercury Monterey Custom that is peak early-’60s full-size Detroit: long, low, slab-sided, chrome-trimmed, and roughly the same length as a municipal pier. The big party trick is the Breezeway rear window, which rolls down vertically into the body. It is one of those wonderfully strange Ford/Mercury ideas that sounds unnecessary until you realize it gives you flow-through ventilation, exhaust-smell roulette, and instant car-show conversation. Find this 1963 Mercury Monterey offered for $7500 in Afton, MN via facemercet bookbook. Tip from MB.

From the seller:

1963 Mercury monterey Custom
$7,500
Listed a week ago in Afton, MN
About this vehicle
Driven 103,000 miles
Automatic transmission
Exterior color: White · Interior color: Gold
Fuel type: Gasoline
This vehicle is paid off
Seller’s description
Freshly rebuilt 3sp automatic transmission, 390 FE, Working Breezeway rear roll down window, Genuine NOS fender emblems still in the box that go with, recently installed foxcraft fender skirts that were Nos when got them still in the original box with protective film still on them. Updated to H4 headlight housings with new stainless stone guards high beams have yellow lenses, and are LED there is another set of clear h4 housings. OBO/trades.

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