The general rule when selling your used car or classic is to start your asking price high and then lower it if you don’t sell. This way you maximize your selling price — start high and then wait for the right buyer or drop and sell. Seems logical. Or you could list the car for […]
For those who aren’t 70’s crap-can savants, the Mercury Bobcat (yes, this is a Bobcat, not a Cougar) was a rebadged version of the Ford Pinto and sold from 1975 to 1980. The Pinto/Bobcat was designed as a domestic competitor to cheap imports (Corolla, B210, Beetle), and was known to fall apart faster than an […]
This next car comes as a tip from ME who did a random search for Manual Mercury vehicles and expected to find nothing (or at least nothing “good”) but instead found this sweet piece of Cougar bait. I am even starting to like that strange rear window shape that was so easy to ridicule back […]
I’m somewhat surprised that a Mercury Lynx (rebadged Ford Escort) would have survived the years of enthalpy, entropy, teenagers, grandparents, and cash-for-clunkers in any shape…much less the pristine condition of the one we see today. Wow. Staggering, for such a miserable penalty box of an automobile. I’m not saying that the Lynx (in DIESEL!) would […]
The amount of money people are willing to pay for cars that aren’t that rare these days is absolutely bonkers. Nuts. I’m not going to post links to the auction results because I don’t want you guys to end up losing your lunch, so it is nice to find an interesting car offered at a […]
Inside Ford HQ 1998: Hey, I’ve got this great idea. We are going to build the ultimate car for the cat ladies. What, not another car designed for 25-35 year old men who think they are magazine editors? Naw. Listen, we are going to build a coupe in Michigan but base it on the the […]
The first generation Mercury Cougar was a bit more than just an up-market Mustang coupe. It offered a few unique accouterments that were not available on the Mustang, such as pop-up hidden headlights, AND it was only available with proper American V8 power. Today’s Cougar is project — it has a decent amount of rust […]
Marauders are commonly mistaken for a pimped-out Crown Vic, but it was really a factory modified version of the Mercury Grand Marquis, which was badge engineered version of Ford’s Crown Victoria. The Marauder was a Grand Marquis with blacked out the chrome, 5-spoke 18-inch wheels and a 4.6 liter Ford Modular V8…but today’s Marauder has […]
This next car comes as a tip from Tony who writes: Nice Mercury Monterey with an early Y block V8. Looks straight, original, and very reasonable… Yes indeed this does look like a great way to get into a classic mid-50s piece of American iron. Find this 1954 Mercury Monterey Sedan offered for $12,000 in […]
The Monterey is a long dead name from Ford that was used for their full-sized offering from the Mercury brand from 1952 through 1974. In case you live in a cave, the Mercury brand is also dead. But the 2-door Monterey was a badass looking machine in 1963, complete with an insane rearward (or forward…uhhh) […]