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2019-03-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

1960 Mercury Monterey: You'd be glad you bought it every time you looked at it

[St. Louis Post Dispatch] What a classy looking rig ‐ "dressed to the nines" as they would have said back in the day! I bet the owner turned plenty of heads as he carefully backed that 16-foot, Lone Star runabout down the launch ramp at the river or lake!

That red hue was named Signal Red, one of 19 hues on the generous Mercury palette for 1960. And what better color to accent a bright red than a snow white. Mercury marketers didn’t give a thought to creatively naming the white for 1960, calling it simply "white" as is often done with car color names.

The Monterey, being the entry-level model in 1960, had a standard overhead valve V-8 of 312 cubic-inch displacement and producing 205 horsepower fed by a Holley 2300, 2-barrel carburetor. Adequate, but if the buyer was so inclined, he or she could have chosen one of two larger V-8 engines.

It would be hard to argue that the 1960 Mercury was not a handsome car with pleasing lines. A page out of the 1960 sales brochure stated, “You’ll be glad you bought a Mercury every time you look at it”, which I’m sure was on this owner’s mind as he aimed his Kodak Brownie Starmite at his rig for this photo.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-17 06:57|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 More car stories:

The MAIL - Rust bucket 1936 Bentley once owned by RAF war hero who bombed Hitler's Eagle's Nest mountain retreat goes on sale for £200,000 after languishing in garage for 30 years

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-17 07:17|| 2019-03-17 07:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Drive that old Mercury down memory lane. Some of those cars were a helluva lotta fun.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-17 14:09|| 2019-03-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 >V-8 of 312 cubic-inch displacement and producing 205 horsepower fed by a Holley 2300, 2-barrel carburetor.

That's not the biggest Power to weight ratio lol.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-17 15:10|| 2019-03-17 15:10|| Front Page Top

#4 As much as we enjoy the memories of how much pleasure we may have had driving these boats if we drove one today our reaction would be "what is POS,"

Posted by Cheaderhead 2019-03-17 17:29|| 2019-03-17 17:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Used to be if you got anywhere near 100,000 miles, your vehicle was clapped out. Now 100K means it's just broken in.

At least back then, cars looked like cars and not melted ice cubes. I blame Ford for buying that super computer way back when.

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-17 20:05|| 2019-03-17 20:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Dunno; tottered around in my old jeep last week. So much quieter...that is, didn't nag me about every little thing.

Thought my visibility was better too

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-17 20:40|| 2019-03-17 20:40|| Front Page Top

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