Last update:
03/20/2007
1964
Mercury Monterey
Restoration
Name for the newly acquired Mercury Monterey...?
"Second Wind"
Do you have parts???
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Well this is how it started the second time... were sitting around having a few drinks with friends and as usual the conversation eventually worked its way around to cars. I got bragging about the best car I ever owned was my 1964 Mercury Monterey. Rode like a Lincoln Continental. A real Saturday night cruiser for sure and the "Breezeway" window was just to cool. I looked on Ebay the following morning and found this auction for a 1964 Mercury Monterey Anniversary Edition and only 200 miles from my house.
Description on the auction read like this...
This is a special Mercury. It's a 1964 Monterey 2-door, rare enough, but it is also a 25th Anniversary special edition car, as recorded on the horn push (note the "XXV", which indicates that this car was built so long ago they still used Roman numerals). I am selling it for a friend who runs the local scrap yard. He acquired the car from a farmer who had stored it in a barn for many years, so neither of us knows much about the car. It appears to be complete. The sheet metal is rusty but I think the car is restorable. I do not know if the engine turns over, but I expect it would need to be rebuilt anyway. The interior is not too bad and the glass and chrome appear intact. We have not been able to open the trunk, so who knows what treasures lurk in there? Maybe a possum, maybe a set of NOS high-compression heads and a dual quad manifold with carbs. My vote is for the possum and a bald spare tire. Buy it and find out! I will try to answer questions about the car, but we don't know much about Mercurys. Now, ask me about old MGs or Jaguars and I will talk your ear off. Thanks for looking, and please look at the Edsel auction and British car parts and stuff I am selling on ebay as well. This car will come with Massachusetts salvage paperwork, which should permit you to register and title it legally. We will help load it onto your trailer, or can help make transportation arrangements.
Well a week of nail biting and raising the bid I hit the reserve set on the car and won the auction. $560.00 dollars later I owned another 1964 Mercury Monterey and this time a two door. I took off the following weekend to purchase this piece of history and see just what I had purchased. Great day for a ride in my ragtop. Stopped off to pick up my nephew and off to Clark's Salvage yard in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Way out in the woods I mean this was moose and bear country. Mrs. Clark said that the guy that sold me the car wasn't around to take care of the sale. So she made a few calls and came out to tell me she would sell me the Mercury.
As we were filling out the paper work I mentioned that I would like to take some pictures while I was there...she said she had no idea where the car was parked and couldn't help me out. Talk about depression... Went on down the road with my "bill of
sale" and really bumming out that I didn't have any photos. Now I had to get it 200 miles down the road to my place. As usual I found what I was looking for on the Internet. Ernie's Towing in Northampton, Ma picked up the Mercury and delivered it right to my garage door.
