Tag: 60s
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Have you ever seen a Mercury Marauder X100?
Marauder has meant different things over time at Mercury, but it has always been associated with performance, whether a whole car or an engine name. For 1969 and 1970, it stood alone as its own model and meant full-size personal luxury with the X100 version sitting on top and offering the biggest engines available. The…
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Another fly in/Drive home car?
We love the 411 series Datsun Bluebird, what with its groovy Pininfarina styling and bichin, curved dash. This ’66 is likely a 1.3-liter car. We’d prefer a 1967 with the 1.6L, but none of these is going to be fast. They’re fun in a slow way. These come up fairly often in poor condition, but…
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Fly in drive home? Datsun U320 extended cab
In our recent feature on a ‘normal’ 60s Datsun 320 Truck, we mentioned there was a version called the U320. That was the more car-like, extended cab version. While the regular cab reminds one of an early 60s Falcon Ranchero, we’re not sure there’s ever been another ‘truck’ like this one. They basically stuck…
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Clean, early Datsun truck
Trucks effectively made Datsun in the US and few realize their history goes back to the 1930s. This is an early 60s 320 model and is the one that caught on from a volume perspective. Apparently, the can on this one was extended after the fact, but this modification appears to be so well done…
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Cool Little Bugger
As the seller states,”well if you are in favor of the odd here it is.” From what we can tell, a few companies made camper conversions for VW Bugs back in the day. We don’t know much about them, but anything called the Little Bugger is just cool. This doesn’t seem like something you’d want…
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Make your own two-fer: Peugeot 404 and parts car
Every now and then, two unlikely cars pop up on the market at the same time and, sometimes, it makes sense to think of them as joined at the hip. In this case, we have two Peugeot 404s, one a rough runner and one a rusty parts car (if any worthwhile parts are left…). Why…
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French Truck with Needs
Do we really need to add anything to that? Okay, we will. This would be right at home moving cheese around Alsace, but it has apparently been lived in somewhere in Northern California and may or may not have been an early version of a food truck. In any case, we’ll bet this has something…
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A Mercury truck, but not what you think
Here we have the pickup version of the Scooby-Doo era Ford Econoline van, but this one has a twist. This is the Mercury version, sold only in Canada. Mercury trucks come up from time to time, but the US ones were older than this. We like this generation of Ford truck, and the Mercury badging…
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Tons of fun: 1966 Mercury S-55
We’re big fans of the Ford Galaxie 7-Litre and we’re big fans of unusual and orphaned brands; so this Mercury S-55 is a slam dunk. This is the Merc (everyone knows Merc means Mercury, not Mercedes) version of the Galaxie 7-Liter, which means a full-sized car with a Super-Marauder 428, console-mounted shifter and some cool…
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Strange on these shores: 1969 Ford T-5
Though there must not have been much volume, the early Ford Mustang was sold in some parts of Europe. Due to a copyright dispute, the Mustang was called the T-5 when sold in Germany. These pop up from time to time, usually representing the mid 1960s. This 1969 model is particularly unusual and appears to…