1953 Mercury Monterey
| May 8, 2008
This was a California car from July 1953, when it came off the line at the Los Angeles Lincoln-Mercury plant, until I brought it East in 1996 with 60,000 original miles on the odometer. It has been repainted in its original Village Green but is otherwise an original car, including its interior. It has a 255cid flathead (last year the flathead was used on American FoMoCo cars), Merc-O-Matic, and first-year power steering and brakes. It now has 65,000 miles on it.