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Bye, Bye, Mercury
« on: May 28, 2010, 09:42:58 AM »
According to Bloomberg News, the demise of Mercury is imminent, pending only final approval by the board of directors of Ford in July.

Is anyone surprised?

Will anyone shed a tear for Mercury?

http://www.examiner.com/x-21840-New-England-Automotive-Examiner~y2010m5d28-Mercury-demise-imminent?cid=exrss-New-England-Automotive-Examiner

Here is a picture of the last Mercury I coveted:

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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2010, 09:48:05 AM »
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I will.
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2010, 09:51:44 AM »
The great Mercury cars live on, as long as collectors and fans appreciate them. Ray, I have a couple of collector car shows on the calender in the next few months - I'll seek out some Oldsmobile's, Merc's and Edsel's, and get you as many good pics as I can.

The current Mercury cars are no greater nor worse that their Ford twins, but ask a higher purchase price. That's a shaky value proposition in a strong economy. Today, it's doomed
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2010, 09:54:42 AM »
I always liked the 1967/68 Cougar
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2010, 09:55:51 AM »
MG is right, the 57-59 Big M's were nice. And I miss this one especially.
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2010, 10:05:21 AM »
Quote from: Allemano on May 28, 2010, 09:54:42 AM
I always liked the 1967/68 Cougar

Sweet!!!

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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2010, 10:11:26 AM »
....indeed!
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2010, 10:23:22 AM »
Mercury, I don't think it is really that much of a loss compared to say Oldsmobile from my view.
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2010, 04:52:24 PM »
That could be, but I sold my 1949 Oldsmobile too!
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2010, 10:57:18 AM »
Nice cars in their past the current (and recent) offerings have been redundant - not really offering anything that Ford couldn't. It was over due.
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Re: Bye, Bye, Mercury
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2010, 11:58:08 AM »
Harumph. I bet you said the same thing about Kaiser and Frazier!     :P
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