Mercury, Lead Sled, Antique and Classic Cars For Sale

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Photo Title Make Model Year State Price Placed 1940 mercury coupe mercury coupe 1940 TX $ 15,000.00 US dollars 11/13 1963 MERCURY METEOR S33 MERCURY METEOR S33 1963 NS $ 18,900.00 11/13 56 Mercury Continental Mercury Continental 56 SNC $ 45,000.00 or Offer 11/10 1966 Mercury Comet Mercury Comet 1966 AZ $ 9,000.00 or Offer 10/29 1969 Mercury X-100 Mercury X-100 1969 IL $ 15,900.00 or Offer 10/17

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Henry Ford adopted the Mercury brand in 1939 to comptete with the General Motors Buick but most models were based on other Ford models. Mercury was an independent division until it was combined with Lincoln in 1945 and it adopted the Lincoln platform in 1949, the year Mercury's also became know as "Lead Sleds". Mercury's heyday was in the 1950's but it was considered a spin off of Fords, and then Lincolns, until the early 1970s when the Cougar and Marquis were introduced. But by the 1980s the Mercury had lost its uniqueness to Ford once again and the image began to suffer.

The first Mercury logo was a head profile of the Roman god Mercury. From the 1960s to the 1980s the Cougar became the logo amd a series of cat-named models followed. Some of the upper end models adopted the Lincoln diamond.