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Look at the wheels and tyres I never fail to laugh at the pizza cutters lol.

The most beautiful car ever built!

I am currently restoring a 1963 beetle! I've been debating on what engine. I think I'm leaning to 1600 but I wanna make a 1641!

Ford opened a purpose-built plant in Wayne, Michigan, to produce station wagons. This arrangement lasted from 1957 to around 1964. The very same plant went on to build F-150s and Broncos for decades and is still in use, building more Broncos and Rangers.

Toodalooooooo!!!!!!!

Dad had a 68 Beattie that was his daily. Remember holidays(Christmas) ware we had all five kids and mom and dad doing the fifty mile one way trip to Minneapolis which one way not just us but presents going to and returning from. To of us would fight to sit in the boot behind the rear seat

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Neat. You forgot the glove box tests. I like all those but the Ambassador.

You missed a hole lot of cubic inch models

Master patterns for the block were make at Midwest Pattern, Mpls in '52, I worked on those some as an apprentice. Lots of coreboxes. I have an all original '54 Crestline fordor, I fitted rods & mains to .001, I run 5-20 full synthetic, car has been all over the US and Canada, lots of miles at at 80 mph. Carb' & distributor have to match, you cannot 'upgrade' without changing dist', as original is by far the best idea or it's problems. The 239 stands alone in a lot of respects,. I do have dual exhaust. It's a great road car, smooth, quiet, great radio also.

The early 50's Silver Hawk and the Golden Hawk would be better comparison. The 64-66 Thunderbirds All the way. 390-427 SOHC was only available to special people or organizations. The Public did have access to the 428 in the '66 version

I thought it was a 235.5 ?

My high school car was a 1967 Pontiac GTO Coupe, muncie 4 spd, Hurst T handle shifter, possie traction 400 H O GOAT ! FROM 1970 - 1975 street racing I was only beat once by a 1968 yellow Camaro with a huge blower out the hood. Norman got me by a car length. My dream car . . . It's where all my Boy Boy money went! Thank You Safeway ! ! !

I had a 70 vega with the 215 Oldsmobile. What a sleeper. It still looked stock. I out ran a road runner on the highway. Before I turned off he got next to me and said what do you have in that. Also ran a 240z on the highway there where cones that we were cutting though. I smoked his ass too. I new him a rich kid LoL. It really pissed him off. I don't know for sure but I would say 135 top speed. Tall gears.

Beautiful ❤️ mines in White 🤍

I like the 1959 Pontiac wagon. It is mind boggling to see how elaborate the designs were back then. I wanted to do the toodle doo. LOL

In 1969 Chrysler blew everyone away with their new fuselage design for their cars. The Imperial was way more modern looking than any of it's competitors. However, Lincoln knocked it out of the park with this one. There is still one of these as a daily driver in south KC. As an Imperial owner I admire this car. The tire bulge on the trunk is supposed to mimic the spare tire in the back. FYI. It's also interesting that they chose to use standard outside door openers as opposed to the flush mounted design of the '64 and later Imperials.

I actually like the styling of that car Jay, nice car.

I have a 64 Riviera, just about every power option and accessory available.. glass bottle is not original washer fluid res, it's "opti-kleen" bug and tar remover additive, plastic resivor near firewall is original, 18% of 64 to 66 Riviera had the trumpet horns,.. 64 headlights do not fold up, fixed.. the 64 shown has the rare radio selector button on the floor next to the high beam switch!, duel quads is a dealer option even in 64, you got an extra carter afb, aluminum rocker covers, and chrome "ac"oil filler. .. one super rare option is a "buick" tachometer which mine has and guide o matic...

My favorite HT wagon of the 50’s is probably the ‘57 Caballero.

Have never seen one of these before, is pretty amazing. Has great styling all around. Thank you so much for sharing

Until seeing the 58 and 59 models side by side, I did not realize just how different these two cars are. Before this I thought the 58 and 59 were the same car with just different grills and bumpers. Boy, was I wrong!

Also I like the way you point out the details of stuff good job my friend ☺️🏄😎🙉🙈🙊😄😎💥

I'm going to use some of those Mercury parts to customize my 59 ranchero"🙉🙈🙊 I see a lot of potential

8:04 If you look very closely, I think the hood ornament logo is supposed to me an "M" ( for Mercury, I'd assume ). It's subtle, but there are two thickened legs coming down the side of the circle.

WYR 1: None WYR 2: Rambler, but that's a stretch.

WYR 1: 300 WYR 2: 65

58 Dsh, hands down WYR 1: None WYR 2: Stude

Hi Jay! What a stunning wagon! The 1959 Merc was a pretty good looker! My guess is that the speed warning indicator on the 1959 Merc was similar to the one fitted to the 1958 Edsel. When you exceeded the set speed a part of the speedo would turn red. Probably the same for Mercury. Gee, I wish station wagons would come back in style! Probably won't happen, but one can wish! WYR The first list, Mercury for SURE! Second EDSEL!

WYR the Pontiac and the Mercury Of the two Mercury's if I had to pick, the 59 looks better, if one is allowed to say it looks good at all.

My dad's first car was a brand new grey '49 4 door with the 6 cylinder. I came along in 51 and have only very vague memories of it. Dad quickly found out that while is was a decent city car, it was problematic on long highway trips. It was constantly overheading and the radiator would "boil over". He replaced it with a '53.

Looks like a good solid classic for someone. I think these are very generic looking. I'd choose the Catalina and the Ambassador Cross Country.

Love the Birds up to 1966, but after that Stinky Birds!

Definitely the Merc , dad had a 59 galaxy so its a ford family thing. How do i contact these guys ? Excellent video as usual

How about the Ford Pinto and Mustang 1.6L 'Kent' engine, with later models featuring a 2.0L EAO and still later models with a 2.3L Lima? The GM Chevy Nova and Marine Engine 153/181, or the GM 2.5 Iron Duke, I think would be interesting options. You have an awesome show; thank you!

Mercury - Mercury

AMC was the first mfr. to produce a 4dr. HT station wagon in 1956, the Rambler Cross Country. Mercury followed in `57.

The gentle reminder that you have exceeded the maximum speed on my step dad's 67 le Sabre was a gentle buzzing that did not stop until you slowed down.

F series - 70

You know I loved my T' Bird I've had two a 86 arrow Bird and a 82 box Bird I just sold the 82 for Heath reasons. T Bird - 67

Pontiac - Plymouth

Love the poverty ash tray in the back for the kids. Cars were just better in the past.

Thanks for showing that one. Believe I asked about it when you did the Tbird next to it.

I liked your spiel at the beginning. Hope you find someone to collaborate with. Just try not to force it. If they seem uninterested then don't waste your time pursuing them because it would most likely not translate well on video. Sweet Polara btw. I liked listening to the back story

PS my vote for the Plymouh or Ponti.

i was always of the school of thought Mercuries were always seriously underated. but this is an amazing example of what they were doing. My aunt had a 62' Meteor , I had a 65' Comet caliente, All dependable beautiful cars. Thanks for posting !

Terrific review, Jay. It would be great if someone would send that dash cover to Just Dashes in Los Angeles. It looks like the warping caused it to not be testable for glove box room.

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WYR: 1. 59 Mercury 2. 59 Ambassador

You've inspected/feed back, a number of very nice wagons. But these beauties would be in my top 5. Colony Park even the name sounds sophisticated. 59 DeSoto wagon you checked out a while ago, stunning but no 4 or 2 door H/T's. For me, Merc's equal is the 1957 DeSoto Explorer fully optioned. Though again not a H/T many special features were available on the Explorer. Just one other point, no mention of the MEL 430 cid option on Mercury? Keep up the great work.