The '57 Mercury station wagon line up was comprised of only hard top style wagons; they offered hard top wagons until 1960, after that they shared Ford body shells... Mercury had two different 2-door hardtop wagons in '57, '58 and '59 along with the 4-door hardtop wagons, but just had 4-door hardtop...

I still have the original art for the last 2 SS events, just let me know when you need it again

Rich

Greg, it was great having you "visit" PA, wish I was home when you took off-- wanted to say goodbye and thanks in person! This whole thing seemed like an awful lot to go through just to deliver 4 steel wheels, glad you weren't bringing anything bigger. With everything that happened, I gues...

I think the rarest will be the '63 BBW Uni CC.... In '63 you could get a flare side or a wrong bed for the full model year, and by then most buyers had seen the wear and tear on the Unis from '61 and '62...any one ever see the sales figures on Slicks from those years?

Reminds me of what happened to an '80 Pinto wagon I loaned a guy on Super Bowl Sunday in Syracuse NY back in 1988: cold day, he thought he was a good mechanic, actually he was something of a moron; he set the carb on fire trying to clean it out, his neighbor called the fire department...the FD arriv...

Hey Bill

thanks for posting the info! Sept 6th...marking the calendar...Hope we can have our Slicks in shape by then... nothing coming up this Spring, like the event they held in the city behind the electric factory?

Rich

no driver's side mirror, but one on pass. side?

R

I was there about 3 weeks ago, all slicks that were there are still there, although more rusty.. the green 63 Uni longbed with the message threatening anyone who opened the hood still has the threat written on it...

I always loved the sound of the engines in the movie during the chase scene. Was that the actual 390s they recorded...? I had heard they used the same sound effect from Bullitt for an overdub for the chase scene with the Chevy Nova in "The Seven Ups"

Rich

I wonder if the '56 in the garage has a SBC in it...

I had a 92 Sube 2 wd 5spd wagon, bought it used for 1800 with 86,000 ran it to over 160,000, changed timing belt 2 times, the first time was right when I bought it. Zippy little car, put lots of high way miles on her in 3 years. It ran pretty good, would've probably gone 200,000 with her but the bod...

welcome from Bucks Co. PA. Isn't Iron Mountain Mich where Ford made woodie Station Wagon bodies?

I found a nice Uni tailgate in a junkyard here in Bucks County for $100. Just having a problem getting it off the donor truck. The bottom bolts on the hinge come out OK, but the top bolt seems to be inside a cage - hard to reach as it is up inside the enclosed body area under the tail light lens and...

looking for the same thing: I need the rubber trim for a '61 windshield without the chrome trim. Other posts have recommended Dennis Carpenter over LMC for rubber...but let's see what other slicksters have to say on this...

Here's an interesting variation on the Uni from Australia circa 1961:
http://www.colacambulance.com/ford%20f-100%201961.htm

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Tom, is one of them a Bermuda, the other a Villager? Hard to see the last two, either of them a 2-door Roundup?

Thanks Skip! fire extinguisher purchase, then carb cleaning. In that order.

Rich

oh yeah-- the arrow in the pic points to the spot the gas was leaking pretty good from...

Started up the Uni today after it had been sitting for about a month or so; had the oil bath air cleaner off, Sinc was helping me out getting her started...it is a '61 with the 223 and a manual choke . Got it started, it was warming up, then gas started coming out the hole on top of the carb pretty ...