9 passenger 63 Merc wagon for sale in paper. Check out this car. Dope.

[henslee]

[WCGreen]

1. I want that car......

[atomic-fly]

3. they got more than they can handle....

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[5thGenDemocrat]

2. Former 1963 Mercury owner here

I had a Monterey with the drop-down back window. Pepto-Bismol pink. Got 10 mpg. Great car right up until I smacked it into the back of a 1972 Dodge Polara station wagon -- the only car in Saginaw bigger than the Merc.
You try finding a right front quarter panel for such a car (well, yeah, the station wagon there has one -- but you get the idea).
John
Figuring that there wagon probably gets, oh, 8 mpg or so. Very cool car, though.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

10. My dad had a '66 Mercury Monterey

With that drop down, angled-backward rear window, which I still think is the greatest idea.

It was Coventry Gray - I got to pick the color - and it was one damn gorgeous car.

Who thought of gas mileage back then?

[JVS]

4. Pimp that ride

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. The kind of car that could be fully loaded with family and camping stuff

and a camper trailer and handle the mountains of Yellowstone without even breathing hard, and plenty of leg and elbow room for mom, dad, five kids, and the dog.

Ah, the good ol' days.

[henslee]

6. Ever read Travels with Charlie -- Steinbeck?

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. No, I haven't

Is it good?

[henslee]

8. Fun read. Steinbeck on the open road w/his poode, traveling America in 60.

Here is a background... (just looked it up)
Steinbeck decided to travel through the U.S. as he had in the 1930's gathering impressions and canvassing attitudes that he could cast in the form of a book. He decided to take their pet poodle, Charley, on the 10,000 mile journey. Travels With Charley can best be appreciated as an act of courage. He commissioned the construction of a special vehicle a sturdy truck on the back of which was mounted a cabin in which Steinbeck could sleep, cook, and work. He was delighted when the truck arrived, and spent much of the summer provisioning it for the expedition ahead. His wife Elaine, concerned about her husband's health, was opposed to the trek. She could not change her husband's mind, however, and he christened his vehicle “Rocinante” in honor of Don Quixote's horse. Elaine provided the title Travels With Charley because both Steinbeck and Elaine admired Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels With a Donkey.

The journey began on September 23, 1960. Steinbeck joined Elaine and her relatives in Amarillo, Texas, in time for Thanksgiving 1960. They returned to New York in January 1961.

The manuscript of Charley was in progress by early February 1961, and was written in part in the West Indies on Barbados and completed in New York. It was published mid-summer 1961 and became one of the largest commercial successes of Steinbeck's career. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature on October 25, 1962.

[Cathyclysmic]

9. OOOH! A Woody!

I want that car!

[henslee]

11. The late 60's wagons were real hot rods. My friend has one he calls it

the LONG ROOFED RACER.