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• Just read on another model forum that Moebius will be bringing out a 1968 Mercury M100 pickup!
  • Interesting. Since I know next to nothing about pickups, I'm wondering if this is a variant of their Ford pickup or entirely new? *NM*
    • Mercury dealers in Canada sold Mercury trucks...Fords with different trim and tailgates. '68 may have been the final year IIRC *NM*
      • Yes, following the auto pact of 1965, most of the unique Canadian models gradually disappeared. 1968 was the last year for Mercury badged trucks. *LINK* *PIC*
        • They made bigger trucks too. The village of Ayers Cliff, QC had a 3 ton or so Mercury Thibault fire engine and Sillery, QC had a Ford C based Mercury Thibault 85’ mid mount ladder. I have other examples. *NM*
          • Bill Stroppe (built early Sixties NASCAR Mercs, and later Baja Broncos) had a Mercury cabover to haul the stock cars. I saw it, restored, at Fords at Carlisle a couple of years ago *NM*
            • Probably 2021. There's info about that one on internet. Sample photos inside..;;;.PICS
              • '21 is right. I still have a picture on my phone from that event, it's dated 2021 *NM*
          • Here's a pic of a Mercury drilling rig taken in Halifax sometime in the 1960s *PIC*
      • May of '68 appears to be the end according to the latest numbers Kevin Marty has. Here's a thread with good info on the Mercs... *NM* *LINK*
  • Now I know its a different co. & all but if ever AMT{Polar Lights) decides to reissue the 2004/2005 Pontiac GTO a RHD dash & rejiged grille to make a Holden Monaro would make me a happy camper........and pigs will fly........lol....the Merc pickup looks good BTW. *NM*
    • I'm actually somewhat surprised that nobody ever offered a resin conversion to do just that.... Seems a no brainer to me. No *NM*
      • There was a resin conversion to do the Holden Monaro SEDAN years ago! I've got one, from sa friend in the Houston Auto Modelers SOciety. The resin used to make the tires turned into a liquified goo, though.
        • That resin kit with the problem tyres was a cavalier kit, I sold many thru the shop, the tyre problem didn't happen till a few years later & no one was more angrier than me I assure you. *NM*
      • Oh there were both resin front/rear clips & RHD dashes as well as complete body shells but PL when I rang them at kits announcement were unaware that the GTO was Oz made & said it was too late to incl even a RHD dash...oh well....lol. *NM*
  • Excellent!! *NM*
  • Wouldn't it be easier to get Modle Car Garage to do a photoetchset for the Moebius F-100s and include the Mercury trucks? Granted, that still leaves the grill and tailgate, but maybe someone could've done them in resin. *NM*
    • Someone has done it in resin. *NM*
    • MAD resin has done the tailgates, side emblems and front valance for the '65/'66 Mercs; the tailgates will also work for the '67/'68 trucks. Grills are the same as Fords for all sixties Mercs. Rookie Resin made an improved '67-'69 grill. *NM*
  • That should be cool - some pics of some parts online - *NM* *LINK*