1974 Mercury Colony Park

460 V8. 41k miles. Very nice looking Colony Park.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercury-Oth...0da068280&item=141096813184&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

 

Looks sharp!

 

serious wood on this thing

 

Gorgeous car! Nicely but not fully equipped. Power windows are a big plus. Odd that an expensive wagon, with so many nice options was not ordered with power locks, though. Such is life. This one should sell for good money.

 

Do we know this?

What's that little switch just to the left of the four window switches if it's not a power lock switch?

 

Power window lock I believe.

 

Could be.

But that switch looks like it's centered, just like the four window switches are, and that you would thus push it momentarily one way or momentarily the other way, such as how a power lock or window switch would work. A power window lock switch is a two-position toggle switch, and that doesn't look like a toggle switch. (In fact, most of them on cars today are not left-right switches but push-in, push-out switches.)

Plus, power window lock switches were not common on cars back then. I know nowadays they're on any car that has power windows, but we shouldn't assume that what's common now was common then. My dad had power windows on every car we had during that era ('67 Vista Cruiser, '71 and '73 Custom Cruiser, and '76 Cadillac). I also had as a collector car back in the '90s a '75 Delta 88 convertible with power windows and locks. I know that none of the Oldsmobiles had a power window lock-out switch, and I don't think the Caddy did, either.

 

Tedy is correct. Looking for an answer on this, I found this brochure page. Does that CP in the top photo look familiar to anyone?

In the bottom right pic, if you look close, you can see the switch panel on the door has one more switch than our 'for sale' vehicle does - to the extreme rear of the panel - this is the power lock switch.

 

You're right. I shouldn't be comparing GM to Chrysler.

 

Hey, this is the exact car I mentioned under another posting last week. I was at Carlisle in the Spring and it was there. I absolutely fell head over heels in love with it. I couldn't walk away from it for about 45 minutes until my brothers literally dragged me away. It looks as good in real life as it does in the pictures. The interior is absolutely immaculate and the shag carpet that was so popular back then is pristine. He was asking $9000 for it which I thought was high, even though it is an extraordinary long roof. If my money situation had been better, I would've talked to the guy seriously, but I had no business back then, (even now), thinking about such a purchase. This car is all there and I'm sure the 41000 miles on it is correct. What a car. I'm so mad I don't have some funds laying around where I could buy it. I'd never sell it, I can tell you that.

Now that I'm over the shock of seeing it again, I do have to say some of the dinoc is a little funky. I recall there's a fairly sizable scratch in the right rear panel and some of the other ones were a little dried out and oxidized. I don't care. I still love it.

 

those Colony Parks

If what snooter says is true, than $9,000 is what I'd gladly pay to have this particular living room on wheels. I'm only about $9,000 short, more if you include the airfare to where it is. But that is a very nice looking wagon. And the 460 means it's capable of towing quite a good size load. This is definitely a getter and a keeper.

 

Reserve now met at $7500 with just under 24 hours to go. :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

The dead giveaway on the power locks is the passenger door. There is only one switch, for the power window. There would be a second, to the rear of the ashtray, were there power locks on this car. That window switch assembly, by the way, is the same as was used on Crown Victoria/Grand Marquis 4 door models through 91, and yes, that is a power window lock out on the driver's door. What I never did get is that it locks out the switch on the passenger front door as well as the rear doors. It is supposed to keep kids from getting stuck in the windows, and they really shouldn't be in the front seat anyway

 

SOLD for $7500. I'd say well bought -beautiful Colony Park wagon.