Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Cool, that's my car! Or, was. The guy I sold it to just passed on this week. It would be neat to get it back. We will see...

 

parking lot of the Famous-Barr Garden Center, West of St. Louis, in Clayton.

 

^^^^^

We never got that S33 trim on our '70 Mercurys down here. We had the X100 instead.....
(This is a page from the '69 brochure - '70's were basically the same...)


I also find that Canadian Mercury ad kinda strange. Shows the other background Ford products with aftermarket wheels, no wheel covers on some, etc. Don't think you would see that in a US ad.......

 

1960 Datsun found only 17 buyers Canada-wide.
By the time the first 17 Datsuns were being registered in this country in 1960, imported automobiles accounted for an unprecedented 26.6 percent of all new car sales throughout the Dominion. Ford brought in its entire range of British products from Dagenham to bolster sagging domestic sales. GM fielded the venerable Vauxhall through Pontiac-Buick dealerships and the clever, badge-engineered Canada-only Envoy appeared its Chev-Olds dealers. Chrysler Canada on the 'small-is-beautiful' train by offering the chic Simca, "imported from Paris."

 

RE post 8053

I really dig this photo. I love the contrast of the snow and the colors of the cars and trucks and the people. Reminds me of Mt Rainier in the early spring. Brings back good memories.