Goodbye to the Merc

When I was a kid my parents had a 1941 Mercury two door sedan painted to somewhat resemble a watermelon. It was loud, occasionally backfired on Main Street, and was known to be temperamental about starting when parked out in the middle of nowhere.

But the backseat was so big that we once used it as a camper. :-)

Ford is shutting down the Mercury line which was introduced in 1939. Sigh.