Dad never had one of these, but probably wished he had. This 1949 silver-green Mercury coup, parked in the Old Port, looks like it was straight off the set of Rebel Without a Cause. In the Fifties, long before the two car family was the norm, we always had a second car parked on the rise next to the driveway. Sometimes they were just old blue-black clunkers from the Forties, that got Dad to West Falmouth and that second job, but most often it was a neat red MG-B or the old apple-red Jaguar. They were his pride and joy. When he was away, I'd sit in the driver's seat and dream I was rolling down the highway, waving at my friends. Often, I even turned the key and started them humming. If I ever hit the big time, gonna buy me a Jag!
Monday, June 27, 2011
1949 Mercury
Dad never had one of these, but probably wished he had. This 1949 silver-green Mercury coup, parked in the Old Port, looks like it was straight off the set of Rebel Without a Cause. In the Fifties, long before the two car family was the norm, we always had a second car parked on the rise next to the driveway. Sometimes they were just old blue-black clunkers from the Forties, that got Dad to West Falmouth and that second job, but most often it was a neat red MG-B or the old apple-red Jaguar. They were his pride and joy. When he was away, I'd sit in the driver's seat and dream I was rolling down the highway, waving at my friends. Often, I even turned the key and started them humming. If I ever hit the big time, gonna buy me a Jag!
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I remember only the Sixties, but our car was a tiny tin box with wheels, nothing to compare to these wonders!
ReplyDeleteAnd you would look perfect zipping around town in one. Maybe you'd come all the way to Vermont in it...
ReplyDeleteI have half a mind of framing this shot.
ReplyDeleteVery sweet memories. I can remember all kinds of cars in front of our house over the years.
ReplyDeleteSuch memories. When was the last time you saw one of those wide whitewalls? For w while when I was in college I had a Triumph TR 4. Freedom and exhilaration but it was pretty junky and didn't last long.
ReplyDeleteNice tire but where is the car? Who didn't want to be James Dean with a chopped black Mercury? I sure as hell did. That is on my list of cool things I wanted that were not to be. Oh well, Later I had a '53 Chevy. That was cool because it ran and it was mine.
ReplyDeleteYour dad sounds like a cool guy. We were strictly a stationwagon family until one day Dad bought a mercedes, and he loved it more than life itself. It was very symbolic for him.
ReplyDeleteA classic beauty.
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I always think that if I win the lottery I will get a Mercury coupe - chopped and with a great exhaust system!
ReplyDeleteyea baby
ReplyDeleteI still think white walled tyres make a car look classy! wish that fashion would come back....
ReplyDeleteNow those were whitewalls!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the lottery, Birdman. You win, I will drive up to Portland to hitch a ride with you.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful picture and wish your dream come true about the Jag!
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One of these would be a dream.
ReplyDeleteLove those old white walls!
ReplyDeleteWrite the book Birdman, and you'll soon be tootling along in the Jag!!
ReplyDeleteLots of people buy now and pay later.
ReplyDeleteDo you know about loans and credit cards? lol
I had to ask.
The white walls are familiar to me and I was always eager to get them new ones on new cars. They were a bitch to keep clean though and so we used "curb feelers" to keep from scuffing them against the curbs.
Remember "Curb Feelers?"
Love this one, Birdman!
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