MERCURY Pick-up truck???

[Ackman]

I was watching a movie, last night & they had a mid to late '60's MERCURY P/U truck in it. It looked identical to a FORD & said Custom Cab on the side, just behind the hood, had the MERCURY logo on the hood front & MERCURY was embossed on the tailgate. I did some asking around, today & got the same response: "MERCURY built a P/U in the 60's???" Can anybody out there, verify this???

[JeffK]

Was the movie filmed in Canada? I thought the trucks were relabeled in Canada. Thats all I can offer.

[MoRo]

JeffK's got it right! The Canadian Fords were branded Mercury.
Cheewilliker's probably got one stashed in his back shed.

[sparkplug54]

They were built from 1946 to 1968. Other hard to find trucks these days are Studebaker,Hudson,Packard-Nash, Buick. Dodge Brothers was the first successfull pickup truck that was sold to the public in 1917.Fords first success for pickups was in 1925. DAn

[Doug Barbee]

Dan,
I have a '46 Hudson pick-up. It really draws a crowd anywhere it goes.
Most people don't know that Hudson built any.
A friend of mine had an old Plymouth pick-up. It was a late 30's or early 40's
Doug

[Andrew Mackey]

Borough of West Caldwell had a 1958 Mercury pick up. It had a small V8 in it, with dual exhausts. My father in law used to drive it for the sewer dept - it was their service truck Every now and then, he would take it to go to lunch in the center of town. No surprise, he would have no problems getting out of a tight space, to get back to work - with all the tse-tse flies from the sewer plant coming out of it, he usually had a 2 car space all the way around, no matter where he parked it
Andrew

[JHFoster]

What about a Mack p\u truck? Any one have one?

[Farquhar]

Originally Posted by JHFoster

What about a Mack p\u truck? Any one have one?

I wish!! Our neighbor had one when I was a kid. He traded it in on a '53, or 54 Chev, that he still had when he died in 1966. I sure have liked to have had the Mack though.
And the local Chrysler dealer had a wrecker on a 2 ton Nash chasis for yrs too. It sat at a junk yard for yrs and when I suddenly thought-- Hmmm == thats a rare bird, and went to try to buy it, they had crushed it a cple wks earlier.

[Bud Tierney]

If I'm remembering correctly, the Mack pickup was the Mack JR, a 3/4 Ton, model ED?? (but ED shows as 39-46, and I seem to recall was only produced two years??) There're pix and info on one of these forums the last 6-8 months or so.
Some references say the Nash trucks 47-49 were all for export, but some seem to be around (the old ones were 1916-29 or so). Hudson also built a Safari Wagon, popular in Africa (see post under Hudson 308) but I don't know if built here and exported or built on Hudson chassis etc somewhere in England. (Can't find my Hudson book!!)

[Bud Tierney]

Sorry, I'm confused on the Mack pickup; my book shows 35 different Mack Jr models using four engines ( one four and three 6's) for 36-7, but book starts in 36, and I doubt Mack produced that many different pickups. I'll have to start keeping better notes.

[Bill Geyer]

When I was a kid, my granddad's hired hand drove a Diamond T pickup, I always thought that was the finest pickup ever . I'm not even sure if it was pre-war or not but I will guess not maybe 1946 .

[Farquhar]

Don't recall ever seeing a Diamond T p/u, and as for the Mack. I was under the impression that 35-37 were the build yrs for them. But then it has been a while since i read that, so could be wrong.

[G Willikers]

Originally Posted by MoRo

JeffK's got it right! The Canadian Fords were branded Mercury.
Cheewilliker's probably got one stashed in his back shed.

MoRo?
I wish!
Mercs were maybe a bit more common in Western Canada. Also, we had Fargo trucks here, a version of Dodge. Did they use that name in the USA? Studebaker had a plant in Hamilton, Ontario and were still making cars and trucks into the mid 60s even after they had closed down in Indianna. IHC also made trucks here in Chatham, but also in Hamilton at their ol' Deering plant. I know they made the Scouts and that kind of thing there.
Used to use IHC pickups, I think about the last of the true work trucks - built like brick ........es! They went out in the mid 70s if memory serves?
G.

[Ken Majeski]

Well... There was a Guy that worked at a Gas station in town here years ago that drove a Plymouth Pickup... Don't know what happened to it... It was still around in the early 70's.... They only made them a few years... Late 30's early 40's I think....

[Tom Cwach]

Mack JRs were built by Reo for Mack. Macks website states 1936-37-38. These images are of a '37 Mack JR panel I transported from Lake Tahoe,Ca. to Detroit,Mi Dec.2005. I saw a photo of it before I took on the job. I was thinking 7' behind the driver and 17.5 tires that were used back then on light trucks,WRONG. This is on 7.5-20s, over 9' behind the driver, and 8'4" tall. Got lucky and had a 50+mph tailwind in WY and into NE. 12.5 MPG towing this with a 350 Chev.

In exchange for hauling the Mack JR I recieved the remains of a '35 Reo 2dr sedan. It has enough missing I think I can rod it and still sleep at night. Olds power is planned. A free car, only catch was 5000 miles of driving to get it home.

My father had 2 '36 Reo 4 dr sedans. He doesn't like hot rods at all, but 40 years ago I would tell him I was going to get a 2dr to hot rod and he would come unglued. It took a while but I got one.

[Bill Geyer]

Hello Everyone,
Fun to read this thread, you are right, I didn't know Hudson, Buick or Nash made a pick up. I guess I knew that Mac made them but can't remember seeing one, or a Fargo, thanks for the picture of the Mac. Seen plenty of Studebakers though. Have seen an old Plymouth pickup, and the one they brought out in the late seventies. It's interesting to learn about the Mercury.

[Tom Sampson]

Originally Posted by JHFoster

What about a Mack p\u truck? Any one have one?

Here are two Mack Jr's from Ohio.

[sparkplug54]

I've posted on this site before about an abandoned junk yard my brother found back in 1991. He passed away in 1993 from heat stroke. He was working construction to save up some money to by the whole property with the cars trucks on it. Turns out that the cars were there because the guy had a wrecker and towing company, the cars that were there never got claimed or paid the towing/storage or whatever. the owner died and his kid was a lawyer in the citites and didn't care about the cars what so ever.I have a video of the cars and trucks on it. It really is almost an unheard of story but it was true. Seen the cars and trucks with my own eyes. Every car there was from 1930-1960. Hudson pickups,Studebakers, Crossley, Nash, fords,Metropolitans, 1949 Chrysler convert.... My favorite car that I saw was a 1957 Dodge Coronet.After my brother died and time went by the owner must have came to his senses and doesn't want to sale them but recently I heard that they were found by a man from this area with considerable cash flow and scooped them up.I really feel priviledged just to get to see something like that. I had the chance to take over the deal that my brother had but I felt like it was his dream not mine. I love cars but it takes alot of cash to restore a rare car.I learned that the hard way when I was restoring my 1972 ralleye charger and brought it to a so called pro named ( Alan Rand) to do some body work and paint. I ended up giving him about 10,000(saved up that money for 8 years) . Well to make a long story short he took off with my money and left my car out in the rain in its bare metal so it rusted quite a bit. Don't know where Alan Rand is today to get my money in court. That charger was my brothers that passed away and mean't a great deal to me. I sold the car and parts for 2300.00. I don't ever think about owning another car like that because of my horrible experience. So thanks Alan Rand, hope my money went far for you. DAn

[Ray Forrer]

Willys-Overland also made pick-ups based on the Americar of the early 40's. Much like the Hudson p-u. Rode in a Diamond T a few times, one H_ll of a truck. Also, a friend had a D/T 2 ton cab over with a column shift. VERY interesting trying to find gears in the early 60's after 20+ years of wear on all that linkage!
Ray