Photo: Vanguard Motors
Depending on the amount of work that went into them, the older Ford F-Series trucks making the rounds online or at auctions often sell for small fortunes, even if they don’t cross into six-digit territory all that often. But when you get one of those trucks badged as a much rarer Mercury, the confidence of the dealers seems to go through the roof.
$100 short of $130,000 is how much someone is asking for this Mercury M100 from 1956, a restomod bringing to the table pretty much the same stuff others of its kind bring.
The M100 is part of the line of trucks the now-defunct division of Ford sold in Canada from 1946 to 1968, in fact no more than rebadged versions of the F-Series. Rarer than their Blue Oval counterparts, Mercury pickups do, from time to time, go through a transformation, and get turned into projects such as this one.
This particular truck moves its all-black body on staggered and chromed American Racing wheels, measuring 18-inch front and 20-inch rear. Behind them hide brake calipers gifted with custom M100 graphics, independent front and 4-link rear suspension, and a 9-inch rear end.
To give it a very alive-look, the interior, accessible by means of suicide doors, is all red leather on the bucket seats and chrome elsewhere. The three-spoke steering wheel sits in front of Dakota Digital gauges, and the dashboard, which extends between the seats becoming a center console, holds an aftermarket audio system.
The hood lifts to reveal a 427-ci (7.0-liter) engine of unspecified output, sending its power to the road under the supervision of an automatic transmission and breathing through a dual exhaust system.
As said, the truck sells for $129,900. Is it expensive? Hell yes, but it’s up to you to decide this kind of expensive means just right, or too much.
The M100 is part of the line of trucks the now-defunct division of Ford sold in Canada from 1946 to 1968, in fact no more than rebadged versions of the F-Series. Rarer than their Blue Oval counterparts, Mercury pickups do, from time to time, go through a transformation, and get turned into projects such as this one.
This particular truck moves its all-black body on staggered and chromed American Racing wheels, measuring 18-inch front and 20-inch rear. Behind them hide brake calipers gifted with custom M100 graphics, independent front and 4-link rear suspension, and a 9-inch rear end.
To give it a very alive-look, the interior, accessible by means of suicide doors, is all red leather on the bucket seats and chrome elsewhere. The three-spoke steering wheel sits in front of Dakota Digital gauges, and the dashboard, which extends between the seats becoming a center console, holds an aftermarket audio system.
The hood lifts to reveal a 427-ci (7.0-liter) engine of unspecified output, sending its power to the road under the supervision of an automatic transmission and breathing through a dual exhaust system.
As said, the truck sells for $129,900. Is it expensive? Hell yes, but it’s up to you to decide this kind of expensive means just right, or too much.
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