Rare Canada-only FoMoCo

[vonVeezelsnider]

Also found a couple of rare Blue Oval products sold only in Canada. From what I understand the Meteor brand was much like the Canada only Acadian brand which was paired with Pontiac dealers except this one was slotted between Ford and Mercury. Here are two examples, the first is a 1958 Meteor Rideau, and the second a 1968 Meteor Montcalm convertible. I like the Canadian-inspired names of these cars (The Rideau Canal and Rideau Hall in Ottawa and General Montcalm was the French General who led that side in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the Acadian Canso from GM got its name from a couple places in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia).

1958 Rideau 500

http://alberta.kijij...QAdIdZ317098094[]

1968 Montcalm Convertible

http://alberta.kijij...QAdIdZ318982422

[ocnblu]

Those are neat.

[Drew Dowdell]

for those of us not familiar with old FoMoCo's what are they based on?

[ocnblu]

Looks like a '58 Fairlane and a '68 Monterrey.

[vonVeezelsnider]

for those of us not familiar with old FoMoCo's what are they based on?

To the best of my understanding...

1950s - 1962

Ford Mainline = Meteor

Ford Customline = Niagra

Ford Crestline/Fairlane = Rideau

1962-1969

Mercury Montclair = Rideau

Mercury Monterrey = Montcalm

Edited November 6, 2011 by vonVeezelsnider

[Camino LS6]

I believe that there was a Canada-only Mercury pickup as well...

Cool bits of trivia here.

[ocnblu]

Canadian Mercury trucks ran all the way up to medium-duty 700 and maybe 800-series.

[Camino LS6]

Found a pic, but can't seem to get the uploader to work.

[vonVeezelsnider]

There's a whole website devoted to the Mercury Pickups

http://www.mercurypickup.com/

If memory serves me, one of my grandmother's brothers had a patina-ed late 1960s Mercury M100 on the farm up in northern Alberta when when I was much, much younger.

[Robert Hall]

One interesting factoid about the later Canadian Meteors ('62-76) is they basically had a Mercury body w/ Ford-based interiors...like the '69 Meteor LeMoyne looked like a Monterey but w/ a Ford Galaxie dash. The earlier Meteors used a Ford body since they had the Monarch brand also that used Mercury bodies.

I've seen one Meteor in the US, years ago saw a '74 Meteor Rideau 500 2dr ht in Florida w/ Ontario plates...

Edited November 7, 2011 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[daves87rs]

Nice!

[Camino LS6]

There it is.