Beautiful car. I'm a 59 year old American, and I love these old cars. The daily drivers, not million dollar collector cars. Yours is beautifully restored. I prefer the original patina myself, but can certainly appreciate any old American car. I've had a couple of high dollar "collector" cars, and the prices just got out of hand. I was afraid to drive them. They were basically show cars, and attracted a lot of snobs. I finally sold them, and started doing mechanical restorations on ordinary cars. At first it was just a way to stay in the old car business without spending a fortune, but it turned out to be where my interest in vintage cars really lay. A couple of things that just make me sick are people who put modern EPA engines (like an LS1) in these cars, and those who put those huge ugly GHETTO wheels on them.
Gerald Scott I agree. The more original a vintage car is (or appears to be) the better. Those big ugly GHETTO wheels are so repulsive it's nearly impossible to notice the beauty of the car itself. It's nice to see one looking like it did back in the day:)
Gerald Scott I agree. These vintage cars are worth more whenever they are either original or at least appear to be. Those big ugly GHETTO wheels are so repulsive they detract from the classic beauty of the vintage car they're on.
So glad many Europeans saved these, because not many of us in the US appreciated them. Thank you. When I was a kid parents had a '59 Mercury station wagon in that color green. We called her the Green Monster.
Hallo André, ich war überrascht, dieses Video von dem Mercury hier zu finden. Echt cool, wie schnell Du ihn gefahren hast. Man kann aber sehen, da geht noch was ;-) Ich habe ihn bisher nur auf 90 Meilen gehabt (Material-Angst :-))) ) Nun habe ich mir aber inzwischen hinten neue Gasdurckunterstützte Stoßdämpfer und Blattfederunterstützer einbauen lassen. Dadurch steht er hinten jetzt ca. 5 cm höher und geht wie auf Schienen durch die Kurve 8-)
Those tail fins ! They are outta site -and they've got to be right up there with other fabulous tail-lamps' from that era. 1959 really was the year most spectacular year of the tail fin...
My grandmother owned one of these, only it was powder blue. For some reason, when I was seven, I got it into my head the radio antennae was not supposed to be slanted like that, when every other one went straight up! So I tugged on that thing, trying to "correct" it. I wound up pulling it out of the fender. The stupid things we do as kids...
My father allowed me to drive his new 59 Montclair 4dr Ht on several Saturday nights. Malt shops - drive in's. Great memories for the "Guys & Dolls" that rode in this land yacht before the interstate highways.
100 mph for a 1959 Mercury. Pretty good! Well designed instrument panel. White interior. Quite rare for a Mercury. All in all watching this video is just about like being in the Montclair on that high speed run.
i agree i love that speedodnmeter with the colored band . reminds me of my 65 544 volvo speedo. I also owned a 64 merc fastback marauder with factor a/c.which ran great,but the 59 i remember as a kid as a sharp car. great dashbord. it has a 2 V carb but what size motor as this thing hauls. i know they had a 400 hp 4v motor in 58 but i do not know if it was a 390. anybody out there know?
more than likely, it was either a 383 or 430 MEL engine. the 383 was only installed in the Mercury but Lincoln, the Ford Thunderbird or Mercury could be had with the 430. the 430 itself was no slouch when it came to performance, it was a very strong engine. in 1959 only the 352 or 332 Cu in FE engine was available. the 390 FE did not come out until around 1961. FE and MEL were 2 different engine families.
i was thinkingthe same thing dannng fora 59 Mercury she get up and goes no problem probably smoke like a train back there too but hey cleans outthe carbon on her
My brother in law had one black and beautiful. The first car I got to know and get into. Loved it so much. If I can see one in South Africa my day will be made
learned to drive on a colony park wagon. my favorite, waxed it weekly. dad said there was a shimmy at highway speed, dealer changed out tires several times to no avail. finally dealer told him the driveshaft was to long and ford could not make a perfect one. maybe it needed another universal? still a great ride. 390 2bbl was underpowered for its weight. optional 4bbl was needed.
So cool!! I would look into that clanking noise when you let the gas off, though. I'm just in the middle of getting my '59 Montclair into the state yours is now. Hope it rumbles off the highway just the same!!
Thanks for posting great speed run there. 14 inch tires and drum brakes, we had the two door version of this model and always loved it . this must have the 383 or 430 motor. we had the 312
Oh c'mon. These things got pretty decent mileage for thier day. Most likely you are seeing the undamped gas gauge float up and down as the gas sloshed through the tank. My 1st car was a 1972 Buick skylark, and the gas gauge really only worked well when parked. It would go to empty going uphill, and full going downhill, when you had a half tank! It had no damping whatsoever, literally an analog ohmmeter, with no scale on it other than E and F. It would oscillate when I hit bumps. I bet it could have been repurposed as a G-meter if the tank were kept half full! (And, of course, the gauge were calibrated for it)
I mean it has to be a really really thirsty car if you floor it, it uses around 23l/100km (very much already) when driving normally, so i bet it uses like twice that if you drive it hard. But these cars arent commuting cars anyways.
@@twoeightythreez well it was pretty thirsty, even then, but decent mileage wasnt even in the 1950s american vocabulary, it was in the age when burning a bit more to go a bit faster was actually in fashion. Nobody even thought about fuel economy until the mid 70s. Well inline 6 engines existed, and they burned less much fuel, but more as a cheapskate option after every brand went v8, nobody cared about fuel consumption.
@@sakariaskarlsson634 Actually you couldn't be more wrong. This was certainly a commuter car in its day! It was a well to do man's commuter. (A man of lesser wealth would have had a Ford with a small six!) Most US cars were focused on efficiency until the mid to late 50s. Until the 1960s, most US cars were equipped with smallish inline sixes. The pre WW2 car designs were large but not excessively so (at least for common cars)...and look pretty small compared to todays bloated crossovers. The travel distances are large in the US, so size and comfort took priority in car design, particularly once the interstate system was completed. You would be surprised at the highway mileage some of those old lead sleds managed, particularly if they were equipped with overdrive units (which were available even in the 1940s).
Thumbs up for a fantastic looking car (inside and outside) with a great muffler sound. Thumbs down because nobody seems to use turn signals nowadays and for driving more than 160 km/h on a Landstrasse with speed limit 100km/h (why not using an Autobahn!?).
PS: On my Harley I reduced the Engine-speed at 100 KM / H from 2400 RPM to 2150 RPM with a smaller chainring. And it drives great. Comes like an expansion of consciousness ;-) Google translates ;-)
Sounded fine to me. People forget that engines were designed to run at 2500-3000rpm all day long...it wasnt till overdrive transmissions became popular in the 1980s that these insanely low cruising RPMs became common. My current daily driver Ford Focus 5 speed cruises at 2800rpm on the highway, for what its worth. That said, 100mph cruise speed is blazing fast for 1959. Most cars back then couldnt even reach 100mph...this thing loves doing it. On a different note, that combination dome/dual map light looks non original, or at least non-Ford. I own a 1984 olds 98 with that exact same unit!
I had a 1969 Impala with 410 gears in the back with stock 14 inch rims and tires that thing was literally a bullet off the line.. I could almost keep up with crotch rockets from red light to red light they would get to the next light and look at me like what the hell...
Love the Mercury. I have a question: The fedral government of Germany stated that they wanted zero emissions vehicles completely occupying the road by 2030. With the crazy liberal government over there, would they grandfather these cars over there or does the possibility of the government raiding citizens garages and loading up their cars onto a oneway flatbed to the car compactor worry you? They wouldn't do this in North America, but Europe seems a little politically screwed right now from our point of view across the pond.
love the wraparound front and back windows
Me, too. Absolutely NO Blindspots!!
Beautiful example of 1950s optimism. Imagine this growling monster approaching from behind!
Beautiful car. I'm a 59 year old American, and I love these old cars. The daily drivers, not million dollar collector cars. Yours is beautifully restored. I prefer the original patina myself, but can certainly appreciate any old American car. I've had a couple of high dollar "collector" cars, and the prices just got out of hand. I was afraid to drive them. They were basically show cars, and attracted a lot of snobs. I finally sold them, and started doing mechanical restorations on ordinary cars. At first it was just a way to stay in the old car business without spending a fortune, but it turned out to be where my interest in vintage cars really lay. A couple of things that just make me sick are people who put modern EPA engines (like an LS1) in these cars, and those who put those huge ugly GHETTO wheels on them.
Gerald Scott I agree. The more original a vintage car is (or appears to be) the better. Those big ugly GHETTO wheels are so repulsive it's nearly impossible to notice the beauty of the car itself. It's nice to see one looking like it did back in the day:)
Gerald Scott I agree. These vintage cars are worth more whenever they are either original or at least appear to be. Those big ugly GHETTO wheels are so repulsive they detract from the classic beauty of the vintage car they're on.
I live Miami Broward area where this cult originated, they are DISGUSTING
Beautiful car
That car can move
Getty Up, Hi Ho Silver, AWAY!
She gallopped up to 100 in a heartbeat! I thought that was a state-boy coming the other way.
So glad many Europeans saved these, because not many of us in the US appreciated them. Thank you. When I was a kid parents had a '59 Mercury station wagon in that color green. We called her the Green Monster.
yes we live your cars . they are so beautiful unreasonable.
Hallo André, ich war überrascht, dieses Video von dem Mercury hier zu finden. Echt cool, wie schnell Du ihn gefahren hast. Man kann aber sehen, da geht noch was ;-) Ich habe ihn bisher nur auf 90 Meilen gehabt (Material-Angst :-))) ) Nun habe ich mir aber inzwischen hinten neue Gasdurckunterstützte Stoßdämpfer und Blattfederunterstützer einbauen lassen. Dadurch steht er hinten jetzt ca. 5 cm höher und geht wie auf Schienen durch die Kurve 8-)
Beautiful, definitely America at or near her zenith. Never to be repeated, sadly.
Now that sir is just awesome!!!! She is truly beautiful.
Many thanks.
That dashboard is a work of art. It looks so good in white like that.
Beutiful car! Man the interiors back then had so much style to them! Kinda cars that made driveing FUN!
My dad had one of these, a long time ago. I can't say what pleasure this has given me.
Possibly the best looking full size family sedan from 1959.
Those tail fins ! They are outta site -and they've got to be right up there with other fabulous tail-lamps' from that era. 1959 really was the year most spectacular year of the tail fin...
I shared this video because that's my favorite car of all time
We had a 1959 Mercury Commuter station wagon. I loved that car!
My grandmother owned one of these, only it was powder blue. For some reason, when I was seven, I got it into my head the radio antennae was not supposed to be slanted like that, when every other one went straight up! So I tugged on that thing, trying to "correct" it. I wound up pulling it out of the fender. The stupid things we do as kids...
My father allowed me to drive his new 59 Montclair 4dr Ht on several Saturday nights. Malt shops - drive in's. Great memories for the "Guys & Dolls" that rode in this land yacht before the interstate highways.
damn that car is beautiful as well as fast
Very nice car, thanks for the ride.
It's absolutely beauuuutiful!♥️😮
She's a beauty.
Nice set of wheels ya got there. Makes me miss my old '59 Edsel Ranger.
Very nice! That car is in great shape! Enjoyed the ride.
Man, if you were doing 85mph back in '59 you were FLYIN'!😃
A speedometer that changes colors! Wow!
Looks like you did a good job with it. Interior looks good.
That cluster and dash is sweet!
this is my dream car. if i had one of those, i'd be the happiest human to ever live!
Yes -me too !!
They can be found, Simo. All it takes is money.
Sir I really enjoy this video, as a Lincoln Mercury admirer it's wonderful watching this beautiful Big M out doing what she was designed to do!
Damn the clock works
100 mph for a 1959 Mercury. Pretty good! Well designed instrument panel. White interior. Quite rare for a Mercury. All in all watching this video is just about like being in the Montclair on that high speed run.
i agree i love that speedodnmeter with the colored band . reminds me of my 65 544 volvo speedo. I also owned a 64 merc fastback marauder with factor a/c.which ran great,but the 59 i remember as a kid as a sharp car. great dashbord. it has a 2 V carb but what size motor as this thing hauls. i know they had a 400 hp 4v motor in 58 but i do not know if it was a 390. anybody out there know?
i also cant believe the giant electric clock still works.
more than likely, it was either a 383 or 430 MEL engine. the 383 was only installed in the Mercury but Lincoln, the Ford Thunderbird or Mercury could be had with the 430. the 430 itself was no slouch when it came to performance, it was a very strong engine. in 1959 only the 352 or 332 Cu in FE engine was available. the 390 FE did not come out until around 1961. FE and MEL were 2 different engine families.
Nice ole Merc!
Oh my God!!!!!!!! It's got POWER & SPEED!!!!!!!! 🤯😵😱🤨✌️👍💪💪💪
what a beautiful car!!!!
dig that crazy dashboard
Score nice car I’m glad you didn’t give up on her. 💯👍🏼
Very very nice. lovely old car, sill has her get-up-and-go !
Such sweet music, - here there's no need to turn on the radio !
Amazing..the dashboard clock works!
From Texas City TX USA 🇺🇸. Outstanding video. And a great car👍
Well Done! Truly appreciate all your hard work and love that went into this classic! Smooth with the camera too! Amazing job.
Going to buy me a mercury , cruise,cruise up and down the road .
QUE CHULADA!!!
Such a beautiful old girl.
It's absolutely beauuuutiful!❤️
I've loved these '59's since I was little, I had a scale model convertible of a Park Lane. You have a beautiful car there!
What a beautiful CARRRR!!!!! Looks like it's got some mean tailgates. This car reminds me of my 58 EDSEL CITATION!!!! 🧐🤨👌✌️👍👍
Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party! Just to think mom would do the grocery shopping in these. BRING BACK THE 1950'S Wow.
Beautiful Car! Thanks for sharing!
Love the car but he's got balls pushing the Merc when he got to an open stretch of highway. A lot of Detroit iron there.
i was thinkingthe same thing dannng fora 59 Mercury she get up and goes no problem probably smoke like a train back there too but hey cleans outthe carbon on her
My brother in law had one black and beautiful. The first car I got to know and get into. Loved it so much. If I can see one in South Africa my day will be made
Beautiful ! Love it!
A real beauty. Love the color.
learned to drive on a colony park wagon. my favorite, waxed it weekly. dad said there was a shimmy at highway speed, dealer changed out tires several times to no avail. finally dealer told him the driveshaft was to long and ford could not make a perfect one. maybe it needed another universal? still a great ride. 390 2bbl was underpowered for its weight. optional 4bbl was needed.
You're lucky to have these.My dad said this year model didn't sell well
have to add , you did an incredible good detailing of the dash.
Beautiful car, well done, u should be very proud !
even fora 59 she gets up and goeeeees
it flies
Sweet
Art on wheels.
So cool!! I would look into that clanking noise when you let the gas off, though. I'm just in the middle of getting my '59 Montclair into the state yours is now. Hope it rumbles off the highway just the same!!
The tail end styling of these cars was way over the top!
Beautiful old girl... you can almost watch the gas gauge go down! :D
Wow!!.. NICE
Thanks for posting great speed run there. 14 inch tires and drum brakes, we had the two door version of this model and always loved it . this must have the 383 or 430 motor. we had the 312
This is the 383 motor ;-)
She was moving at 100miles an hour! and just above idle.
With 78 series bias plys and drum brakes all around...
"I believe you are going...MY way?"
The gas Guage is falling faster than the speedo is rising.
Oh c'mon. These things got pretty decent mileage for thier day. Most likely you are seeing the undamped gas gauge float up and down as the gas sloshed through the tank. My 1st car was a 1972 Buick skylark, and the gas gauge really only worked well when parked. It would go to empty going uphill, and full going downhill, when you had a half tank! It had no damping whatsoever, literally an analog ohmmeter, with no scale on it other than E and F. It would oscillate when I hit bumps. I bet it could have been repurposed as a G-meter if the tank were kept half full! (And, of course, the gauge were calibrated for it)
I mean it has to be a really really thirsty car if you floor it, it uses around 23l/100km (very much already) when driving normally, so i bet it uses like twice that if you drive it hard. But these cars arent commuting cars anyways.
@@twoeightythreez well it was pretty thirsty, even then, but decent mileage wasnt even in the 1950s american vocabulary, it was in the age when burning a bit more to go a bit faster was actually in fashion. Nobody even thought about fuel economy until the mid 70s. Well inline 6 engines existed, and they burned less much fuel, but more as a cheapskate option after every brand went v8, nobody cared about fuel consumption.
@@sakariaskarlsson634 Actually you couldn't be more wrong. This was certainly a commuter car in its day! It was a well to do man's commuter. (A man of lesser wealth would have had a Ford with a small six!)
Most US cars were focused on efficiency until the mid to late 50s. Until the 1960s, most US cars were equipped with smallish inline sixes. The pre WW2 car designs were large but not excessively so (at least for common cars)...and look pretty small compared to todays bloated crossovers.
The travel distances are large in the US, so size and comfort took priority in car design, particularly once the interstate system was completed. You would be surprised at the highway mileage some of those old lead sleds managed, particularly if they were equipped with overdrive units (which were available even in the 1940s).
@@twoeightythreez yes it was a commuter car, my point is that today nobody uses it for that purpose.
Like a Turnpike with all the toys taken away ..the rear window the front air vents on top of roof . but very simular.. Most came with 360 engines ..
damn it's almost as beautiful as the first girl who loved me
My Grandmother had one of these... As a kid, the tail lights reminded me of two Feet! Well, gotta go bury that body - 3:12 LOL
This one has the big block 383 from the MEL series. Plenty of power on tap. Siblings would be the 410, 430 and the 462.
Nice car, but it should run MUCH quieter than that.
Also, you should know - if you don't - that the dome light is from a 1980 vintage Ford Fairmont.
I think this was the first car with parallel action windshield wipers.
These roads chosen to drive THIS example on bear an eerie thematic resemblance to what was in that creepy Zone episode!!
Where my thoughts backtrack to when seeing a '59 Mercury like this one, is Twilight Zone (The Hitch-Hiker).
German plates registered at Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Mint.
As my grandfather used to say she really hitches up her skirts !
dam, that car is not happy at high speeds
I had one just like that. Bought it for $50 no title for the 430 engine that I put in a pickup. White and baby blue.
must have been kept in a garage or barn with a cover over and barely driven in its lifetimeto be that clean all these years or a west coast car.
Thumbs up for a fantastic looking car (inside and outside) with a great muffler sound. Thumbs down because nobody seems to use turn signals nowadays and for driving more than 160 km/h on a Landstrasse with speed limit 100km/h (why not using an Autobahn!?).
Oh man just listen!!!
Riding down an appropriate interstate made for this land yacht, under a sky of as said in Spanish (Andaluz).
frank is on youtube !!!
Remember The Hitch-Hiker (Twilight Zone)?
How correct is the speedo?
sounds like it was going to blow up
slow it down!!!!
There must be a hole in the exhaust system. They didn't sound like that when new.
I.always wondered about that. You’re right. Now it has a rumble. I bet it didn’t when it was newer.
how abiut a night time cruzing
is that the 430 cubic inch or the 383 / 390
383! ;-)
This is almost the same car.
Evidently some sort of a time warp.
Sounds like it has a stuck valve.
Do you speak???
Engine RPM is way too high for highway speed. Needs a differential with a taller ring gear
Sounds good. And less expensive than a new gearbox. Do you have a link that you can show me?
PS: On my Harley I reduced the Engine-speed at 100 KM / H from 2400 RPM to 2150 RPM with a smaller chainring. And it drives great. Comes like an expansion of consciousness ;-) Google translates ;-)
Sounded fine to me. People forget that engines were designed to run at 2500-3000rpm all day long...it wasnt till overdrive transmissions became popular in the 1980s that these insanely low cruising RPMs became common. My current daily driver Ford Focus 5 speed cruises at 2800rpm on the highway, for what its worth. That said, 100mph cruise speed is blazing fast for 1959. Most cars back then couldnt even reach 100mph...this thing loves doing it. On a different note, that combination dome/dual map light looks non original, or at least non-Ford. I own a 1984 olds 98 with that exact same unit!
I had a 1969 Impala with 410 gears in the back with stock 14 inch rims and tires that thing was literally a bullet off the line.. I could almost keep up with crotch rockets from red light to red light they would get to the next light and look at me like what the hell...
Check out this Monterey being brought back to life :
ruclips.net/video/EKHwWYYd30Y/видео.html
WOW! You're a bit of a daredevil aren't you? Love the car though, beautiful! Please be careful.
Love the Mercury. I have a question: The fedral government of Germany stated that they wanted zero emissions vehicles completely occupying the road by 2030. With the crazy liberal government over there, would they grandfather these cars over there or does the possibility of the government raiding citizens garages and loading up their cars onto a oneway flatbed to the car compactor worry you? They wouldn't do this in North America, but Europe seems a little politically screwed right now from our point of view across the pond.
Kyle Clement ....Cars like this are classics and aren't driven daily so of COURSE they'd be grandfathered in.
Looks like a ship from outerspace. Look at the detailing, compared to the crap designs today.