Liz Kopec, an attorney from Southington, Conn., on her 1939 Mercury 8 touring sedan, as told to A.J. Baime: My husband and I were driving to lunch one day when we saw a man pushing a car with a ...

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Ford Motor Co. introduced the Mercury brand in November 1938 as a lineup designed to fill the market void between Ford and Lincoln. The Mercury 8 was essentially a pumped-up Ford with a longer ...

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Don WilbertAlbuquerque, New Mexico1950 Mercury"In the fall of 1961, while in the Navy attending school at the Presidio of Monterey, I purchased my cherry red '50 Merc for $375. Already nosed and ...

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The first Mercury model, the 1939 Mercury 8, debuts in dealerships on Nov. 4, 1938, as a premium alternative to Ford. It sold for $916 and boasted a 95-hp, V-8 engine. Mercury 8 sales in the first ...