For Sale at Auction: 1947 Mercury Club Coupe in Williams, Iowa for sale in Williams, IA
Vehicle Description 1947 Mercury Club Convertible.
Leather upholstery was standard in this series 79M Mercury convertible.
The car line was begun in 1939 so was relatively young when this model was produced as a middle of the line between Ford and Lincoln.
This was purchased for the Hemken Collection in 1971 from a fellow collector in North Dakota and is in good running condition.
Interior and exterior are factory original and the hydraulic top has been replaced.
The power plant is Ford's legendary 239ci flathead V-8, producing a dependable 100 horsepower.
This great convertible is in good running condition.
The Mercury was Edsel Ford's penultimate automotive hurrah.
Edsel, only son of Henry Ford, had joined his father's company at age 21, first as secretary, then president four years later.
In fact, Henry Ford never yielded control.
The younger Ford was delegated projects in which his father had no interest, like beautifying the prestige marque Lincoln that Ford acquired in 1922 and shepherding the radical Lincoln-Zephyr into production for 1936.
Edsel hired Ford's first stylist, E.
T.
Bob Gregorie in 1929 and the two men oversaw all of the company's aesthetic triumphs of the 1930s, the Zephyr, its lesser sibling the 1937 Ford and the Zephyr's derivative Lincoln Continental.
Among these was the Mercury.
Conceived as a gap-filler between Ford and the Lincoln-Zephyr, the Mercury was initially considered as a prestige Ford model, not a marque in its own right.
But by the time of its introduction in October 1938, it had become Mercury, Ford's big brother, bearing a family resemblance but with gentle styling cues from Gregorie that set it apart.
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Leather upholstery was standard in this series 79M Mercury convertible.
The car line was begun in 1939 so was relatively young when this model was produced as a middle of the line between Ford and Lincoln.
This was purchased for the Hemken Collection in 1971 from a fellow collector in North Dakota and is in good running condition.
Interior and exterior are factory original and the hydraulic top has been replaced.
The power plant is Ford's legendary 239ci flathead V-8, producing a dependable 100 horsepower.
This great convertible is in good running condition.
The Mercury was Edsel Ford's penultimate automotive hurrah.
Edsel, only son of Henry Ford, had joined his father's company at age 21, first as secretary, then president four years later.
In fact, Henry Ford never yielded control.
The younger Ford was delegated projects in which his father had no interest, like beautifying the prestige marque Lincoln that Ford acquired in 1922 and shepherding the radical Lincoln-Zephyr into production for 1936.
Edsel hired Ford's first stylist, E.
T.
Bob Gregorie in 1929 and the two men oversaw all of the company's aesthetic triumphs of the 1930s, the Zephyr, its lesser sibling the 1937 Ford and the Zephyr's derivative Lincoln Continental.
Among these was the Mercury.
Conceived as a gap-filler between Ford and the Lincoln-Zephyr, the Mercury was initially considered as a prestige Ford model, not a marque in its own right.
But by the time of its introduction in October 1938, it had become Mercury, Ford's big brother, bearing a family resemblance but with gentle styling cues from Gregorie that set it apart.
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