Meteor (automobile)

Meteor was one of Ford Motor Company from 1948 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1976 operated exclusively in Canada car brand.

To give the Canadian Mercury dealers the opportunity to offer even cheaper models, Ford Canada called in the summer of 1948 that sold this brand Meteor dealer to life. In this car, it was initially to Ford models, which had usually Mercury - specific chrome trim and design elements in the style of the brand. Conversely sold the local Ford dealership from 1946 to 1961 also modified Mercury cars under the brand Monarch.

Model years 1948-1961

Since the Canadian Ford dealer since 1946, sold the present in the Mercury Monarch price range, demanded the Mercury dealer for themselves for a cheaper car, the Ford class.

This they got from the summer of 1948 in the form of meteor. This was a modification of the new Ford model year 1949 Mercury grill, powered by a 3.9 -liter V8 and available as a coupe and sedan trim levels in the DeLuxe and Custom. In the first year, 23,027 were sold Meteor ( which accounted for 41% of the total production of Ford Canada).

In the wake of the meteor was maintained up to and including model year 1961, the models always based on the latest Ford cars and easily distinguished from those in optics, Model staggering, sometimes even in motorization and in the interior design. The model names were:

  • Main Line, Custom Line and Victoria (1952-1953)
  • Meteor, Niagara (300 ) (until 1959), Rideau (500 ) ( 1954-1961 )
  • Montcalm (1958-1961)

Numbers (model years):

Model years 1962/63

In these two years there have been based on the new Ford Fairlane in the U.S. Mercury Meteor, which was also sold in Canada. This eliminated the need to keep the meteor in its present form in the offer and its production was stopped.

Model years 1964-1976

After setting the Mercury Meteor, which was deleted without replacement, Ford Canada once again took on the construction of their own meteor, but which was based from now on the U.S. Mercury models of full-size class. Differences to the Mercury models were limited mostly to grill and chrome parts, the interior and, until 1969, the use of a six-cylinder engine as the base engine. The models wore the following designations:

  • Meteor and Custom (1964 )
  • Rideau, Rideau 500 and Montcalm ( 1965-1976 )
  • Montego (1967 )
  • LeMoyne (1968-1970)

Numbers (model years):

Total: about 255,000 pcs

Model years 1977-1981

After the 1976 model year meteor was abandoned as an independent brand. For this was a Canada - own Mercury Meteor sold from autumn 1976 to summer 1981 as standard equipment stripped down version of the Mercury Marquis, to which there was no counterpart in the United States.

Swell

  • Zavitz, R. Perry: Canadian Cars from 1946 to 1984. Motorbooks International, Baltimore 1985. ISBN 0-934780-43-9, pp. 28-48.
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