Other great details include the opening vent windows. If nothing else, they add an element of visual interest for the driver. The fuselage-bodied Chrysler of my childhood had them as well and while I really cannot make a case for their usefulness, I found them fascinating. The fender-mounted turn signal indicators particularly caught my attention. You just don’t see exposed fasteners on modern cars. But no, this is how they made it in the Meteor. The phillips head screw helping to hold on the headlight trim looks like something I might have come up with myself about 35 years ago (or actually about 2 years ago on my Highlander, where it currently holds on the bumper cover). So it is kind of wild – at least to me – that I should run across one 60 years later near my small town, at the general mechanic’s that I visit this time of year to get the stickah (aka, Massachusetts Vehicle Check Program annual inspection stickER) for my car. It’s not as rare as the 2-door sedan (2,704) or the station wagon (5,121 combined models), but it’s still a pretty low production number car. But after looking a bit harder (and also Googling bit harder), I realized that this was one of 7,565 1963 Mercury Meteor Custom coupes that left the factory when I was 2, within some number of months of the JFK assassination, depending on just when this car was produced. I thought it was some kind of Canadian import, since we do get quite a few of those here in New England. I will admit that when I first came across this particular Meteor, at first I didn’t know what it was. I take that angle, since this is a vehicle that has been featured somewhat often here on CC. This post calls forth some of the smaller details about this 1963 Mercury Meteor Custom 2-Door Hardtop Coupe.
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