For Sale: 1963 Mercury Meteor Wagon - "Bought from the orginal owner" - Onalaska, WA - Not Mine

[6T-FinSeeker]

For sale on Craigslist: 1963 Mercury Meteor 4-door Station Wagon in Onalaska, WA  -  $8,000  -  No phone # provided.  Reply to Seller through Craigslist's email to:  e66dd95340d139bc915c8467f3929ea5@sale.craigslist.org

 

Link: https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/cto/d/onalaska-1963-mercury-meteor/7386022131.html

 

Seller's Description:

1963 Mercury Meteor 4-door Station Wagon

• condition: fair
• odometer: 100,000
• cylinders: 8 cylinders
• transmission: automatic
• title status: clean

Bought from the orginal owner. Plastic still on the backseat and visors. Original V-8 motor. New battery and brakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[58L-Y8]

The Standard Catalogue of American Cars; 1946-1975, edited by John Gunnell

1963 Mercury

  Meteor 4dr station wagon 6pass, style 38, 2,359 built.

  Meteor Custom 4dr station wagon 6pass, style 48, 3,636 built.

  Meteor Custom 4dr Country Cruiser 6pass, style 49, 1,485 built.

Edited September 28, 2021 by 58L-Y8
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[John_S_in_Penna]

I was looking at this and thinking it was a rare car.

Then I saw Steve's production numbers above.

I knew it was a rarity now;  evidently when new, also.

[58L-Y8]

42 minutes ago, John_S_in_Penna said:

I was looking at this and thinking it was a rare car.

Then I saw Steve's production numbers above.

I knew it was a rarity now;  evidently when new, also.

John_S_in_Penna:

The only place to see one of these 1963-only Meteor station wagons is on re-runs of The Andy Griffith Show plying the streets of Mayberry.   Its a '63 Country Cruiser, the top-line model with the fake wood-trimmed side panels.  Otherwise, these have vanished into thin air.   This one isn't a sole survivor but any more than a handful would be surprising, these generally were run into the ground as used cars.

Steve

[Aaron65]

That is super cool, although finding specific parts must be a nightmare!

[Bloo]

I like seeing those "WASH 63" license plates. They were on everything December, 1965 or older from 1963 until the 90s unless the plates got changed for some reason. They were usable as regular yearly plates until 2000, so we Washingtonians got very used to looking at them.

 

You can use them as YOMs now, and I suppose those could be from Ebay or something, but if it was off the road even for a year or two there is a strong possibility that those license plates could be original to the car. The seller says he got the car from the original owner.

 

The "FB" prefix means the car came from Whatcom County (Bellingham area) if the plates are original.