Once again the grille of the Mercury full-sizes is revised, with a central protruding part now dividing the front in two halves. The turn signals are moves again from the front wings to the bumper. The S-55 disappears as a separate series, but remains as an optional performance package, offered on both the two-door hardtop coupe and convertible versions of the Monterey, which includes the “428” 7.0-litre engine. On the other hand, two new series are added at the top of the range: the two-door Marquis and the four-door Brougham.
Mercury Monterey
The style of the Monterey is angular, and clearly related to the Lincoln Continental. The Monterey’s range includes five models. Among them the Breezeway no longer features its original silhouette with inverted slant rear window; it is now similar in appearance to the plain sedan, but with a retractable rear window for better ventilation of the passenger compartment.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Four-speed manual and three-speed automatic gearboxes optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door sedan, four-door “Breezeway” sedan, two-door hardtop coupe, four-door hardtop sedan, two-door convertible coupe.
Mercury Monterey S-55
Rather than a separate model, the S-55 is now an option package designed for performance-minded customers. It includes the most powerful V-8 available, dual exhausts, bucket seats with centre console and power brakes with discs at the front. It is discontinued shortly after the beginning of the model year.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp, mounted at the front. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox available at no extra cost. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: two-door hardtop coupe, two-door convertible coupe.
Mercury Commuter
The Commuter, the station wagon version of the Monterey, has to content itself with a shorter platform borrowed from the Fords. Thanks to its pleasing style, high volume and extremely smooth ride, it is one of the most popular station wagons in its price range.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 542 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door station wagon.
Mercury Montclair
The Montclair is somewhat plusher than the Monterey, proposing more chrome, wheelcovers and an electric clock.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Four-speed manual and three-speed automatic gearboxes optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door sedan, four-door “Breezeway” sedan, two-door hardtop coupe, four-door hardtop sedan.
Mercury Park Lane
The Park Lane is a posh version of the lesser Monterey and Montclair, loaded with chrome and powered by the “410” four-barrel V-8. Four-speed manual transmission and power brakes with discs at the front are standard this year.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engine: V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox available at no extra cost. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door “Breezeway” sedan, two-door hardtop coupe, four-door hardtop sedan, two-door convertible coupe.
Mercury Colony Park
The Colony Park station wagon is a spacious and well-appointed vehicle that can be distinguished by its side woodgrain panels.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 542 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door station wagon.
Mercury Brougham
The Brougham offers a different trim and better noise insulation than the Park Lane.
● Introduction: 1964 for this generation of Mercury full-sizes, 1966 for the Brougham. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engine: V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox available at no extra cost. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door “Breezeway” sedan, four-door hardtop sedan.
Mercury Marquis
Offered exclusively as a coupe, the Marquis is a plush variant of the Park Lane that proposes, among others, a rich upholstery and a vinyl roof.
● Introduction: 1964 for this generation of Mercury full-sizes, 1966 for the Marquis. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engine: V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Four-speed manual and three-speed automatic gearboxes optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: two-door hardtop coupe.
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Mercury Monterey
The style of the Monterey is angular, and clearly related to the Lincoln Continental. The Monterey’s range includes five models. Among them the Breezeway no longer features its original silhouette with inverted slant rear window; it is now similar in appearance to the plain sedan, but with a retractable rear window for better ventilation of the passenger compartment.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Four-speed manual and three-speed automatic gearboxes optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door sedan, four-door “Breezeway” sedan, two-door hardtop coupe, four-door hardtop sedan, two-door convertible coupe.
Mercury Monterey S-55
Rather than a separate model, the S-55 is now an option package designed for performance-minded customers. It includes the most powerful V-8 available, dual exhausts, bucket seats with centre console and power brakes with discs at the front. It is discontinued shortly after the beginning of the model year.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp, mounted at the front. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox available at no extra cost. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: two-door hardtop coupe, two-door convertible coupe.
Mercury Commuter
The Commuter, the station wagon version of the Monterey, has to content itself with a shorter platform borrowed from the Fords. Thanks to its pleasing style, high volume and extremely smooth ride, it is one of the most popular station wagons in its price range.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 542 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door station wagon.
Mercury Montclair
The Montclair is somewhat plusher than the Monterey, proposing more chrome, wheelcovers and an electric clock.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Four-speed manual and three-speed automatic gearboxes optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door sedan, four-door “Breezeway” sedan, two-door hardtop coupe, four-door hardtop sedan.
Mercury Park Lane
The Park Lane is a posh version of the lesser Monterey and Montclair, loaded with chrome and powered by the “410” four-barrel V-8. Four-speed manual transmission and power brakes with discs at the front are standard this year.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engine: V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox available at no extra cost. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door “Breezeway” sedan, two-door hardtop coupe, four-door hardtop sedan, two-door convertible coupe.
Mercury Colony Park
The Colony Park station wagon is a spacious and well-appointed vehicle that can be distinguished by its side woodgrain panels.
● Introduction: 1964. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.4-litre, 270 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engines: V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp; and V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 542 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door station wagon.
Mercury Brougham
The Brougham offers a different trim and better noise insulation than the Park Lane.
● Introduction: 1964 for this generation of Mercury full-sizes, 1966 for the Brougham. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engine: V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual gearbox. Three-speed automatic gearbox available at no extra cost. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: four-door “Breezeway” sedan, four-door hardtop sedan.
Mercury Marquis
Offered exclusively as a coupe, the Marquis is a plush variant of the Park Lane that proposes, among others, a rich upholstery and a vinyl roof.
● Introduction: 1964 for this generation of Mercury full-sizes, 1966 for the Marquis. Construction: body on separate chassis. Engine: water-cooled V-8, 6.7-litre, 330 hp, mounted at the front. Optional engine: V-8, 7.0-litre, 345 hp. Transmission: to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual gearbox. Four-speed manual and three-speed automatic gearboxes optional. Suspension: independent at the front, rigid axle at the rear. Brakes: hydraulic, to drums on all four wheels. Servo optional. Discs on front wheels, drums on rear wheels with servo optional. Length: 555 cm. Top speed: n/a. Range: two-door hardtop coupe.
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