1973 MERCURY COLONY PARK - $9,500

https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/cto/d/gresham-1973-mercury-colony-park/7487544508.html

 

I always feel like someone is trying to hide something when they don't clean out the car they're trying to sell..... Clean Longroofs Rule!

 

And asking close to $10k for what would have been a $3k wagon not all that long ago........

 

https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/cto/d/gresham-1973-mercury-colony-park-wagon/7487544508.html

Price drop

 

Big price drop to $6000. There is a lot there to like for that price.

1973 MERCURY COLONY PARK WAGON - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle... (craigslist.org)

 

Question to self:
Why am I JUST NOW realizing that the full-sized Ford and Mercury wagons from '73 through '78 had frameless door glass? (There was still a full-height B pillar, so they weren't a 'hardtop' design, but the door glass didn't have a structural frame around it - just a large seal mounted in the door opening.

 

Ford referred to the four doors as "pillared hardtops". It sounds better than "frameless door glass sedans". The y had their disadvantages -- not sealing as well as sedan style doors, less structural support, tendency to get out of alignment more easily -- but they were extremely stylish for that body design. They showed a definite stylistic kinship to the Continental Mark IV.

 

Actually up through’72 Ford had the pillared hardtops like ctrysquire mentioned where the center pillar was there and the window was frameless. They also offered sedans, where the center pillar was in the car, but the windows were completely surrounded by a frame. This is the way the wagons were through’72. The “sedan” was dropped going into the ‘73 model year. The “sedan” models was Custom and Galaxie only.

 

You're correct. I never noticed before. Brochures show that in both '71 and '72 Ford offered the 4 door pillared hardtop in the LTD and LTD Brougham series, the "true" 4 door hardtop in the LTD, LTD Brougham and Galaxie 500 series, a nd the 4 door sedan in the Galaxie 500, Custom, and Custom series.
Of course all the full sized wagons through '72 were sedan style, with framed door glass and full B pillars, while the '73 - '78 wagons were of the pillared hardtop style (as were the mid-sized wagons from '72 - '77). Maybe not quite as sexy as the true hardtop wagons GM, Mercury, and Rambler fielded in the '50s or Chrysler in the early '60s, but still interesting and attractive.

 

I have a ‘60 Colony Park, last year for the Mercury hardtop. Think Chrysler was ‘64. I really love driving that wagon with all the windows down. Plus it gets a lot of looks. Have ‘60’s through’80’s big Merc and Ford wagons. Enjoy them equally as much, but for different reasons. They’re all great to me.