Escape 2023 Calendar

[sofmerc]

Anybody else noticed the mistakes in the Month of March? Check out March 20th and 27th... Haven't been to far past that, so who knows? lol

[HABBERDABBER]

What are you referring to? Got an image to share?

[sofmerc]

Originally Posted by HABBERDABBER

What are you referring to? Got an image to share?

There is no March 20 or 27th on the calendar... March 20th is march 14th and March 27 is March 15....

[HABBERDABBER]

As long as there is a March 21, my birthday, I am fine with the printers/composers omission and switch 'er roo.

[Iowa Dave]

I get several calendars each year. I enjoy looking at the pictures. Scenery, animals and old cars and tractors. This month (January 23) the NAPA car calendar has a 1948 Mercury pickup.
Black and yellow. Looks better than 95 % of the clones going down the road today. And you could fix it yourself. Progress, I’m not sure.

Rita had a Devils Tower pic selected for one of the Escape calendars a few years back. Haven’t submitted since then. I’m taking well over a thousand pics a year, especially with the grandkids now. My kids gave us one of those made up family calendars one year. That was fun too. Warbirds is a good calendar also. My son works with a guy who gives him one every so often and he gives it to me. I am a fossil.
Iowa Dave

Iowa Dave

[MrLynn]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

I get several calendars each year. I enjoy looking at the pictures. Scenery, animals and old cars and tractors. This month (January 23) the NAPA car calendar has a 1948 Mercury pickup.
Black and yellow. Looks better than 95 % of the clones going down the road today. And you could fix it yourself. Progress, I’m not sure.

I don't recall ever seeing a Mercury pickup.

Me, I favor railroad calendars; two every year, keep one a month ahead.

[Iowa Dave]

They were built and sold in Canada according to what is noted on the calendar. A guy who was big in the antique car club in my home town had one.

Anecdote alert:
The Mercury guys property backed up to one of our parks. The little 48 inch high chain link fence around his whole back yard was in pretty rough shape. It had a gate about 3 sections (30 feet) from one corner. It was all wanky and one day one of my operators hooked the fence with the mower and messed up the 30 foot section but did not hurt the corner post or the gate. The owner called me, going nuts. I sent a foreman and a very good maintenance man over and they pulled the bent line posts and top rail. Then they dug the post holes out clean and used “bag-crete” to install two or three new posts . The next day they went over and put in new fabric and new top rail. It looked great. The owners wife came out and was very complimentary and apologized for him going nuts on the phone with me. She signed a standard release that our risk manager had provided. A couple days later the guy calls me. He was pretty ticked off that his wife was insisting he get started in a new fence for the whole back yard since our piece made theirs really look junky. We were off the hook and he was never friendly again.

But he had a nice Mercury pickup. About a 48 or 49.
Iowa Dave

[MrLynn]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

They were built and sold in Canada according to what is noted on the calendar. A guy who was big in the antique car club in my home town had one.

Maybe Canada only. There were some other Ford products sold in Canada that had different grills from their American cousins.

[DGLP]

Originally Posted by MrLynn

Maybe Canada only. There were some other Ford products sold in Canada that had different grills from their American cousins.

Yep, they sold a mid-size Mercury Meteor for a few years, a larger Mercury Meteor for a year or two and then the Meteor for a time.

Dad's 64 Meteor had a rear window that rolled down, canted inward "the wrong way".
You had that breezy convertible effect, hair blowin' in the wind, with the 5 windows rolled down.

My brother had a '61 Comet 2 door sedan and a '62 Comet wagon. The 2 speed automatic transmission in the '61 Comet was not awe inspiring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Meteor

And the Ford half ton had a Mercury cousin. Not sure if it had the "twin I-beam" suspension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_M-Series

[Iowa Dave]

Here’s a Canadian Mercury pulling a Trillium at St. Malo, Manitoba in August 2016. She’s a red sled.
Iowa Dave

[Vermilye]

Originally Posted by MrLynn

I don't recall ever seeing a Mercury pickup.

Me, I favor railroad calendars; two every year, keep one a month ahead.

This is the only one I've ever seen - it was in Digby, Nova Scotia in 2013.