SRS (Service Road Series)
AHH Yes the forever boring and uninteresting Service Road Series. Not only does the series not offer beautiful views and charming vistas, it will make your hip waders wish that you wore your chest waders. Cache containers vary in shapes and sizes. Some winter friendly some not. Some real easy, some may be head scratchers. Since this is a road series, I thought I would showcase cars. Not just any cars, but cars that I owned and drove. The odd puzzle would be cars that I would own depending on the size of the lottery win. Please enjoy, cache responsibly and above all, have fun.
Meteor was a marque of automobiles offered by Ford Motor Company of Canada from 1949 to 1976. The make was retired for the 1962 and 1963 model years, when the name was used for the Mercury Meteor sold in the United States. It succeeded the Mercury 114, a Canadian-market Mercury based on the Ford, the "114" name being taken from the car's wheelbase.
It complemented the Mercury, and gave Canadian Mercury-Lincoln dealers a car to sell in the low-price market, against the Canadian Pontiac. Similarly, Canadian Ford dealers offered the Monarch, a line of cars based on the Mercury models, to compete against the Oldsmobile. This was due to the dealer structure in Canada, where smaller communities might have only a single dealer that was expected to carry a full line of models in both the low- and mid-price classes. From 1949–1959, Meteor typically ran fourth in overall sales, behind Chevrolet, Ford, and Pontiac.
Although Meteor was still considered as a separate marque through 1976, after 1968, the cars also carried Mercury badging and were advertised as the "Mercury Meteor". LeMoyne and Montcalm S-33 models continued through 1970.
My First Car. Well I didn't pay for it but I held the keys. My dad would write me a blank cheque once and a while to put gas. And yes folks, gas was sold by the gallon. I was once sideswiped on the rear quarter panel and the trickiest part of the repair was getting the leavers on the fender skirts to work properly.....