Things My Dad Was Wrong About – Cars and Fashion

This is the best of both worlds, staring me right in the face. It is a shitbox Mercury Monarch, born not from jets, but from the decomposed, assraped carcass of the 1960 Ford Falcon. No one will mistake it for a Mercedes, trust me. Granada (Monarch) vs. Mercedes Dad: Iapprove of this car so long […]

1977 Mercury Monarch

1977 Mercury Monarch — Is that a Mercedes? Uh, no.

What the hell was wrong with us in the 70s?

Ford Falcon chassis (basically) – is this what the Mustang would have become, if it didn’t turn into a Pinto?
250 OHV I-6 from a John Deere
It had a 4 speed stick (unless it was a 3)
Was unable to handle golf balls from, uh, space, without dimpling its trunk.