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P re se nt s
Presents
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for the Classics

Featuring Guy Lamarche and his 1966 Mercury M-250

By Casey Leger always on the lookout for a classic pickup,
always kicking tires. Timing, luck, and
“I’ve been into classic vehicles ever since circumstance finally came together for him
I was a child,” says Guy Lamarche. “My in 2012 while he was working on a project
brother Raymond and I often read Hot Rod in Eastern Ontario. He had found a truck
magazines.” he was ready to buy at a small automotive
The Lamarche family has a real love for repair shop. It took a little detective work on
classic vehicles. Guy’s wife, Sandra, and his part to locate the owner, and once he did,
his brother, Raymond, both own classics it turned out that he would have a 7-year wait
that they acquired decades ago: she has a before he could put his plates on it.
’73 Triumph TR 6 (which her father, who “She wasn’t ready to part with the truck,”
also had an interest in classic automobiles says Guy, of the owner. “She did drive it
and who owned a couple himself, bought often and said she enjoyed driving it. So,
for her), and Raymond owns a ’69 Mustang for the next few years, if I was in the area,
convertible. “Currently I own a 1966 I’d either call her or stop by. In the early
Mercury M-250,” says Guy. “I always drove spring of 2019, her husband told me she was Photo Submitted
and liked pickup trucks.” ready to sell the truck to me. She told me she
Guy has a particular affinity for 1960s wanted it to go to me as she knew how much
Ford pickups. “A Mercury,” he explains, I wanted that truck.”
“is the same as a Ford with different name It turned out that the truck was in relatively
plates. Being a Mercury and a 3/4 ton makes good shape, requiring only a few repairs. “I
this [his ’66 M-250] a very rare truck. It is wanted the truck to be sound mechanically,” Mario Doth of Auto MD, and Alain Pilon “It runs very good and is solid,” he says. “It’s
my understanding that Mercury trucks were says Guy. “My goal was to be able to use it of Al’s Body Shop. These fellas were very a pleasure to drive. It has a 352 V8 with a
built in Canada from 1946 to 1968,” he says. as a daily driver. I did what I could myself, helpful and did excellent work.” ‘three on the tree’ manual transmission. It
The tale of how he came to own his then took the truck to professionals do the Today, although it is stored indoors for the still has its original Oil Bath air cleaner.”
Mercury is an interesting one. Guy was remaining work: Jim Read of D&R Welding, winter, Guy’s Mercury is still ‘a daily driver’. Happy motoring, Guy.

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