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Apr 19, 2010 | 10:37 PM

saskpwr

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1963 Mercury Tailgate

Anyone ever see one of these around for a reasonable price? I still haven't even found a wreck to get one off of. I have a good left kidney if anyone wants to trade.

The lettering is the only good thing on mine and is there a year of F series trucks I could take a tailgate off of and put the mercury stamp on?

Apr 20, 2010 | 03:45 AM

Zip

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I may have access to one. I will check on Tuesday. It may be in poor condition though.

Apr 20, 2010 | 05:39 AM

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Anyone ever see one of these around for a reasonable price? I still haven't even found a wreck to get one off of.

There are THREE different tailgates, they do not interchange.

Is your truck a Flareside, Uni-Body, or a Styleside which uses the 1957/60 bed?

Apr 20, 2010 | 08:32 AM

saskpwr

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Is your truck a Flareside, Uni-Body, or a Styleside which uses the 1957/60 bed?

It's just a regular longbox nothing fancy

Apr 20, 2010 | 08:43 AM

garbz2

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So it is a styleside?

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Apr 20, 2010 | 09:01 AM

saskpwr

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So it is a styleside?

Garbz

Haha ya it is I never noticed how the regular boxes even had a special name. marketing gimmicks

Apr 20, 2010 | 03:46 PM

NumberDummy

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It's just a regular longbox nothing fancy

Longbox = Styleside, but which one?

Uni-Body (the cab is integral with the bed).

Styleside pickup that uses the 1957/70 bed.

Ford canceled the Uni mid-model year 1963, then used the 1957/60 bed on F100/250 2WD Styleside pickups.

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Apr 20, 2010 | 05:52 PM

Zip

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I looked this morning and all the tailgates are Fords

My tailgate is the original with the Mercury cut out and put in. The previous owner backed it into something and put a rather large hole in the Mercury. He found a newer tailgate and put the Mercury section in the original tailgate.

My 66 is starting to look like more work than I had anticipated. I'm seriously considering selling it.

Apr 25, 2013 | 08:32 PM

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Behrfeet

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1963 Mercury Tailgate

Did you ever find a tailgate? I have one ..... very good condition. It was taken off shortly after the truck was new and has been sitting ever since.

Apr 25, 2013 | 08:38 PM

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gangstakr

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This is a three year old post. Do you have pictures of your tailgate?

Apr 25, 2013 | 09:03 PM

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1966Jacked4x4

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I am sure there are about 40 people on here that will buy it just because of the cool factor. Me being one of them.

Apr 25, 2013 | 09:12 PM

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Behrfeet

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I don't have any at this moment but I can easily take some. I'm new to this site. Can I post images on here as well?

Apr 29, 2013 | 06:12 PM

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Pictures ....

Here's a few quick shots. Both latches work although the right hand one really should be taken apart and cleaned up. It's all just surface rust. It has never seen salt and was only on the truck for the first couple of years.