Well, I've got the "1965 Ford and Mercury Trucks Shop Manual" too and there's little info. about my radio, just like 65MercShorty first said. At least the Philips radio is identified, but there isn't even a model code? The picture (K1032-D) is the same as found in the US "1965 Ford Trucks Shop Manual"? The controls are described just like the typical AM Bendix radio.

 

Here's another truck for sale with the Pushbutton AM Radio:

1965 Ford F-100 Pickup Truck - Saskatoon Collector Cars For Sale - Kijiji Saskatoon Canada.

I pulled the old radio from my dash, here is the mess that was left!

 

thats a hack job dank...fortunately find that part of the dash is easy though...just need to find someone really good with a welder...


- cs65

 

Not the same radio, has square pushbuttons, the dial/bezel is flat.

 

I zoomed in on the radio, blew the image up 200%-400%. Those buttons sure look round to me and have a tiny round dimple. Too bad about the sun. The brightness does make the bezel look flat, but it appears to have the same basic shape as my other two, when you zoom in.

 

Here's a perfect picture of the Canadian Pushbutton AM Radio:

1966 Mercury pickup - Vancouver Collector Cars For Sale - Kijiji Vancouver Canada.

Awesome truck but I have to think it might not move too quickly at that price?

 

I think he thinks he has a 100 point rig...which he doesnt...no nit picking...but the radio is a great example...After seeing so many of these radios in canadian truck...maybe they were a dealer installed piece...I dunno but that truck sure is pretty....but its not 80K pretty to me...



- cs65

 

I don't know about that price either, but "hats off" to him/her, it's a great looking Mercury!

As far as the radio, I think it's installed a bit high in the dash. All other pictures I've collected has the pushbutton radio somewhat centered in the dash, not touching that silver trim? I don't know for sure?

Heck, four months ago, I didn't even know these radios existed!

 

Holy cow! So that's what mine is supposed to look like! I think I've got a ways to go. It's hard to make out in the photos, but is that a M100? Was a padded dash an option? Maybe that's why the radio looks a bit high - the additional trim for the padded dash would be a bit lower than just the plain metal dash, right? Good reference photos for the door interior too. That all looks pretty top of the line, and with a 352 V8 it must go like...well, pretty fast, eh? I don't want to scare my wife, but how would you spend $80K on a restoration? Is that normal? Oops, sorry, I forgot, we're talking about old trucks here! What's 'normal'?

 

what horrible pictures, I'm sorry if the owner is on here, i'm not sure... the actual quality of the photo is nice, but the detail, there is none! no interior shots, minus radio and odo. If I spent 80k restoring a vehicle and was selling it, I would have so much more photos when selling! something to actually present the vehicle. Sorry, I just really hate it when people don't think to put good detailed pictures of the vehicle they're selling up.

 

How many vehicles have you restored, how many were frame offs? The $$$ figures add up quickly, kiddo.

Since 1956, I've owned 327 cars/trucks, and...

In 1981/83 I did a frame off on my 1965 F100. I bought EVERY part that was still available from Ford at that time...and by the time the truck was finished, I had spend $25,000.00 on just new parts.

That figure would have been at least 30% higher if I had not been able to buy the parts at cost + 10%. The total cost for the restoration was almost 40 grand.

Today, if all these parts were still available, the prices would be quadrupled. Since most parts are not available, one is at the mercy of whoever has them...so the frame off restoration costs could be as much as 100 grand...or who knows?

There are 1000's of parts in each vehicle...if you were to buy them all separately, the total cost would be FIVE TIMES higher than the actual MSRP of the vehicle.

 

No doubt! I can imagine costs adding up pretty quickly, especially if everything is done right. My comment was meant to be to be tongue in cheek with regards to my wife's perception of my 'project', in which the number $80K was not previously mentioned! It's like fixing that drip in the tap that turns into a kitchen reno...these things happen! I'm sure she'll understand.

 

In any case, we got off topic here, which was dank4120's research on Canadian Mercury truck pushbutton radios. The expensive restoration project was mentioned because of its radio photo. Anybody got any more observations/ideas/photos about Mercury radios? Personally I'd like to commend dank4120 for his diligence in pursuing this topic. I'm sure the answers are out there somewhere....

 

Here's another radio, mounted pretty high in the dash:

1966 Mercury Pickup- Good Condition - Kitchener / Waterloo Collector Cars For Sale - Kijiji Kitchener / Waterloo Canada.#

 

Another pushbutton radio:

1966 Mercury M100 Pick-up Ford

By the way, the truck that I pulled my radio from was not a Unibody? I just assumed it was a '63 by the grille: