Great find and photo!

Thanks. This is at a show in a rural area a little north of home. It is usually too cold for salt to work during the winter so quite a few post-war vehicles survived without a lot of rust. I wouldn't be surprised if this one was still at work until fairly recently.

A Mercury pickup would be a rare beast here!

Canada only so far as I know - '46 to about '68. In 1970 I bought a '52 that came straight off the farm - $135 - served me well though. I drove it for more than a year and was able to get from Alberta into Nova Scotia where I traded it straight-across for a '59 Ford panel. My wife and I were back in Nova Scotia in 1976 and it was parked at the service station where I made the trade.

We see an occasional Canadian build here. I saw my first Fargo a couple of years ago, but I've yet to see a Mercury pickup.