Thanks for posting a couple of photos, Kevin, I have never been able to figure out how to post photos from my cell phone on this site. Calling my car a "Mercury" is kinda confusing, it is a Canadian model, called a Meteor , which anybody familiar with 50s Ford cars, would readily recognize as a 59 Ford, not a Mercury. However, the Meteors, although based on Fords, at least from 1949 thru 1961, were sold at Canadian Mercury dealerships, (along with Mercury trucks, which were essentially Fords, with Mercury badging, and a tail gate with "MERCURY" stamped into it). But realistically, other than a fancier grill, emblems and trim, the Meteors were basically Fords. The Meteors were built at the Oakville Ontario Canada Ford plant, alongside regular Ford models, so both Fords and Meteors were rolling down the same assembly line at the same time, and were both common sights on Canadian roads in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. As for the scales at Beaver Springs, they are located on a raised platform, under a roof, not far from the staging lanes, near the dragstrip surface. If anybody that was there this year, it was near where Faron was pitted with his supercharged red 68 Mustang. Faron helped me weigh the car, those scales are the old style balance beam with sliding weights style, but seemed pretty accurate, based on what Faron said his car weighs, and the difference of my car, with and without me in it.
