Québec profond and the Mercury truck.

 

Maybe you saw the NYT piece on what they call "the new nationalism" is Québec, which has been around forever, and isn't much different from any other nationalism. Other people's nationalisms always do seem ludicrous, (see MAGA) based as they are on mythologies that any reasonable person who doesn't happen to be a member of that particular tribe would... well...question. American nationalism is usually called patriotism. But, anyway, what really grabbed out attention in the NYT piece was that handsome Mercury M-1 truck. We posted a Mercury M-47 a while back, and the M-3 in Nova Scotia. Then there was the M-2 that showed up outside our Manitoba correspondent's house in August. And a 1966 Mercury M100 in Saskatchewan. A lowslung Mercury, also in Saskatchewan.

One of the favorite cars we ever caught in Quebec was this '58 Chevrolet Biscayne we saw in Cookshire, en route to the Maine border. Always thought the '58s more appealing than the famed '57. If you try 58 Chevrolet in our search widget you'll see a bunch more from all over, Québec to Nouveau-Mexique.