The Meteor was an automobile brand built by Ford Motor Co. of Canada from 1949 to 1961 and again from 1964 to 1976. We seldom see these cars turn up for sale here on Barn Finds, yet this is the second one from 1957 that we’ve seen here this month. This time it’s a Country Sedan, a mid-tier station wagon that carried the same series name as the U.S.-made Fairlane. We’re told some mechanical work has been done, so we assume it’s a runner in Langley, British Columbia, and available here on craigslist for $14,900 (USD or CDN?). Thanks for the unusual tip, T.J.
If you parked this wagon next to a Ford County Sedan from 1957, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart. The different grille work would be the primary giveaway. A Ford Y-block V8 should be under the hood of this Meteor, displacing 272, 292, or 312 cubic inches with horsepower ratings from 190 and greater (if original to the wagon). This “Ford” has seen at least 127,500 miles, which explains whatever attention has been given to this people mover.
We’re told the paint is original and is “sunburned” from its life in Saskatchewan. Assuming that rust is not an issue, perhaps the patina on this Meteor will grow on you. After all, they’re only original once. We don’t know the condition of the interior as the seller is short on photos.
The asking price is fluid as the seller is looking for a 10’ trailer to help with a pending move and would take it as a partial trade. In one of the pics, the wagon reminds me of the National Lampoon “Vacation” movie scene with Aunt Edna on the roof!
Saskatchewan may have sun 🌞 but also lots of snow ❄️ 😲
Hi Stan. If you ever met anyone from Saskatchewan, boy the talk is all about the weather. Of course their livelihoods depend on it more than most. It’s also typically too cold for salt to be effective so rot is seldom an issue.
The clear coat doesn’t make life any easier come time to repaint this car, and it really needs it.
Did he put lowering blocks on the rear? Or is there that much junk in the back?
Have you heard of “junk-in-the-trunk”? Not just in the back but on the roof. No to lowering blocks. Who needs them really anyway? They’re a “phase” that should pass away, I think. Use the wagon as it was intended, even with helper springs.
Even when you’re trying to sell it? Or does that stuff come with?
A ten foot trailer? Sorry,here in the good ole USA,we have 8-12-16 footers.
Well here in Canada we have actual beer.
TC I have a 10 foot trailer built by diamond c trailers in Texas
Which I bought new here in SC far as I know both are still in the good ole USA
I would not trade it though
I do like this car always like the look of 57 FOMOCO vehicles I am just not in the market until I finish what I have
More likely to be freezer burn than sunburn.
He obviously doesn’t see an old Cadillac in his future as a 10′ trailer would be useless. He would need a 20′ so it don’t overhang.
Canadian funds. This car is in Canada you know!
Angel I believe he is wanting a trailer to move furniture not autos which is why he is selling off his cars and wanting a trailer??
That makes sense.
ANOTHER 1957 Canadian Ford! I prefer the other one (the Rideau 500)… hope to see MORE Canadian cars!
To be clear, Canadians are great folks, and while I got roasted for calling their language “mumbo-jumbo”, I couldn’t imagine better neighbors to share a border with. Hey, if America continues to slide, guess where I’m going, but that’s not going to happen. America is still the best there is, and Canada, a very close 2nd, although they may not see it that way.
I mentioned on the last Canadian Ford, in Wisconsin, on very rare occasions, a Canadian car would be seen, and it was like some kind of bizarro world car. Looked similar, but with unusual names and chrome doo dads where there were none on a US car. We never saw the drivers, but as kids, figured they were also some sort of mutants. I wondered if Canadians said the same about our cars? Hey. peace all!
Hello again, Howard A! I was quite a bit older, and I saw the 1940s Canadian Fords and Mercurys, then all sorts of Canadian cars in the 1950s. But I laughed out loud at your thinking as a boy that their owners were some sort of mutants. I can see that in a way, given that their cars were sort-of “mutant” versions of ours — such as a 1956 Dodge in front, that was a 1956 Plymouth in the rear. Or a 1953 Pontiac with 1953 Chevrolet tail-lights. What I saw in Canadian Fords was, more daring trim in Canada. Look at a 1956 Meteor, and compare with a 1956 Ford. They were fun to spot, for me. However, it never occurred to me that the owners might be mutants — that’s a NEW one! But it just goes to show you how a child, attempting to make sense of things and people in the absence of direct knowledge, can have one whale of an imagination! It figures, though, with fascination over dinosaurs and space-aliens and such occupying their young fertile minds, that they could imagine Canadians as mutants! I am Autistic, and I’m afraid that we Autists tend to be more “button-down” than that: but, look at the fun we miss! (smile) I’m sure that Canadian children have their own imaginations about what Americans “must” be like! Every time I ever was in Canada, I was impressed by how similar Canada and Canadians are, to America and Americans. And I know of certain Canadian actors who play American roles better than Americans do! Just watch out for when they say “Zed” instead of “zee”, or, “aboat” and not “about”.
Hi Harrison, we can thank early TV for shaping our young impressionable minds. With the cartoons we watched, it’s a miracle we could think at all. You asked about the call letters of those radio stations, yes, those were FM stations and the ensuing lifestyle it spawned. As kids, we were extremely sheltered from other countries, perhaps on purpose, especially with cars. Perhaps America didn’t want its young minds seeing how different countries worked. It was a big deal to get a Canadian penny or nickel in change.
Hi, Howard A. Your comment reminds me of Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”:
“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,
It’s a wonder I can think at all.”
He’s such a genius with words! I grew up on A.M. radio: F.M. then (when there were stations at all) was the province of classical music, soft jazz, and soft orchestral background music, all of it non-commercial. Many F.M. stations operated as a tax-loss for their money-making A.M. outlet, and usually carried the same call-letters, with “F.M.” as a suffix. All the action was on A.M. in the 1940s. Television was still in its infancy, screens were 10 inches, and any television stations were on for only a few hours per day. Often they were on with a test pattern, to allow you to adjust your set for focus, height, width, and linearity, as well as brightness and contrast, before a programme would come on. Often in the evening, it would be wrestling, or maybe Sid Caesar. Nothing for children. Bozo the Clown was one of the first to bring a kid’s show to television. Most folks didn’t have television anyway — sets were expensive, and families raising children couldn’t afford them. You basically had radio, for popular music and all of the serials and detective stories. Then, around 1954, the Kansas City format (“Top-40”) took over, and things became more “teen”-oriented in the mid-1950s. By this time, television was big business. I particularly enjoyed “Candid Camera”, while my “baby” brother liked every action-western on T.V..Beginning in 1957, my sister watched “American Bandstand” [Dick Clark] every afternoon.
Hey guys, we’re old enough out here as it is without you getting us to feel older. You’d think all us car guys grew up with the same script or something. Sure seemed simple in those days.