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Here is a few more Unique Canadian Cars

 

56 Monarch

1955 Monarch, a Mercury based car sold by Canadian Fore Dealers

 

 

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1949 Fargo truck.  Chrysler acquired Fargo Motors in 1928 they produced Fargo trucks until 1930 when they combined it with newly acquired Dodge Brothers. They continued the Fargo name in Canada selling them at Plymouth dealers until 1972 Canadian Dodge dealers sold Dodge trucks

 

 

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1963 Valiant. Valiants were a separate marque in Canada and sold by both Dodge and Plymouth dealers From 1961 onward they were Dodge darts with Plymouth front ends. The Compact Dodge Dart was not sold in Canada.

 

 

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1969 Meteor. Meteors were sold by Canadian Mercury dealers until 1981, from 1964 on they were striped down Mercurys priced to compete with Ford but still a separate marque. They were not easily distinguished from Mercurys

 

 

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1967 Arcadian, These were Pontiac trimmed Chevy IIs, they were a distinct make and sold through 1971in 1976 Pontiac started selling  rebadged Chevettes  as Pontiac Arcadians, no longer a separate make. This continued until they introduced the Chevette based T1000

 

 

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1989 Pontiac Tempest. This was Chevrolet Corsica’s Canadian cousin.

 

 

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1960 Envoy.The Envoy was a rebadged imported English Vauxhall and sold by Chevrolet Dealers from 1959 until 1970

 

 

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1965 Mercury M100 . Mercury dealers sold rebadged Fords as Mercury trucks through 1967 after that Mercury dealers sold Ford trucks



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Richard:  Thanx, again for your info.  You are "da man" when it comes to knowledge and research on these 20th century cars. 

 

I actually think that some of those Canadian versions were better looking than their USA made counterparts.  Cases in point:  Really like the side treatment on that '55 Monarch.  I always thought that the trim lines on the Merc had no relationship to the shape of the car itself.  Also the Meteor;  Front end has more character than the Mercury has.

 

Be kinda neat to have a few of those Canuck cars in model, interspersed with the USA cars.  For me, however, they'd have to be 1950 or earlier and I would imagine that models of those would be pretty scarce.

 

Paul Fischer

I had not either heard of Sylvan, but they seem to make Cleveland area shows, such

as the one on today and yesterday, and the NMRA one about a year ago when I

first discovered them.  They are Canadian and have all the pre-WWII models of

Chevrolets, which never seem to appear in 1/43rd and various other GM and other

makes.  These are in resin, I think, but, only in HO, although I spoke to them at the

NMRA one about doing them in O/1/43rd, with little hope it would really happen.

I think I then did pull them up on the web.

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