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1939 Mercury Eight

$30,995 $35,995 1 miles

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1950 Mercury Eight

$35,495 189,000 miles

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1946 Mercury Eight

$61,995 $71,995 88,000 miles

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1948 Mercury Eight

$31,495 $42,995 37,000 miles

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1951 Mercury Eight

$28,795

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1950 Mercury Eight	$39,997	Nov 2026
1951 Mercury Eight	$32,495	Oct 2026
1949 Mercury Eight	$26,495	Oct 2026
1951 Mercury Eight	$39,995	Oct 2026
1950 Mercury Eight	$20,895	Oct 2026
1950 Mercury Eight	$60,495	Oct 2026

Frequently Asked Questions about the Mercury Eight

The Mercury Eight was built for the 1939 through 1951 model years, with a break during World War II. It was Mercury's only model line in that period and went through three designs: the original 1939-1940 cars, a redesign for 1941 that continued through 1948, and an all-new car for 1949-1951. Civilian production stopped in February 1942 and resumed for the 1946 model year. For 1952 the line was split into Custom and Monterey series.

Ford created the Mercury Eight to fill the price gap between the Ford and the Lincoln, a move championed by Edsel Ford. Introduced in November 1938 as a 1939 model, it rode on a 116-inch wheelbase, four inches longer than the Ford's, and carried a larger, more powerful version of the flathead V8. Four body styles were offered in the first year.

Every Mercury Eight used a flathead V8. The 1939 car launched with a 239 cubic inch version rated at 95 horsepower, larger than the 221 cubic inch engine in the Ford, and the 1946-1948 cars were rated at 100 horsepower. For 1949 the engine was enlarged to 255 cubic inches, listed by most sources at 110 horsepower, and the 1951 rating was 112.

Yes, the body that became the 1949 Mercury Eight was first drawn as a Ford. Bob Gregorie's studio had styled it for the Ford line, but company management chose a different design for the 1949 Ford and moved Gregorie's car up to Mercury. The new Mercury kept the 118-inch wheelbase used since 1941 and shared its body with the smaller 1949-1951 Lincoln, where the 1941-1948 Mercury had shared its body shell with the Ford.

The Mercury Sportsman was a wood-bodied convertible version of the Mercury Eight, sold for the 1946 model year only. Its body used maple framing with mahogany panels, the same treatment as the Ford Sportsman that was offered from 1946 to 1948. Only 205 Mercury Sportsman convertibles were built before the model was dropped.

The Monterey began in 1950 as the top-trim two-door coupe of the Mercury Eight line, not as a separate model. It carried a vinyl roof covering, with some accounts also naming canvas, and upgraded interior trim. Mercury offered it as a response to the pillarless hardtop coupes General Motors had introduced for 1949, since Mercury had no hardtop of its own until 1952. That year Monterey became a separate series.

Yes, James Dean drove a mildly customized Mercury Eight coupe in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. The car is in the collection of the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, which lists it as a 1949 Mercury Series 9CM Six-Passenger Coupe.

A fully automatic transmission was not offered on the Mercury Eight until its final year. Merc-O-Matic, a three-speed automatic, arrived as an extra-cost option for 1951, and before that the cars used a three-speed manual. A semi-automatic option called Liquamatic had been offered on 1942 Mercurys and Lincolns, but it proved unsuccessful, and Mercury had no automatic again until 1951.

The 26 Mercury Eight listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $5,995 to $134,900, with a median asking price of $33,995. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.

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