We return to the Car Clock of the Week series after admiring a Soviet-made analog timepiece from a stately GAZ-21 Volga. This week, we'll visit our current century and very nearly our current decade, with a clock pulled from the dash of one of the final four models of Mercury vehicles ever made: a Milan.
Murilee Martin
The Milan was the Mercury-badged version of the first-generation Ford Fusion and platform cousin to such machines as the Mazda CX-9 and Besturn B70. The Milan began showing up in the big self-service junkyards I frequent a few years earlier than the Fusion, probably because cars from defunct marques depreciate faster than their mechanically-identical siblings. Most analog car clocks made in the last 15 or so years are really just housings for stepper motors controlled by the car's ECU, so they won't work as standalone devices installed in, say, a boombox built from car parts. This one is a good old-fashioned clock with guts that don't depend on some external computer, fortunately.
Mercury Division, Ford Motor Company
Ford produced this clock design starting in the middle 1990s, and so you'll see similar designs inside everything in the Ford empire between about 1996 and 2010, from the Jaguar XJ to the Mercury Monterey. I've pulled several varieties for my collection, and all of them work perfectly when hooked up to power.
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