Open-air motoring, with its uninterrupted views while driving is pretty hard to beat. But not everyone truly likes being out and about with the actual wind blowing through their hair. Glass sunroofs are so common today as to be standard equipment on many models. But before the glass roof was even a thing, Ford and Mercury released a pair of models that offered a way of bringing the outdoors inside a car without all that actual, outdoors getting inside. With a tinted and curved Plexiglas panel that served as the roof from the top of the windshield to the rear edge of the door glass—covering the front seat occupants, the two-door hardtop 1954 Mercury Sun Valley is unlike any other car made that year. Mercury went so far as to call it a “dream car come true” in its advertising.

Part of the Monterey range, the 1954 Sun Valley benefited from Mercury’s major restyling introduced the year before, a look that themed the Mercury’s frontal view behind an enormous pair of chromed bumper bullets, with vertical taillamps bringing up the rear. Mercury’s first ball-joint front suspension also debuted for 1954. More consequential, arguably, was that Mercury finally gained an OHV V-8 for 1954. This 256-cu.in. version of the Ford Y-block V-8 was Mercury’s first new engine since the nameplate was founded in 1939.

This shimmering beauty is not only eye catching but a dream to drive. The ultra plush seats finished in two tone green and white upholstery make this car a dream ride.

This California car features a V8 – 256 CI OHV engine with a three-speed automatic transmission, dubbed the Merc-O-Matic. A tinted Plexiglass roof insert, power steering, power brakes, power windows, AM radio, clock, heater, Fender Skirts, continental kit and Dunlop tires.

Serial # 54LA10041LM