[editor-surveyor]

It’s a 1954 Mercury Monterey

[rawhide]

Looks like it is an automatic. Did they have automatics back them?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

You are correct: LINK.

[Yardstick]

Dang, you beat me to it. Came up under “1954 Mercury dash” in Google.

Cars had so much fun gadgetry back then.

[nascarnation]

Bingo!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rexgray/4766175767/

[rawhide]

You are right. Google search found this dash from a '54 Mercury Monterey. Looks like a match.

[Red_Devil 232]

YOu are right! They are heater and vent controllers.

[Texas Fossil]

My you are good at identification:

http://www.chromjuwelen.com/de/magazin/enroute/282/161747-1954-mercury-monterey-coupe-dashboard.html

[rawhide]

1954 Mercury Monterey Sun Valley.

Mercury got a styling and engineering redesign for 1952, such at 18% more window area.[2][4] Monterey became a separate series and Mercury's top model line, a convertible and four-door sedan were included in the new series lineup. The heater and vent controls where changed to levers and placed on a plane set perpendicular to the dash behind the steering wheel.[5] A station wagon bowed for 1953, the same year a Siren Red Monterey Convertible became Ford's forty-millionth car produced.[6] 1954 saw the introduction of the new 161 hp (120 kW) overhead valve Ford Y-block V8, as well as the bubble-top Monterey Sun Valley, which had a Plexiglas front half roof which was similar to that of the Ford Crestline Skyliner.[2]

[rawhide]

Mercury Monterey Sun Valley Dashboard - 1954