Customs My 1940 Mercury a special Christmas Story

I felt compelled to tell the story of my 1940 mercury . I love 49-50 mercury’s, I’m not sure if it was watching rebel with out a cause in the early 80’s on channel 9 or what ( btw Rebel Without A Cause is a Christmas movie) but I thought man those are the ultimate cool guy car. It wasn’t till years after that I learned how cool 39-40 Mercs and 37-40 Zephers are , So needless to say years later after that the internet came around and occasionally I’d search 39-40 merc and years after that found this one, supposedly ol moonshiner / drag racer, it did have a 40 merc engine. , offenhauser heads , 39 trans( disnegrated ) hand made exhaust dumps And hand written time slips in the glove box . The car as parked in 1962 of so until the previous owner bought it in 1963. It’s set in a garage since missing out on things like Rosa parks. JFK, the Beetles, the stones, Vietnam, the entire 80’s-90’s, it even missed the whole realization in the late 90’s of traditional hot rodding

 

Thank you for listening to my Christmas Story and also share the story of the lil of Merc that could.

 

Thanks for the story and the photos.

 

First class story.

 

Sweet!

Dave

 

That’s one crazy hood ornament on your car.

 

Wahoo!!!!

 

Good find, nice build....looking great!

 

Great story, thanks for sharing.
The chop is perfect. Beautiful car.

 

Great job. Beautiful Merc.

 

nice job on the chop! Looks good. Thanks for sharing

 

... and to all, a good night.
Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z...

 

It's a Christmas Miracle! HRP

 

Very cool! Thanks for the motivation to get started on mine.

 

Done Did that Merc a beautiful service

 

Damn good job...Now I am thinking a chop on my 41 (avatar) might be the way to go...

 

Thank you thank you!!!! I just wanted to build a late 40’s early 50’s looking car, I believe in letting the car talk to me and keeping to the roots, soo many great eras

 

I have the same plan for mine but going with early Caddy engine.

 

You did an outstanding job on your Merc. Well done.

 

Christmas isn’t here just yet ! Time to start the new year right ! A New Christmas tradition,

 

Love the chopped version, especially the angled B pillar look.

 

Ho Ho Holy shit, that's cool!

 

You made that chop look easy, and it looks perfectly proportioned

 

Nice!

 

Again and again...I'll drop the love for this car and hobby... Keeps life attractive. Thanks

 

I have been a lil bit busy with other projects /house repairs this winter, so haven't done much to the Merc other than had a few lil trinkets to the ol Gal