Features Kustoms blues? I need to see some kustoms....

Here are pic`s of the car after it was sold. A screwball here in town owns it now. He was the first to find out it was forsale. I heard he got it the very next day from the executer of the estate.

 

Continued from posts on page 152. Here are a couple more pic`s from the 80`s of Dave`s car. Chopped Merc`s in our area were a rare sight. See the crowd around it.

 

Kim and Nancy Johnson from Council Bluffs Iowa ended up buying Dave`s 40 Merc convertible. It was a stalled project, plus, Dave had his Merc. Before they had it completed, Dave`s Merc burnt up in a garage fire.(about 92) So Kim and Nancy had musical notes put in the inner quarter panel of there interior to match the ones in Dave`s old Merc as a tribute. You can see it in Salina just about every year. You can see they added the stainless trim in the last pic. It gets driven everywhere. I think it`s been in 46 or 47 states.

 

Here you go, Jim..........E

 

I’m always loved Bob Johnson’s “Sweeter Than Wine” 40 Merc. Met Bob in a gas station on our way to Holland, Michigan for the Leadsled. Nice guy! His Merc is now a part of a collection in Wisconsin. The collector opens his garage to visitors a few times a year. He has lots of flathead cars and a few historical hot rods.

 

More kustoms plucked from various Craig Owens photos