History let’s play the what is it game!!!

My niece who is an archeologist sent me this today, they are on a dig site wondering what year this is?

 

I wondered about 40 Ford Mark, Merc makes sense though. Damn shame is what it is.

 

There you go, can’t say as I knew that off the top of my head, I’m not well versed on prewar cars!
They were looking for an age to see if it was archeological…not sure what the parameters are for that.

 

Looks like a '39 Merc to me

 

I believe "archeological" needs to be 100 years old, this being 1940ish is 15 years short, but it will be a starting point the things above ground. The bad part is they have no idea how long it has actually been located in that spot.

 

Looks like an archeologist is going to need to recover that one.

 

@57 Fargo did your niece not see the sign. "39 Merc - ran when parked"

 

Didn’t Jimmy Hoffa own a 39 Merc?

 

And "Just testing the waters, I know what I have"

 

You forgot the "No lowballers" .
Marcus...

 

It's already been established but the non-sealed-beam headlight buckets say '39 for sure. There's at least a handful of good bits on that car yet that should be saved if it ends up going to the scrapper. Even little trinket parts and bent moldings and stuff are worth saving off of there, very little is available for those.

 

While I don’t disagree it’s a long ways from me and I doubt a group of archeologists are going to peel the parts off it for me! Lol

 

You never know Fargo. They may help a guy out. Remember though it can take months for them to dig a hole.

 

LOL. Archeologists probably couldn't care less about the bent up sheet metal...just the skeleton.

 

Bones is bones!

 

Even if they be "Rolling"