Projects Bought a Mercury on purpose

I’m not the expert. But I plan to use em.
Another guy bought em at an estate sale. I tried to buy em from him there. Ha called me back an hour later. We worked out a deal

 

They are 56 OLDS Starfire caps. I think that you are correct about the Saturn. The aftermarket that I recall had a grid/checkerboard background.
Eddie

 

Now I want you to imagine your only 17, it is 1957, your a city kid, dad just got home driving this, it is a week before Prom night, your ride is a 1947 four door Gray Kaiser that your going to pick up that very special someone in Prom night, and your Dad says, "Take this instead"
It happened to me. Ok I violated something here, but hey you ever hear a better story from a 85 year old?
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Now for the rest of the story: as Paul Harvey always said, but only if you want it to be told, (it, is just slightly car related, more life related).

 

I was going caddy sombreros.
I’ve got 2. Found a couple more.
But I think I’ll run these Olds caps.
Showed up at the start of the estate sale. The guy that found these caps went right and I went left. Couldn’t believe these were there.
We exchanged numbers and he called me back. Nice guy. Super fair price.
Got to talking with him and his friend. The friend has a pile of fender skirts for stuff he doesn’t have a clue what they fit. and a sun visor.

Hope he calls me back again

 

Those look like a pretty nice set of Olds caps! I have a set too but they are ROUGH…. Great score!

 

That was a hell of a score! They will be perfect on the Merc!

 

Are they worth the $100 I paid for em?

 

thanks so much for liking my story A. M and allowing to me
"Walk on yours" so to speak.

 

I’m not a hubcap man, but I think $100 was a great price.

 

Does a bear **** in the woods?

 

I have a few times

 

Uh, yea, $100 was a steal.

 

need some white walls now

 

Yep, needs whitewalls. Good thing they are cheap.

 

I know a guy who has some Z28 wheels for that alternative look

 

Pretty soon you will qualify for the Pharaohs blood initiation and car coat!

 

LOL! I do need rid of a couple of those wheels…

 

Hmmmm

 

I'd get the final Grill mounted and set the Hood on then let them tell you what treatment to do. Personally, I like 53-55 F-100 S.S. trim rings.

 

Cam came in

2 pieces.
Already broke-in

 

Hope you found that Before you walked out the parts house doors!

 

Parts guy opened it
New one on the way

 

You don’t have to worry about those lobes going flat!

 

I’ve got a 153 Chevy 2 engine.
Should work

maybe

 

I like the Olds caps, and I like the '53 Merc headlight rings. What are those hooded die cast headlight bezels from? If those are the GEM branded aftermarket ones that were supposed to make a Chevy look like a '53 Cadillac, they're crazy valuable.

 

I think 55 Buick special.
Grabbed them and the side trim 20 years ago at a pic-a-part

 

I like the hooded headlight look!

 

OK that makes way more sense, they do look like '55 Buick.

 

Think we’re going to trim the painted buckets down about 3/4 to an inch.
They just look too long.