Any room on here for another chopped Merc thread? :D

Finally rolled this outside after a few months work of derusting and making the windows smaller, it was a real super rusty pile. Bought it on here to keep it from being parted and crushed. Actually got the door to close evenly with a fingers push. Nowhere near out of the woods yet, but good to see a ray of light!!

This is 4" vertical in the front and 4.5" in back, split the roof and extended the quarter windows back to stock length. 49 window surround laid down in the stock location. My lil' Sears flux core has got some miles on it now!







This is a pic from a week or so ago. Still had some hammering and welding to do in the C pillar.

 

Looks good hope you enjoy grinding!!!!!

 

nice job chris..keep up the good work,,,
you are gonna probably be a little attached to that one when you are done,,,
real nice so far,,,,,,,,,,,
looks like you took out more than that,,maybe just looks like more in the pics,,
jim

 

I like it. Keep us updated. Im debating on starting on my shoebox so I need some inspiration.

 

Well look at you go!! Nice to see a straight B pillar in an angled B pillar world.

Cuttin one of those is an ass load of work, no??

Looks good, -Abone.

 

I like that style with the B post kept vertical and the Quarter window back corner kept rounded. Nice work.
The Wizzard

 

Awesome work!!! come down to So Cal and help me with mine = ) keep posting pics please

 

Cool thanx guys, I wasn't even going to post pics but when I got the front end near where it's supposed to be, and the one door back on, I got SO souped.

Yea Jim, if I have to sell this one I'm going to need a FEW boxes of Kleenex!

 

ROOM,,,, are you kidding.....Ill take all the Merc threads I can get!!!!

 

your not allowed to work on your car your supposed to be converting that 4door

 

That starts next week! I only have a 10x30 1 car garage so I gotta get as far as I can get before this turd either gets sold or goes into storage.

 

I love Mercs, and the proportions on that look great. Wish it was in my driveway!

 

bad ass man love merc wish i was there to help

 

looks great man !!

 

Looks good,that blue paint matches my trunklid

 

Great look to it. You've got a good eye, Chris (But all those seams!! You've got a lot of work ahead of you!)

 

car looks great nice work chris

 

Chop,Chop!!! How did I miss this one?? Looking good man. Looks like it has a nice flow.

 

superb

 

And soon we BAG IT!!! Hahaha Ur doing a great job tho seriously Chris..

 

Wow, those proportions look great!
Good luck with the build!

 

Thanx so much for the positive comments!

Well, just got off the phone with Wells Fargo and we are preapproved for our loan....so it seems this is 95% going to be for sale soon after its finished, so if anyone REALLY loves it...

I've sold a bunch of my old cars, only really regret my 55 Olds Holiday, my 65 Mustang fastback, and I am totally positive...this as well. But If we get the house we are looking at that this will become the down payment for, it will totally be worth it. I can have a whole farm of Mercs on the 2 acres!

 

dont take the man lightly either when he says "whole farm of merc's" because he will, so buy one now while chris has no room cause as soon as he has open land all the 49-51 mercs will be there!!!

 

looks good mang keep on keepin on

 

Chop looks f'in perfect from here.

 

Looks great... give the neighbors a break on the grinding every couple of hours and be sure to stop by 10pm... LOL

 

New altitude. Finally getting an idea of what this thing is supposed to look like.

 

Never too many Merc threads, should be one a day to keep me sane while I wait for mine

 

I like the straight posts.

 

its looking good!!!