1963 mercury monterey breezeway

thank you rokkett77 , rprice and fory have great ones too.

 

Can Someone Post A Picture Of The M Headliner VInyl

 

I wish I had a pic, the headliner was replaced a while ago with your standard basket weave... I know theres a place that sells reproduction fabrics that might have it. My buddy got some of the weird tiger-stipe looking material for his '67 Pontiac from them.

rprice- could you get a pic of yours? I don't even know if it would show up in photos, from what I remember its a very small print; you'd think it was basket weave or something from a distance. Maybe in the right light?

 

I Will Be Kicking My SelF On The Ass For Not NoticINg The M On My Headliner. To Bad 1/4 Of My Headliner Is Missing
, well i got a picture but can't load from my phone.will when i get home

 

here it is. so i was thinking on the way home from having the Mercury towed to my place.. If I cant find this material ,,,, i will end up using what is good from mine and redoing my sun visors in them to atleast keep some on the fabric alive,
if all goes well ill be offering the service of redoing other sunvisors , and if you use SEM vinyl dye you can get them to a color that fits your car

 

ok so here is part of what the P.O did to the ignition wires after he fried them. he used home electrical wiring, had 2 home wire nuts, never peeled back the electrical tape to seperate the burt and now making contact wires. Under the hood harness was worse.picture to come after its all the way out
i pulled the ignition switch out and pulled the dash gauges out too. :d that thing is freaking heavy ! i love it!

 

well this is the under hood ignition harness. and believe it or not even all fried, i can still use the end plugs ill just solder new wires and even go as so far as to match the colors. .

On even beter news, i got it to start , just by passed the ignition switch, put hot (from battery positive cable) to the ignition coil positive , hooked up the distributor to the negative, jumped the positve and s terminal on the solenoid and sprayed starting fluid in the carb, FIRED RIGHT UP stays running aslong as i keep spraying.

im going to put a mechanical fuel pump back on and delet the electric fuel pump that someone once added. Im not sure why they didnt just install a new mechanical pump last time. , the old one is still there just hanging out....
im super excited to finish the rewire and reinstall the dash and see how it moved about. I REALY REALY want this to be my summer car

 

Glad to hear it runs! That wiring is KRISPY for sure! Just take your time and all will be well. I was suprised at the ammount of plastic in use in 1963! In the Edsel there is some - but not much - lots of rubber. In 63 it seems they had a lot more plastic in use.

I'm lucky in that it looks like mine was re-wired not to long ago. Some strange stuff though - the brakelights are actuated by a movement switch on the pedal instead of through the normal pressure switch. *shrug*. No idea why this was done.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHzQ4PwLiqM

here it is running, and i actually drove it foward 4 feet and revers even works.

 

I stopped at Desert valley Auto parts today grabbed some goodies I'll post pictures later.

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CRAP I forgot to call them - do they still have the trim?

 

Nice - only a little blow-by. Sounds pretty smooth. And yours moves forward - you're now officially ahead of me. Mine moved backwards - now not at all (transmission out for rebuild).

 

Also forgot to state it's odd - my belts also squeak the same way - I may have the wrong alternator clamp on there - dunno yet - haven't dug that far into mine.

 

Actually re checked the passenger side is wiped out . I was bummed to find out. 150~300 for a deck you ca negotiate the price

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A few of my new pieces.

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My father bought a '63 Breezeway coupe when it was two or three years old. It had the 390 two barrel motor. There is a '63 Breezeway four door at Nick's Salvage in San Antonio.

 

Picking up the power seat tomorrow or Wednesday

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Im tempted to buy the blue headliner but remove it myself and re sew it back together.out all seemed to be there. Just the thread wore out (sun baked)

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Those look to be 64's. Amazing their headliner lasted as long as they did in this dry climate! I don't know how many dried out / sun baked interiors I've had to deal with in my life - but its a lot. Sometimes I think it'd be nice to find a car with an awesome interior and bad exterior just to switch it up!

 

i agree , i think we need to get packaged deals on a desert body and eastcoast interior.

 

Nice Mercury man I am diggin it. Subscribed to watch the progress

 

make sure to subscribe to rpride76 hes got one too and has aswesome postings. and thank you

 

I like the power seat idea. Did you ever find a power window setup?

Bench seats are pretty cool - I remember driving my old 64 Chevy Bel-Air with the bench seat. If we were strapped for time / cars - you could fit 8 or 9 people in that sedan - if they were skinny and friendly - 7 was better - 6 had PLENTY of room.

BTW - does yours have power steering?

 

That same donor car has the power window set up, but missing the driver set up and master switch.i might still get the other 3 for now

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Nice score and good luck w/ the build. Here's a pic of my old one. Sold it a few years back.

 

Ive checked out your build a while back.it turned out amazing. Do you ever miss it?. And would you happen to have any leads for extra parts , meer and rpride76 are always looking for extra parts

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Thanks. Yeah I miss it sometimes. I had it for about 16 years or so. I never needed any oddball body/interior parts as the car was 100% complete. For rubber, electrics, and other misc. I always used Mac's.

 

Rpride this is the blue 2 door.

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NICE! 63 2dt Hard Top S55! $300 for that door is a bit much. I'd rather spend that getting my stock one straight!

 

You can offer then less.that's what i do

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