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Thanks for the help. I traded a guy in Colorado a desoto grill and some $ for a custom alum bench and two rear buckets. I dig the seats and will...
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I have a buyer for 1950 mercury and want to keep my front and rear seats for my 1949 project. any ideas on a swap? It doesn't have to be period...
Probably the best story I have heard in a while. This means something to me as I own a 67 GT500 in lime gold. #2891. The car did not come with the...
He posts on here quit regularly. Lots of pix of his high dollar mercs. He is located in Wildomar, CA...just south of Lake Elsinore on I-15. Go...
I went the easy way out on my 50, melted the coils and 4 in blocks in the rear. Welded studs on the bottom of the shackles to act like skid plates...
I drove bias ply on my merc until I moved back to SoCal and started driving on the 710 and 405, those grooves and pot holes made for some...
Dean Bryant built the Cobra Merc and morphed it in something pretty sick. Seeing Dean's merc at Paso in 99 motivated me to purchase/drive my 49....
Worth more to the Shelby guys...289 Hi-Po is a must for 65, 66, 67 GT 350's. i might ask this same question on the shelby forum or one of the...
Yuck.
I have a FE 427 SO stroked/bored to a 490, the motor screams but it is a tight fit. i also run a 351 stroked out to a 408. The 408 is a monster,...
I am not sure where you live in the OC but i live on the Peninsula in Newport and drive my 50 merc a lot of days. Shit I didnt even think Bad Bob...
I put a tko 600 behind an all alum 490 FE in 67 Shelby and the same tko 600 in my brothers 68 Bullitt with a 390. I got them from Keisler, not...
These pix make me shake my head and laugh...actually I cant stop laughing. They remind me of the old guys in Hawaiian shirts with porsche red...
Where can I get one of these? That is the best looking van i have ever seen. I didnt know they made model a vans in 30-31...must be rare, maybe...
I have to work on Saturday morning and was thinking of driving up sat night or early on Sunday morning...any chance of getting in on Sunday...
No...dont tell me you are putting those bubble skirts on :(
Did they also shoot in Newport by the Cannery on Saturday? I think I saw that truck or one similar parked a few doors down from my place taking...
I have a 50 and a 49 in pieces. And am located in Newport Beach, CA. I will post some pix later.
I thought i was the only one who wonder that...and why are they hiding their faces? Hiding from the embarrassment?
Ness lives down the street from me and i have got a chance to talk cars with him a few times. He is a kool kat. He has a 49 merc tattooed on his...
Dean Bryant from Elegant Customs by Dean built/owns the Cobra merc which was transformed into the Gone is 60 Seconds merc. He is somewhere in SoCal.
The car looks great. How much room is in the car once it was chopped? Can you take some interior shots...i was curious to know how tight a 36...
Near route 130 and Connie Mac's?
I am running a stock 49 merc rear end with a 350/400 combo in my 50. Run the 700. i have been wanting to put a 9" rear end in but havent had the...
17 years old...friends hopped up 93 Mustang 5.0...an order of NOS from JEGS...famous last words..."But the big jet on"...when the needle dropped...
I think when you clip it with a camaro/nova subframe the front wheels sit out 2 far. It doesnt look right and it looses something in my opinion. I...
The Merc looks bad ass. I know it is probably somewhere in the thread but what are the portions of your chop? Front and back and the how much...
I think a lot of people here talk tough b/c this is a message board. No real names, no address and no having to confront people in person. I think...
I have a horror story for you. I bought a 67 mustang with a 427 SO. I noticed that compared to the 428 this motor had a lot of balls. The motor...
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