Projects 55 Merc full custom build

Well guys I've decided to end my dream car build for many reasons,age,money and I moved to the Rocky Mountains and there no great place to drive it so I have done a lot of design and fab work so I hope some of you guys enjoy my build pics ! A young designer named Matt Hurley who I found here on the HAMB took my ideas and put them down on paper so I could see where I wanted to go ! Thanks Again Matt

 

Horse-shit.

build it.

 

With help from some great friends a really straight 55 Merc Montclair was located in Roswell NM

 

Home coming !

 

Cleaned her out and found a rock solid floor and so the build starts !

 

I decided to start with the dash just to get my feet wet ! Cut out all of the unneeded holes and built a radius bender

 

Looks like a nice solid start, how are the inner rockers and floor supports?

 

Ok now the Packard tail lights also found at the same junkyard and same friends !

solid !!!!

 

looking great - keep posting updates

 

So are you building this or the pic is what you wanted to build? Confused here

 

He was building it and gave up.

 

Too bad..was of to a great start

 

After finishing the rear it was time to adapt a roller 302 and aod into her. No big deal with after market motor mount adapters and******* mounts but the AOD bell housing is huge so the fire was cut and the drive shaft tunnel is raised.

 

Seating turned out to be a problem, I had bought some 60's t bird seats but they turned out to be way to bulky and tall for me so I went over to a friends 4x4 and hot rod shop where I found the perfect seats !!! Late 70's early 80's Toyota Land Cruiser buckets, short,light and simple with a great shape !

 

I lived in Denver and Boulder in the 70s,lots of places to drive that around.

 

Yeah but I live in Pagosa Springs on a 2 mile road !

 

Dirt road !