Another project add to the stable

Oh rustydibris was showing me his delicate way to remove filler!! Could of got a bigger hammer and chisel!! I wonder how he put filler on!!!!!!

 

leave my headlights and hood alone KISS . lol Looks cool but I love the other hood and I like the 52 headlights frenched. I wonder how many cars I regreted selling ...must be like 100 lol

 

Sorry peter But i`m hooked. There is a few things about this car that i did not like. The hood has to go!! head lights?? Well they look better now with the Ford Hood skin added.

As for KISS Keep It Simple Stupid. I am!! I just making some minor Mods.LOL

 

Been playing around with Photochop and came up with this.Made some changes from the first pic. Roof is lower and I made the rear side window smaller and leaned the back of the roof down more.I also changed the front wheel opening

 

I needed the extra leverage i tell yeah

 

Cool score... if you followed the ground rules laid down by Victoria's Secret, I think it'd work perfect!! I like the photochop too! nice!

 

GREAT! Another Merc being brought back from the dead! Looks like you're just the latest Doctor trying to save the patient,hahaha! Doesn't look too bad though. Good luck with it fitzee...

 

Thanks guys. Spent the day hunting for parts. Hooked into a early 90`s EFI 350 motor and got a intake to fit it as well as a 600 carb!! Got a box of GM truck wiring harness.Going to go through that tonight to see if I can put together a harness for the merc. Rocket56 is the man!! Anytime I need something I get it from Peter.Seems I end up with everything he has!! But ever time I go to his house he garage is still blocked!!! What up with that Peter??

 

I believe it was the cut down full size Impala glass...I took a quick look for the magazine but havent found it yet...I will take another look.

 

Love that roofline, looks an awful lot like a 56-7 Continental Mark2.

 

I think parts just grow or multipy in my garage ...acually its a sickness and adiction of buying shit I dont need lol then i sell it for less than i paid for it or give it away . Maybe one day it will come full circle and it will all come back to me .... I think I would need a warehouse to put it all in . I like the car and what you are doing with it ....remember I called dibs lol .

 

So peter You have the motor moved out??You know it is only 12:00 I can come get it.lol

 

we were at the shop the yesterday and were wondering what the 60 pontiac 4 door roof I have would look like on the merc. Just laid it on the car for a quick look and with some paper and tape this is what we came up with. Need to remover the pontiac front windshield frame and narrow it about 4 or 5 inch but I think it will work out just fine. The back of the roof is a bit flat so will have to work that to. The flow of the back of the roof lines up nicely with the rear deck. Well looks like i have a roof skin,now I just need to build the front windshield. frame and then I can work the pontiac roof into the mix

 

Damn that looks pretty good ! What are you gonna do for a windshield and frame? Do you have an orig that you can cut down?

 

Man! I like it.

That tiny bit of rake to the side glass really really looks good to me...along with the curved return to the rear side glass.
You said it would work and you were right!

 

I have the windshield but the top of the frame was gone. Plan is to take the glass and make a mold from fiberglass and use the mold to build a frame around. I am planing on building a back glass from say a full size chevy pickup front glass,I have one, and cut it down to the shape I want for a back glass. I need a curved glass and think a front glass out of something will work. I`ll build the rear window frame much the same way as I plan on building the front frame.

 

That sounds like a good plan make sure you post lots of nice big pics

 

Me build something without pics?? That rarely happens. I itching to get started but waiting on the front glass to show up at the shop...Peter you reading this.lol

 

I have a 56 Olds 2 door hard top wrap around rear glass if you want to make it fit a sink it into the body ...its not very big

 

I will drop off the glass as soon as I can get it down , I hate the dam snow ...starting to have snow rage and now the town is after me for puching snow across the street .....Oh and I want my car back ,,,,, but only when you get it finished,

 

Never mind the olds glass where my front glass??lol Thanks peter but it raps around too much for this roof line.

 

Oh boy I cant wait to see the sparks fly on this Do you have much time to be able to throw at it? I got all next week off so 9 days of shop time as long as the back cooperates (have a good supply of pain killers lol) ,I hope to get a shitload of stuff done !

 

Things at the shop are better now that I have a few guys hired. Plan is to try to spend a hour a day at it and try to get one full day a week at it.I work at my shop all week and most Saturdays I`m working on a truck for another customer at his garage. Right now I just getting a game plan in order.Making a list of parts that I need and finding them and figuring out how I will be build this,which I think I have figured out.

 

I got lots of time to throw it I got this far with it already

 

Oh your so funny! Where were you tonite when I was putting the fire wall and trans tunnel in it.

 

Here is a few pics from last nights fire wall and trans tunnel repair and some from today. had the roof off a 1980 chevy pickup in my stash and after sizing it up I think I can mod it to work for the top of the frame.There some other cool shapes on the roof so keep them too. The glass show up today,thanks Peter, Did a quick fit and the glass is not for a merc!! I`m thinking it is for a 52 ford.It is close but you can see it not the one for it.I still can use it cause where it is different I will change the frame.So I glassed over the window so i can make a mold of it and use that for the frame building.Just waiting for the fiberglass to dry and it is on to the next step.

 

Looking good Fitzee, that truck roof will be cool if you can use it, see thats why I never throw stuff away either

 

52-54 merc and ford is the same glass according to all the listings , but sedan and hardtop could be different like the GM products ...sorry you got what I was given . I am sure it will work out.

 

I like the roof!

 

Just found this thread . . . you're a moving target Fitzee!
'50 Pontiac roof, '80 GM pu windshield frame, God knows what else . . . very interesting.