Motion Pictures Hells Chariot '49 Mercury

Most of you have seen the Greased Lighting Merc from the movie Grease that has been restored in threads here on the H.A.M.B but now the Hell's Chariot '49 Merc Convertible has been restored also.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/grease-car-1949-mercury-custom-chop-top/?sm_id=organic:sm_id:fb:HRN:trueanthem&fbclid=IwAR1YV_ewjFHcyIraurPMm8wxbHdc1BFqwIRwURqj5zozqWmJ0XiLDrsmL4g

 

Nice!

 

Ok, I read the other day how it sold for $478,000 in 2015 and it wasn't making sense but now your article said that was all rumors is clearing the air here

a cut and paste from the article I read a few days ago.

Case in point: The black 1949 Mercury known as “Hell’s Chariot”—driven by Travolta’s nemesis in the movie—was the last Grease car to cross the block, and it sold for $478,000 in a Julien’s Hollywood Auction three years ago.

and here is a cut and paste out of Speed Gems article he posted.

Darren Julien tried to convince David and Scott to sell Hell's Chariot at the Hollywood Legends 2015 auction, convincing them the Mercury needed to make a trip to Ireland to be shown off to European buyers, but the car was so poorly promoted that David and Scott called it off before the auction took place. That hasn't stopped the trolls from claiming the car sold in 2015,

 

In a few hours we will see what it goes for. The auction estimate was up to $700,000 and if I remember that was before Olivia died so I wonder if it will have any added influence on this sale?

 

@fuzzface For a minute I thought I posted an old article again. The article goes on to say "Hell's Chariot"—the chopped 1949 Mercury custom driven by antagonist Craterface, played by Dennis Cleveland Stewart—is the only car with known whereabouts, which is untrue because I saw the white car driving around at this year's Back To The 50's car show.

 

P.S What time does the car go on sale?

 

Never mind, It's on now.

 

lot 71 is going on now but the hell merc. is lot 126 so roughly guessing we have a couple of hours wait yet.

 

No sale, only got to $250,000

 

It was on Pawn Stars recently. The owner turned down Rick's offer of 500k, would only come down to 550k.

 

Thanks for the heads up that it was on Pawn Stars, I just watched that clip on you tube.

 

I dunno...even at $250K, it looks like $50K worth of car...and $200K of marginally iconic hype

 

I agree. I thought the original price estimate was off but you never know at these auctions. You also cannot blame it on no big money players there, the cash was flying high on other cars. Seemed the owners vision on what they have is cloudy.

 

I think you're being generous.

 

That car is uglier than I am. Oops, that didn't come out right.

 

I guess I am cheap. I would expect to be paid to take it home . Provenance doesn’t add anything to me.

 

I'd go 10 bucks for the hub caps, but they'd have to get rid of those lame spinners. As far as not making the reserve, it seems 'a fool and his money' didn't show up today.