Customs How are everyone's Mercury projects coming along?

Merc is on hold for the moment no funds. all i need is a drive shaft and im back on the road.I just droped in with the help of my father in law a 283 with a 400 trans.

 

Hey John, looks like you're still movin' forward on the Merc, Looks great..... Love to see it in person when its done. My Mercs still right where you saw it last. I have collected a few parts for it lately tho. I've been trying to get my r*t truck finished 1st. Keep up[ the good work, Tom

 

Hey Tom, hope you are well. I bought a trunk lid and hood from that guy Kurt who is not too far from you. He chopped his 49-50 and was parting out a moredoor.

I was just having a 15 minute convo with my painter. He added another jelcoat to the Winfield skirts, felt that they were too thin. He has to do a little more work fitting the skirts to the car. Then one more walkaround looking for pinholes and final prime.

We are talking a black with a little bit of blue in it... non-metallic.

If anyone has any super dark blue non-metallic suggestions post 'em up, we can paint a few test panels and then decide.

Thanks again to the friends I've made during the project.

 

my new dash in hangin in the car now

 

WHAT!!!!!! Cal Smoothy! Say it ain't so Joe...

Modern shit on a Merc really kills the appeal when you get ready to sell it. I'm not talking about brakes or drive lines,but interior,lights,wheels,steering columns,stereos.

 

I have a set of '55 Studebaker caps for my car, those are very trad.

But I also like these:

 

does anyone have an extra 49 or 50 grill shell i would like to find one for my 51

 

I am trying to get a VW out of the garage in order to even begin to play with my Merc. But I am gathering shit still. and will be going at it like the Hammers of Hell in a little while.

 

I looked at my Monarch this summer. That was about it. Bought some brake parts for it, but house renos took up most of my free time. I did manage to sit in it once and make vroom vroom noises

 

my 56 is coming along pretty good ,ill try to post some pics..

 

OUCH!!! Too Cadzilla for me...

 

Those wheels on your Merc? HELP! Then all your efforts turning it into a stylish custom will be lost...
Please, go for the '55 Studebaker instead, they are beautiful and classic. And to the wheels a set of Firestone 7.10 15 WW.

A solid dark blue...should not be hard for a skilled painter to mix a custom colour. When talking about dark solids I more think of mid- late 30's luxury cars... A friend of mine did have a '38 Packard that did look black but actually was very dark blue. Custom mixed nitrocellulose (painted in the 1970's) a stunning paint job that still is on of the best I ever seen (a 100 point car...). But on photos you cant tell that the car is dark blue, it looks black...

 

OOOOOOh thats real ugly please go with studebaker caps

 

These are the style Studie caps I have:

http://www.pjsautoworld.com/1950cars/1955StudebakerConestogaChampionWagon10.jpg

I'm not sure yet what it will take to get to work with my current steel rims, so if it's a major pain I might do spider caps just to have something that does not look raw.

The rim I posted above I like I'll just run them and not tell you guys.

Actually I'm keeping the car pretty trad and those smoothies won't happen since I gotta spend a few g's on the interior.

 

This is the only Merc I have seen that smoothies seem to work on.

 

John, check out 57 chevy "harbour blue" not super dark though, more of a medium to dark. I've been wafling back and forth over that and dark green for years on my car.

 

Django of HRCC and Chrome Czars fame suggested this "dark sea blue" which I guess was used on planes?

 

Dear lord that is a LOT of aluminum foil!

 

frame is almost done, waiting for Lenco to arrive, posi unit, 35 spline axles with disks then I can finish the 4 link. Getting ready with my new hack saw to cut the roof off and lower it.

Ford BB 523 blown
Lenco 5 speed
3.25 rear gear first four of the Lenco is like a 4.56 on the street, then 5th 1 to 1 for cruising.
Air conditioning
Power steering
Power windows
4 wheel disk brakes
4 inchs off the ground with skirts
Quiet exhaust with electronic dumps
800 watt stereo

maybe even the wife will ride in this one.

 

Dave has got a lot done in the last few weeks. He is frenching in the origianal taillights. I've never seen that done so I'm curious how it will turn out. IMO the chop looks great!

 

Just looked, and man the wheels on Cadzilla are pretty nice. They are Boyd wheels.

I need a dash, what other car dash that is pre 1957 would work in the car? I'd do a '49 but folks want big money for those.

 

55 olds, but, theres alot of cutting involved. I know guy that has one in a 51.

 

Hey John, in the current issue of Scale Auto there is a model of a '49 that the builder said he painted it Mercedes Caspian Blue, "It's a rich dark pearl blue with a hint of teal in direct light". It looks like a preaty dark color in print though.

 

Nice, but looks like it has metallic in it:

 

Hmmm here's a question... So a custom built in say 1951-1955 would have been painted with lacquer right? How often would a custom have any metallic or semi-metallic paint in that era?

 

Very often! I would say that at least 75% of the classy kustoms that was shown in magazines from those days did have metallic paint....

 

So of the say 10 oldest Mercs, how many have metallic paint, anyone know?