Customs How are everyone's Mercury projects coming along?

I sold my moredoor so I could get to work on my 51 2 door.Now it's on hold again.My wife got laid off Friday and I been out of work for a year and going to school for a new career.I guess it's going sit a little longer.

 

I'll be praying for a quick turn around for ya guys. I can't imagine what your going through. You still have a very kool Merc before too long hopefully you can get back at it.....

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

Well it's not my project but i'm working on one right now, AND THE DAMN REAR GARNISH IS THE GNARLIEST I'VE EVER DONE........By far!!!!

A lot going on if you wanna keep the rear wing window!!

 

Ian, Did ya try using a Hudson 6 side window sedan rear wing window? It works almost too easy!!!! Check out my thread on Area 51 for some info. The pics I have are on my wifes computer and shes in SOCAL right now with her family so I cant post a pic.

 

Wait heres one. Hudson wing window in a 4 Inch, in the rear, chopped Merc. No mods done to Hudson frame.

 

This econony stinks. Hang in there!!!

 

Good luck 51 Mercules!

 

Unreal Ether!!! Did you find out by accident or that was your goal when you decided on the measurements to make it work before the chop??
Pretty fucking cool man!!

 

Good luck man!!!....... She ain't going nowhere!!!

 

Ive got a buddy whos dad is a hard core Hudson guy in El Paso. We went out there and got the nickle tour. Im not shittin when I say we saw about 40 Hudsons, drivin and parts cars. I seen the frames in one and he gave me a set. Crap happened by complete luck!!!! Ide rather be lucky than good any day!!!!

 

I want to thank all of you for support.I appreciate it.

 

heres the 50 merc my family is building right now. Bought it as a shell, pretty solid but needs some tlc. The car had barely anything with it but as of right now we have a nice big pile of parts for the car. Jamco lowering kit, power brakes, SBC with a 700r4, original 50 dash, 51 column, 50 merc wheel, 51? Lincoln wheel, stainless garnish moldings, 49 parking lights, 49 grille, caddy tails, and ordered power steering kit and have to order a radiator still. We're replacing the front and rear floor pans and will have them done really soon, then we can finish the lowering kit and put her back on the ground to finish a lot of the other mock-up work. heres some progress pics!

car with original cut up stock suspension, but sat nice!






we were sent the wrong length u-bolts so we will install the correct ones once they come in.

 

floor pans being replaced

 

hope you guys like it, sorry for a crap load of pics, might start a build thread.

 

Looks great! Any chance of talking you out of the Caddy tailights? IMO...the only thing that should have Caddy lights,is a '59 Caddy. Maybe one frenched in,but two looks bad to me. There's another guy on here with three! Red,amber,and clear. Don't have to tell you how bad it looks.
Just my dumbass opinion...

 

we'll if we find another set of 50 original tails with decent bezels we'd consider removing the caddy tails...we've been having no luck finding 50 tails with nice bezels, but we'll pay more attention to them once we start doing bodywork which will be a while but thanks a lot!

 

Those floors look great. Who did you get the panels from? I'm a BIG fan of stock grills too. That's why I changed mine back to the stock '49 grill,instead of the Winfield floating wing. It's more for a full Custom.
Planning on chopping it?

 

we're making the floor pans outselves, just borrowed the bead roller off of a friend. We really just want the car to be almost completely stock outside but nose/deck it, thats it. The group of us building it have no experience chopping anything hahaha so it wont be chopped unless we get someone to do it later down the road. Wouldnt mind leave the roof bare metal for some shows if it gets chopped after its painted : )

 

My tailights are in the stock bumperguards,but they need to be rechromed. I had been thinking about putting some stock 49's back on,but 2" lower. I don't know. It depends on how much the stock lights assemblies are.

 

haha thanks a lot man i appreciate it! my dad and i alternate welding the pans in, but he cuts the pans out and we alternate running beads in them, its fun hahaha

 

I'll GIVE you a set of 50 bezels that are decent enough to chrome if it keeps you from leaving '59 Caddys in it.

Other than that it looks like a GREAT start.

 

hahaha thanks a lot man i might have to take you up on that offer. We're pretty sure we're changing them out but like i said, we're not ready for the body work yet so when we're ready it will come up lol but thanks again!

 

The Body has been stripped, now it is time to get down to panel replacement.

 

I had '59 caddy taillights on my car, I took them off because I wanted my to have a tighter 1955 - 1957 build feel to it:

 

This upgrade started just adding power steering, and has lead to a new motor transmission rear end, A/C replacing the floorboards etc. I decided to paint the chassis and thought I would sand blast it. Well that lead to taking the front end apart since I thought it would look crappy if I sand blasted it and painted it while it was together.

I want to replace everything but the king pins, any one got a vendor that sells items separately? MAC only has some items, Kantor has a $400. kit but it does not have everything.

 

So, John. How you lookin' now?

 

I have some pics to upload and to share...

 

What are you waiting for?

 

I have problems uploading pics from my work pc, so they might have to wait until I get home.

 

Come on man step to it.