Here is some old news. Look what some one has done to The Sonny Morris "Blue Mirage"50 Merc by Joe Bailon.This car has an amazing history in the bay area and was eventually owned and restored by Mr Merc in Norh Dakota with the help of Joe Maneri......And now this!
I would give my left n#t for a Bailon, Barris car and this guy has one and does this, thats sad. timebomb
There should be laws against things like this. Probably got lots of cool hydraulics now and a really big stereo...........
Wow, what a turd. I don't see why people do that to a Merc, let alone one with some history. Why couldn't they start with an ex-cop Caprice or something.....
I mean lets face it,this thing was never appealing and probably not on anyones must have list but history is history.
Does anyone have a more recent pic of the Bailon style version?. The one where Mr. Merc had painted those wheel well ribs in white? I thought it was chopped recently. The new owner has also taken those rectangular wheel well ribs off of the fender?? Yea, what a shame.
I met Mr. Bailon and it gave me chills when iI shook his hand it was an honor. Just give me 5 minutes with the clown that ruined that car.
You know I was trying to think pf spmething clever to say but words escape me, why didn't he start with another Merc. I mean they're not around every corner but that is just sacrilige. Bah!
Yeah, Seymour, but just because you don't think Mona Lisa is pretty, is no reason to paint a mustache on her!!!!! That's just plain butchery!
Very true... that's why if I ever bought a car that was an old built custom, I'd better like everything about it or I ain't buyin it... I hate when ppl chg **** on old cars to suit their tastes. One of the many would be the orig Hirohata merc.
Are you sure that is the same car? If so, the new owner went to alot of trouble to undo the work on the front fenders' insets, and maybe the hood lip, as well. If it is the same car, I hope he saved the grille and tube bumpers, so if he ever comes to his senses he can put it back the way it was.
im not conviced its the same car. its clearly chopped in riksters photo, now its not! i think some one took the ugly nose of the bailon car and replced it, and this monkey ended up with it and changed it a bit..but i was wrong one other time so it could happen again i guess
The changes to the Bailon car that Mr. Merc had happened a few years back. I heard about it a couple years ago. There used to be a web site showing the remake of the car after Sterling sold the car. It made me sick. I cannot find the site now. The comment that I remembered on the site was how ****py the bodywork was. I thought that was a cheap shot by the person doing the remake. I saw the car a few years back in Sterling's shop and it was still very presentable. I first saw the car at a show in Fargo back in the 80's. That was the last version of it when Sterling owned it. Had the gold leaf front. I was not into Merc's at the time but that car made an impression on me. Not that I thought it was the greatest car but what a custom really is. The interior as much as the outside. While Sterling owned it there were changes made to the car, chopped and paint, but it didn't change the "theme" of the car. When it went to the current condition it changed the soul of the car. The car originally had a custom interior of barrel seats and such which was replaced with tweed. The changes to the exterior can be seen in the picture. The history of the car is gone. It may not have been to everyone taste but it did have history. Sterling told me that parts of the interior were saved and are displayed at a museum. Someone probably knows where. The shop that removed the interior really trashed it. Neal
I am not sure that the 1st picture is the same car either but it did get rebuilt to a car that looks like it. The chop looks different to me but as I remember it the front end was changed to what is in the picture. Neal
I didn't much like that car to begin with, 'cept the fender cut-outs, but didfn't that car ALWAYS have a Not For Sale At Any Price sign on the rear quarter windows forever? It wasn't attractive before but now it's just uglier than hell.
It CAN'T be ! Nobody is stupid like that ! ...Boyd may be ! I don't love the work of bailon, but for sure that Merc is piece of history ! I think it's a fake ! The top chop is not the same ! may be the shop want to make publicity with the buzz of an historic kustom mauled by some BlingBling dumb !
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