Mercury from Cobra...now that is one mean car!

It's another movie car POS. Has to be all things to all people in the general audience. When you build for mass appeal, you usually miss the mark.

 

Hahaha

 

I agree. Also ugly fender skirts that don't flow with anything, and a v-butted windshield that looks like 80s junk.

Waste of a good Mercury.

 

Yeah cuz EVERYONE in the 40's and 50's had tons of money and or skill to get their customs painted!

 

Thank you for that. We all needed a report on the effect this thread has on your fiddly bits.

 

I LOVE hammered Mercs, but IMHO, when Mercs get hammered, they look best as traditional Customs. I've only seen a couple of examples of hammered Mercs built in the "race" or "Streeet Rod" flavor that "worked" 100%.

Hood scoops and Moon discs are cool-on the right car, but they just look out of place on the car.

Rolling stock can make or break a car.

If it HAS to run Moon discs, ditch the skirts. Darn near nothing looks good with skirts AND Moons, Torque Thrusts, etc. Race and Custom don't play well together here; the car is saying; "I'm a Custom, no a race car, wait a minute, I don't care...". FWIW, the skirts don't have a good shape to their opening either.

Frenched headlights look better with rounded hood corners.

Hammered Mercs simply look better with stainless trim on the windshield, quarter and rear windows. They dont look as finished when you're looking at outlines of rubber "holding" the glass to the sheetmetal.

Tailight choice could be improved over the tunneled "soup cans".

Paint color is ho-hum.

My 2 cents...

 

No matter how you feel about the car...eight were constructed and mostly destroyed during the making of the movie, i almost typed film but I threw up in my mouth a little. I wish they would have tricked out a mustang II instead ;P

 

nothing wrong with a V-butt on a merc ive done it a few times and it looks good, even the Hirohata has it done, as far as the skirts, they are just good ol original 49-50 merc skirts. all this one would need is a REARWARD rake and some whites to look alot better. there is a big thread somewhere on here about it..

 

Meh, it can't decide if it's a hot rod or a custom, so it does both poorly, just my opinion.

 

I think its uglier than a sack of buttholes...

 

The dick dean merc gettin stolen in gone in 60 seconds is the best movie roll a merc has ever had

 

nearly as gay as this 80's mercury

 

one of the cars from the movie is actually hanging from the ceiling at the Times Square Planet Hollywood. I had a very mediocre cheeseburger while sitting under it.

 

I like it, not the scoop. I'm glad to see a merc that isn't an assdragger.
The good, it was a 4 speed (in the movie anyway)
The bad, it was a chevy engine
the worse, they built 4 and destroyed 3.

 

I think you have the wrong Dean.

 

It's FUGLY!
And what's with all these new guys who rag on the "keepers of the flame" who are trying to keep this site traditional?
That's what it's all about here....traditional rods and customs. NOT 80's movie abortions.

 

touchy touchy.....as a kid i loved that merc from the movie...ok ok it's a hotrod/custom cross....

could it be prehaps a postive thing that more kids watch these kinds of movies and get attracted to customs and hot rods....instead of Fast and Furious...crap?

 

Cobra's merc = just pick a part and glue it on, everything goes.
Its not a hot rod/custom mix, its just an abortion. but still its saveable at least.

 

There was a long thread on the car.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=423208&page=7&highlight=stallone

I like it basically. Hate the hood scoop. The movie is stupid. The soundtrack sucks. The big chase is retarded. But that's not the cars fault.

 

Take it from someone with a chopped Merc.....IT SUCKS,when somebody says "isn't that the car from Cobra?"
Why can't someone just ask "isn't that the car from American Graffitti?" hahahaha!
It's an ugly Merc....fits a Stallone movie perfectly!

 

I could fix it.

 

As much as I dont want to admit this I am going to say it.... The Cobra merc is the most famous merc amoung the general public(people not into customs).Any place you go people will make a comment "Oh ya a merc? Like the one in the Stallone movie Cobra?" I have had my mercury since late 1998 and have had more Cobra comments then any other and they do get old.Love it or hate it people identify with that merc.
I also dont think they were going for a traditional look on that car when they built it for the movie,look at the owner(Sly) he doesnt seem like a guy who cared about tradition very much.He was supposed to be a badass and so was his car,huge engine, license plate that said Awesome50,4speed etc.It was mid 80s and at the time the car was liked by a shitload of people who were not thinking or didnt care about being traditional.I guarantee that there are some guys on here that are 40yrs old and older who thought that merc in the movie was a killer car when it first came out.

 

To Jeff's point, I got my Merc due to seeing the AG Merc, Hirohata, and the Cobra Merc.

 

I was only four when that movie came out and even then I knew that car was fugly. Though I still to this day want a knife with spikes on the handle.

 

You have to remember that movie came out in 86. In the 80's that was a badass car. Do you remember what new cars looked like in the mid 80's?

 

great point ACE-k.....I drove a k-car....back then...

 

i semi -like the movie,
the car , i hated the salt flat discs dont think they look right on anything driven on asphault
didnt care for the skirts i dont like skirts on much of anything (except the floor)

didnt care for the drab color

but i do kinda like the scoop

and of course hated what they did to it

 

yuck...

primer was only a stage, and not ever thought of as a finished paint job. So no it's not traditional as a finished product.

This is the HAMB, that's what it's about. Otherwise why are you here?

Thank you sir.

I wish they'd let you.

 

would have been impossible to make that car ever be cool first you'd have to lose the scoop, lower the rear end and pop off the moon disks, who could handle such a huge custom project like that?!?!?!

i don't think it was cool because of how they built it, but the fact that they chose to beat the hell out of a 50 merc as opposed to a million other shitboxes was cool. Easily some of the best mercury hard driving footage out there, although it does suck sometimes when people compare my merc to it...

 

I don't think it's about new guys ragging on the one's that actually "get it", but more like a skirmish between them and the guys that are still FNG's at heart, but have ratched up post counts into the thousand by trying to play mini-moderators and bash on everything that think will garner them attention and acceptance.
I don't see to many that get what it's all about tripping all over themselves to post in every O/T thread about how untraditional it is.