1950 mercury coupe, bathtub or lead sled?
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- 1950 mercury, designed but ET bob Gregorie this beautiful example is for sale at classic Auto Mall, if you’ve never been it’s a must see with over 800 cars fir sale during recording, place is epic. It’s like Imperial Palace, but instead of it being in a hotel it’s in a mall. This episode talk about the mercury 8 ( 1939-1951 ) lots of period ads, specs and take the tour buttons switches and knobs. Enjoy this one =)
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Congratulations you got it =)
You do realize that the black vinyl interior is entirely custom. Originally, it would have been tan or gray fabric with a matching dash.
Thank you so much for pointing that out =)
Absolutely Spot on.
You know your Mercurys.
@@vitosanto3874 I have always been a car nut, and at one time, a Lincoln Mercury Edsel parts man.
To be honest though the black vinyl does look "classy"
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Thank you =) glad you dig
The interior shots I tried editing why did you think of the gauge on this one?
The 'James Dean' Merc was a '49 as can be seen by the type of outside door handle. Most assumed that the JD Merc top had been chopped but it hadn't. George Barris did do some mods, like removing the hood trim. One year, when we had a local 'Concours D' Elegance' the James Dean Merc was a featured celebrity car. It was cool to actually see it in person.
The dual carbs are period-correct but aftermarket, as are the air intakes. The original car would have had a single 2-barrel carb and an oil-bath air cleaner.
In 1950, probably late-50, the Merc-O-Matic 3-speed automatic became available. Up until then, if it or a Lincoln had an automatic, it was a GM HydraMatic.
The term 'Lead Sled' was often used with cars which had been modified by Geoge Barris as he was famous for metalwork and using lead instead of Bondo.
Batmobile #1 could have been considered a 'lead sled'. Batmobile #2-5 were fiberglass shells with the molds made from the completed Batmobile #1. I learned this from George Barris himself when he was touring with the freshly restored Batmobile #2. It did have a complete interior and was used for close-ups when the interior could be scene. In most scenes when Adam West was actually driving the Batmobile, it had an uncut steering wheel because Adam had trouble with the cut ones. Batmobile #1 used the original Futura steering wheel, cut down, but if they had a cut down steering wheel in the other cars, it was made from an Edsel steering wheel with a faux speedometer in the hub.
Thank you so much for taking the time to add all information =)
1950, The custom coupe came with a choice of canvas or vinyl roof coverings, and fabric-and-leather or all-leather seats.all an option, leather upholstery, options added $21 (1950 dollars) to the price. A popular way to get more hp out those flatheads (and inexpensive and popular back in the day) was to shave the heads. You could shave up to .060 off them and that raised the compression to about 7.1 to 7.5 There were also aftermarket heads, with different shaped combustion areas as high as 8.1. From the factory the 50 had an air cleaner (oil bath) the two cars being used on this car are after market as well as the intake manifold. If you did both items yep, it was faster. This is a very nice car, chrome looks great. Good review. Thanks. That said? I think I'd take the Hudson from yesterday.
Thank you so much for sharing all of that information as well as insight with corrections, I agree I’d take the Hudson over this.. both great cars tho
Yep, the Hudson Hornet was a fast car out of the factory and a NASCAR darling. But the Merc had style and you could do much, as you pointed out , to gain HP on the cheap. And you don’t see many Hornets hot rodded , chopped and channeled and still grab looks over a half century later. A great challenger to the Earl Harley school of design at the time.
@@ralphcoppola5911 Well, yes there is that - -and you're correct.
My first car was a 50 Merc Coupe. Got it in 1957. Had skirts and had been repainted in 56 Lincoln Cashmere Coral. Ahhh the memories.
Beautiful 1950 Mercury Coupe. One of my favorite cars from the early 1950s.👍
Pictures don’t justify
1957 i bought a 1950 mercury 4 door sedan for $400. it was a low end model bur it had overdrive. even at 18 i liked 4 door sedan. my upgrade was a radio speaker in the back and duel tail pipes with glass packs. the sound was so beautiful i got a ticket for it.
Your car sounds incredible my grandpa graduated in 57 as well he was my best friend =) I graduated in 07 he didn’t make it for that =(
Thanks very much for featuring this car, Jay. My cousin inherited a 49 four-door back in 1973. Had those coach doors, fine looking machine.
Thank you so much for watching =) The plan is to hit all of the body styles would love to feature the four-door sports sedan as well as all the others one day
My grandfather has the convertible version of this car! It’s a boat no doubt, but a beautiful piece of machinery. So fun to drive in
Awesome thank you so much for sharing his car with us.. That car seems like a real head turner
Sharp looking ride.
It was =)
Love these Mercury's, stock or vintage/retro kustom....they're even slicker than a wet soap!
It's heartbreaking looking at car design today....😥😭
Totally agree I never appreciated this design because I never really saw one that hasn’t been Hot rodded. If you haven’t picked up I’m not in the hot rods I think Hot riding is the stupidest concept ever imagine let’s put the biggest engine in a car that we cut the roof off of but don’t worry we talked it out so that you can fit in it but we need the windshield only 2 inches tall and whatever vision you did have they put a big super charger so you can’t see past it with the biggest cam they could possibly find so shaking yourself apart at every traffic light makes a ton of sense
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I love kustoms and hot rods, old school hot rods kustoms that is, as the saying goes.... there's NO school like OLD school!
Much thanks to the cars that I grew up around back in Sweden....done up kustom and hot rod from the mid 50's, I wouldn't say no to that, that's before everything went crazy, WHO needs 1000+ horsepower in a street car, seriously!? I'd rather park my arse in a period correct gasser or a '64 Dodge RAMCHARGERS or Plymouth GOLDEN COMMANDOS....
Hopefully you'll do a '41 Plymouth soon! 😉
There was tons at that place but I couldn’t I didn’t have enough time to do a 41 Plymouth the plan was to try to do 30 cars in one day I didn’t get there when I thought it was going to get there I got there an hour and a half later than I intended to get there long story short I was able to do 12 cars in six hours which is really remarkable so that means if I could have 12 hours there I could theoretically do 24 cars possibly more I was looking for the cars that I made a list for and then I abandoned that idea because I was wasting too much time looking for cars.. I didn’t get to see everything.
Back in the '80s, where I lived, I got to know a bunch of old car guys. I drove a '62 Buick special, with the V-6, and also had a '64 Galaxie 500 Hard top; loved both of those cars. I had a friend who had a '49 Merc, with the V-8. Ran great, but needed the cosmetics finished. It was straight, and had all the trim, etc. but needed paint, and interior. No biggie, though, we still had lots of fun scarin' the kids in their rice rockets! Another friend was enamored of the '56 De Soto, and had a set...Wagon, 4 door sedan, and the Adventurer. They all had Hemis. The Adventurer was in very nice condition, but needed some mechanical work. The 4 door was his daily driver, and looked absolutely pathetic, but it was scary fast! I remember pulling off a freeway once, heading down a 2 lane, and at the same time, exiting from the other direction, and going our way, was a white, late '50s Mopar of some sort, judging from the fins! He saw us, we saw him, and he got the jump on us and the chase was on! He was teasing us, keeping just far enough in front to make it interesting. We hit 105 MPH, according to the speedo! but, the old girl started showing her age and started getting hot, so we backed it down and that finmobile was GONE! A few miles down the road, he was stopped in a roadside picnic area, waiting, but my friend never stopped, just honked a nd waved as we went by. HA HA, long story about De Sotos, on a Merc vid...now I know I'm getting old, just that your vids really bring back the memories.
The Desoto 345 hemi had 345 hp in 1956! There's two dragsters called "sibling rivalry" that are the longest continously running dragsters, they have injected Desoto hemis. Still set records. They say that about every two or three years if they get bored sitting around the shop in the winter they will tear down the engines but have never had a failure! I had a 291 Desoto hemi and have a few 354 and 392s one 354 is in a running 1957 U.S. Navy Dodge T700 semi tractor with 19k miles on it. Oh, and what brought me to this site is the fact that I have a Canadian 1950 Merc that was a constables car. Great runner with a completely rebuilt 255 flathead drivetrain! Im the weird guy that likes racing big 4 doors, it's spread to my friends as well! We run mopars. We have put 440 six packs, long rams, inline 2x4 bbls off of a 1958 plymouth and a weiand x ram with 2 thermoquads on it in several 1960s and 1970s C bodies on different big blocks, all built in farm shops on low budgets but will pull the front wheels and run low 13s to high 12s in the quarter mile on 87 octane and drive to work everyday and then pull the grain to the elevator and fertilizer buggies back weighing 20,000lbs. We were too poor for a pickup! Never had more than 8:1 compression on a 440 or 400, they actually cc'd out to 7.75:1! HUGE cams too. I have a 68 monaco with the long rams, and two TQs on a built 400 forged crank industrial motor that came out of a tractor scrapyard from a White 8800 combine, stock pistons. The car has 4.56 gears now I was running 5.13s for awhile. those long rams are my favorite all time intake system! They are misunderstood as low rpm only. My family and friends have run 3 sets for 60 years in many cars. They lift the front end and pull hard all the way past 7500 rpm if you know how to cam them, still leave rubber at 120 mph, and flash past rev limiters! And I got 22mpg with 4.10s in a 1970 newport with a 440 long ram! That 68 monaco with a 440 six pack was the winningest car in the history of Oceola dragway in Indiana in the 2000s, won the street sleeper award at the Mopar nationals, made a "perfect" run, and was NHRA points champion. Only 3 parts weren't mopar, the cam, headers and ignition coil. My '70 newport 440 long ram shut down the show at the burnout competition in town at the nationals by doing a high gear burnout with three guys in it without water on the road and NOT using the 4bbls (you couldn't it would hit 7k rpm before you could respond) wr pulled out of the burnout, stopped tromped it and the headlights went over a guys head! Did it twice! I was driving it to work in the winter on snow tires! You wanna get funny looks just mention the 4spd "Gyro-Matic" transmission in my wife's '49 Dodge coronet! Clutch and a torque convertor, shifter on the tree with two ranges and reverse, shifts automatically between 2 gears in either range. Love hearing your stories! When we are gone who's gonna tell about the days of racing the old cars when they were affordable even to a highschooler, and you and your friends didn't know what a credit card was and busted your knuckles, bled on it pulling all-nighters, raided the junkyard, and the scrap pile, caught yourself on fire welding up your home fab fence post traction bars, or your pieced together dual exhaust! I used 3.5" combine mufflers with 4" outlets and 3.5" I.D. conduit back from our modified headers! Sounds awesome! All BASS! my wife told me one time to quit talking about it to all the unbelieving brand x smallblock guys and SHOW them, so I drove it to my new job. The guys at work ran outside to see if there was a tornado when the car alarms went off and paint started falling off the ceiling! No s**t! One even called his wife to check the radar! They called corporate and let me do a high gear burnout at lunch! Fun times! 30 yrs after we started racing, 2500+ timeslips, no breakages, and she's still in the garage! My dad summed it up once when I drove up the driveway with some engine in my truck bed and said "ok magnet ass, what lump of iron did you drag home this time?" It got so bad that we would come home and find intakes, engines, and once, even a 1966 newport in the yard with notes that said "here, I thought you might want this!" I had 136 engines a field full of cars and a spare washer and dryer setting outside because the 5 barns were full of parts when I sold out!
Thanks for the look at the Mercury. It's been hotrodded a little, with the twin carbs, and the very black interior. In the background I noticed a 39 Plymouth. It'd be nice to see that car. I had one once, and it had without doubt the nicest 3 on the tree gear change I've had on any car.
I wanted to do that Plymouth in the corner but I didn’t get a chance to 39 ford is coming later today =)
Wow nice i prefer the four doors even better lol
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I thought for sure you would use the Mercury Blues song at the end! I guess that would of been too easy.lol
Yeah I should have ended with that song.. it’s hard tho can’t only use like 5 secs if UA-cam can figure out the song it gets copyright claimed
Great video! Well done
I have a 1951 mercury and they are absolutely a great vehicle and a pleasure to drive and one more thing they grab a lot of attention🤠
One of the sleekest, most beautiful designs ever created, in my opinion! 🤩 It's one of those designs to me, that make it easy to just imagine it slicing through the wind even when it's not actually moving! 😎
Yeah totally agree =)
For a lead sled
The grill is work of art wonderful.
Great job Jay. Nice to see this way cool Merc and how she looked when released . I realize these have become a very popular modding platform. That said. They were gorgeous when they were produced. I'll bet you had fun showing this beauty off to all of us.
I did have fun this was a highly requested one and it took me all year to find one that was sort of stock that wasn’t shopped there was some custom aspects of this car as well
Back in 1962 while stationed at China Lake Naval Proving grounds USMC, a buddy bought a 1952 Mercury visor and all for like $ 250, we only made about $ 130 a month, I bought a 1953 Mercury coup for $ 225 . Most of these cars came with overdrive which allowed you to shift to second gear without using the clutch .
Thank you so much for your service =) also thank you for sharing those awesome memories
My first car at age 16 was a 1947 Ford $ 75 a 1947 olds $ 50 I worked picking apples $ .015 cents a crate, $ 5.00 making cider, a hotwalker walking race horses after their warm up $ 1.00 an hour, gas station $. 90 cents an hour, at 81 years old I been married for 56 years own a kitchen cabinet company selling and installing....things sure have changed, some still live at home but afford a $ 70,000 truck !
Thank you so much for sharing that perspective I also build furniture it’s crazy how much everything has gone up in the last coupe years $250 cabinet now is $325 now (should be more) when I started I used to charge $150-$200 for 5 foot tall x 32 wide 13 deep overall with arched doors now it’s $325
That is a very good price much labor for sure, I sell custom and RTA cabinets most cabinet shops quit making most custom units they buy RTA from Asia about 40% cheaper than USA made and good quality, also available now verses 4 - 8 weeks .A good source is US Cabinet depot they have a large warehouse here I order pick up next day. I really enjoy your videos , thanks Pal
the pinnacle of classic 40's pontoon styling. it looks great as is and seen in film noir movies or as a chopped and channeled lead sled like the pharohs drove in "american graffiti". wicked awsome car.
Hey Jay, Well I recall young James Dean in 'Rebel without a nose' The running board trip was getting old before then. I guess you're right, that a lot of these would have been ratted out and ruined, I would argue.
The major move still needed was to get away from the split screen in my view, if only some smart company had brought up the ''Tucker tooling I keep thinking for some innovation. Always pleased by your personalised measurement units, like, seat of the pant, and hand size, then the famous camera/glove box test. (A special trick everyone has missed.) You pick up on the differences and the subtleties often never noticed in other reviews.
I still need some gauge of the use of leather or its availability as an option.
Try to make these fun and Relative.. those glove boxes are huge and are easy to lock most of these cars can only lock on passenger side.. which is a pain so I like showing the glove box lock box option =) glad you dig the channel. And no one shows or explains the gauges
I didn't understand the "hot rod" aspects of the car, till I saw the carbs.
I guess it can move.
Thanks Jay.
Yeah the body was mostly stock and I guess the interior was changed a little bit but the biggest thing is the roof isn’t chopped
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Indeed.
Great video, thank you for sharing. This is my 50’ now, love it ✊🏾💯.
Happy you dig this video video
@@What.its.like. 💯%…What is is FB you mentioned? Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it in my search.
Here is the link
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@@What.its.like.Perfect, thank you kindly. Stay safe, blessed, and be well.
Did you buy this exact car? if you did congratulations =)
thats a beautiful car Justin. I like those pop open rear windows. I love all of the chrome also.
It looks so great in person.. all the ones I’ve seen this year except this one where “hot rodded” and I like to show as close to stock cars as possible (upgraded engines are good, but depends on the car really like it’s cool if it’s a upgrade to be used as a Daily in Chevy ford or something like that but I saw a 120 packard at a car show beautiful until got to the engine and it had a 350 Chevy that’s eh should have the 8 in my opinion but know they did it for reliability)
@@What.its.like. agree, rather see original instead of hot rod
I've noticed your views per episode have gotten larger you keep it going young man thanks again!!
Everything subjective, I plan on doing this for a very long time I’m still having fun. The format has definitely come along way, and I’m still tweaking and changing things. But I’m still happy that you dig this channel. =)
The Overdrive was not an automatic transmission, merely a 3-speed manual mated to a 4th gear which would operate when the driver lifted his foot off the accelerator above a certain speed. In 1950 Mercury was at a distinct disadvantage by not having an automatic transmission, as all of its GM competition had one by that model year. Mercury got the Merc-O-Matic in 1951 (same as the Fordomatic).
I don’t think I said it wasn’t automatic it was just an overdrive Merc-o-Matic overdrive on top of the three speed if I did say it the other way thank you for the correct =)
I need to comment about the lack of an air cleaner on the carburetor and your comment about not needing an air cleaner.
As someone mentioned. This car has some hotrod features. Part of that is removing the original air cleaners and installing the curved horns.
The air was NOT A Lot Cleaner Back Then.
Have you ever been to an event where owners of hundreds of old cars get together and drive and idle them ?
The experience is enough to bring tears to one's a eyes and a lump in one's throat. Not from joy ! No, it's from the emissions from the exhaust pipe, the vented gas tanks, the vented carburetor and the lack of pvc valves.
The EPA emissions laws have worked wonders. To the point where your generation knows little to nothing about how bad the air would smell and be difficult to breath. That's a very good thing !.
Also many roads were still unpaved back then. Car engines like this one would inhale a lot of gritty dust kicked up by other cars on the unpaved roads.
I know it was a joke Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is right down the road from me and I remember seeing pictures of it in the 50s where the water was black and not just because it was black and white picture it was actually a color picture but the water was black in the sky was so gray from pollution.. or maybe it was just a regular day here is pretty gloomy it’s one of the gloomiest places to live besides Oregon or Washington
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Hey, I live in Portland Oregon.
Yes, our winters can be gloomy.
No more annual rainfall than most of tge country though. Our skies are cloudy. It often rains just enough to keep things damp or wet. We are quite far north, so our days are short.
The lack of road salt, pollution, acid rain
is very friendly for car bodies. Even rust prone cars are still mostly solid after
40 or 50 years. So we see daily drivers from the 1960s and 1970s.
Our summers are bone dry drought conditions. It's sunny almost every day.
Our summers are gorgeous.
I’ve never been to Washington or Oregon and I’ve been to California like 16 years ago I need to go back lol I’ve been trying to convince my wife that we need to go out west and do some exploring would love to go to Lake Tahoe
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Spend a bit of time looking at photos of the national parks in the western part of the country. Even just west of the Rocky Mountains. So much to see. Its very different than where you seem to live.
Just for fun. Look up tge Columbia River Gorge. The dams. Multnomah Falls.
That's just east of Portland.
Or the Oregon coast. Very scenic.
Mt St Helen's is 50 miles from here.
Yes, I was here when it erupted.
I'm an older guy. 68 years old.
You might enjoy looking at photos and videos of the Western Aircraft and Auto Museum in Hood River. I have volunteered there. Restoring old cars.
Hood River is 50 miles east of Portland.
So, my grandfather bought a new 1950 Merc Coupe from the dealership my dad worked for in Flushing, Queens the same year I was born. He was a very short man and could hardly see over the steering wheel, as the story goes. There was a flash flood on the Horace Harding Expwy due to a torrential downpour. The road bellied about six feet at the intersection of Francis Lewis Blvd and quickly filled up with water. My grandfather, unaware of the depth, promptly drove into the soup, where only the top of the radio antenna could be seen when the car sank. Good thing for those extra wide doors and windows. Grandpa, Grandma, and the family dog, Fluffy, swam out the open windows to the sidewalk about twenty feet away where they were able to stand. Fluffy wasn’t so fluffy after her swim. Insurance swapped out the 50 Merc for a brand new 1951 lime green Merc which he kept until he traded on 1956 Merc Monterey 2dr HT.
Fond memories of both the 51 and more so, the 56, the latter which was traded for a 1960 Merc Comet, which was more the size for a one man of his stature.
Great story glad everyone including the dog mad it out alive
Beautiful machine!
Totally agree =)
Absolutely agreed
That is a beautiful example. Mercurys always were heavier than Fords. Carried into the 1960s even between Mustangs and Cougars.More sound deadener, rear spring axle perches had rubber pads on the Cougars .Nice car! Would love to drive it!
Totally agree I’ve drive a 40 ford I wonder how much different this is to that
Nice red Merc in the background.
I was going to do that one as well but it was too dark I don’t have any lighting rigs I might have to get one lol
Nice to find an original and not a chopped and modded one. Had a friend with a 47 Merc. The flathead was bad so he bought a totaled Cadillac Escolade with low miles and put that drivetrain in it. Took him 3 years, but it was a really nice cruiser when it got done.
This car was absolutely gorgeous some people in the comment section said that the interior has been redone and the engine didn’t come with dual carbs.. and aftermarket heads I knew the carbs wasn’t correct generally there’s an oil bath air cleaner sitting on top =)
That car was mildly tricked out. The dual carbs weren't factory and it would have had one two barrel carb an oil bath air cleaner from the factory. The interior wasn't stock either. It would have had Naugahyde seats or leatherette, possibly as an option. Vinyl wasn't available until the 60s. The headliner would have been Mohair. It's a great looking car and one of the most beautiful of the hotrod era. The most common set up for a souped up flathead Ford V-8 was Edlebrock heads with three two barrel Stromberg 97 carbs with progressive linkage. If you punched the bore out by .30 thousands and put and Isky 3/4 race cam backed by a Lincoln Zephyr transmission and a 411 rear end, you took it to the next level. Put a guffers knob on the steering wheel, and a pair of fuzzy dice dangling from the rearview mirror. A dude driving that would have had all kinds of street cred. Give him a ducktail haircut and enough Clearasil and he'd have all the poontang he could handle. Too cool for words.
That would be a great way to live in this car up a little bit I want to drive one I driven a 40 Ford in the summertime and that was a really cool experience three speed three on the tree the only thing I didn’t like about the car was it almost needed another gear or possibly a different rear end because at 4550 miles an hour is pretty much screaming a turn off not really screaming those things didn’t redline that high but you could tell that it needed another gear and it would’ve been happy..
Thank you so much for sharing all that insight as well =)
You sure know your Mercs , Reading what you wrote at 84 I felt for a moment it was 1957 again Good Show.
Back in the 50s we called them "toads."
Nice car! 👍
Thx Jay 😊
Glad you dig this video =)
Great car's to chop
No no great car to drive
Nice car, and the best example of the 'bathtub' school of styling, far better than Nash or Lincoln did it. Hudson was nice too from this period
Idk Nash made some nice looking wagons especially the 2 door wagon
I think people were just smaller back then. Huge car with very little room for a beer gut.
Totally agree
Excellent Merc 👍
Looked even better in person this car was stunning =)
Hey Jay, this black beauty is gorgeous, the custom interior is well done & is stunning!!! This Mercury make me want to watch American Graffiti!!! Thanks for sharing another well done video!!! ⛄🤶🎄
I still have yet to watch that movie but totally should I just haven’t had time I was talking to somebody else I don’t think I’ve watched a movie in the movie theater for two or three years Covid happened and I’m a pretty busy person lol, I did see Ford versus Ferrari though and that was a really good super long movie I think that was the last new movie that I watched it wasn’t a Disney movie
@@What.its.like. If you love old cars I can highly recommend American Graffiti, a great movie set in 1962!!! ⛄🤶🎄
I remember the Sylvester Stallone Bridgitte Nielson movie where he completely obliterated an old Merc. Cobra I think.
I owned a total of 3 Mercurys ,loved them all but there is no way that the Mercury came from the factory with a paint job like the one on display. The factory paint work was a baked enamel finish the was a little on the dull side with what is known as orange peel.owning a body shop my Mercurys were repainted with lacquer paint and buffed to a high gloss like the one for sale. The one for sale probably has urethane paint job, beautifully done.
Thank you so much for pointing all of that out this was the most original one I’ve seen (meaning not chopped with added side pipes, different grill and pin stripes) this one had a lot of accessories though that’s for sure thank you so much for pointing out the interior wasn’t correct
@@What.its.like. Again it’s still a Beautiful car inside and out.
IMO, Ford hit a home run with the Ford's, Mercury's and Lincoln's of '49 to '51. They changed each line just a little in '51 and I like what they did so I like them better than '49 and '50. I believe that you are correct that Lincoln used the Mercury body for a baby Lincoln and then they also had a larger more upscale model as well. Thanks Jay.
The Lincoln always left more to be desired i’ve only seen a handful in my lifetime but they’re very plain Jane for a Lincoln on the outside I don’t remember what the inside looks like to be honest but if you think about the Lincoln zephyr that came before it is night and day. The Zephyr is a really good looking car
We all have our Favorites,I Liked the three piece rear widow , the grab and pull door handles, the dash board and the oval parking lamps on the 1949.
Anyone else notice the Gene Winfield signature on the dash?
I didn’t know who signature that was thank you so much for pointing that out =)
The first led sled
Very nice car but, my favorite is the 1951 coupe {stock body)
I’ll find one to review.. it’s probably going to be next year though but something to look forward to =)
Another home run Jay. The Merc is fantastic and your review is right on target. Thanks, Mike.
Thank you fir digging this episode mike =)
Hey Jay, I am interested in buying this car. You don’t suppose you can drop my off so I can drive it home ? I understand if you’re too busy to drive to Boston area. 😊 Do you FEEL like Taking Home half the cars you Look at ? I use to be terrible they way my heart would throb over a car style I loved. I use to think something was very wrong with me in 1970 at age 8. My parents told me as soon as I could point I would point at the cars and trucks driving by and then I would say Car or truck lol. I know where I inherited the car bug and that was from my moms dad. My Grandfather. He traded his car 2 or more times a year just to try other cars.
If you’re interested in this car go to the link below they have a whole lot more information on it as well as pictures and pricing I’m sure if you called they could probably figure out a way to get it to you I’m sure the offer shipping =)
Auntieanswer your question yes there’s lots of cars that I’ve reviewed that I’m like man if I had the money in the space I would totally look for one of those or take this one home.. there is a car coming next week 1937 Packard 115.. Standard coupe. Absolutely gorgeous blue color I would drive that daily if it was mine I would keep the flathead six and probably switch out the rear end maybe even put a two speed rear ended in it and just drive it.. that car wowed me and the craziest thing was that was the basement model for packard
www.classicautomall.com/vehicles/3319/1950-mercury-club-coupe
Ps when I shot the packard video I was shaking because it was just such an awesome car and I had such a presence about it people my age get excited over Ferraris Lamborghinis Porsches they never did anything for me they’re just over priced cars in my opinion Packards pierced arrows peerless Duesenberg vintage Bugatti‘s they do all of that for me it’s like standing next to history or greatness and if they could talk the stories that they would tell..
OK, how many cars did you review while there? Like I have time to watch to all your new videos... OK , I'll make time
12 cars Plus I have a few left over from a couple other locations I want to try to go to a couple locations this week as well I’m not entirely sure when I’m gonna put up all of the contacts from my time at Classic auto mall but I can’t wait to go back.. The only downer for me is it five hours down the road so that makes for a really long day that’s 10 hours of driving plus whatever time spent with the cars.. but totally worth it =)
@@What.its.like. definitely appreciate the time you spend doing these. "The model wears size 34 pants, so you may or may not fit in this car"... In the mid 50's the average man was around 5'9" and 160 lbs....cars were designed for them. .....
Yeah totally somebody wanted my specifications I was getting that a lot in the comment section.. The goal is to keep all of the stuff alive and relevant for the younger generations that’s why I put as much time and energy into this it’s like if you’re going to go and buy this car now I want to show everything that you need to know
The original plan was to go through all of the different oils and stuff that these take but what I found out is the oil they use back down in the oil we use now are two totally different things in most cases also has to do with climate if you live in a warm hot area it’s going to be different than if you live in a colder climate.
There are some new cars that are hard to get in and out of if you’re on the big side like tall side like lotus 2007 lotus exchange I have no idea how Doug DeMuro fit in that car because he’s taller than me that is the hardest car that I’ve ever gotten in and out of it’s not so bad getting in it but getting out of it it’s terrible open till that point the 1986 Ferrari 328 GTS was the hardest car to get out of
Smart 1950 money bought an Oldsmobile … OHV V-8 with a Hydramatic …
I’ve been looking for one those are hard to come by especially the wagons
Great Mercury, but I don't think it is original. To my thinking, it fas some modifications. The interior leather or vinyl seats and especially the rear package tray, are not original. The air wasn't cleaner in the 50s. Usually, they had an oil bath air cleaner. I think there was some modification going on under that hood. It's still a nice-looking car!
Did a chop 50 Merc
I love your videos, they are very interesting... until you get to the pov part, it just gets me dizzy and I have to stop your videos. Do more like Doug and get a camera holder please. Keep up the great work, awesome cars!
What’s the POV part
Mercury gone, Plymouth gone, Pontiac and Olds too😭😭
Yeah it’s super sad
its not the orignal material for the seats and door panels
Thank you so much for catching that
Had to stop the video, with the MTV snap fades. Will this trend ever go away? Not everyone is on meth, you know...
The seat covers are not stock looks like naugahyde
Very well could be
It looked like namu the killer whale
The Kid FIRST Needs To Put Some Clean Clothes On, Instead Of Dressing Like He Just Dug A Ditch. NO, The Smaller Front Lights Were Used As Turn Signals And "Parking Lights" ONLY. And Went OUT When The Headlights We're Used Instead. NOT Running Lights. ANYONE Could OBVIOUSLY See That The Dual Carburetor's We're NOT Like What Was Pictured In The Sales Brochure, Yet Stating That They Didn't Need Filters Back In 1950!!! And The Ornament On The Hood Was A "BIRD". Too Bad It Was BLACK, Making Those Painted That Color ALL Looking Like FUNERAL Cars. Fortunately Mine Is GREEN. NOT A Good Educated Sales Person, While Having Only A LIMITED Knowledge Of Older Cars. He Better Deal With Youngsters His Own Age, And Cars From 2000 And Newer That He MIGHT Know A Little More About...
Wow your a downer , it’s possible to correct someone without being a complete jerk and that is why some cars are getting lost to time. Because some people who own them are grumpy old guys who don’t want the information passed to the younger generations.. like we aren’t worthy or something like that. I hate new cars was born way to late..
I’m not a sales person I don’t sell classic cars.. just trying to keep the information other there for anyone that wants to buy and cherish these cars.