So my truck is nearing completion. I had a friend of mine do a tune up on it so it is running much better but needs to be driven for a while and then some little stuff sorted out but winter hit here at the beginning of November so it is kind of on hold for 5-6 months. With being pretty much stuck at home due to Covid I figured it was time to do some work on my next project.
I bought this 1950 Mercury quite a few years ago. It is a bit of a mess and is going to be a pretty major undertaking. It started out as a four door that someone had previously, very poorly, started attempting to turn into a Carson topped car. I am not a huge fan of Carson topped Merc’s so I left the fiberglass top that the previous owner had with the car and have been collecting parts to turn it into a coupe over the ensuing years. When I bought the car the guy selling it had a basket case 4 door as well so I cut the roof off of that to use.
When I first brought it home I did some quick fitting of the 4 door top to the body just to make it easier to store so this is basically what I brought home.
The car has a lot of filler on it which will have to be remedied. It is hard to see but the tops of all the doors had been cut off and a sheet of steel welded over the top to make it a roadster with no side glass so I will have to fabricate all of those parts. I do have the door tops from a 4 door that I will use for the upper section. All the other typical Merc issues like rockers exist and will have to be dealt with as well but I figured I should try and give the body some sort of stability before I tackle any of those and decided to press on with the top.
So I bought some quarter windows and proceeded to start working at adding them to the car. I was a little lax at picture taking when I first started but this gives an idea of what was involved on the drives side.
I bought this 1950 Mercury quite a few years ago. It is a bit of a mess and is going to be a pretty major undertaking. It started out as a four door that someone had previously, very poorly, started attempting to turn into a Carson topped car. I am not a huge fan of Carson topped Merc’s so I left the fiberglass top that the previous owner had with the car and have been collecting parts to turn it into a coupe over the ensuing years. When I bought the car the guy selling it had a basket case 4 door as well so I cut the roof off of that to use.
When I first brought it home I did some quick fitting of the 4 door top to the body just to make it easier to store so this is basically what I brought home.
The car has a lot of filler on it which will have to be remedied. It is hard to see but the tops of all the doors had been cut off and a sheet of steel welded over the top to make it a roadster with no side glass so I will have to fabricate all of those parts. I do have the door tops from a 4 door that I will use for the upper section. All the other typical Merc issues like rockers exist and will have to be dealt with as well but I figured I should try and give the body some sort of stability before I tackle any of those and decided to press on with the top.
So I bought some quarter windows and proceeded to start working at adding them to the car. I was a little lax at picture taking when I first started but this gives an idea of what was involved on the drives side.