Whats everone working on?
My 53 Mercury pick up. It was my dads truck back in the 70's and 80's, he traded it to his best friend for a full custom VW in about 82. It got painted and some custom stuff over the years. My dads friend got in a bad car crash and his parkisons (spelling?) kicked in overdrive so he sold it to me for $1000 knowing that I would finnish it and drive the piss out of it when it was done.
It has a volare front clip, 8 3/4 rear, custom guage insert that my dad made when he first had the truck with SW and Sun guages, Lincolim 6 way electric seat, tilt telliscopic steering colum, C-notched rear frame, louvered hood, reverse tilt hood kit, a bunch of chrommed goodies like the ashtray, glovebox, window/dash trim, cowl vent, ect., ford van taillights, blue tinted glass.
It is getting duel gas tanks, the 360 that is in my scamp now along with a 518 overdrive tranny, an old offy 2x4 intake unless I find a cooler and older style intake that will work, also getting a rear roll pan, newer floor in the bed without wood that will be coated so I can throw an engine block or whatever else in the back (hey its a truck!), a soft snap on cover for the bed, a custom 60's style grill (I have a 61ish chrysler grill and duel headlights that might go in), new firewall and floorboards.
Paint is either going to be the same blueish green with diamond dust that is on the cab and doors right now or it will be 74 ford truck copper/orange with a bunch of PPG sunburst orange pearl along with some of the diamond dust that I have a big stash of.
I have a Mercury tailgate and some misc mercury emblems but if any of our brothers from up north have some 53-56 M-100 emblems they wanna get rid of drop me a line!!!
The flash on my camera died so I tryed to brighten the pics up with photoshop.
My 53 Mercury pick up. It was my dads truck back in the 70's and 80's, he traded it to his best friend for a full custom VW in about 82. It got painted and some custom stuff over the years. My dads friend got in a bad car crash and his parkisons (spelling?) kicked in overdrive so he sold it to me for $1000 knowing that I would finnish it and drive the piss out of it when it was done.
It has a volare front clip, 8 3/4 rear, custom guage insert that my dad made when he first had the truck with SW and Sun guages, Lincolim 6 way electric seat, tilt telliscopic steering colum, C-notched rear frame, louvered hood, reverse tilt hood kit, a bunch of chrommed goodies like the ashtray, glovebox, window/dash trim, cowl vent, ect., ford van taillights, blue tinted glass.
It is getting duel gas tanks, the 360 that is in my scamp now along with a 518 overdrive tranny, an old offy 2x4 intake unless I find a cooler and older style intake that will work, also getting a rear roll pan, newer floor in the bed without wood that will be coated so I can throw an engine block or whatever else in the back (hey its a truck!), a soft snap on cover for the bed, a custom 60's style grill (I have a 61ish chrysler grill and duel headlights that might go in), new firewall and floorboards.
Paint is either going to be the same blueish green with diamond dust that is on the cab and doors right now or it will be 74 ford truck copper/orange with a bunch of PPG sunburst orange pearl along with some of the diamond dust that I have a big stash of.
I have a Mercury tailgate and some misc mercury emblems but if any of our brothers from up north have some 53-56 M-100 emblems they wanna get rid of drop me a line!!!
The flash on my camera died so I tryed to brighten the pics up with photoshop.
