one of my projects

[30sx]

48 merc sitting on a s10 frame

 

[30sx]

and again..... it,s a lot further along now than the pics show

 

[30sx]

next on the list

 

[Snake Farm]

Cool Coupe! Is that Merc PU a unibody?.........looks like it might need a little massage work on the top.

 

[30sx]

Cool Coupe! Is that Merc PU a unibody?.........looks like it might need a little massage work on the top.

no it is a regular box, that is what,s called a Nature Chop

 

[skull]

coupe

nice coupe.

the truck looks like good candidate to take a few inches out of the top, just find a suitable donor to cut the good top off and graft on to the Merc.

Later

 

[30sx]

nice coupe.

the truck looks like good candidate to take a few inches out of the top, just find a suitable donor to cut the good top off and graft on to the Merc.

Later

actually those truck cabs aren,t all that difficult to find around here

 

[30sx]

.....trying to deguise a sbc note the air cleaner top is a 14" mercury hubcap, fits the housing perfectly, later on i will add duct hoses to the grille

 

[Sam_Fear]

I disguise my sbc by keeping the hood shut. [ddd

 

[21willys]

I just sold a 46 merc coupe, probably going to regret it. Cool cars.

 

[MercuryMac]

Hello 30sx, You stole my idea, sort of. I was going to put my tall FE tappet covers in my '48 Monarch coupe, but on a 390. This way you won't have to keep your hood shut as much. Good trick.[cl

 

[dmw56]

Cool car. Which color are you going to paint it? [ddd

 

[30sx]

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[30sx]

Cool car. Which color are you going to paint it? [ddd

White!just to be different

 

[MercuryMac]

Hi 30sx I'm going to try to post pics of my tappet covers again. I dragged them over into paint and shrunk them so maybe this time. NO, it didn't work. So here is another camera's offering.

 

[30sx]

ah yes, i see you have the chrome models, had a chance to get those too but the 200.00 price tag scared me off lol.. on another note also trying to use the ford brass expansion tank to hide the power steering pump...that doesn,t look like a mercury holding up those valve covers?

 

[jfg455]

Lol whats worse than a sbc in a Mercury to a purist?

A sbc with fake Mercury valve covers in a Mercury!! [cl

(Don't look at me, I would put an LS motor in it!)[ddd

 

[MercuryMac]

Na 30sx, it's a '50 Ford coupe project that I bought half done. Coincidently, it has a fresh SBC in it that I will have to disguise somehow, maybe by throwing it away.
I think this is dream of mine '47 Merc chopped coupe, and a '48 Monarch and a '47 Merc sedan.

 

[30sx]

Lol whats worse than a sbc in a Mercury to a purist?

A sbc with fake Mercury valve covers in a Mercury!! [cl

(Don't look at me, I would put an LS motor in it!)[ddd

hey those valve covers aren,t fake! they are gen-u-wine merc valve covers covering sbc valve covers that are covering valves!

 

[MercuryMac]

You tell'm 30, sometimes you have to educate the GM guys-------- by hand.

You know I tried those tappet covers on a few motors and they cover 351 Windsors nicely and I think the other one was a narrow block Dodge. Why I never thought of disguising a SBC with them, I'll never know. I guess I liked my first solution the best, throw the darn motor out behind the barn where the weeds are the highest.