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'49 Mercury custom

Started by Metalflake King , Jan 21 2016 05:20 PM

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#1 Metalflake King

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 05:20 PM

Figured I might share my latest build. I'm usually one to build a fast well-handling car but this model was just too cool not to do. It's a Revell 1/25 1949 Mercury Custom Coupe on an H&R chassis that I will be using at The Race Place in NJ.

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#2 Metalflake King

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 05:22 PM

More pics...

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 05:31 PM

Bad to the bone. :good:

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 05:38 PM

Complete with chrome hubcaps! Niiiice!

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 05:44 PM

That is some kinda good lookin', Max...

Bubble skirts would be sooo cool, if the kit came with them...

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 06:16 PM

What? No fuzzy dice?

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#7 Metalflake King

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 06:31 PM

Thanks!!! The kit did come with the rear skirts but the body is so narrow I had to cut an eighth of an inch width off the rear wheels just to make it fit. The skirts would have required further narrowing.

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#8 garyvmachines

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 06:35 PM

Kinf of kool!!!

Love the flake...

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#9 John Streisguth

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 07:06 PM

Love the whitewalls...

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 07:16 PM

Reminds me of the Merc in the show Grease. Does it spew flames from the exhaust pipes?

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#11 Bill from NH

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Posted 21 January 2016 - 07:18 PM

I love the chopped top of the Revell kit. Years ago I built the AMT '49 Merc. No chopped top, but mine got metallic green paint.

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#12 Dave Crevie

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Posted 22 January 2016 - 05:00 PM

Here's mine. Real Metalflake with 20 coats of clear. I wish the photo was better.

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#13 Metalflake King

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Posted 22 January 2016 - 05:20 PM

I love the metalflake ! Nice two tone Dave.

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#14 Dallas Jackson

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Posted 22 January 2016 - 05:21 PM

That Merc looks almost real; not a model !!!!!!!

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Posted 23 January 2016 - 09:03 PM

Wow, those cars look good... Great job on both of them!

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#16 olescratch

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Posted 23 January 2016 - 09:54 PM

Nothing like some fine examples of classic hardbodies. Good jobs. And to think, the next issue of Slot Cars magazine will cover them!!!!! Can't wait!!!

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#17 n9949y

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Posted 26 January 2016 - 10:40 PM

Here's a different take: how one might have looked entered in the inaugural Strictly Stock NASCAR

National Championship race at Charlotte Raceway, June 19, 1949. I race it in our Vintage Stock Car

series.

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 05:43 PM

I love it!!!! we need a hot rod/rat rod class of cars from this era!!! I have several model kits from this era to build. My '34 hot rod fits in this category.

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Posted 27 February 2016 - 10:45 PM

That is one sweet ride, dig the wide whites...

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