Vehicle Description
1950 Mercury Coupe....
Old School Cool....New School Technology...
The combination of the two is devastatingly Cool... When I think of
the Lead sleds of old The silhouette is always a very early 50's
Mercury.
Always a chopped top and usually associated with some cat nicknamed
"Scarface" or
" Icepick"... I imagine the guy getting out of the car with his
very clean white T-shirt , sleeves rolled up, a pack of camels in
the sleeve , a stick match in his teeth. Hair greased and combed
straight back on the sides. a little waterfall of shiny greased
hair in the front just barely touching his forehead.......And
nobody wants to make eye contact because ...well just because the
level of intimidation one might feel when "Scarface" gets out of
the Chopped and lowered Mercury might be more than what most folks
would care to deal with,in public any way......
In those days the motor would have been a well built Flathead or a
small block Chevrolet.... In those days we never would have thought
about what I call the "Outer Limits of Cool" .....James Dean ,Steve
Mcqueen, Marlon Brando Cool....The "Build" that was so extensive
and expensive that it would be next to impossible for a normal
human being ........... But here it is...."That Build"
It began with a rather original 50 Merc that had settled into a
field for decades , then was drug onto the back of an old trailer
ending up in a nondescript garage where for four years it was
massaged and worked from on end to the other... Nothing was left
untouched , Nothing was accepted as good enough.... Every single
nut bolt and washer was replaced , with new...
The heart of this build is an SRT 10 Viper motor and 6 speed
transmission and then peaking under the skirts of this incredibly
sexy 50 Merc. We see a complete
Chris Alston's chassisworks frame powder coated in brilliant viper
red .The massive rear tubs are now full of giant 33 X 21.5 X 15
Mickey Thompson street tires on and all of that gets it's juice
from a "FAB 9" rear end with 3.89:1 gear Turning Strange 31 spline
axles ....Traction and ride control is accomplished with Varispring
adjustable coilovers shocks.Exhaust gasses are freely expelled
through a 3 inch flowmaster exhaust with custom cut outs (just in
case you want it loud and rowdy)..
Stopping power is provided by a full set of Wilwood slotted rotor
discs.
Guages and info displays are all Viper,electric door poppers with
remotes provide easy access... Comfort is provided for with full
leather interior power seats, power windows, air conditioning and
tinted glass ... as I said when I started this story ...This build
was too expensive and too extensive for anybody, that had any
thought of breaking even or making a profit , to attempt .
I would estimate that this build if you had to pay for it at any
professional shop would easily cost in the range of $250,000.00 You
can own this one of a kind ,one off,ultra cool SRT Merc for less
than half of that build cost......
