Saving The 1939 Mercury Coupe From The Rust Lagoon
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- A few months back we extracted a three cars from a local junkyards private stash, and in that video Matt mentioned he purchased 5 vehicles. After lots and lots of rain, the ground is hopefully firm enough to rip the 1939 Mercury from its current home in the swamp. They tried to remove it earlier in the summer and the large front end loader sunk into the mud and almost couldn't get out! Let us know what you think Matt should do with the 1939 Merc. Turn it into another traditional hot rod, tail dragging custom, or selling it and focus on other projects.
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This was amazing to watch seeing that old car move for the first time in 60 years. It was also spooky to see the steering wheel turning as the car was dragged out of the weeds. Almost like some ghost was driving.
I'm just glad to see that some of this stuff is still around and that it hasn't all been crushed EPA sucks
I love seeing mechanics find golden treasures and fixing them up. We have alot here in Missouri and I know everywhere else. I love classic vehicles. Great job guys. Love your work. Shout out from Missouri.
Thanks so much for watching Sherry!
i like your thinking matt.we only ever get one oppurtunity to save this stuff,its only metal,and you have the skills and equipment.you also are young,in 20 yrs time this save will be priceless.Ralph.
39 Mercury’s are the same to custom guys as to 32 Fords for hot rodders. Worth the effort to save most any original metal cars. 🤘
Thanks for saving these classics,whether u restore them,hotrod them or take the parts its better then sitting in a field and rotting
That's Chaz's I'm 20 minutes from there! I do remember those oldies way in the back!!
Crown Vic chassis/frame and drivetrain..please!..Would be such a great build to follow.
Well done for saving this great looking car.
Seems that I am not alone..
This thing is pretty far gone friends
Forget the Forgotten Tudor, the Merc Coupe is WAAAAAY COOLER !!!!!!!!! You haven't built a custom yet so thats my suggestion. Every panel that is damaged is replaceable or repairable , so ,as we say DOWN UNDER pull your finger out and start building!!!! Great purchase Matt.
I should practice what I preach, I have a '39 standard ute that is missing about 8" from the bottom of the body. Project in the works 😃😃😃
That forklift driver did more damage in half an hour than the car sat their for 60yrs waaaah great footage by the way 🚜👍😃🇬🇧
Needed a manual steering box for my 72 GTO, found one in a 70 LeMans, yard like this, full of 30's 50's 60's+ cars.
Guy hooks up his F350 4x4 wrecker to it, FLOORS IT..!
We are going in and out of 1-2 foot deep dips full of water, turning whipping around corners, the frame "Vs" and buckles in the roof.
The more parts coming off this 70 LeMans the faster the guy is going. The biggest set of "dips" are at one of the bypasses to other newer areas of the yard toward the front, he starts making some speed and frame digs in and pole-vaults the "under" on top and rips the car in 2 right at the A pillars just as we go 2+ feet into this water hole at 40ish, I looked in those huge Ford mirrors to see this LeMans swinging and bouncing like the deep sea monster that ate that guy in Deep Star SIX, "At Least We Got The End With The Parts You Need", guy yells, all I could say was "yea".
He wanted $40 for the box, I gave him $60, he said that's $20 too much, I said "I would have given you $60 just for that ride!".
Don't really matter how you build it as long as you save it or at the very least use all the parts from it.
Damn Rigth!
agree another one saved!
i agree another one saved!
Co-signed.
Save that Merc and build it it's too nice to just part out
Hope you can save it. It has waited long enough. Great video thanks for sharing.
I think that merc has an extraordinary amount of gravitational pull. It’s a pile but you just don’t find one every day so any car like that has potential. Hope it finds itself risen from the grave.
It's a disgrace leaving a car to rot like that... No matter how much money you have... The people that spent hundreds of hour of there lives building it and being away from there family's to build it for a little bit of money... There hard work just thrown away like scrap... I'm glad you are saving it and preserving there legacy...
Would love seeing this one brought back from the dead. Restored to original looking street rod is my choice.
It can be done with blood, sweat and tears!
@@trickyricky12147 Yes sir it can be done but you forgot one more thing it will take which is about a ton of $100.00 bills.
@@terrygli Is it worth it?Could be.
I would be surprised if it did end up getting restored
Doesn't want that forklift wrecking it even more
tail dragger! that junk yard should be ashamed of themselves for taking any money for that merc. great body style just the same.... bless you matt for saving another one.
That Mercury would be awesome with an early Hemi and a 4 speed
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I agree! Absolutely!
What a remarkable guy..
That was stressful to watch, I need to dye my hair now from changing to grey 😲
You should customize it to the way it looks right now...a tail dragging custom, dual spot lights, fender skirts the whole 9 yards. Probably an S10 frame would be the way to go on this one seeing as how the original is already toast.
forklift dude is wearing sunglasses so he can't see the damage he is doing...smart
I thought it was going to fall apart before going onto the trailer. Looks like it is solid enough though lol
I think your about 50 years too late ole buddy.
you guys remind me how i was 25 years ago, there wasn't anything i could'nt restore or fix !!!!!!!!
It's sad to think, but that was probably a pretty nice car when it was parked there nearly 60 years ago.
Yup, dont understand why they would park this in a marsh mud pit to rot but.
Often, junkyards begin in otherwise unusable areas, not suited for anything else. Sometimes it's in swampy land. As many times as that Merc has been in water, doubtful there's anything worth using.
@@robj2704 a junkyard letting there profit rot away makes no sense
Depressing to watch. And I love old cars. But...who knows?
Creature from the rust lagoon. Make it a tail dragger
I definitely think "Creature from the Rust Lagoon" is a great name for the car. :D
As a professional heavy equipment driver who spends most of my time in a 20,000-60,000 lbs forklifts all day.... This is hard to watch. Such poor techniques in getting this car out... It hurts my brain
Don't worry about it
Respectfully, i dont know if you would be saying that if it was a car you had purchased and it was getting torn up.
@@adamsaramcmichael4579 I agree. They show no skill and a complete lack of respect for these historical cars.
You may be a professional and good at your job but this guy is on a forklift in a junkyard dealing with a uncertain load that he does not know how it will act he did what he did my God you people lay off of this operator I love and appreciate this car as much as anybody and I think it should be saved and fixed restored yeah he got a little rough with it one time but the rear end was falling out look at the end result he didn't hurt it
This extraction made me cringe big time.
Now this is very awesome..glad to see someone else shares my type of insanity..
You need Johnathan W and one of his trucks to help you. He is the master of pulling out and saving old cars without wrecking them. Need to handle them like eggs!
The bottom 6" of that ugly duckling are long gone so a hammered & sectioned sled would suit it's condition best. Just cut it off below the door hinge , do a double Z chassis to get it back in the weeds where it spent most of it's life then hammer the top.
Was it just me or was that forklift driver was not carful at all with the 39
There is nothing left of it! Can't be careful with it, it's falling apart
He didn’t have much to work with
If nothing else, it has a lot of glass and chrome trim. Looks like the instrument panel is good. Not being there, it's hard to tell what the lower body looks like. Thin rust being held together by more thin rust? The hood, maybe the trunk lit, and the upper body are salvageable for other projects. If there is an engine, there are parts. I think you'll do OK by parting it out. Congratulations on a grear find.
The 39 Merc coupes are such awesome looking cars it would make a really nice mild custom or even a full on custom, jealous that you guys have such great looking project tin still available, over here in Australia we didn’t get the good looking versions you did and what we have is a lot lower production numbers of the versions we got but we try and make the most of it, cheers from down under Tasmania/Australia and I can’t wait to see what you do with it, Matt and Mike keep up the great work and keep those videos coming 😎👍👍🇦🇺
Thanks for watching Adam!
All it needs is a good spit shine....good as new
And a new battery, she'll be good to go. Personally, I'd have thrown it back.
I'm not sure what did more damage, Sitting the mud for 30 years, or you guys beating t he hell out of it trying to move it. that was hard to watch
Watching that guy on the forklift was giving me anxiety,
Thats gotta be the worst recovery I've ever seen with a fork lift.. it was being murderd
I live in central Washington State and it's more of a desert area, I can find cars from the 20s and up in much better shape, complete, may have rust but it's mostly surface rust even after sitting for 40 years. My goal in life is to further my education in electrical & welding where I can more than enough money so I can fund my hobby of saving and restoring classic cars and trucks!
Why bother? A soda can is more sturdy.
Reverse oxmosis ain't gonna work
You really need to stop drinking!
This is proof you need help.
The fork lift guy demolished the bottom
And the forklift destroys it.
KEEP IT ORIGINAL.
If it were my brother,he'd drop a Chevy 350 in it in a heartbeat.I'd use another 59 AB.I wouldn't channel it by any means.
I think if it can be restored, motor upgrade and suspension upgrade with moderate body design and interior.
What an Awesome car to find and recover!!!! A 39 Mercury coupe!!!!! Would love to find one to make a custom lead sled out of it!!!!!!
you got screwed, i was taught to never buy a car from a swamp land. its a shame
Had to stop watching this. You have more composure than I could ever muster if I was watching do that to a car I bought. Granted it was doomed to be in the roughest shape to begin with In that location for so long. Those were gorgeous vehicles
that would make a great sleeper with all new frame and drive train
What kind of restoration can you make out of this? It’s like pulling the Titanic out of the water and making it float again. Good for certain parts!
''It's already got the stance" LOL!!
Hot Rod! Tail dragger - YUK! Then again I am an old hot rodder from the 60's and 70's and never could see any beauty in low riders or tail draggers. Just not my thing. But rock on! What ever tickles you. That's what it is all about.
Matt It would be nice to follow a build that included you doing a custom frame built from scratch...39 Merc "Swamp Monster" or "Merc-e-Waters". I appreciate your skills, and love the channel! Keep doing what your doing, and I would not be surprised if someone from Motortrend offers you a TV show?
Grow moss on the roof, plant flowers elsewhere. Matt, you are a brave dude to take this one on. But it was pretty once and I hope you keep it just to show anything is possible.
cant even watch the guy driving the equipment doesnt know what he is doing
Nick Ellis he made me sick to my Stomach watching this
Same here, total idiot
Nice driveshaft, exhaust system, and rockers, be a shame if someone crushed them all with a forklift
It hurts to see equipment operators having no idea how to be gentle with very old and irreplacable items
If he didn't bury the forks into the ground he would not have gotten stuck, complete idiot .
Dang that mud is slicker than owl poop!
Needs a full house "255 Merc flathead under the hood.
I wish I had a 1939 Car like this Because me and my dad do a Polish ww2 reenactment and this Car would be good to Show the Public of what kind of cars did the polish Army used during 1939 and WW2 👍🚗🇵🇱
A real car man will take on just about any car dead or barely alive hope you can revive it to a drive able machine just like it's glory day's or at least close to it( MAN) just build it............. two thumb's up!!!!!!
if you havent seen this resto go have a look at how they saved this car. they actually remade the whole car piece at a time
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The guy that said bucket of rust needs to go to the sewing section of the women's section of TH-cam LOL
It looks like it may be 'beyond saving', but will make a good 'parts car'!
WAY beyond saving. Maybe the front clip and the dash but the rest is too far gone.
"IF" you keep it, make it a tail dragger...though it looks pretty rough, maybe put the body on a modern chassis?? Yes its rusty but I cringed everytime the fork lift driver tore into it.
same here.
I agree!
Love it make it a custom
Chevelle: "It's seen better days (but its better than what we're actually trying to save)."
I think even the guys at cold war motors in Canada would be hard pressed to use that coupe for anything.
i've watched their videos bringing dead clunkers back to life. i'd say they would be hard pressed to use that merc for something.
Scott and his agents would have that rusty old thing up and running in several years, every day of which would be a treat to watch.
@@kimkiriniki9433 I THINK SOME OF THE RUST THAT FELL OFF MIGHT BE UNOBTAINEUM stream line mojo looks.
@@allenschmitz9644 haha Lazar!!
hope hes nearby. everyone seems to be in Ontario minus a few one ive met personally ^^
Build it as a taildragger custom. Its better than a 39 ford coupe ute I pulled out of the Australian bush last year. It broke in half. Parted it out.
That’s the plan!
This impatient forkliftdriver was a guy without respect for old iron. If course you cannot get a car like that out of its swampgrave without further damage. But with a bit more care and patience he could have done it less than half the damage.
Now you have to completely disassemble it so you can restore what is salvageable and put it on a new frame.
Build that tail dragging custom, and save yourselves all the work
Matt for your sake I hope your wife was out shopping when you brought this home, Good Luck.
All that crunching was hard to listen to. Hopefully it can be salvaged.
Crunching with a little bit of... Snap Crackle Pop! : (
Matt wouldn't have bought the car if he didn't already have some kind of dream car in his imagination. It's always a hope that an old car is always going to be better than you thought. Just leave it alone and make a cool hot rod out of it. It was a hot rod before and it can be one again.
Do the rite thing and just put it back in its resting place !!
Rust in Peace.
Better wait till dry season
That forklift driver needs to learn how to drive it. He really sucked. Also go back and get that COE truck.
robis40 it was so infuriating!! But so was getting it off the trailer 🤦🏻♂️
Completely wrong type of tyres for that ground
What the hell were you guys thinking?? Using a forklift??🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼
Dear forklift driver, show some respect. Please.
Great find Matt! 👌
The frame was rusted in half there's not much else he could have done but he did keep it in one piece that car was rotted out from the bottom
How to stop car squealing in reverse gear when backing out?
I bet that area was just short grass when this old car was parked there many years ago and then all the stuff grew around the car
Your neighbors must love you Matt! LOL
it will be awsome to se a resurrection on that car!!
Wow I wonder what the story was behind that car, love watching these videos and restoration of these classic beauties..❤️
Poor car was rough watching it trying to be recovered in one piece.
I'm cringing, everytime they pull it and set it down. Looks like several broken dreams... good luck on saving it as u go ahead.
Yes save this one into a chop top tail dagger with a fiftys flathead would be so cool
I agree - this is the purest form of madness......
That 39 Merc is really rough!
My god that guy can't operate for shit. Very painful to watch him destroy the car lol
Bring it back to life ☺️
Sorry ass destroyed half the car before he got it out smh.
This would make a sweet 50's era custom recreation. Lets see you make it happen with all your spare time :) It was fun to see all the pain we go through to try and keep these art-deco cars around. Loved the effort and video
Save the WILLYS!!!! I'm a jeep guy, I can spot a flattie in the woods at a 1000 yards lol, to bad I dont have the funds to save any😖
Did you just see how they get those cars out of the swamp of hell
rust in peace, Mercury...
The seller sure saw you coming. What a total piece of junk.
You dont have any vision my friend. plenty of good parts on there
Could'nt help but notice the neighbour watching from his porch in the background as the Merc disembarked the trailer. Probably wondering what you dragged home this time. Super Delux Patina is what.
Face it young man, you are addicted. You have the knowledge and experience to do what's best for this beauty.
I hate it when they move vehicles by forklift. They always do more damage. A 64 Comet I bought from a junkyard was moved by forklift, they damaged the gas tank, bumpers, quarter panels and left front fender. A 55 Buick from a different junkyard had the bumpers damaged by forklift and a 65 Ford pickup had the driveshaft ruined. By contrast I bought a 56 Ford coupe from a little old lady. It had sat in a field for 30 years sunk down to the frame. Took 3 hours to dig it out but I got it out myself without damaging anything.
I don't know how youll save this one, it looks to be way too far gone. Id part it out, the hood, windshield and frame, grille, and a few bits of stainless trim are decent-the rest, ugh.
Now this vehicle falls under the heading of "Fresh"!!
I'm not sure what's the plan here. This is a bucket of rust :(
Anything can be fixed anyway it's got a good flat head the frame was not rusted in half , that car in water half of its life despite that it's still mostly all there a good fitter fabricator could build all the pieces
if you had used the end loader as a anchor,snatch block and pull out with skid steer would have been a little easier i believe
Looks like it needs a new frame, decide when further inspection is completed. Thanks for taking us old farts seriously.
I would've laughed if when he was unloading it from the trailer it turned into a pile of rust
Asa Brit you should customise this car there can not be many of these left in the states so to keep its style would make it last !!
Just a question. What did u pay for the Merc
They bought rust, the merc was attached
Should have dug around it and put supports underneath and carefully lifted it out by crane, would've been a little more work, but could save the car from damage.
It's amazing how Ford got the roof line so right on a 39 Ford and so wrong on the 39 Merc.
Agreed! This is just a goofy looking car from every angle.
I couldn't disagree more. With the proper treatment, I think this car will look better than a Ford. The roof lines are just different enough to make it stand out. Seen from the rear quarter, 95% will never have a clue as to what it is. perfect basis for clean custom....or would that be Kleen Kustom? In any case, just think about the 50-60 years of welding experience Matt can put on his resume after this one...lol
It will be an awesome looking car once it's chopped and the roofline is changed
You really crazyman, that junk.... Oh My Good, so money to fix its.
You the man... Superhero😎
I think you've been 30 years too late..it's already a crumpled heap