Back in 1963 I was barely 16 years old. At the corner gas station like the old days has stations this old man was getting rid of his old 51 merc coupe and i paid all $80 . I was short $20 so he held the car for me on hold with the $60 and sure enough i came up with the $20 balance after I got paid from my part time job at the grocery store. I've had many cars in my 70 years of life but somehow the story of 51 Merc never ceases to leave my thoughts.....
Thank you Joe. If you are even in the DMV (DC Maryland Virginia) area, come check out our shop! we have over 70+ cars ready to go and about 40 more in production still!
Super sweet 51 for sure. The trim is insane, love black but as you said it dosn't stand out, I think the shine takes care of some of that. Thanks for the tour. She is a real driver, sounds great!
What Is Even NICER Is To Have A 1949 Mercury Dashboard To Look At When You're Driving. That Have ROUND Gauges, (Instead Of Sweep Gauges), That Can Be Swapped Into The Car, And Modern 12-Volt Gauges Fitted Inside The Original Gauge Holes. Even Though The 2-Door Coupes Look A Bit Better, You Still Have To Bend Over And Crawl Around To Get Into The Back Seat. Where As The 4-Door Sedans Have Really COOL SUICIDE DOOR Openings, And You Can More EASILY Access The Back Seat And Floor To Get People In And Out Of The Car, And Put Groceries And Purchased Items In The Car More Easily Too...
Sweet. The lakesides have to go even though they're period correct. And I don't think the tailpipe tips are period. But it's definitely a nice car. It should be kept original with the only exceptions being the tires and seatbelts. That's what a restoration is. Bringing it back to original.
My first car was a 49 Mercury and all I ever owned in the '50s were Mercury's when the movie rebel without a cause came out I had the exact same car as James Dean a black semi custom no problem picking up chicks
UNFORTUNATLY Those WIDE Whitewall Tires Make The Car Look More Like Grand Paws Old Car. I Removed The Fender Skirts And Installed Slotted Wheels And Modern Radials On My 50 Merc., And It Livened The Look Of It Up IMMENSELY...
my cousin has this car but its a 4-door. Unfortunately, it's been chopped and made a lowrider. 😒 These that look more stock are awesome. James dean fells for sure.
@ Jason C. You're Absolutely RiGHT. Those "BUTCHERED UP " Mercury's That Some People Call "Customized" Were A Left Over Fad From The Mid 50's. And Are Too Expensive And NOT Selling Very Well Either. Replacing The Grills With LUG Protrusions From A DeSoto, Also Completely RUINS The Look Of The Car. Why Don't The Owners Just Buy A DeSoto To Begin With??? America Fell In Love With The Waterfall Or Toothy "Electric Shaver" Style Grille Look, And The MAJORITY Of People That Go To Car Shows Seem To Prefer The ORIGINAL Appearance Of The Car As It Came From The Factory...
@ King Earl. Sorry Kiddo. Those Flatties Can Be Beefed Up Pretty Well. Like The One I Have With High Compression Heads And Slightly Cammed Up To Stay With The Traffic. Especially If It Has An Overdrive To LOWER The Engine RPM's At Higher Highway Speeds. The Speed Limit Remains At Only 25 To 35 In Town Anyway, 40 To 55 On Two Lane Highways, And 70 On The Interstates That The Flatties Can Keep Up With. Even The 50 Merc That I Have Can EASILY Climb Steep Hills In Second Gear; Where As My 350 Chevy Truck Has To Remain In 1st Gear The Whole Way Up That Same Steep Grade... You've OBVIOUSLY Never Driven An Old Bathtub Merc, To Understand The VAST DIFFERANCE They Are From The HIDEIOUS Looking Plastic Balls They Sell Today, That ANY DUFAS Can Operate Down The Road.
@@davemckolanis4683 Of course you are right, but I live in Europe. Flatheads are burning a lot of fuel, and one Gallon cost 6,8 Dollar here.Early Car builders here built only ohv or ohc engines since 1901. Btw: The lowest Quality of gas in Austria is 95 Octane.
@@kingearl2596 According To My Knowledge And Wikipedia, There Were SOME EARLY Manufacturing Of OHV And OHC Engines Being Produced During The Early Years Of The 20th Century, But Mostly For More Expensive And Higher Performance Racing Vehicles And Motorcycles In Both America AND Europe. The Flathead Was Cheaper And Easier To Mass Produce For The General Public, And Remain In Both American And European Ford Manufactured Vehicles Until 1953 And 54. Chevy Had It's First OHV V8 In 1917, But It Didn't Last Long. However Their OHV In Line "Stovebolt" 6 Was Used Since 1929. Peugeot Seemed To Be The European Leader With Innovative Auto Technology, And No Doubt Had More Advanced Engines Than We're In The American Markets. Where Even The American G.M. Cars Including Cadillac Were Still Using Flatheads Into The 1940's. But When Oldsmobile Came Out With Their Mass Produced OHV V8 Engine In 1949, (And Higher Compression Engines BEYOND The Typical 6 To 1 Ratios We're Jacking Up The Horsepower In Them), By 1953 The Flatty Days Were Over With, And The Ever Increasing Horsepower Race Had Begun. So I'm Sure You Might Know More About European Engine Designs Than I Care To Concern Myself With. And This Even HIGHER Advanced Engine Stuff Of Today, (Squeezing Maximum Horsepower Out Of 4-Bangers With Turbos And Fuel Injection And Computer Controls), Is Getting Beyond My 70+Year Old Age Grade To Even Want To Care About At All Anymore. Let Alone These Electric Cars That Can Catch On Fire And Burn The Vehicles Parked Next To Them That Even Fire Departments Can't Extinguish. I'm FINE With Driving Pre-2012 Cars That Aren't OVERLOADED With TOO Much Computerization And Distracting Garbage, That Are Plastic Balls That Look EVIL And Absolutely Hideous... As A Final Comment About 95 Octane Gas In Australia; That Would Be SUPER PREMIUM Here In The States. Where Our Highest 93 Octane Is About $4.50 A Gallon Here In The Eastern States. But California Gas Prices Seem To Be About $1.00 MORE Per Gallon For All Octane Grades...
@@davemckolanis4683 You know really much about engines, like I do. But sir, I live in AUSTRIA, not Australia! It is exactly the opposite, round the world. In Austria we had Steyr, Austro Daimler, Gräf & Stift and many others BEFORE WW1. They all built ONLY ohv or ohc engines. Even Lorries of this time (Fross-Büssing and WAF) had big ohv engines. The car, in wich Kronprinz Franz Ferdinand was murdered (and the first world war began) was a 6 year old Gräf & Stift Double Phaeton, built in 1908. This car is still in running condition in the Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum in Vienna! P.S.: Austrian Researcher were the first white men landing in Australia, so the named it AUSTRIALIA after theyr own land. Austria is documented in the year 996, the red/white/red flag is the oldest in the world.
Too Many Of Those Bathtub Mercuries Are Painted BLACK. Regardless How Shiney The Paint Job Is, They ALL Look Like FUNERAL CARS. Like The Kids PUNK Cars Today Want Everything BLACK Having NO TASTE AT ALL. And That Dragging AS$ Lowering Makes Them Look TIRED With The Bottoms Scraping Going Over Railroad Crossing And Tilted Driveways Too. As I Was Searching For One Myself, I Found A GREEN 50 Merc And Finished Restoring It And REMOVED The Lowering Blocks As Well. YOURS May Be A "SHOW CAR", But Mine Is A Weekend DRIVER That Probably Gets MORE People Looking At It, In A Further BACK Lot Parking Space To Avoid Getting Dinged Up, UNLike What You Must Want To Risk...
That is a sweet looking ride I like the 50 Mercury's than the 50 fords . My question is why do the 50 Fords Have Hood Props where the 50 Mercury's don't? they stay up on their own Just a Question I would give one of my Kidneys for that car
@ Charlie Irvin. The 1949 Mercury Was SUPPOSE TO BE THE FORD Post War Redesign In The Late 40's. But Was Deemed To Be Too Big And TOO HEAVY, Adding To A Higher Cost To Compete With Their Main Competitor Chevy. So Ford's Design Team Came Up With The Cheaper And Lighter Bullet Front Shoebox Design Instead, Keeping The Same 239 cid Engine. With Things Like The Hood Prop Rod On The Ford, Instead Of Springs In The Hood Hinges On The Merc To Assist Opening It. Where As The Mercury Also Got The Longer Stroke 255 Engine, To Help Push Along All That Extra Weight On The Merc. And Owning A 1950 Myself, You Can Instantly Tell The MUCH HEAVIER WEIGHT As Compared To The Light Nimbleness Of The Cars Today. The New Shoebox Ford ALSO Had A Flatter Modern Hood And Straight "SLAB" Sides. Where As The Mercury Still Retained Somewhat Of A Humpy Hood Like A Chevy, But Both Eliminated The Sticking Out Rear Fenders That GM Cars Retained On Their Cars Into The 1950's... I Hope The Information Helps, And You Don't Have To Give Up A Kidney After All...
Back in 1963 I was barely 16 years old. At the corner gas station like the old days has stations this old man was getting rid of his old 51 merc coupe and i paid all $80 . I was short $20 so he held the car for me on hold with the $60 and sure enough i came up with the $20 balance after I got paid from my part time job at the grocery
store. I've had many cars in my 70 years of life but somehow the story of 51 Merc never ceases to leave my thoughts.....
What a beauty. I am glad they kept the flat head.
1951 Merc was my fave of all time. I never had one, and that is my bad luck. Great styling.
You guys are heros--to buy and restore such a work of art!
Thank you Joe. If you are even in the DMV (DC Maryland Virginia) area, come check out our shop! we have over 70+ cars ready to go and about 40 more in production still!
@@FlemingsUltimateGarage wait this is virginia? Oh shit, I don't assume you've restored anything similar as of late?
@@RustyShacklefordReal no, Rockville, MD. But close enough. And yes we do! We always have cool stuff.
Super sweet 51 for sure. The trim is insane, love black but as you said it dosn't stand out, I think the shine takes care of some of that. Thanks for the tour. She is a real driver, sounds great!
That '51 sounds better than some cars today.
Darrell Yelity put two spark plugs in exhaust pipe wire them in with toggle switch.
@@dennisbochmann3820 don’t forget the 40,000 volt coil to create the spark
Beautiful car. The dash is a work of art!
my 80ish Real Estate lady , told me she got married at 18 and her Mom bought them a brand new 1951 Mercury coupe. She said it was a great car
My favorite classic car 1950-51 merc, beautiful car
Those hubcaps are the best. I wish you had the car that came with them.
Crazy bout a mercury. I was glad to see they did not hack It with a SBC. Nothing like a flatty .. ..
What Is Even NICER Is To Have A 1949 Mercury Dashboard To Look At When You're Driving. That Have ROUND Gauges, (Instead Of Sweep Gauges), That Can Be Swapped Into The Car, And Modern 12-Volt Gauges Fitted Inside The Original Gauge Holes. Even Though The 2-Door Coupes Look A Bit Better, You Still Have To Bend Over And Crawl Around To Get Into The Back Seat. Where As The 4-Door Sedans Have Really COOL SUICIDE DOOR Openings, And You Can More EASILY Access The Back Seat And Floor To Get People In And Out Of The Car, And Put Groceries And Purchased Items In The Car More Easily Too...
And it's not chopped... excellent
My first car was a 51 Merc 4-door in pea green.
perfect. wouldn't change a thing
Thank you!
Really looks like a what a gangster would drive back in those days. I wonder how much this baby would set you back.
What's the price?
I'm sure this guy has never done cocaine.
Jay Dean *avoiding eye contact and shifting eyes to the side-* you would be correct.
this is my second favorite car the first is the hudson hornet
Sweet. The lakesides have to go even though they're period correct. And I don't think the tailpipe tips are period. But it's definitely a nice car. It should be kept original with the only exceptions being the tires and seatbelts. That's what a restoration is. Bringing it back to original.
My first car was a 49 Mercury and all I ever owned in the '50s were Mercury's when the movie rebel without a cause came out I had the exact same car as James Dean a black semi custom no problem picking up chicks
1950 mercury when back tires puncture but how to change backside tires
The fender skirts set it off.
The money spent on the chrome engine parts I'd save to keeping the car maintained and garaged. And no the steering wheel stays ORIGINAL .
No Chrome window frames what's up
My first car was 51 coupe in green
Love at first sight. 👀😳😁😎👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Fantastique 🖤 🥰🖤
I was made im teh back Star of a 51 so the Story has been told
Millennials suck, they were oblivious to the nostalgia of that beautiful car, even after he blew it's cat call whistle, the future is not looking good
OMG! If only....
Hey Siri! Buy some white wall tires! *Im sorry, those don’t exist anymore*
Yes they do.Coker tire,Chattanooga,TN.
UNFORTUNATLY Those WIDE Whitewall Tires Make The Car Look More Like Grand Paws Old Car. I Removed The Fender Skirts And Installed Slotted Wheels And Modern Radials On My 50 Merc., And It Livened The Look Of It Up IMMENSELY...
my cousin has this car but its a 4-door. Unfortunately, it's been chopped and made a lowrider. 😒 These that look more stock are awesome. James dean fells for sure.
Everyone has their own style but thanks for the love. One of our favorite additions to the car was the cat-call whistle
@@FlemingsUltimateGarage Come on tell me how much it is, that I can't afford?
@ Jason C. You're Absolutely RiGHT. Those "BUTCHERED UP " Mercury's That Some People Call "Customized" Were A Left Over Fad From The Mid 50's. And Are Too Expensive And NOT Selling Very Well Either. Replacing The Grills With LUG Protrusions From A DeSoto, Also Completely RUINS The Look Of The Car. Why Don't The Owners Just Buy A DeSoto To Begin With??? America Fell In Love With The Waterfall Or Toothy "Electric Shaver" Style Grille Look, And The MAJORITY Of People That Go To Car Shows Seem To Prefer The ORIGINAL Appearance Of The Car As It Came From The Factory...
Those fake spotlights really do nothing for me.
Good thing they are removable but its new owner loves them. guess its personal taste
Nice Car, but shitty flathead engine
@ King Earl. Sorry Kiddo. Those Flatties Can Be Beefed Up Pretty Well. Like The One I Have With High Compression Heads And Slightly Cammed Up To Stay With The Traffic. Especially If It Has An Overdrive To LOWER The Engine RPM's At Higher Highway Speeds. The Speed Limit Remains At Only 25 To 35 In Town Anyway, 40 To 55 On Two Lane Highways, And 70 On The Interstates That The Flatties Can Keep Up With. Even The 50 Merc That I Have Can EASILY Climb Steep Hills In Second Gear; Where As My 350 Chevy Truck Has To Remain In 1st Gear The Whole Way Up That Same Steep Grade... You've OBVIOUSLY Never Driven An Old Bathtub Merc, To Understand The VAST DIFFERANCE They Are From The HIDEIOUS Looking Plastic Balls They Sell Today, That ANY DUFAS Can Operate Down The Road.
@@davemckolanis4683 Of course you are right, but I live in Europe. Flatheads are burning a lot of fuel, and one Gallon cost 6,8 Dollar here.Early Car builders here built only ohv or ohc engines since 1901. Btw: The lowest Quality of gas in Austria is 95 Octane.
@@kingearl2596 According To My Knowledge And Wikipedia, There Were SOME EARLY Manufacturing Of OHV And OHC Engines Being Produced During The Early Years Of The 20th Century, But Mostly For More Expensive And Higher Performance Racing Vehicles And Motorcycles In Both America AND Europe. The Flathead Was Cheaper And Easier To Mass Produce For The General Public, And Remain In Both American And European Ford Manufactured Vehicles Until 1953 And 54. Chevy Had It's First OHV V8 In 1917, But It Didn't Last Long. However Their OHV In Line "Stovebolt" 6 Was Used Since 1929. Peugeot Seemed To Be The European Leader With Innovative Auto Technology, And No Doubt Had More Advanced Engines Than We're In The American Markets. Where Even The American G.M. Cars Including Cadillac Were Still Using Flatheads Into The 1940's. But When Oldsmobile Came Out With Their Mass Produced OHV V8 Engine In 1949, (And Higher Compression Engines BEYOND The Typical 6 To 1 Ratios We're Jacking Up The Horsepower In Them), By 1953 The Flatty Days Were Over With, And The Ever Increasing Horsepower Race Had Begun. So I'm Sure You Might Know More About European Engine Designs Than I Care To Concern Myself With. And This Even HIGHER Advanced Engine Stuff Of Today, (Squeezing Maximum Horsepower Out Of 4-Bangers With Turbos And Fuel Injection And Computer Controls), Is Getting Beyond My 70+Year Old Age Grade To Even Want To Care About At All Anymore. Let Alone These Electric Cars That Can Catch On Fire And Burn The Vehicles Parked Next To Them That Even Fire Departments Can't Extinguish. I'm FINE With Driving Pre-2012 Cars That Aren't OVERLOADED With TOO Much Computerization And Distracting Garbage, That Are Plastic Balls That Look EVIL And Absolutely Hideous... As A Final Comment About 95 Octane Gas In Australia; That Would Be SUPER PREMIUM Here In The States. Where Our Highest 93 Octane Is About $4.50 A Gallon Here In The Eastern States. But California Gas Prices Seem To Be About $1.00 MORE Per Gallon For All Octane Grades...
@@davemckolanis4683 You know really much about engines, like I do. But sir, I live in AUSTRIA, not Australia! It is exactly the opposite, round the world.
In Austria we had Steyr, Austro Daimler, Gräf & Stift and many others BEFORE WW1. They all built ONLY ohv or ohc engines. Even Lorries of this time
(Fross-Büssing and WAF) had big ohv engines. The car, in wich Kronprinz Franz Ferdinand was murdered (and the first world war began) was a 6 year
old Gräf & Stift Double Phaeton, built in 1908. This car is still in running condition in the Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum in Vienna!
P.S.: Austrian Researcher were the first white men landing in Australia, so the named it AUSTRIALIA after theyr own land. Austria is documented in
the year 996, the red/white/red flag is the oldest in the world.
Too Many Of Those Bathtub Mercuries Are Painted BLACK. Regardless How Shiney The Paint Job Is, They ALL Look Like FUNERAL CARS. Like The Kids PUNK Cars Today Want Everything BLACK Having NO TASTE AT ALL. And That Dragging AS$ Lowering Makes Them Look TIRED With The Bottoms Scraping Going Over Railroad Crossing And Tilted Driveways Too. As I Was Searching For One Myself, I Found A GREEN 50 Merc And Finished Restoring It And REMOVED The Lowering Blocks As Well. YOURS May Be A "SHOW CAR", But Mine Is A Weekend DRIVER That Probably Gets MORE People Looking At It, In A Further BACK Lot Parking Space To Avoid Getting Dinged Up, UNLike What You Must Want To Risk...
That is a sweet looking ride I like the 50 Mercury's than the 50 fords . My question is why do the 50 Fords Have Hood Props where the 50 Mercury's don't? they stay up on their own Just a Question I would give one of my Kidneys for that car
@ Charlie Irvin. The 1949 Mercury Was SUPPOSE TO BE THE FORD Post War Redesign In The Late 40's. But Was Deemed To Be Too Big And TOO HEAVY, Adding To A Higher Cost To Compete With Their Main Competitor Chevy. So Ford's Design Team Came Up With The Cheaper And Lighter Bullet Front Shoebox Design Instead, Keeping The Same 239 cid Engine. With Things Like The Hood Prop Rod On The Ford, Instead Of Springs In The Hood Hinges On The Merc To Assist Opening It. Where As The Mercury Also Got The Longer Stroke 255 Engine, To Help Push Along All That Extra Weight On The Merc. And Owning A 1950 Myself, You Can Instantly Tell The MUCH HEAVIER WEIGHT As Compared To The Light Nimbleness Of The Cars Today. The New Shoebox Ford ALSO Had A Flatter Modern Hood And Straight "SLAB" Sides. Where As The Mercury Still Retained Somewhat Of A Humpy Hood Like A Chevy, But Both Eliminated The Sticking Out Rear Fenders That GM Cars Retained On Their Cars Into The 1950's... I Hope The Information Helps, And You Don't Have To Give Up A Kidney After All...
If this car was convertible with Flames on it . it would look like that Merc on Grease