Projects 55 Merc full custom build

Well guys I've decided to end my dream car build for many reasons,age,money and I moved to the Rocky Mountains and there no great place to drive it so I have done a lot of design and fab work so I hope some of you guys enjoy my build pics ! A young designer named Matt Hurley who I found here on the HAMB took my ideas and put them down on paper so I could see where I wanted to go ! Thanks Again Matt

 

Horse-shit.

build it.

 

With help from some great friends a really straight 55 Merc Montclair was located in Roswell NM

 

Home coming !

 

Cleaned her out and found a rock solid floor and so the build starts !

 

I decided to start with the dash just to get my feet wet ! Cut out all of the unneeded holes and built a radius bender

 

Looks like a nice solid start, how are the inner rockers and floor supports?

 

Ok now the Packard tail lights also found at the same junkyard and same friends !

solid !!!!

 

looking great - keep posting updates

 

So are you building this or the pic is what you wanted to build? Confused here

 

He was building it and gave up.

 

Too bad..was of to a great start

 

After finishing the rear it was time to adapt a roller 302 and aod into her. No big deal with after market motor mount adapters and tranny mounts but the AOD bell housing is huge so the fire was cut and the drive shaft tunnel is raised.

 

Seating turned out to be a problem, I had bought some 60's t bird seats but they turned out to be way to bulky and tall for me so I went over to a friends 4x4 and hot rod shop where I found the perfect seats !!! Late 70's early 80's Toyota Land Cruiser buckets, short,light and simple with a great shape !

 

I lived in Denver and Boulder in the 70s,lots of places to drive that around.

 

Yeah but I live in Pagosa Springs on a 2 mile road !

 

Dirt road !