Hi folks! My name is Sanna, I made an account here yesterday. Iam gonna show you a speedster that we bought and built 2016. It was just a coincidence that we bought just this car. In the beginning we really didn't know what we had draged home. But in the end it turned out to be a very cool car. In the 1920s it came 4 (what we know) mercurybodys to Sweden. This is one of them. We think this car was a racingcar that they took speed record on ice(frozen lake) here in sweden in the 1920s. Im gonna show you the restoration we did! This is what we draged home!
We started to assembly the car and go thru all stuff to see what we had bought. The body was in really bad shape. We found some goodies..
The chassie is a Ford model-T. We restored it. Change the rear beam to a higher (truck?). And the front axel is mercurybodys own. Who is fabricdropped. Rearaxel is a Ford 26/27 We think. My talented husband Simon did the bodywork.
The old fellow who had the car,had collected all pieces. He had a plan to do a speedster of it. He past away in the late 1990s. And we bought the pile of pieces from his son 2016. It took about a year for us to finish the build. (we just do this as a hobby on our spare time) Hope you like it! Maybe someone here on H.A.M.B has a mercurybody to? They was manufactured in USA in the 1920s. /Sanna
That is cool, I hope I'll see it somewhere in the future since I'm also from Sweden. Here is another: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/a-speedster-comes-out-of-the-weeds—build-thread.1003005/
Beautiful sheetmetal repair work on that body, and a wonderful engine to power it. Nice to have two Mercury body speedsters on the HAMB. If there are any in-progress pictures of the steel work on the body I'd love to see them. Did you have to fabricate the trunk lid, or did you have one? Also curious about the body lines on the sides of the cowl and doors, looks like there were some there at one point, were those not original to the body?
That is a very nice car. Well done! ..........Okay ............I'll start the auction. My bid is $16,500 USD. And I promise to take it here to Texas where it will never see a snowflake or a bit of rust ever again.
Great job!! Welcome to the HAMB! We were planning a 2 week vacation to Sweden in May but had to cancel. I was hoping to find a car show or two when I was there and see some cool hot rods like yours
That is a beatiful car you've built, @Sanna&Simon. I also have a Mercury speedster that I found in overgrown with weeds and hauled home in pieces. You can see it in my build thread. You clearly have many skills. It took me ten years to do what you did in one!
Thanks! We haven't got so many pictures on the bodywork. Yes Simon had to make a trunk lid, it was missing. He also made the fuel cap. The sides on the body is original.
It is a Darcks water pump. Its made here in Sweden. It was that man, Gottfrid Darcks we think had this car in the 20s. He owned a workshop and cast his own car parts. We think its our car in the picture..
14th of March 1926 at the frozen lake: Varpan, Falun Sweden the "Darck-Ford" was clocked at 134 km/h. (83,2 mph).
The way we understand it Schebler made this carburetor to RAJO.. Does anyone know how many different trim parts rajo did manufacture? /Sanna
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