The Jalopy Journal
I see that I am responding to an old post, but I came across this old photo of the Don Telen Mercury. I would like to get it to the current...
Very cool hand built enclosed car trailer made of unique riveted texture aluminum sheeting with brass strips. The frame is steel with dual 5000+...
Looks similar to the Leggy Linda Plannette Roadster. [ATTACH]
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/ca18/the-petersen-automotive-museum-auction/lots/r0069-1941-mercury-stengel-custom-by-coachcraft/729967
UPDATE #2 - Here are a couple more updates: 1) Found photo in the 1957 Porterville High School Yearbook which states that Marty's Upholstery did...
UPDATE - First I want to thank many of you that spent the time to help me search for the history about this car. I was able to correspond with...
[ATTACH] I recently acquired this original 1950 Mercury Custom from my father's long time car friend. I have been wanting this car since I was a...
I did a little research and found out that Leggy Linda was the wife of the original owner, Paul Plannette, of my car. Apparently, she was a...
My father always talked about and showed me these books since I was a kid in the 1970s. We have several originals of each. Also the main reason I...
The Plannette Mercury is my car. :) Checkout this HAMB link for more information:...
Coachcraft is still in business today in Fillmore, California. Ask for Bill at 805-524-7744.
Click on the following link, it includes some phone numbers of the guys who started the club and organized the event:...
Just thought that I would let everyone know that four Coachcraft cars (Doorless Wonder (except February 6-8), Yankee Doodle, Lincoln, Stutz) along...
The car was painted red shortly after these photos were taken when it was white. At the time, Rudy & Bill Stoessel (Coachcraft) didn't like that...
I finally had some time to go through my stuff.... Here are some photos of the "sister" car to the 1949 Coachcraft Cadillac built by Bowman &...
I thought that I would add some photos of this car my father took while visiting Coachcraft in 1986.
Actually, I was mistaken. I spoke to my father and the original owner commissioned a 4 door Cadillac sedan (not wagon) from Bowman & Schwartz...
Actually, the Bunny Phillips building is now a Harley Davidson dealer. My understanding is that the coupe was built by Coachcraft and the...
Here is another photo from the side.
The first photo was taken at the Pasadena Art Center School of Desgn Concours (2007), the next 5 were taken at the Amelia Island Concours Event in...
Sometimes I wonder if I would have been better off recreating the car from scratch than doing all the repair work on the sheetmetal. ~50% of...
Being lucky enough to have purchased the 1st Coachcraft car when I was 17 back in 1986 and not seeing too much discussion about Coachcraft and the...
Long time reader of the HAMB. Interesting information, ideas, and of course cars from around the world. Anyway, been an avid car lover before I...
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