Thread: If you could pick one zero miles car.....

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Since this is a wishlist, I think I would want one of these--a McLaren F1.

This thread is harder to answer than you might think,because there isn't much that I wouldn't want to blow apart and change to suit myself,which kind of negates the need of a 0 miles gennie. Can I have a nice time machine instead so I can go back and get what I want for builders instead? Hank

1940 Mercury Convertible Classic Car Pictures

I was unable to copy a picture but my choice would be a 1940 Mercury Convertible. It has the classic '40 style headlights, longer hood and the better 24 stud flathead. The shape is already close to a custom, just add lowering shackles and put aluminum finned heads on it, then wax it over and over! You gotta love that grill with the chromed casting!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Don, about 10 years ago I had the opportunity to buy a 1940 Mercury covertible for $17.5k I wanted to resto-rod the car, but a family member who owned several old cars and streetrods told my wife not to buy it, because of the high cost of conversion. She regrets the decision not to buy it even more than I did/do. She really loved it. It only had 67k original miles on it and was in good running condition. When I decided to buy it any way, it had been sold to a collector for a museum. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to hesitate or listen to others.

if i could go back in time i would of been working at gm in 1962 and the novas would of had a little bit different front ends to accept the 409s would of made super stock a whole lot more interesting

Make mine a '67 427 Vette. Today the engine would be aluminum block and heads of course with SFI.

Kitz

Don,

One trick I use to swipe pictures is to right click on the picture I want. Then go to the bottom of the little window that comes up and click properties. Find the address about halfway up in the window. It usually ends in jpg, and copy it. Then paste it in the image window on the posting block. As long as the picture is up on the original site it will show here. Obviously you are sucking up some of someones elses bandwidth though. Another thing I do is just click "save as" (under file in the header) and put the picture in a file on my computer. Then I can attach it to any post I want using the browse feature.

Tom

39Deluxe, Thanks, we got a picture on here in case folks did not know what a '40 Merc looks like. I can recall TWO of them in my distant past when I was very impressionable. One was repainted a pale metallic blue and another was bright red. There is/was a status factor in that while the Fords of those years also look good with the pointed hood, the Mercury was one step up. In my mind most of what early customs tried to achieve was already present in the '40 Merc except for the high springs. All you have to do is add longer shackels and skirts to a '40 Merc and you already have an image close to full out customs.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Defiantly not a '32 ford. I think that I would have to say a '36 Chevy (I want to say sports coupe, you know the one that only sat two and had no top) my grandfather had one.

That is the same reason I picked a '53-'55 stude....great styling!

The hard part was deciding if the horsepower or styling had seniority....but I make my living with art, sooooo.....

Amongst today's hot rod enthusiasts, power takes a distant "back seat", but I am a child of the 50s-'70s, and have always been a big dragrace fan, so I had to resist the horspower lure.

The fantasy of stepping into a "showroom new" car of some kind, seemed to lead me to the older models where this is almost non-existant. I also have been around the hobby so long, I am somewhat bored by the popular bodies, and was thinking of something less seen, but revered and exotic.

If I had a Stude like that, I would probably want to be buried in it!

For me... 1937 Cord 810 roadster.

My old '39 Tudor in my avatar was all stock suspension except for long shackles. Even with the stock 16" wide 5's it sat nice and low.

Living as close to Auburn as I do I have seen every type of Auburn, Cord and Duesenburg that you can imagine and they are a thing of beauty. I even worked the judging field for 14 years during the ACD Festival. There are some nice full scale fiberglass repros of the Cord available and I can't understand why we haven't seen any built as street rods. There have been a few Auburn Speedsters done but no 810s that I can remember.

Tom

Originally Posted by 39Deluxe

......... and I can't understand why we haven't seen any built as street rods. There have been a few Auburn Speedsters done but no 810s that I can remember.

Tom

Here's a company who has the molds and will build you one. I suspect the one pictured is a rendering, but you're not alone in your thinking. 1937 Cord Sportsman Cabriolet Photos from DuLoux Motors Ltd.

Here would be mine-