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

http://www.hubcapcafe.com/i/2007/seattle/merc4001a.jpg

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

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.:rolleyes: :D

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

Here would be mine-

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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

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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.