Showing posts with label Mercury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercury. Show all posts
Sunday, October 3, 2010
This Mercury hood ornament is the first time I've noticed the head of the god Mercury as a hood ornament... cool! Looks like a transformer though
0 comments Posted by welot at 9:37 PM
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
But why is it that Pontiac being phased out caused such an uproar, and editorials, cover stories, etc etc etc... but no one is lamenting the Mercury becoming a has been. Why is that? What was the Pontiac name plate to GM, that the Mercury nameplate wasn't to Ford? Both were a bit more luxurious than the parent company name... both had a lot of terrible looking cars (Ventura for one) and both had a couple muscle cars of notable looks and reputation ( GTO, swiss cheese Catalina, Comet Cyclone, Cougar Eliminator)
read about the closing down of Mercury: http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/06/rip-mercury.html
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Stutz hood ornament by Richard Owens of Supercars.net
Photo by Tim Owens of Supercars.net
Probably a Dupont, as very few cars had these woodlight headlights, Ruxtons, DuPonts, and very few others. Photo by Dirk De Jager of Supercars.net
Tim confirmed that this is a Tubonique, and the cover photo from Mechanics Illustrated, Feb 1969 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/05/click-on-all-pictures-to-enlarge-them.html 
Shelby's showroom in New York perhaps?
Bugatti 1933 -35 type 59
1927 Cooper Miller Indy Car by Michael Furman
Great photo
Porsche 550 Spyder
Bugatti Royale
Fuel leak caught fire in the canvas belly pan
BMW 328 Mille Miglia Büegelfalte
Called the Bugnotti by Delahaye USA
Ferrari Dino 246 GT by Mitchell Feinberg
Mercury X-100 I think
I've never seen any Honda CRX convertibles
See these and a bunch of other cool images at http://motoriginal.tumblr.com/ Friday, August 27, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Sweet convertible Comet, not often found at car shows, and with an interesting taillight repair
0 comments Posted by welot at 11:32 AM
the drivers side brake light lens is just a flipped over passenger side lens... the lettering on it is upside down. The trim piece around the drivers side is bent just to the inside right hand side of it, and that seems to have meant the car owner had to replace a broken drivers side lens, and could only find a passenger side lens. The drivers side lens is far less crackled.
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