1959 mercury parklane 2 dr ht 430

[reijerlincoln]

Contemporary cars have black, grey, beige or white interiors. There is something to be said for being able to order a car with a pink chrome-laden interior & gold coloured air filter housing and valve covers.

[KULTULZ]

There is something to be said for being able to order a car with a pink chrome-laden interior & gold coloured air filter housing and valve covers.

The air cleaner/rocker cover color (gold) designates a 430, where as red a 383 and green a 312.

[Theo]

I sold a pair of green valve covers on e bay a few years ago. They had the word F O R D embossed on them. I can't remember where they came from. Did they belong to an Edsel or do the Edsel covers say E D S E L on top?

[alphues]

I sold a pair of green valve covers on e bay a few years ago. They had the word F O R D embossed on them. I can't remember where they came from. Did they belong to an Edsel or do the Edsel covers say E D S E L on top?

58 Edsels had E-400 on the 361-FE motor and E-475 on the 410-MEL motor valve covers
59 Edsels with the 332,361 FE motors had "bald" valve covers
60 edsels with the 352 FE motor also had "bald" valve covers
58-64 ford with the 332,352,390 FE motors used valve covers with F O R D on them
58-60 T-bird with 352 FE motors used valve covers with F O R D on them
59-60 T-bird with 430 MEL motors used valve covers that were "bald"
61-64 T-bird with 390 FE motors used valve covers that had Thunderbird on them
61-62 Mercury with 352,390 FE motors used valve covers with F O R D on them and were GREEN
63-64 mercury with 390 FE motors used valve covers that had Mercury on them

Note: the Edsel "bald" valve covers are getting hard to find because people chrome them and use them on the 406-427 FE
Galaxies

[alphues]

[quote="KULTULZ"]




"The air cleaner/rocker cover color (gold) designates a 430, where as red a 383 and green a 312.["

Mercury had four colors for valve covers/air cleaners in 1959
Green for 312
Turquoise for 383-2V
red for 383-4V
gold for 430-4V

[Theo]

That's great info Jim. Now, if we had photos of these various covers I would set up a nice photo gallerie and post it in the MEL Engine Data Base and in the photo section.
BTW. I would be pleased if you could repost your last two posts about the covers in the MNEL Engine Data Base? They would be great info there too.

[KULTULZ]

I sold a pair of green valve covers on e bay a few years ago. They had the word F O R D embossed on them. I can't remember where they came from. Did they belong to an Edsel or do the Edsel covers say E D S E L on top?

61-62 Mercury with 352,390 FE motors used valve covers with F O R D on them and were GREEN
63-64 mercury with 390 FE motors used valve covers that had Mercury on them.

Do you think it could be that MERC used FORD (GR) on the 61/62 352 and MERCURY (GO) on the 61/62 390/406 as did FORD using FORD (BL) on the 352 and THUNDERBIRD (GO) on the 390/406 (same time period)?

1962 MERC S-55 406 3 X 2

[sidesho_bob1961]

Hello,

I have the "mechanics" pin that you were inquiring about. I'm currently looking for the "salesman" pin. Has anyone out there ever seen one??