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Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Fri 24. Jul 2015, 04:43
by vanscooter
looking real good!!!
Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Fri 24. Jul 2015, 18:51
by Shelby#18
Gry, nice to see you back. Mine has been progressing also. I should have some photos posted soon. Hope all is well.
Rick
Some 60 Mercury restoration details
Posted: Fri 24. Jul 2015, 23:29
by mercs4fun
Rick, I am doing fine and I hope you are too. I am looking forward to see some updates on your 59 Park lane as well.
Exhaust hangers
Regarding the exhaust installation, for more common cars there are reproduction exhaust hangers out there. For a 60 Mercury it is not so easy so I restored some old hangers I had. The metal was re plated and rubber replaced using rubber cut out from old tires. I also decided to go for a dual exhaust on my car, even if they only came with single exhaust that year. That means I had to order a exhaust system for a 59 Park lane and cut the rear pipes to fit the 60 as the 60 is a shorter car.
Door Hinges
On old cars the door hinges are always worn, even if you can't feel it when the hinges are off the car, they are. So there is no way getting around rebuilding them. You can search all the catalogs in the world, but no one seems to list bushings and pins for these cars, so I just order a few different types for Ford hinges, and then I use the ones I think will work the best. For these hinges the outer diameter on the brass bushings are just a little too small so just to make sure they will sit as they should I also add a very thin coat of metal glue to them when I put them in. That will for sure hold them in place.
For these hinges I ended up using the hinge bushings from the kit to the right and the pins from the kit in the middle. Original worn pins and bushings to the left.
The color drama.
Posted: Fri 24. Jul 2015, 23:53
by mercs4fun
Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Sat 25. Jul 2015, 11:27
by mercs4fun
Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Wed 29. Jul 2015, 15:11
by mercs4fun
Today I painted the inside of the body and the firewall. The lighting in my garage makes the color look slightly brighter and more lilac than it actually is.
Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Sat 1. Aug 2015, 01:03
by Theo
Gry, thank you for the follow up. Nice job if that word ever nails this great restoration project.
Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Sun 2. Aug 2015, 07:58
by mercs4fun
So I got the body back on the frame so I can put the doors on and do some final adjustments to the sheet metal if needed before I start the paint prep work.
- testing the color in daylight.
Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Thu 8. Oct 2015, 01:05
by mercs4fun
The Mercury is now painted and ready to be re assembled.
- Coming home
While the car was out of the garage I painted the dash, steering column and other interior parts. This dash had no cut outs for the power windows, so that had to be made. As you can see I have also sand blasted the dash and some other parts.
I decided to go for black carpet, black dash and dash pad and a black convertible top.
- AC cold air outlet integrated in the dash.
Re: Building a 1960 Mercury Park Lane convertible
Posted: Thu 8. Oct 2015, 01:08
by mercs4fun
The back seat had some rust in the lower part, so some of the rods had to be replaced before it went to the sand blaster and then to the powder coater. Now it is ready for new upholstery.