1947 Mercury 1/2 ton pickup

[oldrelics]

So this is my dad's '47 Mercury pickup, This is Canadian produced only as well as the '46's. We are going to try and finish it now that my '41 pu has moved on

The chassis powertrain was redone a few years back and we need to clean it up and redo some leaky head studs and move on to the body. We assembled a new box from NCT also. This will take us a bit of time but hope to update fairly often.

 

[40cpe]

That looks like a solid truck. It still takes lots of work to make one nice. Persevere and good luck.

 

[Sixseven]

Glad you're back in the game. Good luck with this project, I have never seen an Merc PU.

 

[flat-v8]

Awesome truck and beautiful engine!

 

[Graeme / New Zealand]

Good luck mate. Familiar old heads on the truck, C59A same as my car as mine. NZ assembled V8s came CKD from the Ford Commonwealth plant ex Canada so we still got the flathead in 1954 as well.

GB

 

[alanwoodieman]

opening rear window, a lot of Mercury trucks had those, not many in the states. keep sending us pictures of the differences in Canadian and US mfg trucks

 

[Displayman]

Nice truck, wish I had it.
Bob, Hampshire, Illinois

 

[scooder]

Nice, can we have some more pics of that opening rear window please? Also on the outside of that window, is there ment to be something covering the part of the cab edge to window join, the part that's covered normally by the rear window gasket? I ask as the reproduction opening rear window kit doesn't come with anything to cover that bit.
Thanks,
Martin.

 

[41panelmark]

Good to have you back for sure. Looking forward to progress pics.

 

[oldrelics]

Nice, can we have some more pics of that opening rear window please? Also on the outside of that window, is there ment to be something covering the part of the cab edge to window join, the part that's covered normally by the rear window gasket? I ask as the reproduction opening rear window kit doesn't come with anything to cover that bit.
Thanks,
Martin.

No, I don't believe there is anything there from factory.

 

[oldrelics]

Good to have you back for sure. Looking forward to progress pics.

Hey Mark, thanks! Its gonna be a slow finish but at least it will probably stay in the family this way.

 

[oldrelics]

slow progress

 

[oldrelics]

that's factory primer!

 

[oldrelics]

Front fender inner braces and outer lower panel.

 

[Mart]

The primer under the floor is remarkable! Nice work on the fender patches and reinforcements.

Mart.