Kube, Dave, DavidG, Michael, MercuryCyclone
I will get with Dave (Model51) as to the "proper" protocol for accessing the BFRC on line/through email as I have now 4 things on the 39 Mercury to "research". My Mercury is an "early" car #10006. I have "several" things on my car that are NOT the same as on every other 39 Mercury I have seen, including our 39 Mercury Coupe (12/39) production 30,000+ frame number. AS to the loom cover, I post pictures of "colored" covers because THAT is what I question and we all know the common believe is "Black" only so why post those. I have seen 39 & 40 with both black AND body color (Hence the post) and I believe the latter (and Michael's Ford-Black, Mercury-Body color theory) (AND NO offense KUBE) BUT WHY would Ford take the time to paint a "little" cover like we are discussing body color for a "Staged" photo "ONLY" and do a black cover in normal production?? I believe the Merc's with black covers are from "mostly" restored cars and they are black because the common thought is black. AS DavidG stated, the Engineered drawing will most likely settle this debate.....I also wonder IF maybe at "first" and early in Mercury's production they were painted body color and found that the labor involved removing it down the line to run the wiring was more effort than first thought and "reverted" back to black like on Fords and installing them later on down the line AFTER the wiring was installed (NOTE IN presumed staged photo NO wiring was installed at that point). Here is another 40 I photographed and my common belief is most people doing repaints, I believe, will paint something the color it already IS and to my way of thinking IS why leave the cover on the car IF repainting and go through ALL the effort of covering all the wiring entering and exiting that cover holding it tight to the firewall when removal of 4 #12 tapping screws and its out of the way and easy covering of the wiring for repaint PLUS the screw head would be painted too. mine are not AND the attached photo of a 40 Merc are not. SO my theory of changing back to black is "questioned" by 40 Merc covers being body color??? SUCH a big debate for such a small somewhat insignificant detail in the scheme of things!!!!
