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It gets no respect because it is a complete fraud. It IS a very interesting fantasy custom car. Absolutely it took a significant effort to bring it to reality. The unpardonable sin was when the creator rolled it out he told lies. If he had properly identified it as a one of none “I wish they had made it” car the collectors AND HISTORIANS would have been supportive. But when you try to puff up the value with lies about how it was a prototype and discovered in warehouse and a bunch of other nonsense the legitimate knowledgeable car people will turn their backs on you. $2 million dollars and what would you do with it? If the builder had been honest then it might have been allowed participation and display at the major big money shows AS A FANTASY CAR, but his lies did nothing but cloud the narrative and destroyed any interest in it. Drive it or enter it into a weekend cruise night event is all you would ever be able to do with it. And for $2 million dollars you definitely want to show it at something bigger than a cruise night. This is why legitimate car people decide this full custom car.

Knowing how to create a title for a vehicle that is lacking one, is a necessary car collector skill as much as being able to do mechanical or other repairs. In some situations it may not be worth the effort, but in some situations the rust or mechanical repairs needed may not be worth the effort either.

South American and Japan are typically much longer. Europe has narrow twisty streets.

Absolutely European. Created from an imported sedan using local labor and materials (cost effective and less taxes) Rear windows (limousine style hearse) Roof rack - for flowers.

1958 Edsel teletouch is an electrical motor control for the automatic transmission. It’s, electrical, it’s gonna break. You are parked If you want to use the car you rig up something to manually move the arm on the transmission. Typically people cut holes in the floor and bolted in some cheap parts house shifter. Adapting a thick cable and a knob would take more home engineering but would look better in the end. Nothing about it is factory.

This means that if I plan to keep it, I’ll spend some money and fix it correctly. If you agree to buy it, then I’ll tinker with it and it might function for a while but WTH, you already bought it, so it’s your problem.

Notice that it is a Canadian assembled car. Amazingly the GM report includes the name of the original buyer! I have heard that the Marti reports data base does have the name of the buyer but Kevin will not reveal them related to privacy concerns.

My 66 Park Lane. Convertibles were never identified as Marauder but the engine was. (sorry the photos were taken left handed and I can’t turn them over on my phone) FYI iPhones ARE right handed when it comes to pictures. 😕

Don’t tell her but based on available parking-storage space most car people are at 110% of what they have room for. 😁

Well, the air cleaner……but they were not spotlighted in 1966. Mercury had a strange relationship with the word Marauder. Starting in 58 it described the rare 6 barrel engine. Then it popped up to describe many other things. After 1963 1/2 it was used to refer to the “fastback” roof. Remember Mercury offered the breezeway window and the “standard” roofline. (Which was the same as Ford) To make something special out of the shared roofline the applied the Marauder name. Remember in 63-64 there were both 2 and 4 door versions of each roof. By 1965 the 2 door breezeway was gone (along with the 4 door hardtop breezeway) but the text Marauder remained on the 4 door hardtop. Which by then meant nothing in the big scheme of things. It appeared on the air cleaner because… why not. Mercury needed all the imaging that it could get. The engines were all hydraulic lifter FE motors 390s, 410 & 428 but they were not any high performance cobra jet motors, just torque motors that could pull a very high gear axle ratio to decrease engine noise.

Always gotta laugh at DIY engineering. That tiny air cleaner has probably 50% less surface area than the filter in the stock air cleaner. Nothing like adding performace by restricting air flow. . . . But what the heck, it's a 2 barrel and it certainly LOOKS like it will go faster. That's all that maters.

From the 1969 Cadillac color & upholstery book Difficult to photograph Sometimes called "hair cell" texture. Notice that the texture is not consistent across the entire seating area. In some places it is smooth Interestingly enough Mercury used a similar pattern on their bucket seat VINYL in 1964.

The numbers you have listed do not seem to be correct. 1956 Mercury built in St Louis Missouri sequence #11,098 You said body BU 54A - Two possibilities BU 58A Montclair 4 door sedan OR BU 64A Montclair 2 door hardtop Color 272 - Grove Green Classic white Grove Green flo-tone You said interior code 470 - All 56 Mercury interiors are in the 600 series. Code #670 is white vinyl and black nylon Date 22F June 22, 1956 31 = production number. Either daily rotation or number sent to particular sales territory. Can you post a picture of the data plate?

You asked specifically about the starter. Running 12 volts to a 6v starter spins it faster and harder and the first thing to break is the starter drive (Bendix) because it is being slammed into the flywheel. You replace that, and then the extra current (aka heat) begins to melt to solder in the armature. When this happens it is game over. The Voltage is "baked into" the car. ALL bulbs, ALL wires, ALL gauges, ALL electrical components. People think that changing the voltage (and polarity?) is a simple "upgrade". Nope, to do so is a tremendous amount of parts and effort. And despite what some suppliers say, nothing about wiring is painless. You (and your parts house) may not be fluent in 6 volt, but take it from all the experienced folks on this board, FIXING your small 6 volt issues is WAYYYYYYyyyyyy EASIER than converting to 12 volts. And those stories you hear and YouTube videos about how people "upgraded" by simply putting a 12 volt battery under the hood and adding a few resistors? Well, they never keep their upgraded car very long. They either pass the headache on to someone else, or part by part, bit by bit, they invest more time and energy than it ever would have taken to repair the 6 volt system.