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[Guest tommygfunk]

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[Guest tommygfunk]

Can anyone tell me the body panels interchange on my car. I’m assuming that it shares with ford, but what does it share from model to model?

[Guest Jim_Edwards]

Can anyone tell me the body panels interchange on my car. I’m assuming that it shares with ford, but what does it share from model to model?

Tommy the '57 Mercury was for all practical purposes almost totally unique unto itself. The only car produced with most of the same body from the windshield/front doors back is the '58 Mercury. I would suspect the rocker panels from the '58s would fit perfectly as well as the rear quarter panels.

One of the problems you may encounter is the need to replace the door seals which no one produces. I had to buy a set for Ford Fairlanes with some extra material to splice and glue in as the doors on my '58 Mercury as the Mercury doors are somewhat larger than on a Ford.

[TG57Roadmaster]

You'll also find that '57'-'58 Mercury front doors (incl. vent & door glass) and the windshield interchange with the '58 Edsel Corsair and Citation 4-drht. The inner rear doors are the same, too, with a slight variation in some door glass. Folks tend to forget that the '58 Edsel shared its two series' body structures with Ford and Mercury. One dead giveaway is the contour of the '57-'58 Merc front door, compared to the '58 Edsel Corsair/Citation; the only difference is in the trim.

The info came from my Hollander's Interchange Manual, and it gives you an additional source for weatherstrip to what Jim noted. You may want to check with the Edsel Club to see if anyone's making rubber, or try to find NOS Edsel pieces, but only for the larger Corsair/Citation, not the smaller Ranger/Pacer that shared bodies with the '58 Ford.

TG

[Guest Jim_Edwards]

Unfortunately the production numbers for '57 and '58 Mercurys, along with '58 Edsels, were so low there is not a lot of parts support for them. It gets even more dicey with a 4 door as the 2 and 4 door post sedans of most makes, including Mercury and Edsel, were well on their way to being way "uncool."

[TG57Roadmaster]

Jim, granted neither the production numbers nor the survival rates were huge for either Mercury or Edsel, it doesn't alter the fact that parts interchange between senior '58 Edsels and '57-'58 Mercs. Also, there weren't any 2 or 4-door sedans in the Corsair/Citation series for 1958, only hardtops.

Edsels have a pretty large following, and two clubs for support, so it's just another place to search for parts.

TG

[Guest Jim_Edwards]

Jim, granted neither the production numbers nor the survival rates were huge for either Mercury or Edsel, it doesn't alter the fact that parts interchange between senior '58 Edsels and '57-'58 Mercs. Also, there weren't any 2 or 4-door sedans in the Corsair/Citation series for 1958, only hardtops.

Edsels have a pretty large following, and two clubs for support, so it's just another place to search for parts.

TG

Been there and one that with little results other than enjoying the coming to know some really nice folks that tried to be helpful along with the learning the maintaining of a '58 Edsel push button transmission presents some most unusual challenges thanks to shifting actually being done by an electric motor on the transmission.