1964 Mercury Parklane Silver Anniversary convertible

[smellyfatdude]

Done to replicate my own car, purchased shortly after I turned eighteen. When I finally scored an annual kit a few years ago, I painted it Model Master burgundy, and did a black interior exactly as my 1:1 was. The engine is blue, because that's what color it was painted by the local high school shop class that rebuilt it. 390, 4 barrel, Hush Thrush mufflers with Thrush resonators. You knew it was me from about three blocks away.

Edited March 22, 2013 by smellyfatdude

[bbowser]

Nice. You must have been a popular dude in high school! I love seeing replicas of cars of our youth or that have some special meaning.

[realgone58]

Another stunning model.

[Ford guy]

Very cool SFD. To build a replica of your own car is always fun. Great looking car.

Roy

[cobraman]

Nice looking Merc.

[slusher]

Very sharp model, SFD, love the color and detail...

[charlie8575]

What a beautiful car!

I like the early-mid '60s Mercurys, and that one is simply gorgeous.

Charlie Larkin

[ChrisR]

Very nice!

[W-Machine]

There's a lot to like here. Well done!

[Monty]

The new guy's got some skills. Another eye-catching build.

[Nxr]

Beautiful Model, great detal and rare subject, also high schools had machine and car workshops? thats so awesome man, i wish my high school had anything like that down here in brooklyn all i had was metal detectors police officers everywhere and constant fighting and extortion lol

[bondo bill]

well done

[Lovefordgalaxie]

My kind of car, and my kind of build!!!

Lovelly done SLD!!!!

[Duntov]

This is one NICE piece of work!!!

[Chris guthro]

Love your builds! Something ud actually see at a local show!

[Chuck Most]

Can't go wrong with a big Merc!

[dragcarz]

Very Pretty

[smellyfatdude]

Love your builds! Something ud actually see at a local show!

Kind of ironic that you said that, Chris.

I bought this car in the fall of '82, and sold it a year later for the same thousand bucks that I'd paid.

Eight years later, while my then girlfriend and I were at the local Cruise Night downtown, gazing at all the cool cars at the show, lo and behold there it was.

Completely restored, of course, and looking gorgeous. Only a couple years after that these cars were going for $25,000 - 30,000, in that kind of shape. But I still get my dream car, it's just smaller now.