Lloyd Myers 49 Mercury

ANOTHER 50’S CUSTOM CAR GETS RESTORED

It is always good news to hear that another old custom car gets found and restore back to its former glory. This time Sue Wise, wife of the cars current owner Gary Wise send us some great photos of a nearly complete restored Lloyd Myers 49 Mercury.

This is how the car looks now, October, 2013

First version of Lloyd’s 1949 Mercury, photo from the Andy Southard Collection

October 25, 2013
We will be doing an more in-depth article on this late 1950’s build Custom Mercury when the car is completely finished. But we wanted to tell you the news about it now, and show you a few photos from how the car looked in the late 1950’s early 1960’s before the restoration and after the restoration.

The very distinctive front end of the car uses canted 1958 Lincoln headlights a reshaped grille opening with tubular grille. The windshield was chopped and a padded top created for it. The side trim on the car comes from a 1955 DeSoto.

The car has been painted white, root-beer and lime green in its live. At one point Lloyd drove the car to a Seattle Car show when the Padded top blew off and he lost it.

In 1993, Gary Wise bought the remains of the car in Olympia, Washington.The car was in bare metal, partly disassembled and the original front end was stored some were else.
Gary slowly began to restore the car back to its former glory. But during this time he also worked on many other projects so progress on the 1949 Mercury was slow.  Gary hopes to have the car completely finished in spring of 2014. Recreating the padded top is the only real challenge still left.

These two photos above show the car after Gary had put back the remains of the car in the 1990’s. As can be seen in these photos a previous owner had installed a soft top on the car. 

 
Many thanks to Gary and Sue Wise for sharing the photos and info.
Another full article on the car will appear once the car has been completed.

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