1949 Mercury Custom (Grease)

[Steam McQueen]

- All you lads have seen Grease, right? lol. I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing but for sure we know about this movie. What's cool about this one is it's been documented and verified as the only survivor from the movie. Apparently they used two Merc's and one was a '49 with a 1950 grille which would be this one ...













Known as "Hell's Chariot" it was in the big race with Travolta who was driving a '48 Ford ...





Fun stuff - www.imcdb.org/vehicle_2874-Mercury-Custom-1949.html

Here's a vid from Garázs TV, uploaded 10 days ago. They're a show from Budapest so hopefully y'all understand Hungarian. Ha, it's watchable ...

Lost for nearly 30 years, it was found last year as basically just a shell. After the car was purchased, it was verified by the original builder of the cars for the movie, Eddie Paul of Customs by Eddie Paul. The car was then taken to "The Shop" of Palm Desert, Ca. Owner Dan Condon was entrusted to do a complete restoration to just the way it appeared in the movie, but MUCH nicer fit and finish. The body had NO rust, and the finished product is beyond any of our expectations! It is a 1949 with a 1950 grill. We have the original exhaust tips that were in the movie. Recreated "Scorpion" stickers on both doors. The razor hubcaps have been meticulously recreated. We also recreated the 3 feet longer versions that cut into the side of John Travolta's car in the final race scene. They are included. We also have the original bent front bumper that was on the car when it rear ended Travolta's car. An original 1949 255 Mercury engine was rebuilt, as well as the manual tranny with overdrive. The car runs and drives great! Brand new period and movie correct Firestone tires installed, as well as the Firestone stickers on the wing windows. Recreated original license plates.

- www.ebay.com/itm/Mercury-Other-hotrod-streetrod-hot-rod-street-rod-1949-mercury-from-the-movie-grease-hotrod-custom-/231145008895?forcerrptr=true&hash=item35d150eeff&item=231145008895&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

A pretty cool movie car!





Here's a screen grab as seen at the IMCDb ...

[legendaryacura8]

I always liked the Scorpions car way better than Grease Lightning anyway... Haha

[Steam McQueen]

- It got up to $180,100 which did not meet reserve. In the vid from Hungary you can hear them at one point talking about what it might be worth and one of them mentions the Batmobile that sold for over $4 million. I'm sure they weren't expecting that kind of money but it's not realistic to use the original TV series Batmobile as a comparison.

[ti4438]

I'm not a huge fan of flames,way too common.But on this one they are just badass!