hi I'm Rob Reider from robbed by two concepts in Morganville jersey and i'm
here today at the eastwood company and i have Jack I these 1940 mark that was
built by my team and myself and I'd like to show you the car so i think the most
important part of this car is the shape of it
so if we look at what we originally started with the 1940 mark shape wasn't
one that was known as the most beautiful silhouette in car design but it was a
great blank canvas and it was an excellent way for people to to take
something and easily improve upon it
so for years people have been custom night customizing 1940 marks and they
pretty much the same form which was embarrassed car built in the late
forties and and it's always been kind of the the staple of customizing a 1940
work so we decided that we wanted to do something a little different and and
make our own original version of a customized mark
so this one is a is a three window silhouette and a lot of people see the
similarity between that and the Lincoln's effort
ET Gregory and that's what Ford design both the lincoln and mercury and they
did that so that they could bring a more stylish design to the ford motor company
the problem was when they got to the mercury coupe
they ended up using a leftover roof cap from the 37 Ford because they ran out of
time and money so that was our opportunity to come in and maybe do
something that was our interpretation of what we imagined that some Ford may have
really been trying to achieve when he was building a car for the nineteen
thirty-nine Autorama and in in Paris
so
we've gone ahead and move the windshield down into the cow
we laid the a-pillars back and then we made from this section of the roof all
the way back and the entire back of the car has been remade the front fender
skirts actually steer with the wheels will show you how that works
so the skirt is moving at a different rate than the wheel the wheel moves more
and faster than the skirt does the skirt was just out of the way to not contact
the tire that leads into these running board covers that you would have seen on
a later forties car and into a teardrop style rear fender
originally the door came came down and tucked in hard at the bottom and it had
a rubber running board with a big gap in detain and it was kind of a clumsy area
so we integrated the the running board into the body and into the door skin and
it wraps around the fender these openings that are cut into the hood side
come all the way back into the door skin and it just gives a real real gentle
highlight line
the hood is arrowed pinched and roll down slightly so that it gives it a less
massive appearance but it doesn't really change the identity of the merc knows
the grill is is taller they're more bars and goes deeper into the body than the
original mark did but it's almost unidentifiable
I think it lays the proportions out better in the car but you probably
wouldn't look at it and say oh that's a bigger grill in stock so i think that we
made very very subtle and careful changes when we modified the car and we
did that so that we were only making what we see as improvements to the
design and we didn't come at it hard with it with a hammer and a saw
just for the sake of changing the car around we did everything with good
reason
and so the steerable skirt in order to remove it to change a tire
you have access through the headlight so there's a touch sensor here on the
headlight and the headlight opens electronically and all the all the
mechanisms and components on things like this are modern and technology but
. correct and styling so you don't see any of the modern mechanical parts that
it takes to do that so if you look in here you'll see modern suspension but
it's done it's presented in a way that looks almost . correct
lots of small details like these these bumper brackets have been fabricated so
that they think they're just smaller and lighter than the original piece and this
hood bubble was normally at a circle now it comes down and has continuity with
this line this hood was normally one piece
we split it here and we took some some light out of it and we roll the hood top
down and we narrowed it up the the front fender is basically stock from about
here up and then the rest of it has been made the bumper is is a reshaped
original bumper so now it
it hugs the nose of the car and and the bumper brackets have ever been made so
that they integrate nicely into the body
the windshield has been lowered down into the cows so this area is small and
then the original car and there's also less will be called forehead
so the windshield has also been raised up into the body so if you were to
calculate how much was removed out of the a-pillar the windshield in
proportion is actually bigger so that was more more material taken out of the
metal then was taken out of the glass and proportionately I believe now
everything lines up and and it's better we we did go through the effort of
keeping vent windows and hardware like rivets and and things like that to make
the car really an authentic look and feel of an old car we don't want to lose
that the a pillar has been laid back quite a bit and the door length is stock
so that the the door length is stock but it did have originally the windshield or
the decide when the post would have come up at 90 degrees here and then had a
quarter window here we made new rain gutters
so that they look Factory the the operational vent windows all looks
factory the event window post has even been laid back two and a half degrees so
it's probably not something that you would even notice but it really does
make a lot of difference when you look at the car
it makes the room look faster
so it has like hard top or roads for style
door panel tops and if you look at the the way that the door jambs and
thresholds are made they look like they could have been by a French coachbuilder
the seed is a modified original seat
the steering wheel is a 19
50 monterey accessory wheel and the dash gauges are the original gauges that have
been relocated into a newly-designed dashboard so the back of the car has
been reshaped and and and made it has custom curved glass
so the rear glass has the same contour is a sheet metal which gives us a
consistent reflection light new taillights and and rear body panel could
see the way the rear fender papers papers back like a French car would all
this trim has been been made at a steel and chrome plated
this is a modern engine is it it's a the 2009 shelby gt500 so make 616 horsepower
and it's all modern technology just the way it was built by Ford Motor Company
and we designed all these parts in here to give it a period-correct presentation
so we made valve covers that looks similar to an Arden which would have
been a flathead overhead valve conversion supercharger
this tank is for the intercooler so the intercooler liquid stored in this tank
and plumbed through these would look like air cleaners but they're not
they're actually ice boxes so you could you could pack these with ice and his
coils inside so the intercooler liquid can can get cooled off if you wanted
that the cold as possible error charged so the air intake comes out of the back
of the supercharger into the firewall
there's a soundproof box and under the firewall and it gets its air through the
original Cal panel so that Calvin right here is throttle position sensitive
so if i turn the key on you'll see that it will open up enough for the card idol
and as I apply throttle with at the gas pedal it opens in proportion to the
throttle blade
so that's where the engine is getting its its cool air from
i'm rob Ida from robbed by two concepts in Morganville New Jersey
this is Jack hire these 1940 Merc
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