Shop Truck

Here my shop truck. This '57 Mercury M100 is based on the Modelhaus M100 resin kit. The engine is from RMOM. The big n little white walls sit on turned aluminum slat lake cabs. The rims are turned on my lathe.

OOOOOH very nice pick-up in the making

Cant say I have ever seen a Mercury P/U before. Nice build mate

Very good. Nice to see something different. Is this a complete kit or did you need to add donor parts?

zenrat wrote:Very good. Nice to see something different. Is this a complete kit or did you need to add donor parts?

Fred,

this kit includes cab with bed sides and open hood, bed floor, hood, tailgate, firewall, radiator, interior with tub, dash, and steering wheel, front and rear bumpers, grille and headlights, parking lights, taillights, hubcaps, wheels, wheelbacks, T-428 tires (white wall street tires) , chassis, and glass. This is the Canadian version of the '57 Ford pickup. Modelhaus sell this kit for 88USD. You need only an enigne of your choice. The engine that I used is from Replicas Miniatures of Maryland. It has an McCollough (I think wrong spelled) centrifugal blower. This engine was orignial in the old amt '63 Ford from the early sixties and it fits the Mercury perfectly. I also change the rims and the tires.
I got the inspiration for the model from this Mercury M100

Thanks Mike.
Modelhaus do good stuff.

I dig it! what a kool shop rig!

This looks real nice - great work, like the colour too.

Love those old pickups. Nice work! But for a shop truck it needs something in that bed....engine block...axle...tool box...

You are right. Parallel to the shop truck I'm working on a trailer with streamline Go Kart and the missing parts that you mentioned

Here the missing parts
Trailer from Revell Midget
Streamline Go Kart from RMOM

That's even better.

Great looking setup you have built there, miwi. Cheers
Steve

First time I've laid eyes on one of these Merc pickups. Love your work and the trailer combo is perfectly suited to the vehicle. Looks much better carrying some items in the bed too. Great job!

baZOOKa wrote:Cant say I have ever seen a Mercury P/U before. Nice build mate

yes, very different. looks good too

Ford Australia also produced a mercury ute !

I want one of those gocarts in 1:1.Looks like a bucket full of fun. I raced Gocarts many years ago ...wish I had one like that hehehe!