Model Car Garage - 1949 Mercury Custom Coupe From Revell - A Model Car Unboxing Video
Channel: Monster Hobbies Model Car Garage
Date: 12/10/2018

This 1949 Mercury allows you to design your all new chopped top custom body car in many different ways with all the features included in this kit. 

Your Revell chopped top Mercury coupe includes optional custom parts : two sets of bumpers, three different front grilles, two sets of side skirts, two hoods, spotlights, "Lake" exhaust side pipes and two different custom tail lights. 

Also included are chrome Sombrero full wheel covers with traditional white wall tires or chrome reverse wheels with radial tires and colorful California 50's style custom decal graphics. - Revell instruction sheet. 

Today on the Monster Hobbies Model Car Garage we will be looking at the 1949 Mercury Custom Coupe From Revell. This is a model car unboxing video.  

Ever since 1963, AMT was the only model car company that offered a 1949 Mercury Club Coupe model car kit. Although that model car is excellent in design and construction, and although it contained many custom car dress-up parts, there was one thing that model builders longed for in that kit. that key item was a body with a chopped roofline. 

"Chopping" was a very popular body modification among custom car builders like George Barris, The Alexander Brothers and countless others. The concept was to cut down the roof height of a car by sawing the body at the roof pillars, removing between 1" and 3" from the pillars and then re-welding the roof back on. Chopping gave the car a lower profile and thus, a sleeker look. 

These cars became known as "Lead Sleds" because customizers would use molten lead to fill the seams of the chopped tops before plastic fillers solved their bonding issues and became the preferred filler of sheet metal work. 

Model car builders wanted the same results, but just like real chopping, complications can arise and things can go wrong. It is more desirable to have a car, or model car, with the roof already chopped for you. This Revell kit was designed to be the answer to that desire. 

First appearing in 2007, this Mercury Custom Coupe was the answer to a long awaited wish for model car builders. 

This kit comes with a vintage Cadillac 331 V8 engine, first seen in the 1949 Cadillac. Since this was a very powerful engine, it found it's way into many 1949 Ford and Mercury cars, replacing the factory stock Ford Flathead V8's. These cars became known as "Fordillacs" due to the engine swap. AMT had a Cadillac 331 V8 engine as an option in their 1949 Ford Club Coupe kit and this Revell engine is very similar in construction. The engine consists of left and right hand side engine block and transmission, valley cover, intake manifold distributor, oil filler tube, cylinder heads, valve covers, starter motor, oil pan, transmission pan, ignition coil, tri-carbs, air filters, exhaust manifolds, generator with mounting bracket, engine front cover, fan belt with pulleys, and a fan.  24 parts in total. An upper radiator hose attaches to a 5-piece radiator that includes 2 car horns. 

The chassis consists of a frame with a central x-member, steering box, brake master cylinder, upper A-arms, front sway bar, front suspension, front coil springs, exhaust pipes with metal tips, rear axle with leaf springs, rear shocks, driveshaft, spring perches, brake backing plates, and disc brakes.

The interior consists of a floor pan, brake pedal, gas pedal, 2-piece front bench seat, rear bench seat, interior sides, dash board, steering column, and steering wheel. The floor pan also includes the inner fender aprons and holds the firewall, air tubes, and beehive oil filter. For a "custom" car, this model has a very Stock interior, but that's ok for a more traditional 1950's era custom. 

The chopped body includes the option of 2 different hoods. The first is smooth while the second includes hood louvers. The stock Grille and bumpers come with this kit as do custom Desoto bumpers, 1953 Chevrolet "Tooth" grille, 1954 Pontiac Grille insert, Stock and Desoto rear bumpers, stock tail lamps, Frenched taillight buckets, bullet tail lights, two different fender skirts, lake pipes, and chrome spot lights.

The decal sheet includes flames and multiple pin stripes for hood and trunk lid. There is also a trophy included in this kit with a variety of different colored decals for the posts.  

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