Antique & Classic Cars Blog
Friday, February 27th, 2009
A reader emailed on the Marquis deSoto, ruminating on whether the complete Mercury was still under there. This prompted a little detective work on this cool car. The NYT piece describes it as a ‘98 Mercury Marquis blended with a ‘57 deSoto and 10 other classic cars.
Here’s what I see so far: it looks like the interior, top, front doors, mirrors and rockers are (mostly) Mercury. The center of the hood looks Mercury too. Then what do we have?
‘58 Lincoln headlights
Dagmar portion of a ‘56 Caddy front bumper
‘57 DeSoto fins, lights, back bumper and trunk lid
‘57 Buick bodyside chrome trim and portals
Anything else stand out for anyone?
MotorMouth Kris Palmer, freelance auto writer and editor, blogs about vintage cars, the collectible auto scene and just about anything else that goes vroom.
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