Here is your chance to own your very own piece of greased lightning. Well, not the Greased Lighting, it’s actually the black, flamed 1949 Mercury convertible that races against John Travolta in the ...

Customizing a vehicle is not for everyone. Aside from the mechanical and design skills people have to possess to engage in such activities, a fat bank account is also mandatory, as no exciting build ...

If back in the early 2010s, you were too young to care, the name Mercury might not mean all that much to you. The brand, a long time companion of Ford, was the Blue Oval’s most prominent victim during ...

Any way you want to measure it, Dave Dolman has succeeded in his mission to create an all-steel 1949 Mercury station wagon that looks like something that could have come off the Dearborn assembly line ...

DrivetrainAs mentioned earlier the Barris Mercury went through a few engine swaps while owned by Tommy Lee, but he had tracked down an original '49 Mercury donor car to give up its mill and trans so ...

The basic idea of a restomod is so tantalizing, so obvious -- combine classic style with modern technology and performance -- and yet so hard to get right. There is no shortage of questionable (and ...

Howard Miller, of Camillus, N.Y., has two cars that are both beautiful and interesting, one for its simplicity, the other for its boldness and dashing. The simpler of the two cars is a 1949 Dodge ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Ewing writes about luxury and performance automobiles. When I mentioned my early morning 30-minute stint behind the wheel of ...