Mercury Messenger Concept up on the block at RM Auctionshttp://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/03/mercury-messenger-concept-up-on-the-block-at-rm-auctions/
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/08/mercurymessenger.jpg)
Let the dreams begin!
I thought they were selling Jill Wagner. ;).
how much are you willing to bid, lou.
Not much. The girlfriend would kill me:D
I would bid umm plenty lol. And if I didn't win then I'd say at least pose on my car pleeeease? I think she'd look great on the red car.......tastefully.....of course.
I think I'll chop the roof off and throw some 'bird emblems on there ;)
car almost looks like a modern pantera
Oh, to be independently wealthy. Do you think the thing would ever be street legal?
Only after it passed emission and crash testing...:disappoin
Knowing how they slap show cars together, that probably feels like a shopping cart at 50kph. There's probably a two or three inch layer of clay over the entire body as well.
Don;t care. I would put it on display in my living room
(as you wonder which one I'm talking about...):grinno:
This should've been the ninth gen.
Here's the auction company's page for the Messenger if anyone is interested. It's being auctioned this Thursday:
Mercury Messenger Auction Link (http://"http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode=MO10&CarID=r327&fc=0#")
Sweeeeeeeeet (http://www.rmauctions.com/featurecars.cfm?SaleCode=MO10&CarID=r328&fc=0)
Awesome (http://www.rmauctions.com/featurecars.cfm?SaleCode=MO10&CarID=r329&fc=0)
cooooool (http://www.rmauctions.com/featurecars.cfm?SaleCode=MO10&CarID=r305&fc=0)
I bet you'd park it next to this (http://www.rmauctions.com/featurecars.cfm?SaleCode=MO10&CarID=r325&fc=0) in the garage ;)
THAT is what we need from Lincoln. No doubt MK9 is just shorthand for MARK IX:D
Although I gotta say that doesn't even look like areal car. In the pix it really looks like a chop!
Pfft - I'm not sure how much would swap over but I'd do my best to somehow make such a thing streetable. If I had $150k for a car, it'd be easy to get someone to drop it all into a production chassis. That's what the retro Thunderbird should have been from the beginning...as with many of the cars here. I don't understand what makes manufacturers make something versus not - many concept cars would sell very well just because of their looks. Yes the MK9 is beautiful also. Most coupes look better than any 4 doors on the road :p
Messenger sold for $52K:
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/ford-sells-concept-cars-for-charity-in-monterey/
i was thinking it would be much higher
If it was anything like most "styling exercise" concepts I've seen, it was just a plastic, fiberglass, or mud body draped over a wooden frame. A neat piece of Mercury history (or, more accurately, "could have been" a piece of Mercury history), but at the end of the day it's a $52k paperweight. A very attractive paperweight, but a paperweight nonetheless. Now, if it actually had a chassis under it it would've been more intertesting...