Wheelbase on a Merc

On our 65 Merc, the rear of the frame is SEVERELY rusted. Would my body fit on a Lincoln Continental frame? If not, what will it fit on?

note;it is a 4 door

 

Chris,

Looking at your signature you are on about a Mercury and not a Mercedes (Merc is used for Mercedes here in Europe)

Wasn't the 1965 model year Continental an uni-body construction ? So this will never work.

But let's check out the wheelbase on both models:

1965 Mercury Montery Marauder (that's what the pillarless hardtop models were called) has a 123 inches wheelbase.

1965 Continental is 126 inches. And in the later years (with a seperate chassis again) the wheelbase keeps growing.

As far as I can see, only the mid 60's Parklane and Montery models were using the same wheelbase in the fullsize FoMoCo series. Stationwagons had a 119 inches wheelbase.

 

Oh, we just always called a Mercury a "Merc". Not many Mercedeses in Elberton. I didn't know the Lincoln was a unibody.

 

I found this out when I was looking at a 4 door mid 60's Lincoln Continental convertible in an American car dealers showroom here in the Netherlands.



Made me thinking "Wow, a 4 door convertible, the chassis on that has to be double-boxed or something....?"
So I went on my knees to have a look underneath and was really amazed to find out this was a uni-body car :shock:

 

Yeah. They're pretty big. I like the 63 Continentals better, though.

 

Why's that ? o No:

Same car, same body, same look.........same 430 engine until model year 1966

 

The front end was different. Tey're worth more,too.

 

The next 4 door convertible will most definately be the Chrysler 300 cars.

 

I don't know. I think the days of big 4 door convertibles are gone.

 

When were the days of 4 doors convertibles ?
I only know about Mercedes an Lincoln 4 door ragtops back in the 60's, and maybe Bentley or Rolls Royce were doing a little project in that direction.

So what other recent cars are/were 4 doors convertibles ?


I Googled a wee bit and came up with this Electra 4 door convertible........ :shock:

(Looks like a vinyl top 4 drs HT to me...)



Click photo :Smarty:

 

That's exactly what I'm saying. Them and Caddy expieremented with it, and that was it.