(Pics) 1959 Mercury Parklane

WOW ! Fabulous model and crystal clear photography.

more than a bit of stunning presentation  

@charles-rockett +1.

It's a great Sunstar model (& color! )...but I had to remove the skirts on mine. These '59 Mercs are great; I'd love to see other years produced in the Platinum Series! 🤨 🤨 

Oh yeah.... HOW ABOUT 1959 A FOUR DOOR SUNSTAR??   "HINT, HINT"  😉 😉   

It wouldn't take much to tool one up... 3/4 of YOUR tooling is already complete!

Collectors will buy it!!  🤑 🤑 🤑 🤑 

I've got cash in hand to buy a model just like the one you pictured there Chris ! 

Steve 

I also have the red/white top 2-door coupe (which doesn't have the real wheel skirts) and SunStar additionally made a top-up convertible. They are really nice Platinum Series 1959 Mercurys.

The Sunstar models are very well done.  I have the RED Hardtop version of this '59 Mercury and love it.  Your pics of the convertible are fantastic!  

Posted by: @georgeschire

The Sunstar models are very well done.  I have the RED Hardtop version of this '59 Mercury and love it....................

I have the red Mercury hardtop, too and it's great ! That one doesn't have the rear wheel skirts, so there is a nice choice there with the different element. The top-up convertible looks sensational, too, and SunStar has always done a very neat actual textured top made out of a fabric material.

I recall Tom Haverland from Highway 61 talking on the old Diecast Pub forum about trying to engineer a diecast car model so that it could possibly be then, with minimum tooling changes, be later changed into another year or configuration or a possible racing-type version. The '52-'53 Hudsons and race version ; the 1967 mid-size Plymouths ; the '64 and '65 Dodges and mid-sized Plymouths and I think perhaps some others tried to follow this concept which could save on tooling costs and get the most out of a mold. Some things weren't as easy (or possible) as they seemed to be and in a number of cases, once the change was made, you could probably not then effectively/economically go back. The four-door 1953 Kaiser Dragon was a special and unfortunate case and not really H61's fault.  

I think Sunstar did excellent work on their '67-68 Cougars.

The '68s even had realistic side marker lights made of colored plastic as opposed to just slapping on decals. 

I applaud Sunstar for that detail.

Steve 

They did a fine job with this one and that upgrade was well done, too.