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Just the photo? Looks more like someone's chewed up black licorice bubble gum stuck there.

And a big black magic marker used around the windshield.

And the incorrect two-toning of the concave area.

This was contemplated but dropped, so it's not correct. A nice model of this car would be welcome, but this is an easy "pass."

Well if that's the case it'll be easy to redo it in the correct size.

ford mystere

I've seen the pic of the Ford Mystere. Any opinions. I'd sure like to get it as it contained so many styling cues used by Ford.

Not sure what you mean about the two-toning of the "concave area"?

I take that to mean the side scallop that runs into the "fins"? There are lots of online pics of the Park Lane (sedans, hardtops, convertibles and wagons) with this flash in contrasting colour, including "original" cars being sold by high-end dealers like Hemmings. Are they all incorrect repaints? The two-toning seems to have been an available option. Same goes for the area behind the rear wheels, which could be body colour or contrasting colour or chrome.

I already have Neo's hardtop so I'm not bothered about the convertible, and that terrible black border to the windscreen/windshield spoils it anyway, but the 2-toning looks OK to me?

Yes, terrible. It afflicts all their convertibles.

I think I said already that it seems to be an attempt to disguise the glue attaching the front screen directly to the edge of the frame (as opposed to the glazing unit being glued inside the roof on sedans and hardtops), but personally I think a tiny line of near-invisible clear glue around the screen would be a lot less obtrusive than the "magic marker"!

I see they've also done the '59 Pontiac convertible in the yellow I said the car should have had in the first place, but once again the gross window frame really spoils it (apart from that detail it looks very tasy indeed).

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Yes, Graeme, that's the area I'm talking about. I'm aware that there are many cars on the Google images page showing that area in a contrasting color, but I don't remember seeing the cars that way when they were new. It was a common feature on '57 and '58 Mercury cars, but Tim Howley, writing in "Collectible Automobile" magazine, says that while the two-toning of that concave area was considered for the '59 models, "?that idea was dropped." (This from the April 1993 issue, p. 34.)

So I'll modify my statement to say that I believe the white scalloped area on this model is incorrect, rather than to say that it is definitely wrong. Of course dealers could have painted this area at customers' requests, or simply to continue the tradition of the earlier cars and make the cars stand out visually to help sales. Not a single car is shown two-toned that way in the CA issue I mentioned, in my '59 Mercury brochure, or in the newest issue of CA which arrived yesterday and which features American cars of 1959. I can't find any other authoritative photos, say from FoMoCo, which shows them that way either.

At any rate, I have contacted the International Mercury Owners Association and asked them for a ruling. I'll be sure to pass on any information I get from them if they respond to my inquiry.

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Hello Alan; From the several photos of the model the proportions seem to be spot on even how the hubcaps stick out from the wheels as they did on the real car. And the color looks right as best as you can tell. I just wonder how they managed to get away from another Italian Chrysler.

Ford Mystere

Thanks Fred. This one goes on my order list.