Up close and personal

Motor Life- December 1958 - Cancellation of the Super Marauder :x Motor Life reported that the Super Maraunder option would be available for 1959... Motor Life Dec 1958.JPG BUT then the December 1958 Motor Trend confirmed that it was indeed cancelled, and I have not seen any 1959 Mercury brochures ...

Motor Trend- September 1958 This is a nice in-depth article by Don Francisco. He is no longer around, but I like reading his articles because he goes out of his way to explain things so the average person can understand. There are a few things I find odd about this article, however, that I will go ...

Motor Life- June 1958
By June 1958, the SM400 option had been on the market for some time. This Motor Life feature describes the system and a little bit of its design.

Development of the SM 400 option is said to have been in response to Ford desiring to dominate the horsepower race of the mid to late 1950s. This comes from several accounts of individuals who discussed the matter with Bill Stroppe about 20+ years ago. Basically, Ford wanted to have something out th...

Joe Bunetic can make you a carb and linkage. I have some options if you are looking for an original.

Here's an item of interest from the Sept 1958 Motor Trend that someone kindly sent me. Don Francisco had one of these setups dealer-installed on a '58 Mercury and then proceeded to test it. He explains how the linkage worked in real-life and how letting off the throttle was like stomping on the bra...

http://www.badgerpistons.com/ also from what if have read, but I have not used them before.

I looked at your registry and noticed you have an early '58. In the last year or so I located an early '58 410 engine in Canada. I was only interested in the water pump for my early '58 Continental but the seller would not sell just that part. The entire engine was reasonably priced but shipping was...

I would check the car's build date off the vin plate and compare against the engine final assembly date. That will tell you how many months difference you are looking at and if the chronology makes sense. In my experience with 1958 430 engines, they were final assembled ~2-4 weeks before the car was...