This 1949 Mercury Coupe 'Derelict' by California's Icon combines vintage style, perfect patina and cutting-edge technology: It's powered by a fully electric drivetrain. It promises a top speed of 120 ...

Here is your chance to own your very own piece of greased lightning. Well, not the Greased Lighting, it’s actually the black, flamed 1949 Mercury convertible that races against John Travolta in the ...

We've seen a number of electrified classic projects from companies like Zelectric Motors, and usually they involve dropping a state-of-the-art electric powertrain into a meticulously reconditioned ...

In the latest episode of Fully Charged, Jonny Smith visited Icon in Los Angeles to see the amazing EV conversion project of a vintage 1949 Mercury. It took already two years since inception to ...

Everyone loves a sleeper—something that looks rather mundane, but ends up ripping the doors off of anything in its way. This 1949 Mercury Coupe was never a full-blown hot rod, but it's now one of the ...

If back in the early 2010s, you were too young to care, the name Mercury might not mean all that much to you. The brand, a long time companion of Ford, was the Blue Oval’s most prominent victim during ...

There's more than one way to describe a thing of great cultural significance or beauty. Consider the Biltmore Estate-- it's technically a house, but calling it that would kind of undersell the whole ...

The post war years will remain in the history of car making as the ones when everything changed. Freed from having to produce military-spec vehicles for the needs of war, car designers let loose a ...

Sidd started as a freelance writer for TopSpeed back in 2017 and took up a full-time position a year later. 2,100+ articles later, he got into the editorial side of things and is now the sitewide ...

Howard Miller, of Camillus, N.Y., has two cars that are both beautiful and interesting, one for its simplicity, the other for its boldness and dashing. The simpler of the two cars is a 1949 Dodge ...

It came to me in the wide, swishy passenger seat of Jonathan Ward's 1949 Mercury hot rod. All the right smells were imprinting the moment we rolled through industrial Chatsworth, California.