1949 Mercury Series 9CM from Grease in Dublin

Oscorp

A Dublin shipping company has brought this in from the States.

It's the car from Grease in the drag race.



http://sprattpersonalshipping.com/grease-lightning-race-car-comes-to-spratt/

Going on display in the Newbridge Silverare Museum.

whisky_galore

They must be absolutely minted, esp. when the national museum of the state has to scrape coppers from under the sofa when something of national importance goes up for auction and then gets beaten by a collector somewhere.

Also it's a pity the National Museum have zero interest in motoring or industrial heritage, unlike other countries.

Thinkingaboutit

Lots of cars were assembled in Ireland whether Ford V8s, Ford Cortinas, Ford Sierras (a few), most BMCs, Datsuns, Volkswagens and so on. Henry Ford specially chose Cork as a European base. Not everyone can relate to jewellery, but cars are part of everyone's life, their present, their past. It's sad, the NM barely care about industrial Ireland.

toastedpickles

I'm fairly sure that's outside newbridge silverware along with the general lee dodge

whisky_galore

Thinkingaboutit wrote: »

Lots of cars were assembled in Ireland whether Ford V8s, Ford Cortinas, Ford Sierras (a few), most BMCs, Datsuns, Volkswagens and so on. Henry Ford specially chose Cork as a European base. Not everyone can relate to jewellery, but cars are part of everyone's life, their present, their past. It's sad, the NM barely care about industrial Ireland.

We used to have an auto museum, before money talked.

jimgoose

Coolness. That'd be one of the last of the Flathead V8s, surely?