Saving The 1939 Mercury Coupe From The Rust Lagoon 

That forklift driver did more damage in half an hour than the car sat their for 60yrs waaaah great footage by the way 🚜👍😃🇬🇧

This was amazing to watch seeing that old car move for the first time in 60 years. It was also spooky to see the steering wheel turning as the car was dragged out of the weeds. Almost like some ghost was driving.

i like your thinking matt.we only ever get one oppurtunity to save this stuff,its only metal,and you have the skills and equipment.you also are young,in 20 yrs time this save will be priceless.Ralph.

That's Chaz's I'm 20 minutes from there! I do remember those oldies way in the back!!

I love seeing mechanics find golden treasures and fixing them up. We have alot here in Missouri and I know everywhere else. I love classic vehicles. Great job guys. Love your work. Shout out from Missouri.

''It's already got the stance" LOL!!

What a cracking car, at least you rescued it from the swamp. Hope at least some of it can be saved

I'm just glad to see that some of this stuff is still around and that it hasn't all been crushed EPA sucks

I think that merc has an extraordinary amount of gravitational pull. It’s a pile but you just don’t find one every day so any car like that has potential. Hope it finds itself risen from the grave.

Thanks for saving these classics,whether u restore them,hotrod them or take the parts its better then sitting in a field and rotting

This vehicle sitting there for many years now getting out of the mud yard take it to the shop restore whole body style windows seats everything awesome thanks job friend bless you

so much history behind those vintage cars,

The 39 Merc coupes are such awesome looking cars it would make a really nice mild custom or even a full on custom, jealous that you guys have such great looking project tin still available, over here in Australia we didn’t get the good looking versions you did and what we have is a lot lower production numbers of the versions we got but we try and make the most of it, cheers from down under Tasmania/Australia and I can’t wait to see what you do with it, Matt and Mike keep up the great work and keep those videos coming 😎👍👍🇦🇺

You need Johnathan W and one of his trucks to help you. He is the master of pulling out and saving old cars without wrecking them. Need to handle them like eggs!

Forget the Forgotten Tudor, the Merc Coupe is WAAAAAY COOLER !!!!!!!!! You haven't built a custom yet so thats my suggestion. Every panel that is damaged is replaceable or repairable , so ,as we say DOWN UNDER pull your finger out and start building!!!! Great purchase Matt. I should practice what I preach, I have a '39 standard ute that is missing about 8" from the bottom of the body. Project in the works 😃😃😃

Saving it as a complete car will be a job that will be quite some feat. Looks like the frame is rusted away. Incredible.

Face it young man, you are addicted. You have the knowledge and experience to do what's best for this beauty.

Wow I wonder what the story was behind that car, love watching these videos and restoration of these classic beauties..❤️

Please bring it back to life. it may be in bad shape, but with a lot of love and determination, it can be sweet again!!!!

Gonna be a nice rod/restoration. Hope to see it soon.

Would love seeing this one brought back from the dead. Restored to original looking street rod is my choice.

Crown Vic chassis/frame and drivetrain..please!..Would be such a great build to follow. Well done for saving this great looking car.

That 39 is a gem stay original beautiful car money pit yes but a keeper and a split window getting impossible to find these original outside with a little kick. good job!

If you do a build, go traditional hot rod. Really, the smart thing would be part it out, but we know how that goes. Good luck. I'm glad you have the 41 Ford. That was my pick from your Field of Rusty Dreams video.

Your neighbors must love you Matt! LOL

I agree - this is the purest form of madness......

12:52 Thanks for the chuckle, Mike. You funny guy!

What a remarkable guy..

Dear forklift driver, show some respect. Please. Great find Matt! 👌

Matt It would be nice to follow a build that included you doing a custom frame built from scratch...39 Merc "Swamp Monster" or "Merc-e-Waters". I appreciate your skills, and love the channel! Keep doing what your doing, and I would not be surprised if someone from Motortrend offers you a TV show?

I cant imagine how much work that car needs... But man... Its fuck*ng awesome to save a car in that condition!!

It's a disgrace leaving a car to rot like that... No matter how much money you have... The people that spent hundreds of hour of there lives building it and being away from there family's to build it for a little bit of money... There hard work just thrown away like scrap... I'm glad you are saving it and preserving there legacy...

It's sad to think, but that was probably a pretty nice car when it was parked there nearly 60 years ago.

That was stressful to watch, I need to dye my hair now from changing to grey 😲

Im just glad you guys are going to save it

The best dash of early fomoco products ! Taildragger if you chose to be that ambitious.

Don't really matter how you build it as long as you save it or at the very least use all the parts from it.

That Mercury would be awesome with an early Hemi and a 4 speed

Needed a manual steering box for my 72 GTO, found one in a 70 LeMans, yard like this, full of 30's 50's 60's+ cars. Guy hooks up his F350 4x4 wrecker to it, FLOORS IT..! We are going in and out of 1-2 foot deep dips full of water, turning whipping around corners, the frame "Vs" and buckles in the roof. The more parts coming off this 70 LeMans the faster the guy is going. The biggest set of "dips" are at one of the bypasses to other newer areas of the yard toward the front, he starts making some speed and frame digs in and pole-vaults the "under" on top and rips the car in 2 right at the A pillars just as we go 2+ feet into this water hole at 40ish, I looked in those huge Ford mirrors to see this LeMans swinging and bouncing like the deep sea monster that ate that guy in Deep Star SIX, "At Least We Got The End With The Parts You Need", guy yells, all I could say was "yea". He wanted $40 for the box, I gave him $60, he said that's $20 too much, I said "I would have given you $60 just for that ride!".

tail dragger! that junk yard should be ashamed of themselves for taking any money for that merc. great body style just the same.... bless you matt for saving another one.

You know you want to build something out of it - tail dragger looks cool ...

As a professional heavy equipment driver who spends most of my time in a 20,000-60,000 lbs forklifts all day.... This is hard to watch. Such poor techniques in getting this car out... It hurts my brain

That's cool long lasting machines.

Doesn't matter what you do with it. Anything done with it saves it some way. It's a serious rust rebuild, showing how itcould be done could be interesting. Thanks for sharing

you got screwed, i was taught to never buy a car from a swamp land. its a shame

Save the WILLYS!!!! I'm a jeep guy, I can spot a flattie in the woods at a 1000 yards lol, to bad I dont have the funds to save any😖

That was a nice sympathetic approach

Now this is very awesome..glad to see someone else shares my type of insanity..

forklift dude is wearing sunglasses so he can't see the damage he is doing...smart

I think even the guys at cold war motors in Canada would be hard pressed to use that coupe for anything.

Long live old cars...can't wait to see this thing....umm restored... Rodded...something other than forgotten.

Absolutely should do a chopped traditional tail dragger custom

Wow, Matt, you have Jonathan W watching your channel. He's great at what he does, too. Would love to see you, him, and the Cold War Motor guys do a project together, but unfortunately you don't live near each other.

Are you fellas on the east coast,? Wow I don't know if I will be around long enough to see that one finished, and I'm only 56

The real off restoration car...👍👍

Hope you can save it. It has waited long enough. Great video thanks for sharing.

Ok man I think it's a good candidate for a rat road .Love the videos keep them coming 👍

And the forklift destroys it. KEEP IT ORIGINAL.

Hot Rod! Tail dragger - YUK! Then again I am an old hot rodder from the 60's and 70's and never could see any beauty in low riders or tail draggers. Just not my thing. But rock on! What ever tickles you. That's what it is all about.

All of those old vehicles need saving.

A good quality weed whacker might have helped. At least the grill and headlights are still good

I'm not sure what did more damage, Sitting the mud for 30 years, or you guys beating t he hell out of it trying to move it. that was hard to watch

That mercury is gorgeous

Wow EITHER HOT ROD OR LOWRIDER CAR WITH white wall spoke tires

It's amazing how Ford got the roof line so right on a 39 Ford and so wrong on the 39 Merc.

I think your about 50 years too late ole buddy.

This merc has such cool body lines!!

Muck and gunk are the only things holding that beauty together. It will require great skills, imagination, and deep pockets to satisfy those refugee wasps. Let's see it!

A real car man will take on just about any car dead or barely alive hope you can revive it to a drive able machine just like it's glory day's or at least close to it( MAN) just build it............. two thumb's up!!!!!!

Build that tail dragging custom, and save yourselves all the work

It’ll take some time , but car is worth restoring 👍

That was great... buy them all and rescue them

"IF" you keep it, make it a tail dragger...though it looks pretty rough, maybe put the body on a modern chassis?? Yes its rusty but I cringed everytime the fork lift driver tore into it.

Was it just me or was that forklift driver was not carful at all with the 39

Love that thumbnail.

Things learned: Stance is everything, Matt's full of it.

I'm amazed the skid-steer driver didn't rip that thing in half the way he was pulling on it!

that would make a great sleeper with all new frame and drive train

you guys remind me how i was 25 years ago, there wasn't anything i could'nt restore or fix !!!!!!!!

That beautiful car is definitely worth saving. Nice work guys!

This impatient forkliftdriver was a guy without respect for old iron. If course you cannot get a car like that out of its swampgrave without further damage. But with a bit more care and patience he could have done it less than half the damage.

I was hoping you didn't go too fast while it was on the trailer, it might just start to blow away piece by piece!

I grew up outside of Pittsburgh. Now I live south of Tucson , Az. I'll never move back to Pa. I love the old cars too much. Please consider selling out and moving on down. You'll never regret it and you'll never look back. There's a guy here with about 200 classic cars he's selling. About 10 miles outside of Sierra Vista Az.

Traditional hotrod for sure.

Awesome merc, build a new frame, I’d keep up with that

All that crunching was hard to listen to. Hopefully it can be salvaged.

If nothing else, it has a lot of glass and chrome trim. Looks like the instrument panel is good. Not being there, it's hard to tell what the lower body looks like. Thin rust being held together by more thin rust? The hood, maybe the trunk lit, and the upper body are salvageable for other projects. If there is an engine, there are parts. I think you'll do OK by parting it out. Congratulations on a grear find.

Saving that old girl is going to be more than a challenge. However, with your metal fabrication skill, I’m sure that you could make any body panel needed to do the job. That would make great content! Hope you go for it.

Just a question. What did u pay for the Merc

hmm, whats usable of this merc? steering wheel maybe?

I like your profession,... Very interesting and perhaps a lesson learned from subjects That's useful. Greetings from Indonesian

Love those ‘39 Merc’s!!!

Why bother? A soda can is more sturdy. Reverse oxmosis ain't gonna work You really need to stop drinking! This is proof you need help.

I'm cringing, everytime they pull it and set it down. Looks like several broken dreams... good luck on saving it as u go ahead.

There's only one way to build a 39/40 Merv, a marriage style custom. The frame is an easy thing to replace, channel it while replacing the floors etc... The car is definitely worth saving, they make stunning customs

Hot rod!!!! w/supercharged flaty!

Needs a full house "255 Merc flathead under the hood.

Yeah it seriously is “the creature from the black lagoon”

Bring it back to life ☺️

Build a bad to the bone hot rod because it's a peice of history and once it's gone it's gone.