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 ...

A Superior Blue 1953 Mercury M-100 pickup truck.© Elise240SX/Wikimedia A 1949 Mercury M-Series truck displayed at a car show.© Crwpitman/Wikimedia ...

Ford, Chrysler and General Motors all introduced the first truly new postwar designs with their 1949 offerings, but the curvy, bulkier Mercury was completely different from the slab-sided Fords.

I've always been enamored of the Dick Gregg shoebox Ford-turned-hauler (you may have spotted it in Andy Southard's book, "Hot Rods and Customs of the 1950s" in all its scalloped, sectioned glory ...