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Copper Cars: The Mercer-Cobra

Posted February 11, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

The Mercer-Cobra showcar was conceived to play a dual role. First, it would tour the world and show the general public the striking appearance of copper and brass trim on a modern automobile. Second, it could be (and was) used to focus industry attention on not only the decorative possibilities of copper and its alloys but also the mechanical and metallurgical properties of the metal in such applications as copper disc brakes, improved copper-and-brass radiators, and copper instrument bezels.

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Re: Copper Cars: The Mercer-Cobra

02/11/2009 9:02 AM

There's some very good color photo's of this car here:

http://www.madle.org/emercer.htm

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