Re: 1946 Mercury KD-4 – Help to Estimate Value & Forum To Sell It

[20mercman]

I would agree with Louis, (green thumbs) in his post. I think that the fact that it is complete make it more worthwhile. I have a 46 & 47 in my collection, I paid $20 each for them, but the 46 was missing the cowl, and both were missing the plug covers. I found a set of plug covers, but only 1 set. The 46 use the Eismann magneto and the coils are much more likely to be serviceable than later bendix coils. (Just to contradict myself, I have found several 47 vintage bendix coils that still work, but almost never one from the early 50’s) If I ever stop adding more projects, I was planning to have one of them on the next winter list. The 46 is just about ready to run. Back to the original question, you could never buy the missing cowl and plug covers for the $50 range unless you were lucky and found them at a swap meet. E-bay prices are somewhat higher. I would say it was worth in the $100-$125 range in southeast Wisconsin.

Steve