Lead sleads have been around since the early 1950s as heavily customized cars, many of them based on Mercury models and ...

Like, say, a Mercury. Now no longer among us ... it became synonymous closer to our time with the term lead sled. That is because, for one reason or another, people who work on such cars have ...

After Ford halted production to focus on creating military vehicles during World War II, it resumed commercial production, and Mercury launched a new model in 1949. Nicknamed the “lead sled ...