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spitfire 11-12-2008 04:33 PM

August '08-'09 Buildoff 1972 Mercury Comet
 
so i bought this car about two weeks ago for $300. it runs very well.
its a three speed automatic on the tree. i plan on moving it two a floor shifter. im pretty sure its a 3.0liter but its the original inline six. its not very fast but its alot of to drive. but right know the power steering pump its out and i need to bleed the brakes, so right now its not safe but i still drive it around.
so here she goes,
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0089.jpg
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0097.jpg
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0101.jpg
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0103.jpg
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0104.jpg
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0107.jpg
more pics later photo bucket decided to start being slow.

SPR 11-12-2008 04:39 PM

few more years and you'll be flinstoning it!! yucky yucky rust lol. welcome to my world!

what are the plans?

WhiteMKIV 11-12-2008 04:44 PM

Yeah it is a good project, and its come a long way scince you have gotten it. the oil change did a HUGE job, and next up is the tranny this weekend!

spitfire 11-12-2008 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPR (Post 191753)
few more years and you'll be flinstoning it!! yucky yucky rust lol. welcome to my world!

what are the plans?

i plan on making it midnight blue met. and black two tone.
i want to put a 302 v8 but i want to stay original. so ill probly
rebuild the L6. but im going to make it a manual trany and and a four
barel carb convorusion. but like it shows ill have to do alot on the rust
but once my old car sales ill have enough money to get it going.

Bugeye subie 11-12-2008 05:09 PM

Not bad for 300 bucks, Not bad at all,

Screw the 302, 427 it!

spitfire 11-12-2008 05:14 PM

ok update photobucket is working so more pics,
engine and trunk/getto gas tank

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0108.jpg
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0109.jpg
ya thats my gas tank, the old one is rusted and leaks,
but im ordering a brand new allumunum gas tank
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0112.jpg
but some new parts form the junk yard,
before:http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0117.jpg
after:http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0114.jpg
new moirors,
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF0118.jpg

SPR 11-12-2008 06:48 PM

LMAO love the gas tank!

thats worse than my pocket bike gas tank i think haha.

spitfire 11-12-2008 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SPR (Post 191783)
LMAO love the gas tank!

thats worse than my pocket bike gas tank i think haha.

ya its pretty getto, but hey it works good, i mean
if your in to stoping to fill up your tank every 40miles, lol.

texan_idiot25 11-13-2008 05:04 PM

Welcome to rust.

It's much like a bad girl friend. Sure, the girl may look great, and be a good runner. But inside, there is something growing. Something, unrelenting, and evil. It spreads like cancer. Eating away at your soul, and you wallet. No matter how much you try and please it, it continues on and on and on, until either your patience, or wallet, runs out.

Rust: My enemy.

:roll_eye:

KITT222 11-13-2008 05:07 PM

oh my goodness, a Comet! too bad you werent in Iowa a few months ago. we auctioned off my great-aunts MINT Comet.

thats one heckuva project you got going there!

firebird999 11-13-2008 06:34 PM

mix the rust with fine aluminum powder. you get thermite :firedevi:


bot, that's a pretty neat car. make it yellow, orange, or dark green. or it actually may look great just primered with red or black rims.

spitfire 11-13-2008 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by firebird999 (Post 191929)
mix the rust with fine aluminum powder. you get thermite :evil:


bot, that's a pretty neat car. make it yellow, orange, or dark green. or it actually may look great just primered with red or black rims.

ya the color is going to be midnight blue met. with the lower body line black.
im going to get some black rims with a chrome lip.

ya thanks texen, i love your speech. thats funny, but soooo true.

spitfire 11-17-2008 03:59 PM

well update, had a small oil leak. it was coming from the mechanical
oil gauge. the nilon tubing dry roated and broke off. so i bought a copper tubbing fittings for it. no she runs just fine"again".

AJB32690 11-17-2008 04:07 PM

Looks like a good project. I think the cars that nobody really knows about are more fun than the common ones. I'm trying to get my hands on an 80s Olds Cutlass(Olds version of the Buick GN or Chevy MC), but I may have to settle for a Monte Carlo.

spitfire 11-17-2008 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AJB32690 (Post 192570)
Looks like a good project. I think the cars that nobody really knows about are more fun than the common ones. I'm trying to get my hands on an 80s Olds Cutlass(Olds version of the Buick GN or Chevy MC), but I may have to settle for a Monte Carlo.

ya i love the old cutlass. ive always wanted like the 1969 442.
but i had to settle for a 1991 cutlass/grany car. but it is for sale! lol.

xmodkidd33 11-17-2008 05:22 PM

Great looking car. Are you planning on doing the bodywork yourself?

WhiteMKIV 11-17-2008 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xmodkidd33 (Post 192576)
Great looking car. Are you planning on doing the bodywork yourself?

I can answer that for him :bigwink: . Well, Spitfire and i are gonna bring it into our autobody shop class at school, we both are 2nd years and have it good with our teacher. He is gona bring it in and we are gonna do the body work, actually all the body work and paint it :) I think he is sending the chrome peices away to be re diped.

spitfire 11-17-2008 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhiteMKIV (Post 192583)
I can answer that for him :bigwink: . Well, Spitfire and i are gonna bring it into our autobody shop class at school, we both are 2nd years and have it good with our teacher. He is gona bring it in and we are gonna do the body work, actually all the body work and paint it :) I think he is sending the chrome peices away to be re diped.

yep! hes got it right on the money.
and since whitemkiv is the best painter
in the class, im giving him the honers
of painting it for me.

spitfire 11-21-2008 02:21 PM

ya! i finaly got clearance to put the comet in the auto body
shop at my school after thanks giving. first im going
to weld up new floor bords, then the inside of the trunk has some
holes and then the quarter panels. then hopfuly a brandnew gas tank.

Man i cant wait till thanks giving is over so i can start on this **** car.
not sure if thats a good or bad thing ^^^ lol!

WhiteMKIV 11-21-2008 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spitfire (Post 193426)
ya! i finaly got clearance to put the comet in the auto body
shop at my school after thanks giving. first im going
to weld up new floor bords, then the inside of the trunk has some
holes and then the quarter panels. then hopfuly a brandnew gas tank.

Man i cant wait till thanks giving is over so i can start on this **** car.
not sure if thats a good or bad thing ^^^ lol!

Once im done with the CRX all my work is on the comet


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