August '08-'09 Buildoff 1972 Mercury Comet

[spitfire]

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,






more pics later photo bucket decided to start being slow.

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

what are the plans?

[WhiteMKIV]

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]

Originally Posted by SPR

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]

Not bad for 300 bucks, Not bad at all,

Screw the 302, 427 it!

[spitfire]

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



ya thats my gas tank, the old one is rusted and leaks,
but im ordering a brand new allumunum gas tank

but some new parts form the junk yard,
before:
after:
new moirors,

LMAO love the gas tank!

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

[spitfire]

Originally Posted by SPR

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]

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.

[KITT222]

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]

mix the rust with fine aluminum powder. you get thermite


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]

Originally Posted by firebird999

mix the rust with fine aluminum powder. you get thermite


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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by AJB32690

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]

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

[WhiteMKIV]

Originally Posted by xmodkidd33

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

I can answer that for him . 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]

Originally Posted by WhiteMKIV

I can answer that for him . 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]

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]

Originally Posted by spitfire

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