72 Mercury Comet GT in Germany

well, i guess i'm able to afford it after all. one of the advantages if you have a good going business and are (not yet) married with children
i saw that you are also willing to spend any of your savings just to get the car going (faster) - so we are thinking alike at least a little.
it is very much worth it, and i value this car just as high as my mustang. it's vintage, it's very rare over here, and it deserves to be restored properly

 

cheers to that brother! no wife and no kids. It's a beautiful thing for anyone who has them and is happy but it's great having no commitment and being able to recklessly spend on the mav.

 

Man that looks great! I can picture it going 150mph on the autobahn listening to ramstein or tokio hotel

 

well, i'm with you as far as rammstein is concerned, but tokio hotel? i'd be driving the car straight into a concrete wall

 

hahaha i have weird taste in music and those are the only two german bands i listen to.

 

well, apparently they were able to get the frame rail back together. but the floor needed more patching than expected...

 

Fixing to start on the body or did I miss that?

 

gene, where were you? bodywork is nearly finished

in the meantime i was able to take some more stuff apart - all four doors i have now, the mach1 seats and the wiring harness which looks really bad in some places...





oh, and i found out that i actually have a torino engine, casting D2OE-6015-AB. Casting date is 2G21 which i assume is 21st of July 1972, right? does this mean i still have a decent compression ratio and not the block with the odd 8.229 deck height? i'm asking because the partial vin stamped in the block indicates a 73 atlanta car...

 

Yup...short deck...8.206"

 

ok, before everyone thinks i didn't do any work on my car i'll post the last pictures for this year.
i started cleaning up the underside of the car so it can be painted properly. quite a lot of work, unfortunately:




you can also see how much of the floors had to be replaced. and how well the torque box that mean_maverick sent me fits!




more pictures next year

 

Gotta be some of the most extensive work to floors I seen yet. So then it gets cleaned and painted then undercoated?

 

thanks, gene.
i'll grind down the welds before painting, the car still looks very rough.

then it will indeed be painted - but not undercoated after painting. i have a hard time scraping all the black mess off the car which the previous owner advertised as "rust protection". it was just a cheap way of hiding all the rust

i have talked to the guy who will be doing the paintwork. according to him, the best way will be a layer of primer, a thin layer of a special undercoating and then a final layer of paint. thus, the paint will stay flexible and will not crack off when hit by stones.

 

I was thinking that you might want some kinda under coating. What's the special stuff? Rhinoliner?

 

to be honest, i haven't got a clue. but if the rhino thing got it's name from the way it looks, it might be the right thing.

oh, and as far as the body color is concerned - i couldn't convince my girlfriend (and myself) to put the car back to it's original lime green so it'll be the factory correct ford dark blue metallic as used in 72...

 

Lime green would be good.

This thread is awesome.