...of my '71 Comet. I got to work a bit too early after some lasyt minute Christmas shopping, so I figured "why not, eh?" So, without further ado, I present my Comet, and what I have done of it thus far(sadly, I forgot to take a snap shot of the motor, which is a 250cc Straight-6, numbers matching. The rear end of the car. I haven't really done anything with this yet. The front end of the car. Pops and I painted the stripes on just a few weeks ago, in an attempt at covering the crappy black spray job that the previous owner did. But, they're only temporary, until I do the real paint. I'm leaning towards the factory-red that it has on the body and what not, or I may go with an emerald green with black stripes to say "Hi, I'm not taking away from the green, I'm just to give the green that extra edge" so to speak. Here you can see we took the stripe all the way down to the rear-wheel well. An up close shot of the stripe skipping over the logo. My "custom" wheels. They aren't actual chrome, but what I like to call "ghetto chrome". Amazing what a $5 can of Rust-oleum chrome coloured paint can do, eh? :lol: The rear seats. originally, the previous owner didn't even have the back seat. When I went price searching for the interior, one of the shops had a seat for a '73 Maverick lying around that a previous customer never picked up(the guy sold the car). He sold 'em to me for $75, already covered, like-new. This is my new front seat. I couldn't quite swing the $1,200 to redo the whole interior at once, but the front seat I had was so worn-out, I was sitting on a phone book, and the seat was starting to "eat" the book, sinking it deeper and deeper down. The seat cost me about $200 to fix up. So there you have it, my '71 Mercury Comet. I'm considering buying a '76 4-door Comet as well, but that's if the guy takes my "bid" of $300. If he doesn't, then meh, but if he does, then kick-ass. That way when the time comes, I'll not only have a second car for my future wife/kids, but I'll be able to use the majority of the knowledge I've picked up for my '71, towards my '76. Anyway, what do you all think?
Glad you joined us. A guy who has 8 posts, and can create a post/thread that I havn't been able to figure out how to do, should do great with his ride.
I like it alot and it's a Comet so you gotta love it, oh yeah welcome to the board from one Comet guy to another.
Doing your own door panels is not too hard. You just need to learn to sew (Poorly). I vcan give you the how to is you like. They will probably cost about$30 to make both from scratch. You do need some basic woodworking tools and a sewing machine
The pics? I just took a picture of them with my cell phone, e-mailed them to my e-mail inbox, then saved the pics to my hard drive, and uploaded to my photobucket account. From there, I just copied the code, and pasted it in the post. [/I]
That was to redo the whole interior. From the dash(the cracks in it and what-not), to the carpet(which is in brutal, capital BRutal condition), to(at that time) the re-covering of the seats, the door panels, I think the weatherstripping, though I can't quite be sure on that one, and for the most part the rest of the cockpit stuff. It is a lot of money though, but it's better than the first shop I went to, which quoted me like $2,200(if I already got a back seat) to $2,600(if he had to build me a back seat). But, that seems to be the way things work in Phoenix. Always expensive, yet with lower-paying jobs. *shrugs*
