What did you do to your Maverick or Comet today

Decided to paint and keep my stock Rally wheels. I had originally thought about painting the wheels black, since I see so many black wheels on today's cars. After thinkin about the black paint idea; I thought old school OE look fit my taste better. I had been driving it w/ beauty rings for years. I took them off "beauty rings" and liked the look. I bought new front tires late fall of 2016 and w/ all new suspension and Borg steering finally working properly -- keeping things as they are. I like the way the car rides and don't need any "MORE" issues. I like keepin the car on the road and not on jack -stands.

 

Hi Everett:
Looks nice ! I still like the ' beauty rings ' !
Chip

 

Same here...

For most part I despise black wheels...

The older, period correct wheels generally lose their character when all black...

Might as well be looking at them in the dark...

 

I am with you on the black wheels. Too much black with the tires and darkness of the wheel well.

 

installed a new E-fan... Hayden 3700-04

 

Cruised almost the whole day. Just got out for a good visit with Shawn Simpson and Lisa, and back in the car!

 

Took off the BFGs I needed to get to the two MCCI events and re-installed the MT drag radials mounted on black steelies in combination with the murdered 60s vintage Keystones.

Time to get back to business!!!

 

I don't get the black wheels thing,or flat black cars,or "rat rods"... In my day black wheels were on the cars that the owners didn't care about,and lost the hubcaps,usually had maypop tires of 4 different sizes... Flat black was used to block a car before sealing it,and rat rods,to me,are seemingly made by lazy millennials with no paint and body skills,or rednecks with too much junk in the yard,in the essence of boredom and far too much beer... Maybe its just me, i put too much effort in a project,and time+money to get out some black paint and leave rust showing and say "Cool!"... But it takes all kinds to make the world go around I suppose...

 

Found the correct red vinyl for the Comet! Just need to find $549 now

 

They are beautiful....and WAAAAAY better than black alone.

 

They sent me the same swatch for my red vinyl top too but I haven't addressed my concerns about it being correct for my particular car. I stripped the thin black coating of paint off mine and it is solid red. Looks like you sent in a swatch for proper matching but mine is/was most definitely solid red and original as evidenced by the factory prepped surface. Other few red topped cars I've seen did not have the black color mixed into the red either. Maybe there were a few available red vinyl top options but that specific mix of black(more like a dark burgandy I guess) and red would be the first I've ever seen.

 

stripped the seam sealer out of one drip rail...
will try and get the other side done tomorrow. they had a few cracks in it but so far no rust...

 

I dropped my gas tank, removed the vent, cleaned the tank sealer from the orifice, blew through it, put gasgacinch on both surfaces and reassembled, and put tank back in. Now, onto swapping out the starter I killed off cranking a flooded engine into starting 4 times.

 

Yeah, I always thought mine was supposed to be solid red like yours. The scrap piece I found had the dark traces, but I figured that was black paint from when the car was repainted. There was more black on the exposed edge of that scrap, so it just looked like the paint ran into the spaces. But then when the sample came, it matched perfectly. I never sent them that piece, because it was so tiny, I just told them it was a 71 comet, and the top was 'red', I also told them that the build sheet specified the top color as 4. Do you have your build sheet? I was wondering if maybe when you stripped the paint off, it pulled the original darker coloring off as well? I was hoping mine was going to be solid red like yours, that would look sweet with the black body.

 

I have copy of a previous owners(a member here) deluxe report and also ordered the statistics report to narrow down the rarity of the "red tweed vinyl roof" it was ordered with. I don't have the actual build sheet to clarify any color numbers. Does yours designate as "red tweed" too?

I used repeated applications of a safer citrus based stripper because the typical ones would have softened/melted the vinyl. The paint was thin and came right off without much effort. Plus it looks like the samples darker burgandy color would be fused deeper into the surface to avoid wiping right off anyways. Your small swatch looks damned close to that sample to me. Dunno, maybe that "tweed" designation is the blended coloration that SMS sent us samples of. Probably what also gives it the overall appearance of the darker Vermillion red interior coloring too. Possible that the sun just faded away the darker coloration on mine before it was finally painted black. Not like there are plenty of other original red topped examples for us to compare with either. I guess that's one of the major downsides to rarity.