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Discussion in 'General Maverick/Comet' started by Comet155, May 9, 2005.

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  1. fan2488

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    looks great. really like the color
     
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    You have a nice looking Comet!(y)
     
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    They said it was going to rain last week and it didn't. I trust no weather reports anymore.
     
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    OK so you take pics, that most amatuers, including myself would take, but restoring a car you got down, nothing to apologze for in that, great work!!(y)
     
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  5. dmhines

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    Looking Good! Let me Guess .. 73 with a front bumper swap?
     
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  6. Comet155

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    Affirmative. Well, it's a "fake" swap. Had to get rid of the 71 parts car a few years before (uugh!) so I didn't have the correct attachments when I did the installation. So I just bolted the phony fiberglass bumper onto the big stock mounting pads. Looks goofy in person, but harder to tell in the photos. I now have near zero front end protection (but it is much lighter. s! ss!).
     
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  7. tim keck

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    Someday my Comet will look good while you're standing there looking at it,not look good while driving by at 70mph in the rain at night.Nice ride.
     
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  8. dmhines

    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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    Not sure where you are located but I have a 71/72 Comet Front Bumper and correct brackets ...
     
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  9. Comet155

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    Washington state. Would consider the bump and brackets. I suppose the lower valance would need changing too.

    PS. Old pic from "All Ford Day". Back in '94. Good T&T day.
     
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  10. dmhines

    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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    Too far ... shipping big things sucks!
     
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  11. Comet155

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    Bummer. How about just the brackets.......
     
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  12. scooper77515

    scooper77515 No current projects.

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    For those shadows, if you force the flash to go off (it is called "fill flash" on many cameras) it will flash as if it was dark out, and the shadowed areas will light up. I always shoot two shots, one with fill flash on, and one without, and 90% of the fill flash pictures are better, due to reduced shadows. The experts use reflectors to reflect light into those shadowed areas. Us poor guys need to use flash.
     
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  13. Comet155

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    Thanks for the tips Scoop.

    PS. Squaring off against a...Fairlane?
     
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    No problems with shadows in that picture. But the white fairlaine is almost invisible. How did you do against him?
     
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  15. Comet155

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    I got buried pretty badly. It was a baseline dry run (no NOS). I performed much better on the sauce in the next round. s! ss! sss! :evilsmile
     
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