ANY bigs plans for your mavs or comets this winter?

Finish painting before spring. Get new headliner and windsheild and back glass gaskets installed. New tires on back. Tailpipes over the axle. Win the lottery [should be first on the list, because I'll never get all this done over the winter if I don't, lol].

 

Probably just get the Comet out & drive it a time or two to keep things limber. Need to put some LDO buckets in the Pea(75 Mav) to make it more comfy since I drive it alot in cooler weather.

 

get the new ball joints on and maybe paint and get it on the road

 

Up until last week, I had planned on stripping the engine bay(which I had started) and repainting it, installing an engine I have, and converting the red GT over to manual from automatic. However, since purchasing the gold GT, which was originally a manual shift car and is currently a floor shift automatic, I am considering a change in strategy. I may pull the motor/trans from the gold and use the trans to put in the red and use the manual items to put the gold back to manual. I just got it home and will decide soon which direction to go. At any rate, I will be working on them in some capacity. Sprint will sit for awhile yet. At least, it runs and drives, so I can move it around evry so often.

Of course, our winter is our best time to work on the cars. I will post a better game plan later.

Jim

 

I'm planning to swap the column shift automatic out for my top loader 4 speed, replace the column with the floor shift column I have and replace the differential with the 4.11:1 Trac Loc differential in the garage. Then I have sport mirrors to repaint and a better grille to install. Better seat belts will go inside too. I've been gathering information from here to decide how much I want to cut the front springs since I've removed the A/C, put the battery in the trunk and will remove the power steering. There's headliner and windsheild to replace too but I don't have the funds for that yet.

Bruce

 

I've been collecting parts, My car is a shell will be doing all the suspension work from changing power steering to manual steering and putting all new bushings in. Then getting ready for paint have one last body part coming then the fun begins. It will be basically a total ground up restoration. I will get pics up when the fun starts.