What did you do to your Maverick or Comet today

this is for yesterday.....we took all of the following off of curb hoppers comet both front fenders hood both doors front and back windshield bucket seats dash font and back wiring harness tail lights trunk lid and back seat rear marker lights
next is the motor trans front suspension rear end tail light panel gas tank filler neck drive line and anything else I can think of

 

Hey gang, it's no joke, Frank is not adding any extras to the pictures (paint on Dodge truck). I have not seen paint look deeper or richer than I saw that Day when looking at these fenders with Frank. It looks as though the paint is still wet. And Frank tells me this is this guys first paint job. His paint booth is a home-made room made in his garage with some insulation materials, 2 by 2 boards, a fan and filters to keep the dust and paint overspray down. Excellant work but it looks like he spent many hours getting it to look this good. No fish eyes, no dust spec, nothing bad at all.

 

You should invest in an angle drill...they work great in close quarters!

 

okay today curb hoppers comet got the motor out and trans is ready to come out took shocks loose from shock tower master cylinder is out steering column is ready to pull with the exception of the collar bolts complete brake assembly under the dash is out the heater/ac box is out.
the car is pretty much a shell hate to scrap it but no room to keep it
goal for tomorrow get the trans drive line rear end and front suspension out and have the car on its way to getting turned into a hyundai

 

Finished installing and wiring the new lights in it's room. Next comes insulation in the attic and setting it up to store parts as they're removed from the car. So much closer to working on it instead of the house!

 

hayed to to this but had to
yesterday we finished getting curb hoppers comet ready to be turned into a new can opener.
today I dropped the first half of the car off at the recycler. tomorrow Ill take the other half

 

I probably missed it along the way but why did it have to die?

 

Because it's a Comet!

 

I should have known better!

 

parts car for... " new can opener"...

 

did you see that little bit of rust int he 1/4 panel? I dont have a welder and neither of us know how to weld even if i did have one so to the crusher it goes.














that and the floor was so rotten inside you could almost flinstone the car literally and the trunk was so rusty you could see the street under the car. when we went for a cruise you could see the freeway under our feet. just about everything was rusty/rotten but it was a good curb hopper

we had loads of fun terrorizing it every weekend during the summer . that was when we had tons of spare tires for the car . now that were out of tires and out of warm nights it had to go

 

After 4 weeks I'm finally drove again.

 

Cussed a lot... Seem my resto thread...

 

Took apart the 351 today. turns out its never been run
still had the assembly grease on the bearings. the crank had been milled and a lunati camshaft. hopefully the cylinder rust will be able to hone out. its a shame that it was abused like that. can't believe somebody would put all that money into the engine and just let it sit.

 

I set the motor back in to see how she fit. Just had my friend weld in the new cross member.