Ford 'sisters'?

[A/FX]

I enjoy seeing all of your vintage car photos. I guess I will look for some of my Comet(s).
They will be old prints so I will need to scan them.
Jim

[SASSY]

hey Jim
How 'bout a pic of your car as the Street Machine cover car,,, thats a couple years back!! Lol
Fred

[A/FX]

hey Jim
How 'bout a pic of your car as the Street Machine cover car,,, thats a couple years back!! Lol
Fred

It was MORE than a couple of years ago!
OK, here is a photo of the cover. The Mustang II was a magazine project car as was the van, they had my wife staged by the Mustang and I by my Comet.
I also found some articles that were published about my other Comets, I will post them separately if you guys are interested in seeing them.

Here is the article from the cover magazine:

Some other pictures and the photo shoot, (lower Left) the photo on the lower right was taken in 1970, with my girlfriend (now wife) Note hood treatment, I tried to mimic the then new Mach 1 hood design.


This article was in Hot Rod, Grey Baskerville and Bud Lang shot this two days after I finished the build in 1975, I drove the car to DesMoines. (Article was published in 1976, long lead times for printed material)

[Joe Travers]

Too cool, Jim!

I had a mid-'70s Custom E-150 like on the cover of the mag as well
I picked it up in the mid-'80s and went straight for the sander because that scheme was so dated @ the time. The 351W was shot and I didn't feel like keeping it, so I sold it to a hippy after I painted it. Got a letter in the mail a couple months later from State Trooper HQ to pick it up in impoundment. The guy I sold it to never changed the tags, it broke down on the road & he just left it.

Joe

[SASSY]

Thanks Jim! I was installing the C in my Comet about then. I remember drooling over that cover shot lots. I could still find that copy pretty easy in my pile of stuff in the office. More worn than the one in your pics though!

[comethead]

Damn cool pics guys!
All you guys were cool before cool was cool! You had the forethought to buy, save and fix up a Mercury Comet!

Joe

[Joe Travers]

All you guys were cool before cool was cool! You had the forethought to buy, save and fix up a Mercury Comet!

Man, your Falcon is bad to the bone
Never owned one, had a chance to pick up a '60 gasser roller years ago I passed on. Did buy a F-100 and a Fox body Mustang from the guy. Took a drive last year to try and find it again but it's gone. Had a glass front clip on a tubed frame and full cage. One-seater. It would have made a very rough project, not practical @ the time.

Joe II

[SASSY]

Gasser and practical
The term oxymoron comes to mind

[Joe Travers]

Gasser and practical
The term oxymoron comes to mind

Call me crazy but I did try to get the guy to throw it in w/ the other two I bought
I did buy a '89 LX Mustang drag car from him for a project w/ my oldest son when he was in H.S. We rolled it in the shop, started working on it but a couple weeks later I found a solid '68 ht in a car lot in town. Bought it so he had a driver we could work on and sold the racer to finance the '68.

Joe

[Lou's Comet]

Damn cool pics guys!
All you guys were cool before cool was cool! You had the forethought to buy, save and fix up a Mercury Comet!

Joe

Got to agree with Joe. The decades of history a lot of you have with your Comets is Way Cool! To have your Comet on the cover of a magazine is what we call around here "Steve McQueen Cool"

I also enjoy seeing the old pictures and reading the history of your Comets.....Thanks

Lou