1965 Comet Caliente Modified By Em2 302 4v 4 Speed on 2040-cars
Happy Valley, Oregon, United States
We have had this little 65 on the 4 post or in the garage since Dec. 2007. Our original intention was to install a badass 347 stroker and make it a go fast strip car. Turns out, it was too darned nice to race. We had Marv Green from the slow pokes car club paint the Comet in June 2008. We didn't actually cut n buff it until yesterday 3/31/14. It came out excellent. I can't remember if there was any rust at all in the body but I think not. When I installed the new antenna the inner fender looked brand new under the mud deflector. Under the dash is extremely nice. Everything works on the heat/defrost, fuel,oil pressure, water temp, and amperage gauges . The tach is a new Equus 3", and the new Kenwood below dash unit is a KDC 258U with ipod,USB, and am-fm-cd etc. There are 4 new Kenwood speakers with concealed wiring done when we installed floor pans up front, insulation, carpet, and POR15 black paint.
The engine is a 302 cubic inch V8 with an Edelbrock 1406 4 bbl carb. The Comet has a very good clutch and smooth shifting factory 4 speed. We have an original boot but we liked the Hurst style better for the shifter. This is the 3rd Todd Hoffman Fairlane or Comet we have purchased from SoCal. The stainless trim has very minute pitting in only a spot or two. The trim is phenominal! The glass is all original Carlite and we found about 3 inches of the build sheet under the front bench. The door panels, headliner, and seats are believed to be original to this gorgeous Comet. The dash pad is a new one from Kar Krafters. Sorry to say the doors had older speakers in them and we replaced them with new Kenwood's in order to keep the original panels.The kick plates are original as well. All in all a very nice interior . Under the car is very tight. The steering is manual reduced and the car is very easy to steer yet the road can still be felt. The brakes are stock 4 wheel drum in great shape. The exhaust is brand new Magna Flow duals with aluminized heavy wall tubing.The floors are coated with SEM paintable poly undercoating from stem to stern. All metal is protected now. There is zero rust or bubbling on the rockers and close inspection shows wimbledon white paint, not undercoating. Driving this is a blast from the past. The road feels like asphalt, not astro turf... There is no play in the steering and the torque curve is even. The Comet has a wide ratio 4 speed and 3.00:1 rear differential gearing . The tires are oversized 245-60R15 rear and 235-60R15 front. The tires are brand new Grand Prix performance radials on WELD polished ultra light racing wheels. The Comet handles very nicely in turns and on the straightaways. Shifting is very smooth and there are no mechanical issues we know of except the following: left turn signal quit and the horn quit. We WILL have them fully operational prior to shipping the Comet to it's new owner. Everything else works as designed by Ford Lincoln Mercury...... Of course, all the fluids, anti freeze, and diffs have been serviced. There are new oil and air filters, a new engine dress kit , new distributor, wires, carb,and starter etc. The Merc is entirely turn key and ready for the cruise ins or cross country. The Mercury has model 70 air cond( you spit on your forehead and drive 70 with the window open), manual navigation, and NO warning buzzers or devices. It is up to YOU to buckle your seat belt, the car will not harass you if you don't. The up front twin horns let the slow poke Lexus up front know you are there. lol The car is REALLY fun to drive. Disclaimer: The Mercury Comet Caliente described above is being sold "as is " and "where is". There are absloutely no warranties expressed or implied. Pictures will NOT take the place of inspections. Please be comfortable with the car before bidding or buying. It is the sole responsibility of the buyer to ascertain the quality and finish of this vehicle prior to purchase. We are available 5 days a week and have hoists available for aiding in the inspection. Please call us at 503 793 0204 with questions or to make an appointment for inspection. Additional pics are available on our website at EM2COOL. You can also email us questions at em2restorations@gmail. THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK!! Marty n Molly |
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The 1965 Ford Mustang could have looked a lot different
Fri, May 8 2020The 1965 Ford Mustang is unquestionably an automotive design icon, and nearly every generation of Mustang has some connection to that original car. Because it's such a universally-known vehicle, we were amazed to see all the different designs that were being considered. Head of Ford's archives Ted Ryan recently shared photos of design proposals for the original Mustang on Twitter that he and Jamie Myler found, and we reached out to them to find out more. As Ryan initially noted, the photos were taken on August 19, 1962, and they are proposals for the Ford Mustang. Apparently Ford had committed to doing a Falcon-based youth-oriented car at this point, and it did have plans to launch the car in 1964 for the 1965 model year. But after having little success with early design proposals, the company asked all of its design studios — the Advanced Studio, Lincoln-Mercury Studio and Ford Studio — to submit proposals. With only about two years before the planned launch, Ford was understandably short on time, and it's believed that the studios only had a month to create and present these designs. Lincoln-Mercury design proposal View 8 Photos The majority of the designs, a total of five, came from the Advanced Studio, and part of this was because they already had a couple of concept designs in reserve it could present. Two other models representing three design possibilities came from Lincoln-Mercury, and just one model with two options came from Ford. The Advanced Studio proposals are shown in the gallery at the very top of this article, and the Lincoln-Mercury and Ford proposals are in the gallery directly above this paragraph. The Advanced Studio's most radical design is the one that was clearly related to the Mustang I concept that would be shown later that year with huge wraparound rear glass, turbine-inspired bumpers and enormous side scoops. The other proposals from the studio were more conservative, featuring simple lines, grilles reminiscent of the Falcon, and one even borrowing the jet-thruster-style taillights made famous on the Thunderbird. Lincoln-Mercury had some impressively bold designs, particularly its fastback that had buttresses to extend the shape all the way to the tail. This car had two different side trim possibilities. The other Lincoln-Mercury design was toned down a bit, but had two interesting possibilities for side detailing, as well as some crisp, low-profile tail fins.
Ford Recalling 70k Escape and Mariner Hybrids for cooling issue
Fri, 12 Sep 2014Ford is recalling about 70,209 examples of the 2005-2008 Ford Escape Hybrid and the 2006-2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid because the cooling pumps for their hybrid systems could fail.
According to the company's defect notice, it's possible for the original "Motor Electronics Coolant (MEC) Pump" to wear out and fail, which would could cause the hybrid system to overheat. If this happens, the vehicle goes into a safety mode that takes away most or all of its power. However, braking and steering still operate normally. After cooling down, the affected models restart normally. The company says that it's not aware of any accidents or injuries related to this problem.
Ford will begin repairing the vehicles in late October, and dealers will be installing improved, brushless pumps on the affected models at no charge to owners. If drivers had their pumps fail before this recall, they can contact Ford for a possible reimbursement. Scroll down to read the recall announcement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or download the full defect notice as a PDF, here.
Junkyard Gem: 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis LS
Thu, Nov 24 2022We've all been seeing the instantly familiar Ford Crown Victoria P71 Police Interceptor on North American roads for what seems like forever, though in fact the very first of the aerodynamic Crown Vics didn't appear until a mere 31 years ago. Yes, after more than a decade of boxy LTD Crown Victorias, Dearborn took the late-1970s-vintage Panther platform and added a brand-new, Taurus-influenced smooth body and modern overhead-cam V8 engine, giving us the 1992 Ford Crown Victoria. The rule was, since 1939, that (nearly) every Ford model needed a corresponding Mercury, and so the Mercury Division applied different grille and taillights and the rejuvenated Grand Marquis was born. Here's one of the first of those cars to be built, now residing in a Denver-area self-service boneyard. The Marquis name goes respectably far back, to the late 1960s and a Mercurized version of the Ford LTD hardtop. The Grand Marquis began life as the name for an interior trim package on the 1974 Marquis Brougham (also LTD-based), eventually becoming a model in its own right for the 1979 model year. Today's Junkyard Gem came off the Ontario assembly line in March 1991, making one of the very first examples built. For 1992 (and through 2011), the Grand Marquis was a Crown Victoria with slightly enhanced bragging rights. This one has the top-grade LS trim, with an MSRP of $20,644 (that's about $44,370 in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars). The corresponding Ford-badged model (built on the same assembly line by the same workers) would have been the Crown Victoria LX, which actually cost a bit more: $20,987 ($44,910 now). The very cheapest civilian 1992 Crown Vic cost just $19,563 ($42,045 today). There weren't any powertrain differences between the Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis in 1992. The only engine available was this Modular 4.6 SOHC V8, rated at either 190 (single exhaust) or 210 (dual exhaust) horsepower. The transmission was a four-speed automatic with overdrive. How many miles are on this one? Can't say! Based on the worn-out interior, I'm going to guess 221,719 miles passed beneath this car's wheels during its 32-plus years on the road. I've seen some very high-mile Police Interceptors, of course, including one with 412,013 miles, but Ford didn't go to six-digit odometers in the Grand Marquis until a bit deeper into the 1990s. Thanks to flawed speech-to-text applications on smartphones, the Grand Marquis is known as the "Grandma Keith" to many of us today.