1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone Gt 390 4 Speed Hardtop on 2040-cars
Strathroy, Ontario, Canada
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1966 Comet Cyclone GT. Rare original 390 S code 4 speed car. Door data tag codes are as follows : Body 63H=Cyclone GT color U=Medium turquoise met Trim B7=Aqua w/parchment vinyl Date 17L=Nov 17 1965 DSO 16=Philadelphia PA Axle 4= 3.25-1 conventional Trans 5= 4 speed manual Car is a PROJECT car and is selling minus the engine , transmission and driveshaft. Car has factory fiberglass hood, bucket seats, etc. Car Appears to have decent front fenders , shock towers, aprons, core support, doors, roof, and deck lid. Some previous repairs appear to have been done to rear quarters. Car needs floor pan repairs and repairs to rear frame rails at rear shackle area. There is some front floor pan sections to go with the car and l do have some southern rear rails that will go with it that can be trimmed to do the repairs. May be some small parts missing. The wheels and tires on car do go with the car and will be replaced with roller wheels and tires before the car goes. Car is sold in AS IS CONDITION. Please ask any and all questions before bidding. I can be reached at 519-245-7087 if you have specific questions. Car is also for sale locally and auction will be removed if sold. Car is being sold in AS IS CONDITION. Car can easily be imported into the US. |
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Mon, Jan 6 2014How bad is ethanol for your engine? There's been a lot of debate on this issue as the US considers upping the biofuel content in the national gasoline supply from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15). The ethanol industry and some scientists say higher ethanol blends show no "meaningful differences" in new engines while the oil industry says ethanol creates health risks. Researchers working at the Ford Research and Innovation Center decided to take a closer look at how a wide range of gas-ethanol blends - E0, E10, E20, E30, E40, E55 and E80 - affected the emissions coming out of a flex-fuel 2006 Mercury Grand Marquis. To see the full report, printed in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, requires payment, but there is an abstract and Green Car Congress has some more details. The gist is that, "with increasing ethanol content in the fuel, the tailpipe emissions of ethanol, acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, methane, and ammonia increased." At least NOx and NMHC emissions decreased. The researchers say that the effects are due to the fuel and "are expected for all FFVs," but that the way that a manufacturer calibrates the engine will affect NOx, THC, and NMOG emissions. It's this last bit that's important, since the researchers found, "Higher ethanol content in gasoline affects several fundamental fuel properties that can impact emissions. ... These changes can have positive or negative effects that can depend on engine design, hardware, and control strategy. In addition to direct emissions impacts, higher ethanol content fuel can also provide more efficient combustion and overall engine operation under part-load conditions and under knock-limited higher-load conditions." So, as we head towards more ethanol in our fuel supply (maybe), manufacturers are going to need to learn how to burn it most efficiently.
Ford announces bevy of recalls, 2 of which are recalls on recalls
Tue, 04 Nov 2014
Ford has announced five separate recalls, affecting 202,000 vehicles built between 2005 and 2014.
It's not been a great couple of weeks for Ford. On October 30, the company announced a 205,000-unit recall, and yesterday, it was revealed that the Ford brand's year-over-year sales were down over 5,000 units while the company itself was down 3,000 units over through October. Now, the company has announced five separate recalls affecting 202,000 vehicles built between 2005 and 2014.
Translogic drives wood-burning Mercury Beaver XR-7
Sun, 31 Jul 2011You read the title right, we're talking about the Mercury Beaver XR-7. No, Mercury never officially built a car called the beaver. This is the brainchild of upstate New Yorker Chip Beam, who owns and operates Beaver Energy, LLC. It runs on gases created by wood pellets fermented in a 2,400-degree furnace and fed to a supercharged Ford 4.6-liter V8.
By all accounts, it gets down the road just fine, and has pretty close to full power. The best part is, you can grow the fuel yourself and avoid patronizing big oil, if that's your thing. The only drawback that we can see to the Mercury Beaver XR-7 is the PVC pipe jungle occupying the space that would be the trunk under normal circumstances.
Still, if you're willing to smell like a mountain man and look like a bad Back to the Future knockoff, this ride is right up your alley. Click past the jump to see Translogic's take on this modified Merc.