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Sep 9^th, 2006 at 11:24pm

Jared Offline
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I'd rather be flying...
Uniontown, Ohio

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Tomorrow morning Sunday September 10th) I will depart from my grandma's house to drive the 120NM trip back to my house in the 1965 mercury comet

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After looking the car over a few times today and driving it for awhile it seems like it is solid enough to make it home in one piece, and if not we have a number of people between here and there that we can call for advice and a wrench or two if needed (yes we got tools in support vehicle.. Wink

if y'all don't hear from me again...something went seriously wrong Wink

see y'all on the flip side!

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Reply #1 - Sep 9^th, 2006 at 11:32pm

Crumbso Offline
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Good luck, 120 miles isn't too far so hopefully you should make it.

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Reply #2 - Sep 10^th, 2006 at 12:49am

Mushroom_Farmer Offline
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'65 Comet, eh? Lucky dog you are and a nice little rod. Hope the best for your trek but if anything should happen at least it won't take a computer to do a diagnosis. Wink

BTW, small V-8 or inline 6?

&&&&"We're just sitting here trying to put our PCjrs in a pile and burn them. And the damn things won't burn. That's the only thing IBM did right with it - they made it flameproof." && Spinnaker Software chairman William Bowman, 1985

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Reply #3 - Sep 10^th, 2006 at 9:12pm

Jared Offline
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lol, thanks for the wishes guys...

indeed 128 miles (which is what it was from beginning to end) isn't too far of a trip, but for a 41 year old car/engine that hadn't been run in almost a full year I was a little worried about it. That is until I got about 5 minutes down the road and the thing hadn't quit running...so I just figured she was bound to be a good running happy go lucky car...and go figure, few hours later we arrived where we needed to be where she got the much deserved wash job of a lifetime to rid her of a years worth of dirt.. Cheesy

Overall performance was pretty good, got some noisy valves....a very SMALL power steering leak and quite possibly a bad air-ride shock on the back passenger side.

Other than that she's a smooth running car with no troubles thus far....only work that needs done is cosmetics like replacing interior, painting it all inside/out and redoing the chrome

pics to come later this week I'm sure Wink

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Reply #4 - Sep 11^th, 2006 at 12:24pm

Crumbso Offline
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I look forward to them.

Sounds like a nice car.

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