Projects First Gen Comet... anyone else a '60 or '61

So it's is looking like I'll be getting the '63 together so I'll be making a build thread soon. When I get some photos up.

 

So I started a new thread since I bought the '63. It is in my signature if you are interested.


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Good luck on the wagon conversion. Any thoughts of chopping it some when you've got the roof off?

Awesome. Is there a thread or anything else to search for trucks with the rear clips off cars? I know I've also see one with a '60 Caddy and '57 Dodge.

 

There's an opportunity to buy a falcon front end for my 61... Yey/Ney?


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Hey! Nice car! I have a 61 2 door that i am slowly working on. You can see picks of it on my website or facebook page. www.schwartzwelding.com or Schwartz Inc. on facebook.
As for rapair parts there is a place in Toronto that i got mine from. (front fender caps like you need and lower rear fender panels)
Its funy that i had to hunt down the same piece of trim! I got lucky and found mine from a donor not far from where i live.
Do some research online. I found a place out west (canada) that had some good parts.

 

Eventually this is what the 61 is goin to look like this. Apparently this is a sketch from the Feb. 1960 Motor Trend mag. I have a line on a 1960 falcon that will help this along. Eventually I wanna make the body line reflect the top left to line up to the taillights.

Any thoughts?
Does anyone have this magazine?

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Here is my newly acquired 1960 Comet. It sat in a garage since 1973. Clean, complete, accident and rust free. Gonna fixer up.

Paint - Silver Moss with silver medium flake roof.

Convert to V8 suspension 8" 3.20 rear from a 63 falcon and 65 manual steering with 4 piston disc brakes. Lower her 2" all around and install rear skirts.

Retire the 144/2 spd auto and install a freshly rebuilt 289 4V and falcon 4 spd T-10 tranny.

New carpet, seat covers, repaint the steering wheel but keep pretty much stock interior.

 

This is the look that I am after except silver moss and astro supremes with white walls and of course a 289, 4 spd and 5 lug suspension.

 

Nice!


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Here she is undergoing body work and paint. AMAZINGLY no rust!!!

 

That thing is CLEAN!!! nice score.

 

Very nice She is a Looker