It's Not A Wagon But It's A Comet GT

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  1. 1tireman

    1tireman Well-Known Member

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    Wanted to share a photo of my friend Joel's car.The Ford and Merc guys should like it.I took him to Pensacola Florida to get it.His uncle passed away and left it to him.It is a pro-street '71 comet with a 302 solid lift cam, tunnel ram with 2-4's, c-4 with 3500 stall and a narrowed 9-inch with 4.11 gears and 33x19.50-15 Mickey Thompson tires.(which I hate since I just replaced the tires and tubes recently for him)It was featured in Popular Hot Rodding in the mid-'90's.It was built by a guy in Georgia and Joel's Uncle purchased it and he only drove it a couple of times then put it away in the garage for I believe about 5 years.Joel was a customer of mine when I had my tire shop and He liked my old cars I always had around tinkering on in my spare time and him and I became friends.He would come by just to drink coffee and BS on regular basis and one day told me about the car and said he had no way to go get it and guess he would have to have it shipped.I told him Pensacola was a 4 hour ride at the most I had truck and trailer we could load it on.Left on a Sunday morning at 7AM pulled back in the drive at 4:30PM with one happy friend that couldn't quit grinning.
     

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    Fat Tedy Island Red Neck

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    Sorry about your friends Uncle, but he must be a solid guy to have that willed to him. I "almost" had a stock 72 302 GT but this ain't the place for that story.

    Nice Comet!
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    wagonmaster Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    Thats a sharp Comet and have seen several pictures of it over the years. I also know the son of the builder! Ill send him a link to this thread.
     
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    I think i have that article somewhere in this mess...i recognize the car !

    cool deal...good on ya;)
     
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    My friend Joel tracked them down.Rodney Miles is the guy who built it.Matter of fact he came down last October for cruisin' the Coast and went with Joel in his old car.I didn't get a chance to meet him but they say he is a great guy.Right after joel got the car,we went for a ride and at about 35mph got a side to side "waggle" We got under it and discovered the heim joint on the pan hard bar was bad and someone had "adjusted" the 4-link rear.Joel called Rodney and he explained what we had to do to get it all adjusted back right over the phone. In a couple of hours we had it riding good as new thanks to him.
     
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    Very cool! My first car was a '71 Comet...:thumbs2:

    (Didn't quite look like that though...)
     
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