My Story

04/17/2010 Have not been updating much but did get a few small things fixed. Had some adjustments in a window fixed. Sun has been out and just driving and listening to old music. Did talk to one of the previous owners of my Comet he had bought it in 1989 and sent me a photo of him and 2nd Place Trophy @ Car Show Jan. 1989" in Corpus Christi, Texas

If you are a Comet person and have photos of your car or project send them to me I will post them here under More Comets. .

It's a simply story, kid grows up and gets to reminiscing about his old cars. Buys old car. In this case I started looking for a 1964 Comet Caliente like the one I had in High School.

Well I purchased this 64 in LaGrange, Texas. My research shows that the 64 was delivered to Dallas from factory, and stayed a Texas car. It need a little attention the people I got her from said she had been in a garage for 10 years. I thought it was just part of the sells pitch but now I think they may have been correct.

I replaced the brakes and master cylinder and had the front end check out and told them to fix anything they thought might need replaced, aligned the front end added new tires. Now she drives like a dream.

Then replaced the battery, sending units, and had her tuned up, while they had the plugs out asked for a compression check. All cylinders came back with 175 lbs.

Now I just drive her around town with the top down on weekends.

Had several people call wanting to see more photos so I have added some. Sunshine came out today so I put the top down and cruised around town, went to the Sonic. Had several people stop and want to know what it was. As I remembered that the Comet came out in 1960 and the last one was made in 1977. And they made this body style only in 64 and 65 then went to a long body style. It was a little warm (sure thinking of adding A/C). Also have to get a stereo, the A/M radio works but does not give much of choice in music.

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