Australian Nostalgia Drags
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Aussie Comet 1964
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Australian Nostalgia Drags
Had a great weekend at Nostalgia drags, done some work on the Comet that last week or so, rebuilt the front end & ended up giving it a partial respray to make it shiny again, on saturday they have a drag racing pioneers award night & this year my Dad was honoured to receive a pioneers award & as a bit of a tribute I ran a different bracket on sunday & named the Comet "Jindivik" after his first race car from 50yrs ago when drag racing started here in Australia, also a couple years ago I was given his old race number #35 to race with, sunday was a good meet, I ended up runner up in the final first time I raced that bracket. John
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop 302cu C4 10.61 @ 126.68mph
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop project
1964 Fairlane 500 4 dr daily driver
1964 700 Mercury Truck
1964 Comet Ranchero
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop project
1964 Fairlane 500 4 dr daily driver
1964 700 Mercury Truck
1964 Comet Ranchero
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Congrats mate on your runner up status in your new bracket, great pics as always. Your partial re spray was most of your car!
Albert's 65 289, polar white, black buckets, 5 speed, Autolite 4100, ps, pb, factory tach, crites hood, headers, dual exhaust
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CALIFORNIA CALIENTE
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John;CONGRATULATIONS to you and your Father!! Very Kool to read the story!! ROY.
Real Racecars have 3 pedals
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Aussie Comet 1964
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Albert, it was probably about 80% painted, had to fix a couple rust spots too, its pretty shiny now, took about 4 days happy with the result
Roy are you going to Hot Rod reunion or still getting settled, I have a couple friends coming over will tell them to call by & say hi if you are, also my Dads old front engined hemi dragster is back over there for the cacklefest this year it arrived over there a couple days ago
Roy are you going to Hot Rod reunion or still getting settled, I have a couple friends coming over will tell them to call by & say hi if you are, also my Dads old front engined hemi dragster is back over there for the cacklefest this year it arrived over there a couple days ago
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop 302cu C4 10.61 @ 126.68mph
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop project
1964 Fairlane 500 4 dr daily driver
1964 700 Mercury Truck
1964 Comet Ranchero
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop project
1964 Fairlane 500 4 dr daily driver
1964 700 Mercury Truck
1964 Comet Ranchero
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CALIFORNIA CALIENTE
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John;I may be there ,not sure though.If I do go I will NOT have the COMET!! ROY.
Real Racecars have 3 pedals
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Aussie Comet 1964
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Re: Australian Nostalgia Drags
no worries Roy, that means you will be able to see everything & catch up with everyone, John
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop 302cu C4 10.61 @ 126.68mph
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop project
1964 Fairlane 500 4 dr daily driver
1964 700 Mercury Truck
1964 Comet Ranchero
1964 Comet Caliente 2DR hardtop project
1964 Fairlane 500 4 dr daily driver
1964 700 Mercury Truck
1964 Comet Ranchero
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CONGRATS TO YOUR DAD AND TO YOU the respray looks great......and as always that mercury hauler truck is 2nd to none..pop
pop/glenda
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That is a great Comet and Mercury truck for a hauler, it's great your Dad is with you most of us are not that lucky to have a Dad that raced and still around spend time with him mine is gone, good job and I hope you win all your races. Leny Mason
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The Transplanter
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