SASSY wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:39 am
Happy to hear paint is going on the car!
Might be a few months before that happens and paint has always been something that was going to happen, I think because I have had it so long it has never had good paint on it and I have wanted to paint it as a kid but never could swing it and part of what I am doing now, especially body-wise is a throwback to 40 years ago and getting now what I wanted then, at least I did not ever sell the car and now I am looking for a replacement just like it
(the car I really wanted back then was a Falcon Sprint 2dr hardtop '63 + of course)
I think back to when I was a young teen, hanging out at the body shop and with my uncles etc. old guys were hanging around the shop all the time talking about two things, cars and women, I would say I got my sex education at the shop but it turned out most of that information turned out to be false, but the one thing every one of them said is "I wish I had kept my first car" that stuck with me and at 17 when I bought the Comet I vowed to never sell it (I am glad it was/is such a cool car, my brother got a Pinto, that car is long gone, the Pinto was supposed to be my car too, my dad bought it for all us kids, there are 3 of us, my sister the oldest is 3 years older than me, my brother two years older, I did not want to share but to avoid that I had to buy my own car) I made the right choice
I guess I used to listen and learn better than I do now
and maybe I was a little smarter then. Back in the day there was a '62-'63 Comet SW sitting out in my dad's acquisitions, I know today a bunch of people would like to have that car but at the time I did not think anything of it, a 4dr SW was not something to interest a 16-year-old no 4 dr car was of interest I would have rather had the gold Chevy 2 dr sedan sitting out in the field behind the house, luckily the motor got stolen out of it before I started looking for a car because I kept thinking about going back and getting the old inline 6 running in that Chevy (I think it was an early 60s Impala, there was also a late 60's two dr hardtop sitting back there the same gold metallic color, it had no motor or transmission, dad always had several cars like that sitting around. Back to the '62-3 Comet wagon all I can remember about it was it was a Flintstone car with no floors in the front, don't know what happened to all those cars I am sure they were sold when dad had an auction at the farm, the only car I wish he had not sold was a '53 Ford two dr with a factory continental kit (6cyl, 3 speed manual with OD)
Ok so much for me just hijacking my own build thread, I was not going to paint the car metallic but the original paint was so it keeps in theme and the other color I had said I wanted to paint it was Ford grey metallic from the same era (Mercury did not have a grey met. in '64 but Ford did) I would try and match the Pecan frost but it is not my favorite color and I like the grey better and I can't think of anyone else that has a grey Comet (imagine me wanting to be different) I guess anyone have any bad reports on the Eastwood paint products? Or have you used them?
I already hae a quart of Summit epoxy primer but went ahead and ordered some more from Eastwood because Lou is always harping on keeping your paint products from the same company (see I still listen) I am sure I can use the quart of Summit epoxy someplace else and I guess I tipped my hand in admitting I already bought the Eastwood primers that I am pretty serious about using their paint
See Ya,
Mike