Thread: Am I the only teen who envies.....

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Hey Stimpy, is the Comet still in the family? You know Speed-O-Motive makes some humongous big inch kits for FE's........

tech , unfortunately no , the uncle sold it before going to SVN to a mechanic at a local mercury dealer, from what I was told my uncle was having second thoughts on the way out to the guy and still was thinking on having my dad store it for him till he came home , but he sold it to the guy telling him it was a handfull to drive , the guy said he knew how to drive these type of cars , well a week later it was kind of dewy out in the morning and mister drivers ed , punched it to pass another car and wound up passing the car thru 2 mailboxes and into a tree then landed in a swamp . car totaled . today that car would be worth a 6 digit figure, they didn't pull the motor or anything scraped it all . My grandfather who worked in Fomoco Management had to pull some strings to originally order it , and they picked it up at 2 places the body at the railhead/transfer terminal ( they wouldn't deliver it to the dealer/ i think my grandfather had something to do with this as the kids ( dad and my uncle )where sneaky and didin't want him to know what he was getting , and the engine at a motorfreight terminal ( would you say the car required some assy ??) they shipped it with a 4 or 6 cylinder?? hooked to the manual trans , in the trunk was the proper bellhousing , headers and rims with cheaters on them. the car was like 5 grand which was alot of dough back then . ( my dad bought our house ( 3 brm , 3600sqft on a half acre for 20 g's) My grandfather upon seeing the car was Furious as it was a stripped out ( bare basics ) Comet ( rubber floor mat , no heat , no radio , van seats ( still laughing about that comment "why is there van seats in this car ??" he used to say it as a joke ) My grandfather knew what it was as the guys in Dearborn told him .