Making a trip to GA

Thats exactly our thought. We are gonna take the 302 out of the blue comet and put it in the red comet. take the pedals out of the red comet for my white 71 and scrap the comet and build the red one.

 

Now that you say that, you are probably right. I was thinking Explorer or Ranger, but Mustang sounds more right now that I look at them again....

 

pics

Here is the sole picture I took yesterday Just the '72 Comet sitting at a gas station near my house before we jumped on the interstate.



Here is what I drug back from Greenville, SC today:



'68 F100 SWB chassis. Going to put the cab and stuff from my '71 F250 on it and have me a FORD truck again. Met up with some guys off a bumpside ford truck forum I'm on while I was over there as well.

Here's what 1,100 miles worth of oil burning looks like:



Even on the car dolly



Well, I'm sad the road trip is over. 2 days, around 1,100 miles. The old Chevy did pretty good, it's a great truck for traveling, very comfortable even after hundreds of miles. I had a great time, man I don't want to go back to work tomorrow, I'm ready to get back on the road again, crank some tunes and roll!

 

It was a pretty good trip. I might of sold my gold maverick but you know how that goes. He will let me know something tomorrow.He sounds very very interested though. He restores cars since he is retired.

 

...is that, this...DOLLY...

...JFF...

 

Glad to hear the trip went good. Wow - that Comet is rusty!

 

No, thank god. THAT dolly is almost 40 years old and falling apart. It's retired for the time being until I can put some new tires on it, put a new tongue on it, and some new wheel straps. The one I used this weekend I borrowed off a buddy of mine. My uncle jack knifed that old one up in Illinois a couple of years ago, and that pretty much did it in, it pulls like crap now. I have managed to pull a few cars on it since then including down to Savannah earlier this year when I bought that Honda. But it's just dangerous as hell because it tries to pull the whole truck down the road sideways, and the wheel straps rotted off of it years ago so you have to use those comealong's to strap the car down on it. We've hauled hundreds of cars, tens of thousands of miles on that thing over the years though, and it was a retired U-haul dolly when my grandpa got it in the early 80's. It's had everything from a Pinto to a Boss 429 on it. Even a school bus.

 

should I even ask what size bus it was

 

A freaking full size, 66 passenger 1963 B600 Ford. They drug it up Hwy. 515 in North GA from Jasper, GA to Culberson, NC back in like 1995, using my grandpa's '78 Chevy motorhome. My grandpa bought the bus in 1984 when my family moved down here from Indianapolis, and used it to move. After about 4 trips back and forth between Atlanta and Indianapolis, the bus got parked behind a house my uncle owned in Jasper until '95. When he sold the house, we had to move it. Started out trying to drive it, but it was misfiring and backfiring real bad and then caught on fire, so it got towed the rest of the way.