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Tomorrow morning Sunday September 10th) I will depart from my grandma's house to drive the 120NM trip back to my house in the 1965 mercury comet .

After looking the car over a few times today and driving it for awhile it seems like it is solid enough to make it home in one piece, and if not we have a number of people between here and there that we can call for advice and a wrench or two if needed (yes we got tools in support vehicle..

if y'all don't hear from me again...something went seriously wrong

see y'all on the flip side!

'65 Comet, eh? Lucky dog you are and a nice little rod. Hope the best for your trek but if anything should happen at least it won't take a computer to do a diagnosis.  ;) BTW, small V-8 or inline 6?

lol, thanks for the wishes guys...

indeed 128 miles (which is what it was from beginning to end) isn't too far of a trip, but for a 41 year old car/engine that hadn't been run in almost a full year I was a little worried about it. That is until I got about 5 minutes down the road and the thing hadn't quit running...so I just figured she was bound to be a good running happy go lucky car...and go figure, few hours later we arrived where we needed to be where she got the much deserved wash job of a lifetime to rid her of a years worth of dirt..

Overall performance was pretty good, got some noisy valves....a very SMALL power steering leak and quite possibly a bad air-ride shock on the back passenger side.

Other than that she's a smooth running car with no troubles thus far....only work that needs done is cosmetics like replacing interior, painting it all inside/out and redoing the chrome

pics to come later this week I'm sure