1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone (update 1/4/19) Finished!

[chris chabre]

looks like the same color my 65 is!

[RancheroSteve]

3 hours ago, chris chabre said:

looks like the same color my 65 is!

Yours looks like the factory "Onyx" black? This one is more of a dark gray metallic with some pearl clear over it. I came into a quart of it years ago.

[chris chabre]

On 6/29/2018 at 8:09 PM, RancheroSteve said:

Yours looks like the factory "Onyx" black? This one is more of a dark gray metallic with some pearl clear over it. I came into a quart of it years ago.

no, my car is PPG Charcoal gray metallic lacquer over a dark gray primer, It was repainted in the late 80s. Car was originally the factory blue. I still have maybe half a gallon or so of it here in one of my cabinets

[chris chabre]

shes had a few different wheels and looks in the past 23 years with me..about to go under the knife again for a late 60s/ early 70 drag car look to match its 14 to 1 compression 289

[RancheroSteve]

Almost (finally) done, but meanwhile here's a little oddity - has anyone else noticed this? There are two parts on the "glass" tree that aren't shown on the instruction sheet:

The only place they fit is in the rear panel:

But the tail light piece covers all that:

Stay tuned, should be finished any day now!

Edited December 28, 2018 by RancheroSteve

[rickcaps55]

13 hours ago, RancheroSteve said:

Almost (finally) done, but meanwhile here's a little oddity - has anyone else noticed this? There are two parts on the "glass" tree that aren't shown on the instruction sheet:

The only place they fit is in the rear panel:

But the tail light piece covers all that:

Stay tuned, should be finished any day now!

Hi I thought that they were the taillights so I did stain them red and then I took a small blade and open up the space in between the chrome bars on the tail panel the plastic is very thin there its almost like they wanted you do it that way but never put it in the instruction sheet it worked you can see the lens not much of it but it does show through.

[RancheroSteve]

2 hours ago, rickcaps55 said:

Hi I thought that they were the taillights so I did stain them red and then I took a small blade and open up the space in between the chrome bars on the tail panel the plastic is very thin there its almost like they wanted you do it that way but never put it in the instruction sheet it worked you can see the lens not much of it but it does show through.

Good thinking! That hadn't occurred to me. It's pretty hard to get much metallic red paint into those thin spaces.

[rickcaps55]

Hi thanks like I said you don't see much so I also took a pin and put a little of the clear red stain in the low area be for I started cutting so between the both it looks good.

[RancheroSteve]

It's done! I'll put a post in the "Under Glass" section a little later today - meanwhile, here's a teaser:

Edited January 4, 2019 by RancheroSteve

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Turned out great Steve.

[RancheroSteve]

"Under Glass" thread here - in case you missed it (sinking down fast):