AMT 1960 Mercury Comet Restoration Complete

[Drag Monster]

I finished my restoration of this 1960 Mercury comet I picked up as a built kit at a Estate Sale. This car has special memories for me, My grandfather had one just like this around 1964-65 I was about 4 years old. We would take my grandmother Shopping while she was in the store my Grandfather would let me sit on his lap and I would steer the car around the parking lot while he would operate the pedals. Great Memories, the first vehicle I ever drove!

[espo]

Beautiful restoration, The finish and the chrome trim look perfect. I like the base Black Wall Tire look.

[Maindrian Pace]

Super nice build, my avatar is my 1:1 '60 wagon. You don't often see these built to this level.

[Lunajammer]

Beautiful, traditional look. I love it. Nice BMF work too.

[Snake45]

Not a fan of this car, but wow, what a great restoration and outstanding workmanship. Nicely done and model on! 

[RancheroSteve]

First rate job, Bill!

[shoopdog]

Downright beautiful build.

[El Caballo]

Sweet Comet.

[donb]

2 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Not a fan of this car, but wow, what a great restoration and outstanding workmanship. Nicely done and model on! 

Same here about the car. But you did a fantastic job on it. 

[carman1]

Beautiful save,  excellent work  !

[peekay]

You did an excellent job on this, I really like it!

[StevenGuthmiller]

Very nice!

I see that you managed to come up with an acceptable solution for your tail light dilemma.

You did a terrific job on them.

How did you tackle the bezel issue?

 

Steve

[Ron Hamilton]

That is one nice Comet!

[Dave Darby]

Looks great! What did you paint it with?

[Zoom Zoom]

That looks great!

[Ace-Garageguy]

Beautiful clean work.

I don't recall those old annuals coming with clear headlights. Did you drill out the molded in / plated originals and fit replacements?

[unclescott58]

Very nice work. You did a beautiful job. I spent six years, from 1961 through 1967, riding around in a '61 Comet. My dad's first new car. Not a lot of differences between a 1960 and '61 Comet. I have a '61 promo I restored about 15 years ago or so, to look like my dad's Comet. It turned out nice. But no where as nice as yours. Good job. 

[Lovefordgalaxie]

WOW!!!!!!

My kind of car, and my kind of build.

Superb job.

[ChrisR]

Awesome!

I have one untouched still in the box.

 

[vintagercr]

Bill, great story and very nice looking build

[Tom99]

Very nice!!

[TooOld]

Great restoration , you did an excellent job on this one !

[Classicgas]

Beautiful! We had a 60 or 61 black with red interior when I was 4 or 5.

[bbowser]

7 hours ago, Lovefordgalaxie said:

WOW!!!!!!

My kind of car, and my kind of build.

Superb job.

I agree.  Outstanding restoration.  Got any "before" pics?

[PARTSMARTY]

19 hours ago, shoopdog said:

Downright beautiful build.

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