As some of you may know, my mom passed away last year in August. As if 2020 wasn't bad enough. Of course, when a parent leaves this realm, your realm tends to inherit some amount of the possessions of said parent. One item I struggled with for the past few years, avoiding the inevitable, was what to do with her 1980 Mercury Capri RS (2.3 N.A.) in Rally red. Well, when it became you got no choice time I ended up loading it onto a trailer and driving it up (at the time) through the flames and fire and smoke that was the first week of September through most of the West coast.
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Now what? Was it worth anything. I don't know. Probably less now that I let it sit outside in Washington for the last 6 months. But maybe it'll clean up. Anyways, it depends on who you ask or what web site you go to. It was worth something to me, but I can't have another car. I still have a 66 F100 to list and get rid of. But as is my natural state of can't leave well enough alone I finally decided to pull it into the garage after the Ranchero was moving again under its own power and just give the old girl a thorough get at it. Oh man; now I done it.
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So as I looked at it all, she really wasn't all too bad. My mom always took good care of her. Of course, looking, can change to digging, and digging to doing. And so for the past few weeks I've been doing. It had some cracked trim up front from.. maybe kamikaze bird attacks. I don't know. But they want almost NOS prices for cracked replacements, so I figured I'd give it a go to fix those with some JB Weld like stuff for plastic. Came out way better than I expected. Also one of the mechanics she took it to once was a little longer legged than the legged room had legged room for - and he cracked all the handles on the steering column and pushed the headlight switch through the dash. They fixed the headlight switch but, I think, figured my mom might not notice the turn signal switch and wiper switch. She did, but never complained. I guess. So, like other things I'm working on... I couldn't see getting me to take a $1000 less for this, so I fixed them.
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And of course, as things go, the forum is running out of picture juice for this here post. So you gotta keep reading below to get more pictures worth a thousand words. And Lord knows I'm wordy.
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