1980 Mercury Bobcat
I have been working on this car for a year now. I still doesnt run. I bought this car for $50. I put a motor and tranny out of a fairmont into the car. It sat all winter before I was able to find a drive shaft and a battery. I had to fix the solenois and do some wiring to get it to run. I finally got it running. I drove it around, and the brakes were going out. I had to replace the master cylinder, a caliber on one side, and a rotor on the other. A leaf spring broke, but I replaced both with ones off a chevy truck. My friend was driving when the tranny cooling line came off, dumping all the fluid. I drove for a while with a half ate up tranny, until it finally blew the front tranny seal. I scored a 2.8 v6 and a c4 transmission out of a 79 Mercury Capri. The motor ran, but had cracked heads. I salvaged the heads off the motor that came out of the 77 pinto. I had to rebuild the top half of the motor. I had the motor and tranny in, minus a lot of bolts, and I got arrested. I never did finish. I still have yet to hook up the tranny lines, the shift linkage, driveshaft, belts, hoses ,wires, radiator, fuel line, power steering lines and odd nuts and bolts. The rear axle dogtracks, because there are no locator pins left. I will have to install a bolt in the leaf springs. Other mods include fog lights, baja lights green shag carpet, orange carpet on ceiling and doors, roof rack from 71 pinto, mercury logo from a Tracer, oil and temp gauge, and at one time, a pioneer cd player, amp and speakers. The car now sits in the street with nothing better to do.