{"id":21421,"date":"2018-02-28T13:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=21421"},"modified":"2018-02-28T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:40:28","slug":"for-sale-1961-mercury-comet-wagon-with-a-turbo-diesel-inline-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=21421","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: 1961 Mercury Comet Wagon with a Turbo Diesel Inline-Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This 1961 Mercury Comet station wagon is for sale in Walhalla, South Carolina with an asking price of $18,500. The satin clear coated bare metal body rides on a custom frame with S10 front, triangulated four-link rear, and air suspension. Under the custom hood sits a mostly stock 5.9 L 6BT turbo diesel inline-six with larger injectors and fuel pump increase. Power goes to the rear wheels through a Getrag 360 five-speed manual transmission, Luk 13-inch clutch, custom driveshaft, and narrowed Ford Explorer 8.8-inch rear end with Moser 31-spine axles.<\/p>\n

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Source: Craigslist<\/a> (click here<\/a> if ad disappears) via BangShift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 1961 Mercury Comet station wagon is for sale in Walhalla, South Carolina with an asking price of $18,500. The satin clear coated bare metal body rides on a custom frame with S10 front, triangulated four-link rear, and air suspension. Under the custom hood sits a mostly stock 5.9 L 6BT turbo diesel inline-six with… Read More »For Sale: 1961 Mercury Comet Wagon with a Turbo Diesel Inline-Six<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comet"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123614,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=123614","url_meta":{"origin":21421,"position":0},"title":"Carbon Fiber Mercedes Wagon with a 800 hp Turbodiesel Inline-Six","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Black Smoke Racing built a unique Mercedes S123 at their company in Kokkola, Finland. 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