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    XM TURNPIKE CRUISER NOW in COLOR

    Jun 14, 2021 5 minutes
    STORY AND PHOTOS BY TOM MARUSKA

    Before I get to the part where we were finally able to spray color on the 1956 Mercury XM-Turnpike Cruiser concept car, I’ll show you everything that took place to get there.

    Minding the mechanical bits

    I left off the last installment in Old Cars of the car’s restoration with the body in epoxy primer after sandblasting and sanding it to prevent flash rust. While it was drying, I decided to get my hands dirty one day in late September, so I set up a makeshift table in the shop and brought in the car’s transmission to begin disassembly for its rebuild.

    The transmission looked like the many other Ford-O-Matics I’ve rebuilt over the years until I took off the pan. Sitting all those years turned the transmission’s fluid to mud and left a lot

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