Ford Motor Co. launches sales of the compact Comet on March 17, 1960, through Lincoln-Mercury stores. The Comet, a stretched version of the Ford Falcon, was created to serve as an entry-level, compact ...

Introduced in 1960 as the company's take on the Ford Falcon, the Mercury Comet is not a hot classic right. Sure, there are a few high-power models produced while the nameplate was applied to a midsize ...

The 1966 Mercury Comet could be considered the perfect example of ‘if at first you don’t succeed, give it another go.’ The first generation, built between 1960 and 1963, somehow missed the mark in the ...