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The Mercury Comet is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from — and — — variously as either a compact or an intermediate car. In its first two years, it was marketed as the "Comet" and from as the "Mercury Comet". The compact Comet shared a naming convention associated with the ongoing Space Race of the early s with the Mercury Meteor , which was introduced as the base-trim full-size Mercury sedan. The Comet was initially based on the compact Ford Falcon , then on the intermediate Ford Fairlane , and finally on the compact Ford Maverick. As a Mercury, early Comets received better-grade interior trim than concurrent Falcons, and a slightly longer wheelbase. The Comet was originally planned as an Edsel model.

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Lot Mercury Comet S Sold. The Voyager name had previously been used to designate a full-sized Mercury station wagon that was positioned between the base Commuter and the top-of-the-line Colony Park station wagon models. Track recent comps for the classic or exotic cars you own - or the cars you want, 1963 comet convertible.

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Mercury was having its clock cleaned on several fronts in the late s and early s. Sales had eroded to dangerously low levels, thanks to an economy that could only be described as "sluggish" in the kindest of terms. The road irons and land barges of the late s had almost universally lost their appeal as job prospects dwindled and inflation set in. Aggravating the situation was the relatively new competition from Europe. Volkswagen sold upwards of 55, Beetles in , and the American public was clamoring for more. Smaller, lighter, more fuel efficient and responsive cars were high on the want list of many American consumers, especially those who were looking for a second car to fill the other half of their two-car garage. The original idea for a small Mercury was hatched in by Lewis Crusoe, who was recently installed as the Vice President for car and truck production of the entire Ford Motor Company. Crusoe had been working with the newly anointed Mercury pre-production studio head Arnott "Buzz" Grisinger, and asked Grisinger to begin work on a new small car for Mercury. The concept car came to be known as L'Avion, French for "the airplane. Its reverse-canted rear window was a hint at what was to come for the Mercury Marauder.

1963 comet convertible

The Mercury Comet is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from — and — — variously as either a compact or an intermediate car. In its first two years, it was marketed as the "Comet" and from as the "Mercury Comet". The compact Comet shared a naming convention associated with the ongoing Space Race of the early s with the Mercury Meteor , which was introduced as the base-trim full-size Mercury sedan. The Comet was initially based on the compact Ford Falcon , then on the intermediate Ford Fairlane , and finally on the compact Ford Maverick.

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Ford Falcon Mercury Meteor. The Comet Capri replaced the previous Comet and the Comet Voyager four-door station wagon replaced the previous Comet station wagon. In other projects. The optional S package was released. The optional automatic was changed to a "Merc-O-Matic" three-speed automatic transmission essentially a Ford C4. The — Comets share a similar basic shape. The Comet was reassigned to the Lincoln-Mercury division to sell at Mercury-Comet dealerships, where it was marketed as a stand-alone product for and as the Comet without any Mercury divisional badging. Along with the redesign, the model designations were changed. Gateway Classic Cars Fixed-price. Ford had purchased the name "Comet" from Comet Coach Company, a professional car manufacturer in which the term belonged to a line of funeral coaches, mainly Oldsmobiles. Transmissions were either a three-speed manual or three-speed automatic with either column or floor-mounted shifters. Top-of-the-line, mid-sized models continued to use the Cyclone and Cyclone GT names. Lot Mercury Comet S Sold. The model was offered with comparatively few changes through the model year, and was then discontinued to make room for the new Mercury Zephyr for the model year. Ford announced the end of the Edsel program on November 19,

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Model years for Mercury Comet. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from August Articles with unsourced statements from August Commons category link from Wikidata. Mercury Eight to Ford Falcon. Jul 1, 8 months ago. Lot T The taillights were also slightly restyled. Mercury Bobcat to Developed concurrently with the Ford Falcon, early preproduction photographs of the sedan show a car remarkably close to the Comet that emerged, but with a split grille following the pattern established by Edsel models. Wikimedia Commons. A cid V8 engine using a two-barrel carburetor and generating hp kW at rpm would replace the previous cid V8 midway in the model year. The Comet was initially based on the compact Ford Falcon , then on the intermediate Ford Fairlane , and finally on the compact Ford Maverick.