Quick: Is there a holy grail Ford motor you can name? If you answered, “Cammer!” we’re right there with you, friend. Good answer. And we never get tired of watching videos of a Ford SOHC motor runnin...
We know that Ronan Glon at RanWhenParked has a good eye for unusual European cars of the Eighties, Nineties, and beyond, so we’re always happy to see his coverage of local European events like the re...
Automotive American gathered several of the stories of California car collections destroyed by the recent (and ongoing) wildfires there. * When driving the Lincoln Highway through Pennsylvania you ma...
1971 AMC Hornet SST (top; image by author); 1973 Mercury Comet (bottom; image by Jim Donnelly). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that ...
Brochure images from the collection of Terry Shea. It’s little remembered today, but the original Comet — sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships as a standalone model for two model years — was inte...
1967 Mercury Comet 202 (top); 1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT (below); images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That asks you, in an idyllic world, to add a collectible vehicle to your dream garage...
Rally-prepped 1965 Mercury Comet Caliente for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This vehicle is a recreation of one of the original Ford Motor Company Mercury Comet rally cars. Com...
Photos courtesy Reg Uren While Cobra Jet Torinos and Shelby Mustangs may get all the glory these days, the early Ford Falcons (alongside the Chevrolet Corvair and Chrysler’s Valiant) were also consid...
Oddly, our sources for 1968 Mercurys show the 302 as the base V-8 engine that year (Fords could still get a 289 in 1968), but this 1968 Mercury Comet coupe for sale on Hemmings.com has a C-code 289, ...
The Savoy Camera from the 1961 Mercury-Comet Prize-O-Rama contest; image by the author Pop quiz: What’s the fastest means to get foot traffic into a dealership? A mass mailing claiming that the count...
First offered by Lincoln Mercury dealers in 1962, the Mercury Comet had actually been designed as the entry-level Edsel. Similar in concept to the Ford Falcon, the Mercury Comet was a bit more upscal...
1964 Mercury Comet durability run. All images are frame grabs from video below. This video produced for Lincoln-Mercury documents 40 days and nights of continuous punishment that a group of 1964 Come...
A few weeks back on Hemmings Radio, we kicked around the topic of what makes a car collectible. While rarity comes into play, perhaps the biggest single factor is relevance, which explains why once-c...