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 ...

A 1966 Cyclone GT that spent almost its entire life with the first owner is back on the market. The original owner sold the car in 2014, then moved to two more homes before it landed with the current ...

FREYBURG – Some cars just seem like they were made for certain people. That’s how it has been for 75-year-old Bob Thorpe and the Comet Cyclone, a mid-size muscle car that Mercury rolled off the ...

From a distance, it's a dead ringer for a two-thirds scale GTO. Indeed, the uncanny facial and posterior resemblance between the '65 Mercury Cyclone and '65 Pontiac GTO suggests covert espionage ...

You could say that the kid never had a chance. Decades of car magazines with bookmarked pages are just one clue about the indelible mark that A/FX cars left on young Dan Parson Jr.'s mind. Names like ...

As many of us older enthusiasts have found out, qualifying for Social Security is a definite plus, especially when the checks arrive every month. Probably the only downside is that it formally signals ...

When the planets align in the world of hot rodding some wicked cool stuff can happen. From the start when the engineers in Detroit updated the design of the 1965 Mercury Comet they had plenty of aces ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Once planned by Ford Motor Co. as a compact model in the Edsel line, the new Comet was introduced instead as the Mercury version of the Ford Falcon economy car. By 1966, however, the Comet had moved ...

Q: Hi, Greg! I came across your article on “Rare Comet Cyclone GT” recently and noticed that you had seen Dyno Don Nicholson at Atco Dragway in Berlin, New Jersey, in the summer of 1966. I was there ...