Modified 15 years ago in the style of a B/FX drag car, this 1964 Mercury Comet is a seriously cool quarter-mile screamer. Previously sold on Bring a Trailer in August 2022 for $29k, the Falcon-twinned ...

It was June 1964 when Carolyn L. Dean of Coral Gables, Florida, purchased a six-cylinder, two-door 1964 Mercury Comet 202 from Strickland Motors, a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Indianapolis. "Thank ...

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 ...

Every Sunday in the Driving Section, The Plain Dealer features a My First Car story from one of our readers. I was 18 in 1971, starting college, and needed a car to commute daily to Wright State ...

First introduced in 1960 as Mercury's take on the Ford Falcon, the Comet wasn't intended to be a performance car. But things changed starting 1964 when the Comet grew bigger and became available with ...

September 11, 2001 shook our nation to its knees. It also prompted us to action. Nine-Eleven gave us renewed respect and appreciation for those who serve us 24/7 both here and abroad. Police and ...

Identifying the first Funny Car is a case in point. Was it Jack Chrisman's Sachs & Sons 1965 Comet? Was it Dick Landy's "Automotive Research" 1965 Dodge? Or was it any one of the three Jimmy Nix ...