Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner [Beautiful green comet]

Comet Watch UK ^ | 2018 | editors

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Beautiful GREEN Comet!...............

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Green Comet! Lol!

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1962 MERCURY COMET Gasser

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That Comet/Falcon eventually became the MUSTANG!.................

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Never heard that before. Interesting.

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“The Mercury Comet is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from 1962–1969 and 1971-1977 — variously as either a compact or an intermediate car.

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.

Relationship to the Edsel:

The Comet was originally planned as an Edsel model. Ford announced the end of the Edsel program on November 19, 1959. However, production of 1960 Edsels continued until late November. 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 1960 and 1961 as the Comet without any Mercury divisional badging.

Developed concurrently with the Ford Falcon, early pre-production 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. Early Ford styling mules for the station wagon model carried the Edsel name as well.

At their debut, the split grille was replaced by one more in keeping with Mercury’s design themes. However, the canted elliptical taillights, first seen on the Edsel prototype, were used and carried the “E” (Edsel) part number on them.

While the short lived 1960 Edsels used elliptical shaped taillights, the lenses used on both cars differed in length and width. Certain other parts from the 1959 Edsel parts bin, including the parking lights and dashboard knobs, were used on the first-year Comet. Keys for the 1960 and 1961 Comets were shaped like Edsel keys, with the center bar of the “E” removed to form a “C”.

The “comet” name was trademarked to Cotner-Bevington as the Comet Coach Company, building ambulance and hearse commercial vehicles. Ford bought the name in 1959.

Overview:

From 1960-1965, the Comet was based on the Ford Falcon platform (stretched 5 in (130 mm) for sedans, but not for wagons). The 1960-1963 Comets share a similar basic shape. These are sometimes referred to as the “round body” Comets. For 1962 and 1963, the Comet shared a considerable number of body and mechanical parts with the short-lived Fairlane-based Mercury Meteor intermediate.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Comet#1964%E2%80%931965

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My father had a pair of Ford Mavericks, which was very similiar to these Comets. He really loved the cars. His wasn't the least bit "hopped up" like this one. But one was the same color, minus the black.

1974 Mercury Comet

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My brother had a 72 Green Maverick...............

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It’s and Environmentalist Comet................

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They were near the bottom of my Best Fords list.

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This is one of the nicer ones I've seen...

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Triffids !

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The “comet” name was trademarked to Cotner-Bevington as the Comet Coach Company, building ambulance and hearse commercial vehicles. Ford bought the name in 1959.< P> The 'Mustang' name could not be used in Europe because the name was trademarked by a delivery truck manufacturer, even though it had not been used in a decade or more on any new vehicles. They offered to sell the name to Ford for a measly $100k, IIRC, but Ford refused the offer. Instead Ford sold the Mustangs in Europe with a Model number...........

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Ford should revive the Galaxy, Comet, Falcon and Futura names...........

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I love the old Comets like in post 23.

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You can see the roof rear outline the same as the early Mustangs...............

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Reference bump!