Ford Motor Co. launches sales of the compact Comet on March 17, 1960, through Lincoln-Mercury stores. The Comet, a stretched version of the Ford Falcon, was created to serve as an entry-level, compact ...

Introduced in 1960 as the company's take on the Ford Falcon, the Mercury Comet is not a hot classic right. Sure, there are a few high-power models produced while the nameplate was applied to a midsize ...

Mercury's Comet was the Falcon's corporate competition during the '60s, only more upscale. When you sit a '65 Falcon and Comet side by side, these cars have similar features, including the same ...