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(By 1962, the Comet adopted more Mercury-based styling and was folded into the Mercury line as the Mercury Comet.) The market shift that spurred the development of the Falcon and its competitors also precipitated the demise of several well-established marques in the late-1950s and early-1960s.
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By 1962, the Comet was officially badged as a Mercury Comet. It received some minor Mercury styling cues to the exterior to make it look like a Mercury. Mercury made some changes to the suspension and the chassis, which made room to install a 260 cubic-inch V8. Topped by a two-barrel carb, the V8 made a respectable 162 horsepower.
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In 1962, Mercury started selling the Comet S-22, which was a high performance variant. In 1964, Mercury discontinued the S-22 and replaced it with the Comet Cyclone. Mercury gave the Cyclone the same K-code 289 cid V8 engine as the Mustang, where it made a solid 271 horsepower.
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1960-1965 Overview From 1960 to 1965, the Comet was based on the Ford Falcon platform (stretched 5" for sedans, but not for wagons). The 1960 to 1963 Comets share a similar basic shape. These are sometimes referred to as the "round body" Comets.
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In 1962, the Comet was officially branded as a Mercury, but sales dipped to 165,000, as dealers pirated sales with the bigger, low-priced Meteor. Designers offed the tailfin lights, and a wood-side applique Villager wagon was offered, with the S-22's bucket seats as an option. A Comet Custom line was added, and the S-22 became the Comet.
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So the Edsel badging was hastily stripped away and for the first two years in production, 1960 and 1961, the Comet was sold through Ford's Lincoln-Mercury dealer network, but positioned as a separate, stand-alone brand.
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This week, the history of the 1960-1965 Mercury Comet and 1962-1965 Ford Fairlane. A SEA CHANGE. The early 1960s saw a profound shift in the way U.S. automakers approached the mass market. Until 1959, the Big Three's bread-and-butter cars were very much of a piece; there were different trim series, different body styles, different engines.
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In its first two years, it was marketed as the "Comet" and from 1962 as the "Mercury Comet". The compact Comet shared a naming convention associated with the ongoing Space Race of the early 1960s with the Mercury Meteor, which was introduced as the base-trim full-size Mercury sedan.
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Officially, the first Mercury Comets were sold in 1962, even though the model had debuted two years earlier at Lincoln-Mercury dealerships. But Ford had never intended the Comet to be sold under its long-running mid-level brand. The Ford Motor Company had much grander plans for its slightly bigger, upmarket version of the Falcon.