One Bad 1963 Mercury Comet Gasser!! Old School Cool!! on 2040-cars
Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Vehicle Title:Clear
Engine:350 Chevy
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
Number of Cylinders: 8
Make: Mercury
Model: Comet
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Trim: Custom
Drive Type: Rear Wheel Drive
Mileage: 9,999
HERE IS A SUPER NICE 1963 MERCURY COMET GASSER.. BUILT TO LOOK LIKE THE OLD SCHOOL GASSERS.. THIS CAR HAS A BUILT 355 CHEVY MOTOR WITH WORLD PRODUCT ANGLE PLUG HEADS AND A BORG WARNER 5 SPEEED TRANSMISSION.. IT HAS A 9 INCH REAR END WITH A HIGHWAY GEAR.. YOU CAN CRUISE AT 65 MPH IN 4TH GEAR AND STILL HAVE 5TH TO GO.. IT HAS A SHORTENED CHROME STRAIGHT AXLE.. ENGINE SOUNDS WICKED WITH THE BIG CAM AND FLOWMASTER EXHAUST.. CAR HAS A VERY STRAIGHT SOLID BODY AND VERY NICE PAINT.. ALL THE DECALS ARE VINYL AND YOU CAN TAKE THEM OFF IF YOU DONT LIKE THEM.. THE INTERIOR IN THIS CAR IS ALSO SUPER NICE! THIS CAR IS SOLID ALL OVER! UNDERNEATH THE CAR AND IN TRUNK IS ROCK SOLID! GREAT CRUISER, DRAWS LOADS OF ATTENTION, AND YOU CAN DRIVE THIS CAR ANYWHERE! IT RUNS, DRIVES AND HANDLES LIKE A DREAM!! THIS IS A GREAT CAR FOR ANYONES COLLECTION OR IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THE ONLY ONE AT YOUR CAR SHOW!
this car is for sale or trade locally and can be removed at any time! this car is sold as/is where/is with no warranty.. please bid to win, not bid to look! you are more than welcome to inspect the car prior to bidding! but if you win the auction, you own the car! ebay fees are not cheap, so please only serious bidders!! no dissapointments here! will sell overseas and will help in whatever way I can with shipping, I do know several shippers.. (buyer is responsible for pick up) car must be paid for within 7 days of auction end.. IF YOU HAVE ZERO FEEDBACK, YOU MUST CONTACT ME PRIOR TO BIDDING OR I WILL CANCEL YOUR BID! PLEASE NO GAMES! feel free to call me with any questions 304-415-2112
On Feb-12-13 at 18:51:58 PST, seller added the following information:
the decal down the side says "passin gas" - like i said, if you dont like them, they are vynl and you can take them off.. this car is truely one of a kind! this is a must see!!
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Report: Lincoln getting all of Mercury's ad dollars
Mon, 03 Jan 2011Now that the curtain has closed on Mercury, Ford Motor Company will redirect all of its marketing dollars for the oft-overlooked brand to the Blue Oval's luxury outpost, Lincoln. In speaking to Automotive News, the chairman of the Lincoln National Dealer Council, Bob Tasca, Jr., said, "You'll see a lot stronger presence in the advertising of Lincoln in 2011."
Lincoln spokesperson Christian Bokich reminded AN that the automaker is "preparing the way for seven new or significantly refreshed vehicles" that will be launched over the next four years, and the largest ad blitz in 2011 will focus on the refreshed MKX crossover, as well as the MKZ sedan and its hybrid counterpart. Following that, Lincoln has plans to launch a completely overhauled version of its Navigator SUV, an all-new C-segment vehicle and the overhauled 2013 MKZ, which Tasca says will be "strikingly different from its Ford Fusion sibling."
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Junkyard Gem: 1995 Mercury Tracer Trio
Sat, Feb 5 2022With the rise of Radwood, cars with exaggerated characteristics associated with the 1980s and 1990s are cool again. That means some combination of pastel and/or neon colors, squiggly squeezed-from-toothpaste-tube graphics, nonfunctional decklid spoilers, giant TURBO badging, and kicky youth-centric nomenclature are required if you want your wheels to be considered in compliance with the sacred tenets of Radism. I do my best to find rad machinery while crawling around in car graveyards, and since I came of driving age in 1982 I know a bit about the subject. Today's rare Junkyard Gem shows us the Mercury Division's belated attempt to sell fun cars to rad-leaning youngsters: a Tracer Trio, found in a Denver yard a few weeks back. The Trio package added 310 bucks to the cost of the $11,280 base Tracer sedan (that's about $575 on a $20,925 car in 2022 dollars), and it got the hip-and-trendy young buyer a leather-wrapped steering wheel, seven-spoke wheels, a decklid spoiler and these rad fender badges. I'm going to say that the much louder graphics and candy-cane-colored displacement badges on the Pontiac Sunbird W25 out-radded the Tracer Trio by a mile, but then Pontiac generally out-radded everyone in those days. Even Plymouth got into the act with such radness as the Breeze Expresso and Sundance Duster (we'll overlook the anti-rad Horizon Miser here). Perhaps tellingly, Mercury, Pontiac and Plymouth all got the "Old Yeller" treatment not long after the Rad Era ended. The Tracer name always went on Mercuries built on Mazda platforms, starting with the Australia-built, Ford Laser-based 1987-1989 cars and then continuing with Mexico-assembled, Ford Escort-based 1991-1996 cars. That generation of Escort/Tracer was mechanical twins with the Mazda Protege, itself the bridge between the 323 and the Mazda3. Some Tracers got the a 1.8-liter Mazda engine that was related to the Miata's engine, but this one has the pure-Detroit CVH 1.9. You're looking at 88 horsepower right here; the Mazda 1.8 offered 127 horses. At least the original buyer of this car got the base five-speed manual transmission instead of forking over $815 extra (about $1,510 today) for the four-speed slushbox. As a 29-year-old slacker living in San Francisco's Mission District and driving a hooptie '65 Chevy Impala sedan at the time, I would have taken the manual transmission without the Trio package, had I been forced to buy a new Tracer.
Junkyard Gem: 1971 Mercury Comet 2-Door Sedan
Sat, Sep 10 2022When Ford introduced the original Maverick for the 1970 model year, Dearborn tradition required that a Mercury-badged version be created. That car ended up being the Comet, built from the 1971 through 1977 model years. Here's one of those first-year Comets in rough but recognizable condition, found in a Denver self-service yard not long ago. The Comet name had spent the 1960s affixed to the flanks of Mercurized Ford Falcons (1960-1965) and Fairlanes (1966-1969). Since the Maverick was the successor of the Falcon — sales of which went into an irrecoverable downward spiral once its sportier Mustang first cousin hit the streets — it made sense to move the Comet name over to the Mercury version. Nearly every American Mercury model ever sold was a U.S.-market Ford model with a different name and some gingerbread slapped on. Notable exceptions to this tradition include the 1999-2002 Mercury Cougar (mechanically based on the Contour but with a unique body) and the 1991-1994 Mercury Capri (an Australian-built mashup of Mazda components borrowed from the Ford Laser). The Comet was by far the cheapest Mercury model available in 1971, though it was considered more prestigious than its Maverick counterpart. The price tag on the '71 Comet two-door sedan started at $2,217 (about $16,505 in 2022 dollars), while the '71 Maverick two-door sedan cost $2,175 ($16,193 today). Meanwhile, AMC would sell you a new Hornet two-door sedan for one dollar less than a Maverick, Chevrolet had the Nova coupe for a dollar more than the Maverick, and Plymouth offered the Valiant Duster for $2,313 ($17,220 now). Toyota had a Maverick competitor as well that year, with the Corona at $2,150 for the sedan and $2,310 for the coupe. Having driven every one of the aforementioned models, I'd take the Duster if I went back in time and had to choose one (as a 1969 Corona owner, I'm not a fan of the 1971 facelift, though the Corona's build quality beats the Duster's). The build sticker on this car tells us that it was built at the Kansas City Assembly Plant (where Transits and F-150s are made today) and sold through the Los Angeles district sales office (there was a DSO in Denver, so it's a near-certainty that this car didn't start out in Colorado). The paint started out as Bright Blue Metallic (it's neither bright nor metallic 51 years down the road) and the interior was done up in Medium Blue Cloth & Vinyl.