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Mercury Sold Fewer Than 7,500 Comet Cyclones in 1964 — The Ford-Powered Muscle Car That Was Almost an Edsel Is Still a Bargain

The 1964 Comet Cyclone squeezed a 210-hp 289 into a compact that was originally drawn up as an Edsel, then proved itself by lapping Daytona for 40 days straight. Hemmings put one on the road to explain what a buyer needs to know before writing a check for the muscle car everyone forgets.

Close-up of a classic Ford Thunderbird emblem on blue car paint.

Founder of Roadrunner, GTX Co-Creator Passes At Age 94

by Pat C

Plymouth’s Road Runner nearly died in a hallway argument at Highland Park, killed off by a stylist who swore no cartoon bird would ever wear his sheet metal. The man who saved it was a product planner named Jack Smith, a former Studebaker engineer who also helped create the GTX and who died recently at 94. He never claimed the idea as his own. Read on for how a $3,000 budget bomb beat every projection Plymouth had for it.

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Mercury Sold Fewer Than 7,500 Comet Cyclones in 1964 — The Ford-Powered Muscle Car That Was Almost an Edsel Is Still a Bargain

Founder of Roadrunner, GTX Co-Creator Passes At Age 94