My Ford experience included selling these cars to Lincoln Mercury dealers. It was a hot item.
In 1963 Ford had a promotion at the Daytona speedway. They had 4 or 5 Comets running in a "100,000 miles at 100 mph" event. All Comets finished the course with one breakdown. One car broke a valvespring in the engine, which was repaired and finished the test. Cheapest one sold for about $2,000 retail and they sold a bunch of them.
I drove one of these cars after the test. Ran fine, but a little noisy.
Bob M.
540,000 miles on the same car.... ((( You gota love this lady )))
This is great video clip ....if you love old cars, senior citizens.
This is a GREAT story about an older woman and her car. She even drives it to her 70th reunion!
She also knows how to protect herself....
She has driven this car 540,000+ miles
Enjoy
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