In 1974, when I turned 16, I was able to buy a 1965 Mercury Comet at what was a very advantageous price from my grandfather’s used car lot. It was a 4-door sedan, painted a metallic blue/green, had ...

In the spring of 1965, while the rest of the world was swooning for the Mustang, Don Watson was planning his own hot rod. Don's brother-in-law at the time, George Pils, had just ordered an oddball ...

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 ...

Caliente is the Spanish word for hot, but there was a time when it was a trim in the now defunct’s Mercury brand. It is a word made famous back in the 1960s and 1970s by the Comet, one of the ...

Thirty-five years of age is a bit late to get into the hot rodding game, but there's no doubt that Josh Martin is a real-deal car guy. No, he doesn't have the requisite yard full of decrepit jalopies, ...

Comet Ikeya-Seki, discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Tsutomu Seki in September 1965, was classified as a sungrazer comet. The comet's perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, occurred on ...

The classic 60s Ford Mustang gets all the love. Even other models from Lincoln and Mercury that might use components borrowed from the Mustang don't receive nearly as much attention. This 1965 Mercury ...

Thirty-four years ago, baby boomers were invited to come aboard the "Love Train" by the O'Jays-a popular two-minute-and-59-second tune that got us hitting the dance floor in great numbers during the ...

In 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft released a tiny lander called Philae over the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a comet of ice and rock some 370 million miles from Earth.

What we have here is not your run of the mill second-generation Mercury Comet. Aside from the restmod aspect, we have to note that this is a 1965 car, which was the second-gen model’s last year in ...

On Sept. 18, 1965, amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya and professional astronomer Tsutomu Seki each independently discovered what became the greatest comet of the century, Ikeya-Seki. When researchers ...