Puzzle #1124 - Solved! Mercury Comet Escapade

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[Otto Puzzell]

Moved

[Arunas]

Colani? 

[Otto Puzzell]

No.

[Tuckeroo]

Mercury Comet based?

[Tuckeroo]

More to the point: 1966 Mercury Comet Escapade

[Otto Puzzell]

That's right!

Commissioned by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford, and built by George Barris' shop in California. Barris himself took the picture above at Forrest Lawn. I have no idea who the model is. When the finished car was shown to the corporate brass, they liked most of what they saw, but ordered the more traditional twin grills with which this this car is often pictured (see below).

This car was also displayed at times with the names Cyclone X-S Roadster, and Experimental Sports Roadster.

[Carnut]

What is this for 1 point?

[Ray B.]

It's a repost.

My advice: merge 'em.
Sorry about that.

[Carnut]

Well all right but it wasn't quite the same car, just that Otto also posted a picture of the modified later version too, but not as a puzzle.

It was described as a Ford Comet Escapade on the site I got it from hence I didn't realise it was a re-post at first but then when it became clear it had been pictured before I decided to leave it as it was 'Version 2' rather than the original puzzle which was 'Version 1'!

[Ray B.]

I think your source is probably wrong because, in the USA, the Comet has always been a Mercury, not a Ford (even if Mercury is a Ford Motor Co division). Same for Cyclone.
So this would rather be the Mercury Comet Escapade.

[Carnut]

I think your source is probably wrong because, in the USA, the Comet has always been a Mercury, not a Ford (even if Mercury is a Ford Motor Co division). Same for Cyclone.
So this would rather be the Mercury Comet Escapade.

Yes, I did realise I had been a bit of an idiot for exactly that reason.
But you know what it's like when you look at it later and think "How can it be a Ford, the Comet was a Mercury?".. I knew it all along but the brain had not engaged!

[Otto Puzzell]

Magazine article

[Otto Puzzell]

I think your source is probably wrong because, in the USA, the Comet has always been a Mercury, not a Ford (even if Mercury is a Ford Motor Co division). Same for Cyclone.
So this would rather be the Mercury Comet Escapade.

Yes, I did realise I had been a bit of an idiot for exactly that reason.
But you know what it's like when you look at it later and think "How can it be a Ford, the Comet was a Mercury?".. I knew it all along but the brain had not engaged!

Easy mistake to make. The Comet was a near-clone of the contemporary Ford Fairlane.