Quick, what was the lowest-priced new 1961 Mercury? That’s what we’ve got for today’s FPS machine: a San Jose-built Comet two-door sedan found in a boneyard near Sacramento over the summer.
From its very inception into the Ford family in 1960, the Mercury Comet was the model that Ford apparently couldn’t figure out what to do with. As a result, the Comet car just kept being bounced ...