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Title: Puzzle #1124 - Solved! Mercury Comet Escapade
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 21, 2008, 02:25:41 AM
(http://www.autopuzzles.com/Puzzle1124.jpg)

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Title: Re: Puzzle #1124
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 05, 2009, 06:05:45 AM
Moved
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124
Post by: Arunas on January 05, 2009, 08:44:21 AM
Colani?  :)
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 05, 2009, 11:49:13 AM
No.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124
Post by: Tuckeroo on January 05, 2009, 12:25:33 PM
Mercury Comet based?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124
Post by: Tuckeroo on January 05, 2009, 12:33:58 PM
More to the point: 1966 Mercury Comet Escapade
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 06, 2009, 04:48:48 AM
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.

(http://www.autopuzzles.com/Escapade V2.jpg)
Title: NEH 507
Post by: Carnut on April 28, 2010, 12:22:35 PM
What is this for 1 point?
Title: Re: NEH 507
Post by: Ray B. on April 29, 2010, 03:55:21 PM
It's a repost.

My advice: merge 'em.
Sorry about that.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124 - Solved! Mercury Escapade
Post by: Carnut on April 29, 2010, 06:58:33 PM
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'!
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124 - Solved! Mercury Escapade
Post by: Ray B. on April 29, 2010, 07:14:56 PM
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.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124 - Solved! Mercury Escapade
Post by: Carnut on April 29, 2010, 07:25:06 PM
Quote from: Ray B. on April 29, 2010, 07:14:56 PM
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!
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124 - Solved! Mercury Escapade
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 02, 2012, 05:38:10 AM
Magazine article
Title: Re: Puzzle #1124 - Solved! Mercury Escapade
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 02, 2012, 06:09:41 AM
Quote from: Carnut on April 29, 2010, 07:25:06 PM
Quote from: Ray B. on April 29, 2010, 07:14:56 PM
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.