Mercury comet1/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Production ended in 2011, the same year Danny senior passed on. ![]() Mercury was of course a Ford brand that, like so many great names, is no longer with us. “I’ve owned 11 of them including a rare ’67 427 Cyclone and a couple of Cyclone GTs.”ĭan got his love of all things automotive from his father, Danny Senior, and particularly a soft spot for all things Ford. “I have always had a thing for ’67 Comets,” Junior told Street Machine. More than 30 years later, as the owner of Junior’s Garage, he has been able to realise his dreams and create his own tribute to his gasser heroes in the form of this ’67 Mercury Comet. Engine swaps, supercharging, alcohol fuel, altered wheelbases, straight-axle front-end swaps and eventually one-piece lift-off fibreglass bodies came out of what became known as the gasser era and saw the birth of the first funny cars.Īt this time Dan ‘Junior’ Parson was growing up in Pennsylvania and could only dream of owning and driving such wild automotive creations. Quick cats with names like ‘Dyno Don’ Nicholson and ‘Fast Eddie’ Schartman were making all kinds of radical modifications to their sedans in the quest to get down the quarter-mile as fast as possible. ![]() The latter part of the 1960s was a time of swift progress for drag racing in the USA and Ford’s Mercury brand was at the forefront of the evolution. This article was originally published in the February 2015 issue of Street Machine. Nostalgia fuels Junior Parson's passion for '67 comets. ![]()
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