This is an article about the theme. For the book, go to The Comet (novel)
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Peyton Sawyer driving her Comet.
The Comet is a key theme featured throughout the first six seasons of One Tree Hill and it revolved around the life and love story of Peyton Sawyer and her eventual husband, Lucas Scott.
Peyton drove, as her car, a 1963 Mercury Comet, which became a well known part of her life and she valued it dearly because it was a much-loved vehicle, not only to Peyton but to her family. As well as this, Peyton first spoke to Lucas after her car broke down by a lake and asked him to repair it.
In later years, Lucas even wrote a novel which narrated the story of a scientist who relied on a comet in the sky to guide him and, when it went away, he waited for it come back to him: this novel was realized by many others even before Lucas that it was a metaphor of his everlasting love for Peyton and eventually led to ruining his wedding to Lindsey Strauss, whom he became engaged with after splitting up with Peyton during the time jump between the fourth and the fifth season.
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Peyton's husband Lucas Scott, driving her restored Comet.
Following the meltdown of his engagement, Lucas and Peyton finally found their way back to each other and eventually got married and had a daughter, Sawyer, before leaving Tree Hill for good to find a new life away from the town, finally gaining their happily ever after. In their last scene, they’re seen on the Comet driving into the sunset with Sawyer.