My grandfather’s 1970 Mercury cyclone spoiler

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  • Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
  • Stopped up at my grandpas house to check out the car
    1970 mercury cyclone spoiler
    This car was built for one of the Philco ford executives
    this car is one of one
    Fully loaded with ac power windows and console
    429 cobra jet
    3.0 traction-lok rear

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  • @frankiemck40
    @frankiemck40 6 місяців тому

    My parents had a 1970 Cyclone GT. Love your car!

  • @springman1740
    @springman1740 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful car! Thanks for sharing it.

  • @sdeak5444
    @sdeak5444 Рік тому +1

    That's one the most unique and beautiful cars i have ever seen.

  • @colinbreeze8758
    @colinbreeze8758 Рік тому

    The best looking American muscle car of the time. YES PLEASE.

  • @frankdenardo8684
    @frankdenardo8684 8 місяців тому +1

    I have two model kits of the Mercury Cyclone. I have a 1970 model in the same shade of orange and a 1971 model in red.

  • @jamieteders1089
    @jamieteders1089 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely beautiful car, great work!

  • @richardpowell1664
    @richardpowell1664 Рік тому

    If that car ever comes up for sale let me know.I had a plain Jane 70 Cyclone that color when I was a kid. My Dad owned several NASCAR tracks & he bought it from Holland-Moody with a NASCAR spec 429 Boss. I also had a 69 with a 427 tunnel port, the tunnel port was faster. But a 69 is 200-300 lbs lighter.

  • @stillrockinleshiy2.25
    @stillrockinleshiy2.25 2 роки тому +2

    He did an excellent job on that sweet car. I love these cars. Only came with the 429 or 429cj. His is one of only sixteen made with the hideaway headlights. His car sounds so nice. It’s a big car and that paint job is perfect. Thanks to both of you for the video of it.

    • @stillrockinleshiy2.25
      @stillrockinleshiy2.25 2 роки тому

      The Spoiler model had the 429. The others were available with other powerplants such as 351 V8.

  • @GetsumJ
    @GetsumJ 8 місяців тому

    My first car (green) The color was actually Competition Gold (U Code) from the factory. Gorgeous car

  • @prestonboggess4703
    @prestonboggess4703 3 роки тому +4

    Gorgeous! My dad owned a green one when I was a kid he loved his cyclone! Beautiful time machine never sell

  • @rugerrocker7483
    @rugerrocker7483 3 роки тому +1

    BEA Utiful

  • @BrianChappie
    @BrianChappie 3 роки тому +2

    A really nice car. It's great to have a 4-speed with power windows and a/c. I love the color and the wheels. He did a great job of restoring it.

  • @richardpowell1664
    @richardpowell1664 Рік тому

    The only thing I see wrong with it is it has
    Ford wheels instead of Mercury wheels. The factory Mercury wheels on these were 14s so a lot of people put Ford 15s on them. Same wheels as a Cougar. The neatest wheels to go on these are the factory 15s off of an X-100.

  • @c4llahan
    @c4llahan 3 роки тому +6

    These are some of the most stylistically unique muscle cars of the era.

  • @michaelburks4952
    @michaelburks4952 3 роки тому +1

    Grandpa is a lucky guy.

  • @neall2500
    @neall2500 3 роки тому +1

    That is the coolest car I have ever seen. Thanks for posting

  • @bryanmclellan8546
    @bryanmclellan8546 3 роки тому +2

    I had a 70 Spoiler, competition blue/white interior, a/c, 429cj, automatic. Also had a 70 Cyclone GT in competition gold w/351 4v.

  • @dougeaton2446
    @dougeaton2446 3 роки тому +2

    Gorgeous!!!! Just Gorgeous!!!!!

  • @saltpepper1894
    @saltpepper1894 3 роки тому +1

    i had 69 cyclone GT drag pack 4 spd ram air. was my 2nd car...learned how to drive 4 spd with it ;)

  • @mattfloyd4
    @mattfloyd4 3 роки тому +1

    I know this car....I oogle over it at Carlisle every year. Its absolutly perfect. Its one of the reasons im trying to find one.

    • @johnmayberry9271
      @johnmayberry9271 3 роки тому +2

      Good luck finding one 😅 only made that body style 70-71 just found my dad's 71 mercury montego mx a couples days ago and he sold it 12 years ago! I'm glad it's back home

  • @geraldmarkham9636
    @geraldmarkham9636 4 роки тому +2

    BEAUTIFUL!!!

  • @markshoemaker9112
    @markshoemaker9112 4 роки тому +1

    Beautiful car. Wish it qas mine!

  • @rob951s
    @rob951s 3 роки тому

    I love it Rich!

  • @povertybay3260
    @povertybay3260 2 місяці тому

    In 1970 when I was 11 my cousin came over with a new car said I couldn't tell him what it was.. I started looking around and my dad said no cheating when I glanced in the interior my cousin said it's okay he had taken every piece of identification off the car so I said it's a Ford product but I don't know looks like it's got a bit of Pontiac in the nose..

  • @genefortney9133
    @genefortney9133 3 роки тому

    Beautiful car! My Buddy had the Torino equivalent same colour what I thought was called Vermilion.

    • @richardpowell1664
      @richardpowell1664 Рік тому

      Mercury called it Completion Orange, Ford called it Calypso Coral.

    • @richardpowell1664
      @richardpowell1664 Рік тому

      Vermilion is what Ford called red interior.

  • @sigmamale7241
    @sigmamale7241 6 місяців тому +1

    WOW!!!

  • @MisterMikeTexas
    @MisterMikeTexas 3 роки тому

    A rare beauty indeed that you could buy from "The Sign Of The Cat". Sounds great, and like it has a lope in the idle. Did your grandfather install a high lift cam in the engine?

  • @xAnAngelOfDeathx
    @xAnAngelOfDeathx 3 роки тому +2

    I had a chance to buy this exact car (same color, same 429 SCJ) with under 30,000 miles when I was 17 for $1,650. Like an idiot I didn't buy it. The only thing about this car that I wasn't crazy about was the bulbous nose, a flat nose and grill would have been very sexy. Awesome car none the less. Bonus side story - the same year that I passed on this car I passed on a 1969 440 Daytona for $2,000, still kicking myself for this mistake. I ended up buying a '74 Trans Am 455 SD when I was 18 and a drunk driving incident totalled that car a couple years later. Those are my sad muscle car stories that scarred me lol.

  • @SteffsGarage
    @SteffsGarage 2 роки тому

    What color is that

  • @nytterepos247
    @nytterepos247 4 роки тому +1

    THAT IS SWEET, DONT SELL IT WHATEVER YOU DO.....YOUR HEART WILL BE BROKEN

  • @matthewnosal6893
    @matthewnosal6893 3 роки тому +1

    Pretty neat that the cyclone shares the same body as the Torino coupe and not the fast back. I wonder why this is?

    • @knowbodiesfull5768
      @knowbodiesfull5768 2 роки тому

      I wondered the same thing too. I also noticed the Mercury Montego/Cyclone didn't get convertibles for 1970 either (I suspect that would have eaten into Cougar convertible sales).

  • @trackpackgt877
    @trackpackgt877 3 роки тому +1

    My dad had a 70 cyclone GT we restored not a spoiler I drove it to my graduation and my prom it was Calypso Coral Orange 429 Cobra Jet C6 automatic spoiler gauges factory power windows and AC and someone offered him a ridiculous amount of money one day in Tennessee at the rod run and he sold it

  • @saltpepper1894
    @saltpepper1894 3 роки тому +1

    5:45

  • @MichaelRoyDuckworth
    @MichaelRoyDuckworth 3 роки тому +1

    It's an exclusive muscle car . Yet you have said nothing it makes it so!

  • @ydid7552
    @ydid7552 3 роки тому +1

    What is the value of one of those?

  • @randymillsjr.1730
    @randymillsjr.1730 3 роки тому

    Is it for sale?

  • @wizardofahhhs759
    @wizardofahhhs759 3 роки тому

    "What's the name of the color?" "Orange" oh😂