I still have my 1970 Cyclone GT from when I was 16yrs old, first car, first love....She still runs and looks very good. Have modified the automatic transmission to be bullet proof, and changed out the rear gears for a little higher ratio, has the ram air function package on it, and you can here that flap bang open when you crack the throttle, makes people look, engine was rebuilt in 1980 and has only 25,343 miles on it... I paid $800 for her as the second owner...
@@chrisgaffney1646 Yeah, i doubt it. You don't even know for sure what engine is in his Cyclone. You may feel pretty confident if it's a 428 or 429 but if it happens to be an R code 427 or better yet an SOHC 427 i'm wondering if you'd like some catsup spread over that paint job before you dig in? After all, that's a 1970 model year. Yours is a 1974. Earth to Chris... Your mighty SD T/A has, if factory correct an 8.4:1 emissions compliant engine factory rated at 290hp. I could go on but suffice it to say. It was a survivor. A relic that was a last gasp effort at producing factory muscle but really it's kind of the best of a bad situation. Forget any reverse gear antics. Those cars would be pretty evenly matched because and only because it's still an SD but cast crank, 8.4 :1. Against a 1970 375 hp rated 429? The only reason you stand a chance against that Cyclone is that 429's were boat anchors.
Gregory Timmons I know right who cares. why does everybody have to be such a know it all this car is awesome so are the t/as big deal..... how old is this person20..... point is is these are cool cars go to a car show and start ripping on everybody's car that you don't like or think that your car is so great....nice comeback Gregory made me laugh have a nice day
Those Mercury's always "stood out." Beautiful piece from the era. No mistaking it for any other brand/model. Probably in reality putting out 475HP. "De-troit."
I am the previous owner of this cyclone.I actually have some pictures from 1971 when my friend bought the car from the Ford Mercury dealer in Aledo Illinois he was having carburetor trouble. So he took it back to the dealership. The dealership called him and said they could not get Any parts for the carburetor it was a six barrel Holley carburetor. Ford said they were not even supposed to have the carburetor. Ford Motor Company sent the dealership a 4 barrel Holley and intake manifold to replace the six barrel one. Before they did he took pictures of the six barrel set up.
Very nice. I remember reading back in the day, that the 429CJs had a restriction in the exhaust port design (or was it intake?), and the first thing draggers did when they got one was have the heads worked a little to remove that restriction and that really turned these motors on.
@@styldsteel1 yah ur right, as long as it puts me in the seat..been sitting a while .took my kid 4 a ride. As he's holding the dash he says, dad now I know why u kept this car all these years. Then we blew the clutch apart due 2 it's age. 25 years .
A lot of these cars were not big sellers. I worked for a Mercury dealer from 66 to 1970 and I cleaned up very few Cyclones and never any special ones such as this. The big seller was cougar and Lincoln in the small dealership where I worked. They were good times and Is where I got my 66 Ford Fairlane GT 390 when a guy getting married traded in on a Merc Marquis. I got the car for trade in value, clean it up in my spare time and drove it like a nut for 3 years until I sold it and purchased a 350 Chevy Malibu 72, what a mistake but it was at least 4 speed LOL.. I was getting married too :(, mistake #2 LoL..
The 429 SCJ engine, 4-speed trans, and "super drag pack" option, all together, cost $711.00 in 1970, which seems to be roughly $4,700 today. I can't help thinking that's still a bargain....
Hell yeah. The internals of the 429 SCJ were beefed up quite a bit compared to a regular 429 CJ when you ordered the 3.91 or 4.30 gears. Seems like a steal to me
I was there! These car's could take a beating. A close friend had a red cyclone, just like this one. He didn't maintane anything ever & that Mercury just took it. Ford's & Merc's were built like Caterpilar's in that era. Almost that heavy too...
I remember when I was a kid and the Mercury dealership here in Weatherford had a Cyclone SCJ painted bright gree. At the same time, they had a Cougar painted the same color and it had a Boss 302. Those were beauties.
It was a really strange time because even though there was just one FORD dealer in my area and it was a worker class family based set of streets for the neighbourhood, I did see a 1970 Cyclone and a huge Mercury marauder S-22 I think that was a fastback version of the Marquis with a rear deck on a red exterior . These were 6 passenger cars that older men bought while I noticed a young couple in 1969 bought a Montego MX in a tangerine with Black vinyl roof and black inside as a 5 passenger with the 302 V8 . I also saw a odd 68 Merc Park Lane with the wood trim you expected on a wagon. The big three tried to cover every niche market , too bad that I never saw a Tbird until someone came by the local Hockey rink with a new 1966 in Black with Black interior . I did catch a heating Oil Company employee that drove a new 65 Vette coupe in yellow with a black roof and black inside with the wood steering wheel , it was amazing and had a speedo that went to 160. What a decade it was .
The oil coiler is not a "Cobra Jet piece" but rather a part of the drag pack option. I've heard mention twice the term " 4 speed drag pack option," which is less than accurate. The only option that determined whether or not the car was to receive the drag pack option was the gear ratio. If you ordered 3:90 or 4:30 gears on a Ford with a CJ motor you had to buy the drag pack [ 150 dollars ], the type of transmission [ auto or 4 speed ] had no bearing on the drag pack, you could order either one. Great videos.
Bought one of these i in Sask. 1984, the 429 was gone, it was a base Cyclone, faded red, black bench, column automatic.Awesome body shape that looks even better up close in person than in pictures. I shipped it to Ontario & sold it, wonder where it is now....
Still have my 1970 Cyclone GT. Bought it 10-2-77. Going thru a complete rebuild right now. 351 cleveland, 4 speed toploader, added a locking differential, adding disc brakes. Re-did the motor 20 years ago with roller cam, roller lifters, and roller rockers. Mallory unilite distributor and ignition.
Man I LOVE THE CLEVELAND STUFF...A CLEVELAND MAKES MORE HP. PER CUBIC INCH,THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING..QUICK RESPONSE,HIGH RPM. THEY ARE BAD TO BREAK CRANKS IF YOU AINT CAREFUL
A good friend of mine since childhood bought a 1970 Cyclone GT w/429 when he came back from Vietnam in 1970. It was FAST and he kept it spotless, always waxed and detailed. PTSD, Booze and Drugs killed Junior in his early 30's and his wife sold the car. Who knows where that beautiful car is today?
Actually this class or size of vehicle wasn’t looked upon as a family vehicle at that time. The full size such as Impala, Galaxie 500, Custom, Custom 500, LTD, Pontiac Parisienne (Canadian car) etc were family cars. The Cyclone, Montego, Fairlane,, Plymouth Satellite, Chevelle, Malibu, etc were classed as midsize. In 1973 I drove a ‘71 Ford Custom 500 302ci 2 door hardtop and came close to buying a used well actually very well used Cyclome GT with the 429 Cobra Jet. Also in red but with the black graphics. It could have been a fun car but it was in so rough condition I passed on it even though it was cheap. This car that you featured is a true one of a kind.
I had a gold 1970 GT auto on the column with black bucket seats, my dad made me trade it after 1 year because he thought it was going to kill me. Wish I still had it. That engine sounded awesome. I could floor that car at 30 mph and it would leave 2 black streaks 10 feet long.
My husband used to work for a used parts company here in Indiana that had a junkyard and they would get prototype and test cars from the big manufacturers to get crushed. He wasn't even supposed to sit in the cars or pop the hood lol. Top secret, how ridiculous. But that was the agreement with the manufacturer (did they really think they wouldn't take a look?) He told me they even got a few running and drove them around the yard lol. This was around 2000-2010 and he said there was some far out stuff in them.
Loved this video. Subbed. I thought a Detroit Locker diff came with the Drag Pack? Why did the car only lay rubber with the passenger side tire at 5:54?
My cyclone came with a posi always did 2 wheel burnouts , then casing split. After that single trac burn outs only . Yours might e broke , if it don't lay down a. Nice posi burn out, going straight . I couldn't find the right part to fix mine ended up with a locker and hate it. Car use to handle, now it dont
The 3.91 axle came with the friction plate Traction-Loc center section, while the 4.30 came with the DAPCO (Detroit Automotive Products Company) No-Spin "ratcheting" center section: the famous "Detroit Locker".
@@jamessacco4816: There is an aftermarket billet steel center case available for the rather weak original Traction-Loc case, which had a nasty tendency to split the ring gear mounting flange from the inner case half ... when the "hat" part didn't split between the clutch ear holes, that is. 😬
That is a cool car. The 375 HP sounds underrated unless that was supposed to be net horsepower. Then it would probably be closer to correct. Gross HP easily over 400 with that compression ratio.
About 415 to 425 HP stock at the crank in the real world. Ford used net hp ratings to keep insurance rates down. Ford is a very conservative company and they weren't necessarily interested in advertising high HP numbers like GM and Chrysler were.
@@frostroxie2740 - This Ford easily made 450+ lbs at the crank stock. Big inch performance Buicks and Olds made at least 500+ lbs. back then. LS6 Chevys, etc.
According to Hemmings Classic Car these early prototypes were supposed to be crushed. If not then the company owed a huge tax bill upwards of $150,000. This info per the Hemmings article on the AMX prototype which was one of two to be crushed. Or rather burned then crushed. It was documented as crushed but at the last minute the second car was spared and actually sold really cheap to the grandfather of the owner at the time of the article being published. Grandad worked the line at AMC and the car went in his modest collection. It was actually a pre production show car with shiny foil covered door handles etc. Because it was documented as destroyed AMC skirted the tax issue but the car is untitled and has some minor design differences. Including the doors and a rumble seat! Something that never would have made production with safety regs coming in.
That's a bad ass Merc. Probably the baddest Ford muscle car since the 67 R-Code 427 Fairlane. I actually prefer the 429 Super Cobra Jet to the street version of the Boss 429. The Boss 9 only came with a 735 cfm carb and a really restrictive exhaust system. But the Boss 429 was a whole different animal with no smog equipment, an 800 or 850 cfm carb, and headers. No idea why Ford de-tuned the street Boss 429 so much
We went to visit my wife’s aunt and uncle back in the early 80’s. There on their front porch lawn was one of these but with a 351. When I saw them again at a reunion, they told me they junked the car. I asked why, what was wrong with it, the told me, nothing, it was too big! I would have bought the car from them. Years later, her uncle bought a Class A motor home!
I got a ride in one in 71? I remember it was that brown-copper color.It had a shaker hoodscoop with a 4 speed.I dont know which 429 it had.I did go sideways very nice!
I am the previous owner of this cyclone I sold it at a sell in Indianapolis, Indiana several years ago. I was surprised the buyer never contacted me after he bought it. I know all the information about this car from when it was purchased new. The dealership. It was purchased at. And all the previous owners.
Ah. I see the HP numbers were fudged for the 429 too. The HP listed for the stock 428 was 335. That's laughable cause my 428 could spin it's wheels at 20 mph, id love to see what a drag pack 429 could do.
Love it has a maverick rear lights pretty cool I bet it's worth a pretty penny ,beautiful car , listen to that car , that's true muscle and how cars were really built love it
The same is true of the 1971 Boss 302, and that car has been located and documented, it too was not crushed, it was ignomously stripped of its boss trimmings and drive train and renumbered as a basic Mustang with a basic engine and sold to the public. The engines were available as crate motors but no production cars were produced, even though most of the parts were cataloged for spare stock for dealers to repair production cars.
Imagine if this sexy front built on fastback body style, you know like the 68 cyclone has! But engine specs, rear taillight, Interior, dash remains same of 70 only! Also I saw on internet this 70 cyclone with Shelby wheels, it was looking more beautiful like those wheels were made for this cyclone!
@@67marlins81 my father actually bought a 70 Torino cobra 429CJ 4 speed brand new. It was yellow with the black hood. I remember seeing him pull in our driveway for the first time and me and my brother running out the door to get him to take us for a ride. Man I loved that car. He's still kicking himself in the ass for selling it
The 429 SCJ is somewhat overlooked but was one of the most powerful RPO engines available in the muscle car era. Vintage drag tests proved that this engine could propel a 4300 lb heavily optioned car to more than 102 mph in the quarter mile. That's about 415 net horsepower at the crank.
Ford, over the years, overrated several of their engines. The Thunderbird 352, and 390 were rated at 300 HP. Same with the GT 390. They were dogs. This engine, along with the Boss 302 CJ 428 were underrated.
Scooter George I don't know about the others mentioned but the GT 390 was anything but a dog. I was not really a Ford guy then, or now for that matter but I loved '66 - 67 Fairlane GT's I had plenty of exposure to nearly all the hot factory muscle back then and those Fairlane's did just fine against the closed chamber 396.
That car needs a set of 15 inch magnum 500 wheels like the boss mustang had or the Mach 1 had . Beautiful car to give it taste and classic look. My brother had a 1971 black with Argent silver stripes mach 1 with magnums . The stance of the car look great. Back then cars had originality and looked different from each other
Scj was a engine designation.drag pakwas a seperate option.scj was solid lifter 4 bolt main and Holley 780 c.f.m.with exhaust headers.c.j.was hydraulic lifter Rochester spread bore carb and some were 4 bolt main some were 2 bolt main.
A 70 429 SCJ Cyclone is one of my absolute favorite muscle cars ever made. Just a mean looking car with the gun sight grille. I'll take this car or a 68 Cougar GT-E 427 over any Mustang or Torino
*EXCEPT* there were *far* more Mercury Cyclones and Ford Torino Cobras built than the *extremely* rare 427 (early) and 428 CJ (later) 1968 7.0 Litre and XR-7 7.0 Litre GT-E Cougars.
I dont know where your info came from but the Drag Pack option didnt mean it was a scj. The sjc was a different motor than the cj. The super cj had a 4 bolt block, a dual point distributor, aluminum intake , steel forged crank and forged pistons, solid lifter cam, and different heads as you noted. But you could order a Drag Pack in many cars. It only meant a 4.30 or 3.91 gear with 31 spline axles with T-loc or a Detroit locker, rear window louvers, shaker hood, 4 speed trans and front spoiler. The single point vacuum advance distributor came on the Ram Air cars, and the CJ cars. The super CJ came with a dual point mech adv. from the factory. With the solid lifter cam in the super CJ you didnt get a/c or an automatic trans. The 15 x 7 magnum 500 wheels may have been standard on the Drag Pack cars to I cant remember.
@@jeremythompson9895 No Im sorry buddy but that just isnt correct. Now it may have been how it was with that particular car but I rather doubt it. The Drag Pack was available on many cars that Ford produced. Not just cars that had the 429. The 69 and 70 Boss 302 Mustangs and and 69 and 70 Cougar Eliminators offered the Drag Pack option. The 69 and 70 428 Mustangs had the Drag Pack option. It also included rear louvers, and a shaker hood to. My buddy had a 71 Torino with a 351 C with the Drag Pack option. Also The 71 Boss 351 Mustang offered it. But it got the Ram Air hood I think. Check out any 69 or 70 Mustang with the Boss 302 or a 428 and all the drag pack cars will have a shaker hood rear window louvers, and the 3.91 or 4.30 gear. There is noted 1 car that came with an automatic. And as far as I know the only one all others were 4 spd cars. Im not sure but to my knowledge 69, 70, 71 were the only years it was offered. Maybe a few 68's but that I cant be sure on. I think the automatic car was a 68 428 scj Mustang (1 of 1)
I noticed a lot of the body lines do not match up. It's a shame that Mercury didn't take a effort to make it better.. But on the other hand if this Cyclone was not meant to be driven on the streets... it is understandable... Still a very nice car.. I can remember seeing a cyclone in a junkyard back in the 70s that had the 429 engine. Not realizing what the car was worth then and what it can be now. Let me kick myself in the butt..
Had spoiler column shift, hide-aways & big tach. I kept the 715CFM Q-jet carb. I went & looked @ a Cleveland 4V like this, minus drag paK. It was caterpillar yellow, Mercury called it harvest yellow( not sure if my memory is rite about name of color)
i had a 1970 spoiler 429 cobra jet with 300 gearing could get air cond with the scj package but i replaced the quderjet carb with a holley 850 duel line spreed bore at 6200 rpm the speedometer would go almost 2 inches past the 140 mph mark maybe 160 mph plus
Is the SCJ part of the super drag pack option? Both the Marti report and the window sticker show it as a CJ, not an SCJ. Not a Ford expert by any means…
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I still have my 1970 Cyclone GT from when I was 16yrs old, first car, first love....She still runs and looks very good. Have modified the automatic transmission to be bullet proof, and changed out the rear gears for a little higher ratio, has the ram air function package on it, and you can here that flap bang open when you crack the throttle, makes people look, engine was rebuilt in 1980 and has only 25,343 miles on it... I paid $800 for her as the second owner...
I envy you!! I have a '70 Marquis 2-door hardtop - a poor man's Marauder...
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l'll beat that cyclone in reverse, with my 74 SD TA
@@chrisgaffney1646 Yeah, i doubt it. You don't even know for sure what engine is in his Cyclone. You may feel pretty confident if it's a 428 or 429 but if it happens to be an R code 427 or better yet an SOHC 427 i'm wondering if you'd like some catsup spread over that paint job before you dig in? After all, that's a 1970 model year. Yours is a 1974. Earth to Chris... Your mighty SD T/A has, if factory correct an 8.4:1 emissions compliant engine factory rated at 290hp. I could go on but suffice it to say. It was a survivor. A relic that was a last gasp effort at producing factory muscle but really it's kind of the best of a bad situation. Forget any reverse gear antics. Those cars would be pretty evenly matched because and only because it's still an SD but cast crank, 8.4 :1. Against a 1970 375 hp rated 429? The only reason you stand a chance against that Cyclone is that 429's were boat anchors.
Gregory Timmons I know right who cares. why does everybody have to be such a know it all this car is awesome so are the t/as big deal..... how old is this person20..... point is is these are cool cars go to a car show and start ripping on everybody's car that you don't like or think that your car is so great....nice comeback Gregory made me laugh have a nice day
Those Mercury's always "stood out." Beautiful piece from the era. No mistaking it for any other brand/model. Probably in reality putting out 475HP. "De-troit."
I am the previous owner of this cyclone.I actually have some pictures from 1971 when my friend bought the car from the Ford Mercury dealer in Aledo Illinois he was having carburetor trouble. So he took it back to the dealership. The dealership called him and said they could not get Any parts for the carburetor it was a six barrel Holley carburetor. Ford said they were not even supposed to have the carburetor. Ford Motor Company sent the dealership a 4 barrel Holley and intake manifold to replace the six barrel one. Before they did he took pictures of the six barrel set up.
Really..,wow. Me speachless ...thankz
Awesome story , thanks
Why did u sell it??
It may have had a 3x2V carburetor setup, but I highly doubt it had a 6 barrel carb.
i own a 1970 mercury cyclone spoiler 429 CJ 4 speed , grabber blue i am now 55 years old and still have the car , 570 HP 4 MILES to a gallon it gets
Very nice. I remember reading back in the day, that the 429CJs had a restriction in the exhaust port design (or was it intake?), and the first thing draggers did when they got one was have the heads worked a little to remove that restriction and that really turned these motors on.
Nice! The mpg doesn't matter any. Unless it's your every day car. I'm quite positive it's not.
@@styldsteel1 yah ur right, as long as it puts me in the seat..been sitting a while .took my kid 4 a ride. As he's holding the dash he says, dad now I know why u kept this car all these years. Then we blew the clutch apart due 2 it's age. 25 years .
@@jamessacco4816 oophaa!
James , just curious if you still have it , are you interested in selling it
A lot of these cars were not big sellers. I worked for a Mercury dealer from 66 to 1970 and I cleaned up very few Cyclones and never any special ones such as this. The big seller was cougar and Lincoln in the small dealership where I worked. They were good times and Is where I got my 66 Ford Fairlane GT 390 when a guy getting married traded in on a Merc Marquis. I got the car for trade in value, clean it up in my spare time and drove it like a nut for 3 years until I sold it and purchased a 350 Chevy Malibu 72, what a mistake but it was at least 4 speed LOL.. I was getting married too :(, mistake #2 LoL..
We all have that same problem. I once traded my 67 camaro, for 69 elcomieno and 72 dodge charger
The 429 SCJ engine, 4-speed trans, and "super drag pack" option, all together, cost $711.00 in 1970, which seems to be roughly $4,700 today. I can't help thinking that's still a bargain....
Hell yeah. The internals of the 429 SCJ were beefed up quite a bit compared to a regular 429 CJ when you ordered the 3.91 or 4.30 gears. Seems like a steal to me
@@jeremythompson9122 heck ya
I have the same car. 429 Cobra Jet with Ram Air. Nice car.
I was there! These car's could take a beating. A close friend had a red cyclone, just like this one. He didn't maintane anything ever & that Mercury just took it. Ford's & Merc's were built like Caterpilar's in that era. Almost that heavy too...
That a sweet ride with a manual 4 speed just really cool
Love the rear tail light area.
Classic Larry Shinoda styling. Nice Sleeper.
I remember when I was a kid and the Mercury dealership here in Weatherford had a Cyclone SCJ painted bright gree.
At the same time, they had a Cougar painted the same color and it had a Boss 302. Those were beauties.
The Cyclone and the Cougar are definitely 2 of my favorite Mercuries of all time other then the Mercury M100.
It was a really strange time because even though there was just one FORD dealer in my area and it was a worker class family based set of streets for the neighbourhood, I did see a 1970 Cyclone and a huge Mercury marauder S-22 I think that was a fastback version of the Marquis with a rear deck on a red exterior . These were 6 passenger cars that older men bought while I noticed a young couple in 1969 bought a Montego MX in a tangerine with Black vinyl roof and black inside as a 5 passenger with the 302 V8 . I also saw a odd 68 Merc Park Lane with the wood trim you expected on a wagon.
The big three tried to cover every niche market , too bad that I never saw a Tbird until someone came by the local Hockey rink with a new 1966 in Black with Black interior . I did catch a heating Oil Company employee that drove a new 65 Vette coupe in yellow with a black roof and black inside with the wood steering wheel , it was amazing and had a speedo that went to 160.
What a decade it was .
One of the prettiest cars of the muscle car era.
My favorite car ever built by Mercury. It's between this and a 69 428CJ Cale Yarborough Cyclone Spoiler
The oil coiler is not a "Cobra Jet piece" but rather a part of the drag pack option. I've heard mention twice the term " 4 speed drag pack option," which is less than accurate. The only option that determined whether or not the car was to receive the drag pack option was the gear ratio. If you ordered 3:90 or 4:30 gears on a Ford with a CJ motor you had to buy the drag pack [ 150 dollars ], the type of transmission [ auto or 4 speed ] had no bearing on the drag pack, you could order either one. Great videos.
Bought one of these i in Sask. 1984, the 429 was gone, it was a base Cyclone, faded red, black bench, column automatic.Awesome body shape that looks even better up close in person than in pictures. I shipped it to Ontario & sold it, wonder where it is now....
Still have my 1970 Cyclone GT. Bought it 10-2-77. Going thru a complete rebuild right now. 351 cleveland, 4 speed toploader, added a locking differential, adding disc brakes. Re-did the motor 20 years ago with roller cam, roller lifters, and roller rockers. Mallory unilite distributor and ignition.
Man I LOVE THE CLEVELAND STUFF...A CLEVELAND MAKES MORE HP. PER CUBIC INCH,THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING..QUICK RESPONSE,HIGH RPM. THEY ARE BAD TO BREAK CRANKS IF YOU AINT CAREFUL
A good friend of mine since childhood bought a 1970 Cyclone GT w/429 when he came back from Vietnam in 1970. It was FAST and he kept it spotless, always waxed and detailed. PTSD, Booze and Drugs killed Junior in his early 30's and his wife sold the car. Who knows where that beautiful car is today?
i had a 70 Mercury Montego with a straight 6, 3 on the tree, and that car would burn rubber. i can imagine 429 cubes. beautiful car.
How many did they make like that?
@@rosenb37 Dam few , not many Mrecs with a 6 except for the little Comet ! Most everything got at least the base V 8 .
@@thomasdaum1927Except the Montego came standard with a 6, so there must be some out there.
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I dig FMCO stryling from here to Australia they made the best looking muscle cars
I've seen these cars,i had a neighbor who had one,it was a black and red cyclone with the 429 scj engine.rare but I seen a few.
Actually this class or size of vehicle wasn’t looked upon as a family vehicle at that time. The full size such as Impala, Galaxie 500, Custom, Custom 500, LTD, Pontiac Parisienne (Canadian car) etc were family cars. The Cyclone, Montego, Fairlane,, Plymouth Satellite, Chevelle, Malibu, etc were classed as midsize.
In 1973 I drove a ‘71 Ford Custom 500 302ci 2 door hardtop and came close to buying a used well actually very well used Cyclome GT with the 429 Cobra Jet. Also in red but with the black graphics. It could have been a fun car but it was in so rough condition I passed on it even though it was cheap. This car that you featured is a true one of a kind.
Still to this day the test mules created are being crushed, hard to understand why. Too sad!
Not a ford guy at all but man this car is just awesome!
Thanks for the uploads!
I had a gold 1970 GT auto on the column with black bucket seats, my dad made me trade it after 1 year because he thought it was going to kill me. Wish I still had it. That engine sounded awesome. I could floor that car at 30 mph and it would leave 2 black streaks 10 feet long.
My husband used to work for a used parts company here in Indiana that had a junkyard and they would get prototype and test cars from the big manufacturers to get crushed. He wasn't even supposed to sit in the cars or pop the hood lol. Top secret, how ridiculous. But that was the agreement with the manufacturer (did they really think they wouldn't take a look?) He told me they even got a few running and drove them around the yard lol. This was around 2000-2010 and he said there was some far out stuff in them.
Some BFG radials and A/C would truly make this a great Driver ! I would like a 70 Cougar Xr-7 built this way !
Loved this video. Subbed. I thought a Detroit Locker diff came with the Drag Pack? Why did the car only lay rubber with the passenger side tire at 5:54?
No posi-traction.
My cyclone came with a posi always did 2 wheel burnouts , then casing split. After that single trac burn outs only . Yours might e broke , if it don't lay down a. Nice posi burn out, going straight . I couldn't find the right part to fix mine ended up with a locker and hate it. Car use to handle, now it dont
The 3.91 axle came with the friction plate Traction-Loc center section, while the 4.30 came with the DAPCO (Detroit Automotive Products Company) No-Spin "ratcheting" center section: the famous "Detroit Locker".
@@jamessacco4816: There is an aftermarket billet steel center case available for the rather weak original Traction-Loc case, which had a nasty tendency to split the ring gear mounting flange from the inner case half ... when the "hat" part didn't split between the clutch ear holes, that is. 😬
That is a cool car. The 375 HP sounds underrated unless that was supposed to be net horsepower. Then it would probably be closer to correct. Gross HP easily over 400 with that compression ratio.
About 415 to 425 HP stock at the crank in the real world. Ford used net hp ratings to keep insurance rates down.
Ford is a very conservative company and they weren't necessarily interested in advertising high HP numbers like GM and Chrysler were.
450 Ft Lbs of torque..... that’s where the power is!!! I had a 69 GTX with a 426 Max Wedge..... 455 SD and HD were bad ass also!
@@scdevon
So true.
@@frostroxie2740
Yes you know your cars and engine torque and what torque actually means.
@@frostroxie2740 - This Ford easily made 450+ lbs at the crank stock. Big inch performance Buicks and Olds made at least 500+ lbs. back then. LS6 Chevys, etc.
I had a 67 cyclone 390 high performance 4 speed! It was something else. Wish I still had it.
According to Hemmings Classic Car these early prototypes were supposed to be crushed. If not then the company owed a huge tax bill upwards of $150,000. This info per the Hemmings article on the AMX prototype which was one of two to be crushed. Or rather burned then crushed. It was documented as crushed but at the last minute the second car was spared and actually sold really cheap to the grandfather of the owner at the time of the article being published. Grandad worked the line at AMC and the car went in his modest collection. It was actually a pre production show car with shiny foil covered door handles etc. Because it was documented as destroyed AMC skirted the tax issue but the car is untitled and has some minor design differences. Including the doors and a rumble seat! Something that never would have made production with safety regs coming in.
Awesome car.
That's a bad ass Merc. Probably the baddest Ford muscle car since the 67 R-Code 427 Fairlane. I actually prefer the 429 Super Cobra Jet to the street version of the Boss 429. The Boss 9 only came with a 735 cfm carb and a really restrictive exhaust system. But the Boss 429 was a whole different animal with no smog equipment, an 800 or 850 cfm carb, and headers. No idea why Ford de-tuned the street Boss 429 so much
We went to visit my wife’s aunt and uncle back in the early 80’s. There on their front porch lawn was one of these but with a 351. When I saw them again at a reunion, they told me they junked the car. I asked why, what was wrong with it, the told me, nothing, it was too big! I would have bought the car from them. Years later, her uncle bought a Class A motor home!
Ah man...
I had one, 4 gear sweet ride. Passed everything but a gas station. 13.3 in the quarter mile.
Love it, nice machine, good video!!! Thanks.
I got a ride in one in 71? I remember it was that brown-copper color.It had a shaker hoodscoop with a 4 speed.I dont know which 429 it had.I did go sideways very nice!
As best as I can remember, the "Shaker" was only available with the SCJ package.
The horse power was underrated, for insurance reasons!
Yep - same with the Boss 302 Mustangs
I'd never heard of or seen this car before this video. Very cool. Thanks V8TV.
I am the previous owner of this cyclone I sold it at a sell in Indianapolis, Indiana several years ago. I was surprised the buyer never contacted me after he bought it. I know all the information about this car from when it was purchased new. The dealership. It was purchased at. And all the previous owners.
That would be me please call I still have it Jimmy 732-713 6374
Awesome ride
Beautiful RED!!!
Awesome Mercury.
Ah. I see the HP numbers were fudged for the 429 too. The HP listed for the stock 428 was 335. That's laughable cause my 428 could spin it's wheels at 20 mph, id love to see what a drag pack 429 could do.
I always wanted one of these 70 Mercury's.
My dad had a 70 montego mx that was beautiful. i am trying to find something close now
Another very cool car awesome hard to find this one love it
Beautiful car 🚗
Awesome car!
It is different. Neat!
Just an absolute beauty
Love it has a maverick rear lights pretty cool I bet it's worth a pretty penny ,beautiful car , listen to that car , that's true muscle and how cars were really built love it
It’s not supposed to have 3 tail lights. The GT’s had two
The most beautiful
AWESOME FORDS. AWESOME MERCURY. 🇺🇸
The same is true of the 1971 Boss 302, and that car has been located and documented, it too was not crushed, it was ignomously stripped of its boss trimmings and drive train and renumbered as a basic Mustang with a basic engine and sold to the public. The engines were available as crate motors but no production cars were produced, even though most of the parts were cataloged for spare stock for dealers to repair production cars.
Awesome !
The 4:30s are perfect
Imagine if this sexy front built on fastback body style, you know like the 68 cyclone has! But engine specs, rear taillight, Interior, dash remains same of 70 only! Also I saw on internet this 70 cyclone with Shelby wheels, it was looking more beautiful like those wheels were made for this cyclone!
👍 Great job. I love the Murcury comet tail lights. It's just straight up Bad ass
Stunning car. Wow.
I saw one of this here in Orlando and had to find out more
What a well made beuty!
BACK IN THE DAY THESE KIND OF BIG MUSCLE CARS WERE OLD MAN MUSCLE CARS
I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK.
and they still showed their taillights to young men's cars...
@@67marlins81 a 429SCJ 4 speed 70 cyclone with a 4.30 rear is "Anything But" an old man's car
@@jeremythompson9895 that's for sure.
@@67marlins81 my father actually bought a 70 Torino cobra 429CJ 4 speed brand new. It was yellow with the black hood. I remember seeing him pull in our driveway for the first time and me and my brother running out the door to get him to take us for a ride. Man I loved that car. He's still kicking himself in the ass for selling it
great car respect!
The dog dish hubcaps are bad ass.
The 429 SCJ is somewhat overlooked but was one of the most powerful RPO engines available in the muscle car era. Vintage drag tests proved that this engine could propel a 4300 lb heavily optioned car to more than 102 mph in the quarter mile. That's about 415 net horsepower at the crank.
DONDIVA1969 The 375 HP rating was ridiculous. They made much more than that.
+scdevon The nascar version made over 500hp, they were detuned for the street
Ford, over the years, overrated several of their engines. The Thunderbird 352, and 390 were rated at 300 HP. Same with the GT 390. They were dogs. This engine, along with the Boss 302 CJ 428 were underrated.
Scooter George I don't know about the others mentioned but the GT 390 was anything but a dog. I was not really a Ford guy then, or now for that matter but I loved '66 - 67 Fairlane GT's I had plenty of exposure to nearly all the hot factory muscle back then and those Fairlane's did just fine against the closed chamber 396.
That car needs a set of 15 inch magnum 500 wheels like the boss mustang had or the Mach 1 had . Beautiful car to give it taste and classic look. My brother had a 1971 black with Argent silver stripes mach 1 with magnums . The stance of the car look great. Back then cars had originality and looked different from each other
Scj was a engine designation.drag pakwas a seperate option.scj was solid lifter 4 bolt main and Holley 780 c.f.m.with exhaust headers.c.j.was hydraulic lifter Rochester spread bore carb and some were 4 bolt main some were 2 bolt main.
A 70 429 SCJ Cyclone is one of my absolute favorite muscle cars ever made. Just a mean looking car with the gun sight grille. I'll take this car or a 68 Cougar GT-E 427 over any Mustang or Torino
*EXCEPT* there were *far* more Mercury Cyclones and Ford Torino Cobras built than the *extremely* rare 427 (early) and 428 CJ (later) 1968 7.0 Litre and XR-7 7.0 Litre GT-E Cougars.
Time capsule thank ya good footage informative 💡
looks much more classy than the Torino of the same year
70 Cyclone GT Commercial 1970 Cyclone GT Commercial
V8TV Very impressive presentation and beautiful rare car. You packed a lot of info into that - no filler, great job!
so beautiful! thanks for posting!
Unbelievably low sticker price for this exotic looking large high performance midsized coupe.
Would look good with a set of Magnum 500 wheels like the Boss 429 Mustang.
+trucking604 429 SCJ was a 4 bolt main block and solid lifters.
Those on this particular car are the same as the "BOSS 9" 'stang came with: 15x7" in chrome.
Mustang/Cougar so much more unique than Camaro/Firebird
Remember new fords back then and esp in the 70s had a distinct new car smell. Loved it lol
I dont know where your info came from but the Drag Pack option didnt mean it was a scj. The sjc was a different motor than the cj. The super cj had a 4 bolt block, a dual point distributor, aluminum intake , steel forged crank and forged pistons, solid lifter cam, and different heads as you noted. But you could order a Drag Pack in many cars. It only meant a 4.30 or 3.91 gear with 31 spline axles with T-loc or a Detroit locker, rear window louvers, shaker hood, 4 speed trans and front spoiler. The single point vacuum advance distributor came on the Ram Air cars, and the CJ cars. The super CJ came with a dual point mech adv. from the factory. With the solid lifter cam in the super CJ you didnt get a/c or an automatic trans. The 15 x 7 magnum 500 wheels may have been standard on the Drag Pack cars to I cant remember.
When you ordered the Drag Pack option, the 429 SCJ engine was part of it, along with the 3.91 or 4.30 rear axle
@@jeremythompson9895 No Im sorry buddy but that just isnt correct. Now it may have been how it was with that particular car but I rather doubt it. The Drag Pack was available on many cars that Ford produced. Not just cars that had the 429. The 69 and 70 Boss 302 Mustangs and and 69 and 70 Cougar Eliminators offered the Drag Pack option. The 69 and 70 428 Mustangs had the Drag Pack option. It also included rear louvers, and a shaker hood to. My buddy had a 71 Torino with a 351 C with the Drag Pack option. Also The 71 Boss 351 Mustang offered it. But it got the Ram Air hood I think. Check out any 69 or 70 Mustang with the Boss 302 or a 428 and all the drag pack cars will have a shaker hood rear window louvers, and the 3.91 or 4.30 gear. There is noted 1 car that came with an automatic. And as far as I know the only one all others were 4 spd cars. Im not sure but to my knowledge 69, 70, 71 were the only years it was offered. Maybe a few 68's but that I cant be sure on. I think the automatic car was a 68 428 scj Mustang (1 of 1)
Oh, I would enjoy that car.....
Who the “heck” are “the Brothers”???? Wonderful vehicles ❤️
David Griffin....I could be mistaken, but I think it's the Koch brothers....
Amazing collection 😍❤️
I noticed a lot of the body lines do not match up. It's a shame that Mercury didn't take a effort to make it better.. But on the other hand if this Cyclone was not meant to be driven on the streets... it is understandable... Still a very nice car.. I can remember seeing a cyclone in a junkyard back in the 70s that had the 429 engine. Not realizing what the car was worth then and what it can be now. Let me kick myself in the butt..
Thanks
looks like a big maverick
The Maverick looked a little more like a mini 70-71 Torino.
I was thinking the exact same thing with the tail lights
Had spoiler column shift, hide-aways & big tach. I kept the 715CFM Q-jet carb. I went & looked @ a Cleveland 4V like this, minus drag paK. It was caterpillar yellow, Mercury called it harvest yellow( not sure if my memory is rite about name of color)
375 hp sure it is
Very cool car👍🏼
Cool hot rod
HAD ONE......Sweeeeet Ride !!!
I love the look of a heavy yank-tank with an imposing manly grille. Just great. I wanna get one.
You have good taste in cars, Sam.
shes a beauty , i would be afraid to drive it on the street
Nice car.....
Nice car
Grill got a bit odd in 1970. Now the 1971 LTD, that is so very pretty for a big car. Owned several of those
i had a 1970 spoiler 429 cobra jet with 300 gearing could get air cond with the scj package but i replaced the quderjet carb with a holley 850 duel line spreed bore at 6200 rpm the speedometer would go almost 2 inches past the 140 mph mark maybe 160 mph plus
Nice! What did these do 0-60 with decent rubber?
Badazz Merc!!
Is the SCJ part of the super drag pack option? Both the Marti report and the window sticker show it as a CJ, not an SCJ. Not a Ford expert by any means…
He sounds like Ron Swanson !!!
Nice car