obscure muscle

Murff , a buick grand national . Buick ruled the strip for a while and the cars with stage 2 and stage 3 heads were not to be pushed into a corner .

At the shop is a 410 in a 67 mercury for 1500 bucks . Dark blue with blue interior

. Remember the rebel car from amc I think . The javalin amc . Cale Yarbour special ever how its spelled lol . 66 cyclone , shissh to not only remember those cars but to remember seeing them new sitting on a lot must mean growing old . Dag

Anything thats not a Mustang, Camaro, Chevelle, or Nova is considered "obscure" by the general public.

Im helping a buddy of mine restore one of these. He has had it since high school

Originally Posted by SLCK64

The 69/70s Cyclone Spoiler's has kinda grown on me...i mean you could get one with a 429SCJ! Drag Pak goodies! Heres a rare '70 Cyclone Spoiler II with nose cone. Merc made 500 or so of these with the big schnoz to get into NASCAR to compete against the Daytonas and Superbirds.....A lil more apealing than those cars, also!

PS--Take a look at the van in the background of the second pic!!!

That's a Cyclone Super Spoiler II and it was a twin to the Torino King Cobra.....there were not 500 of them built. There is 1 of each owned by a guy in Tenn and those 2 were at Dearborn in 2003...which is where that pic was taken. These were prototypes not production cars. There's lots of history on the cars and you can check it out over on the Torino Cobra site. I remember one of the King Cobras being for sale back in the early 1980's. Amazing cars that would have given MOPAR a real fight if NASCAR had not slapped the aero cars with a 305ci engine limit.

The Hurst SC/Rambler, which was guaranteed to go 14.5 off the showroom floor. It was followed up by the Rebel Machine, then a flop of a car, the SC360 Hornet. It would have been awesome if it came with a HIPO 360 but the base engine was a two barrel 360. But there was the Hornet Hatchback X that could be had with a beefy 360 until the mid '70s.

Later!
Mr. Ed

I'll find that page I saw that about 516 of them or so were made to comply with NASCARs rule about having so many produced to be able to race in sanctioned races..... and i DID say it is a CYCLONE SPOILER II if ya read the post....yes the nose thing is a lil on the crazy side to me but I am a sucker for merc stuff...

Originally Posted by xafalcongs

That's a Cyclone Super Spoiler II and it was a twin to the Torino King Cobra.....there were not 500 of them built. There is 1 of each owned by a guy in Tenn and those 2 were at Dearborn in 2003...which is where that pic was taken. These were prototypes not production cars. There's lots of history on the cars and you can check it out over on the Torino Cobra site. I remember one of the King Cobras being for sale back in the early 1980's. Amazing cars that would have given MOPAR a real fight if NASCAR had not slapped the aero cars with a 305ci engine limit.

Originally Posted by SLCK64

I'll find that page I saw that about 516 of them or so were made to comply with NASCARs rule about having so many produced to be able to race in sanctioned races..... and i DID say it is a CYCLONE SPOILER II if ya read the post....yes the nose thing is a lil on the crazy side to me but I am a sucker for merc stuff...

I read your post and that pic is of a Cyclone SUPER Spoiler II and it was the twin of the Torino KING Cobra. There were only a couple of these cars built. Don't beleive me? Talk to the Torino registry. I've seen both cars at Dearborn. Neither car ever raced. The SUPER Spoiler was powered by a Boss 429. Not trying to be a prick but the pic is a SUPER Spoiler and it was taken at Dearborn in 2003, I spent a little more than half a day at that tent in the background.

Here is a link that explains it:

http://www.torinocobra.com/king_cobra.htm

Falcon is right on the money about the Torino.

I agree with Jan on a couple- I still have a 89 mark VII LSC, and right now these are bargain basement hotrod-able cars- I see them in the paper often for around 1k...put a set of real gears in that car and it would rock- and comfortably
When I was a kid mom had a 69 gal with the high comp 429 4 barrel- ended up being my first car at 16, promptly totalled it out horsing around. By far the 'strongest feeling' car Ive ever had, yet she got 17mpg driving it to work when I was a kid...that engine was BOTH a torque monster and a screamer for a bigblock (still got the motor- its 'someday' going in our 69 mustang fb)

I still dream of someday finding another old 69 hardtop 2 dr with the black interior/429 4v...they had one of the coolest dashboards Ive ever seen too- except for the odd lefthanded radio...those cars were tanks, but had no problem stuffin you in the seat

Ok, i give! Where I got the pic from didnt say SUPER in the caption and I was obviously thrown by the badging....and I missed the part about the program being cancelled....