obscure muscle

Winged Messenger - Concept and Future Vehicles

This site has it wrong too but you can see the original 1969 Super Spoiler show car above it along with some cool concept Mercury's

Originally Posted by SLCK64

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....

It's all good. There is so much BS on the web about the whole muscle car era. I grew up in the 70's and graduated from high school in the early 80's so I grew up worshipping the cars my cousins and older brother drove. Up until a few moves ago, I still had an old Hot Rod mag that had pics of the King Cobra and the Super Spoiler and a short article about how these were going to take on the Daytona and the Superbird. I remember thinking that the front nose looked a lot like the nose of a 240z.

I love the '63 Couger II, '64/'65 Comet Super Cyclone from that page!

The most obscure muscle I have ever owned was the 65 Falcon Futura 4dr. 289 powered. I loved that car.

On that Winged Messenger site the part about the Cyclone SUPER Spoiler II the what look like Ford taken shots, that have the number plate in front of the car, that thing is sitting and lookin pretty on the ground! Man no doubt those things woulda killed in NASCAR epecially at Talladaga! I bet they coulda drafted like a mother! Too bad NASCAR started looking at safety(due to higher speeds of course); and why not have two brands push the envelope so everybody else had to figure out/use their brain to catch up...but who else was there to compete in anyways? (Cheevee who?)

Originally Posted by SLCK64

I love the '63 Couger II, '64/'65 Comet Super Cyclone from that page!

The Cougar II was actually built on a Cobra chassis. A bit of trivia for you is that the Mustang was at one point going to called the Cougar. Joseph Oros original clay mockup actually has a Cougar logo in the grille ( facing the opposite way) Jaguar actually went after Ford for copyright infringement for the cat logo.

Originally Posted by CaptVirgilHilts

A bit of trivia for you is that the Mustang was at one point going to called the Cougar.

Also, one of the original concept cars for the now-called-Mustang was called a Torino.

Wow.... I really really want that 1970 Cougar "El Gato" on that "Winged Messenger" site.

....And damn, why have I never seen that 2000 Cougar Eliminator? 300hp out of a V6. That's what we need nowadays....

Turbo Interceptor

Originally Posted by 66Fairlane

Turbo Interceptor

That was Charlie Sheen's car in "The Wraith". Yuch Dodge!!!