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Mercury Cyclone GT 500
We don’t talk much about the 1968 Cyclone GT 500 because we know so little and there just aren’t any around. It has been a great draw for this site and people seem to really want to know more. We recently received an email from K. Peppers with some information and photos that we thought deserved [...]
Mercury Cyclone Spoiler and Spoiler II Prints Added to Our Store
When I asked artist Herb Dixon to create a special print for the First Annual Ford Talladega Family Reunion at the Forge Muscle Car Show I had no idea how great the results would be. We had already completed the three Talladega prints and I wanted something for the Spoiler guys to drool over. I [...]
Another Rare Barn Find becomes a Project Car-Part 2
Part 2-continued from 8-12-2010 It seems even though the ad had run out and he got some tire kickers, no one was interested in a 1969 Mercury. Before I showed up he had made arrangements to re-list the ad. The new ad was running even though I had purchased the car and this time the [...]
Another Rare Barn Find becomes a Project Car-Part 1
Part 1 We recently received an email from a friend in Southern California. He knew Katrina and I had been looking for a 428 CJ Dan Gurney Spoiler for many years, eight to be exact. Not once in all that time did one ever surface that we know of. My friend’s email gave the details [...]
1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler History
This is a continuation of our history of the Ford Talladega, Mercury Spoiler/Spoiler II 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Cale Yarborough Special 428 CJ Ram Air As you may remember, Ford had to build 500 Talladegas to get the body modifications authorized for the track; this was also true with the Spoiler IIs. There was an [...]
1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler and Spoiler II History
When Ford began running its Special Order of 1969 Torino Talladegas the Product Development Group over at Mercury wanted its own version of the NASCAR Aero “Going Thing”. By” Rick Ochs and Richard Fleener In a 1969 intra company letter sent to the Production Development Group at Mercury, Ford spelled out what changes were made [...]
Art of the Muscle Car
This book just hit the shelves and if you don’t hurry it will be gone and unavailable for Christmas. This is another Motorbook coffee table book you must have if you have ever thought of owning a Muscle Car. It is a master piece of photography and turns are dreams into cars to lust over. [...]
Mercury Cyclone GT 500 More new news and photos.
I ask and you guys deliver! We just got some more photos in on the legendary but lost white 1968 Mercury Cyclone GT 500s. Here is a teaser and you can Click Here to see the rest.
Muscle Car Book; A Photo Shoot
PHOTO SHOOT I recently received a phone call from a representative of Motorbooks about photographing some of our cars for a new muscle car book they will be publishing next year, 2009. We have had cars photographed by them before and used on a calendar and some shots in a book; we also have had [...]
