An Odd Duck Rare Muscle Car Comes Back

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  1. STAGE III

    STAGE III Lost Experimental 455-4 Bolt Main Block.

    Didn’t mercury make another car called a kale Yarborough special? I saw one back in the day and thought man this is going to be rare cause it’s rare now I’m thinking it was a mercury cyclone but it was a long time ago
     
  2. STAGE III

    STAGE III Lost Experimental 455-4 Bolt Main Block.

    Here was my only Mercury. Original Ford enamel paint factory four-speed, sequential taillights one owner car, 54,000 original miles I let one of my friends talked me out of it for exactly what I had in it ($4600) after BEGGING ME & swearing he’d keep it forever and this way it would never leave the area etc. etc. and he turned around and sold it sight unseen to someone in New York two weeks later for $8500.
    Don’t talk to that guy too much anymore LOL
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  3. pbr400

    pbr400 68GS400

    Close, Fritz; you’re remembering the ‘69 Cyclone Spoiler II, which was available as a white car with red trim as the Cale Yarbrough and white and blue Dan Gurney. The were Mercury’s aero cars, homologation specials. They were supposed to show NASCAR officials that they’d built the required 500, so they set up bleachers in a huge building in Atlanta and drove the same 200 or so cars through the building more than once in front of the observers.
    Patrick

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Cyclone_Spoiler_II
     
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  4. STAGE III

    STAGE III Lost Experimental 455-4 Bolt Main Block.

    That’s hilarious that they were driving the same cars back through for multiple counts to hit 500, Patrick! Lol

    Thanks for that behind the scenes info, had never heard that one : )

    Fritz
     
  5. Sky72lark

    Sky72lark Well-Known Member

    Friend had a 68ish Cougar. I loved the sequential turn signals but it also had a stock optional pedal (near the parking brake in a gm) that engaged the windshield wiper intermittently. Not much else to brag about but to each his own. Actual parking brake was next to console shifter. Was 302 "powered".
     
  6. no1oldsfan

    no1oldsfan Well-Known Member

    Damn that's a nice Cougar!
     
  7. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    I'd delete his ass completely. Same thing happened to a friend of mine. '69 GTO convertible. I could have bought it but the asshat, who used the same BS as your former friend, was first in line.
     
  8. Mike B in SC

    Mike B in SC Well-Known Member

    I had a similar thing happen with me many years ago but not with a car but a rifle. Back when I was 15 years old I acquired a WWII German G-43 rifle. Anyone who knows WWII German firearms knows that G-43's are fairly rare & desirable. A "friend" of mine found out that I had it and he immediately started trying to trade me out of it. He told me how much he had always wanted one, how it would be the centerpiece of his collection, how he would never get rid of it, etc., etc., etc. Finally after a few weeks of this, plus him bringing a bigger pile of stuff to trade for it each time he came by, I said yes.
    Two weeks later a mutual friend told me that he had traded it to a guy in North Carolina for something else he wanted. The guy in NC had told my "friend" that the only thing he would take in trade for his item was a G-43 and that was when my "friend" started trying to get mine from me.
    I learned a valuable lesson...
     

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