https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0122-486942/1970-mercury-cyclone-gt/ This is pretty frickin' sweet! They even managed to make the awful dash worthy. I still think it will fall well short of the 150k estimate. Maybe half? Is that a 427 Windsor stroker or the FE? Looks like the former to me.
520 horse without the boat anchor weight and FE oil leaks. The stroker is a proven combination, but that is still a downer in the value department.
My brother-in-law has a 1966 Comet GT Cyclone, 390 4-speed. He bought it brand new. Only has 50,000 miles on it and has always been kept indoors. Last time I saw it was about 15 years ago and the paint/interior still looked brand new. Sitting in his barn now, so I hope the rats haven't got it. I've offered to take it off his hands for years but he is a hoarder and won't get rid of anything. It would take some athletics skills just to get to it with all the junk he has piled around and it would take some heavy equipment to get all the crap out of the way to pull it out of the barn. Someone in the future will think they found the holy grail when they stumble across it.
^^^cool car, I'm sure! Just curious, did you ever ride in it and what did you think of it? FYI for some folks that might not realize this, but the neither the 427 FE, nor the 428 FE, was factory installed in the 1970 Mercury Cyclone. Instead, the 429 C.I. "Lima" engine was available in the Cyclone; a base 360 HP utilizing Autolite 4300 carburetor, a 370 HP CJ powered with a Rochester Q-Jet, and finally, a 375 HP SCJ with a Holley on top. The 429 Lima weighed approximately 720 lbs. This car doesn't even pretend to be original, but if someone had stuffed in a 427 FE, say a W code from a 1968 Cougar GT/E - the engine was factory rated at 390 HP, and the engine would weigh in at approximately 680 lbs. The stroked 351 Windsor is advertised here as 520 H.P. and weighs approximately 510 lbs. It was kind of fun poking around for the horsepower and weights.
Two side notes for the Windsor here. You'd have a lot more room under the hood to work on it, and secondly, it would be much easier to get parts. The Ford guys were really complaining a lot on thier sites when I was poking around for info. If you were going to drive this car till the wheels fell off, the lower buy in, maintainance, and probably even drivability would lean towards a Windsor. A Coyote would be neater though but you'd be playing with the devil trying to make that fit
I like it but some tiny upgrades are missing after doing a bunch of them. It's like it is 90% there The dash seems half done?? They did some nice gauge mods but left the speedometer alone and a few other factory dash pieces. Nice modded front suspension but the rear is stock leaf spring and no added sway bar. I guess I mean they went all out on the resto and I figured why not the whole deal. Probably a money thing. It is a nice looking car thats for sure.. I had read years ago that the round grill piece was to mimic a quick cam swap with ease race track thing.
