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Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode #120: 1965 Mercury Comet B/FX
www.musclecaroftheweek.com - We're taking a look at a cool B/FX Mercury Comet 289 from the Brothers Collection in this episode of Muscle Car Of The Week!
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Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode #120: 1965 Mercury Comet B/FX
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I owned and campaigned one of these, which I bought from a Lincoln/Mercury dealership in Fort Worth. I started off with a 302 Windsor with the two-four barrel Shelby intake, which matched up with the openings in the Ram Air hood. Later I upgraded the engine to the BOSS 302 with a set of 'Headers by JR' "cross-under" headers. Since the Cyclone had been involved in a minor accident, the original fiberglass bumper had been destroyed and it carried a factory steel one. Fortunately, I was friends with 'Dyno Don' Nicholson, and he offered to give me one of the 'glass ones he still had. Of course, I jumped at the offer and my Stroppe-built Cyclone was back to the condition as he had produced for L/M. I left the vehicle pretty much as built, except adding a class-required roll bar and lowering the driver-side fiberglass bucket seat down so the top of my helmet was below the roll bar's top. When I upgraded the two-four barrel intake to a Weiand tunnel ram, it wouldn't fit under the Stroppe hood, so I used a factory fiberglass Cyclone hood instead, installing a low-profile "Pro Stock"-style hood scoop I got from Gary Harwood. With this combination I was able to set National Records in both IHRA Modified Production ... at the old Dallas International Motor Speedway ... and the next weekend in AHRA Hot Rod class at Bill McClure's Green Valley Raceway. Ultimately I quit racing and traded the Cyclone w/o drivetrain for a 1970 'Drag Pack' 428 SCJ Mustang Mach I 4-speed, which, I later learned was rather unique as it was factory-equipped with Air Conditioning... something supposedly not available, supposedly because the A/C condenser wouldn't fit with the Drag Pack's oil cooler... but there it was ... straight out of the Dearborn assembly plant, IIRC.
Boy, do I miss both those rare cars ... 😒 ... and wonder where they are now. 🤔
Hello John. I sold our B/FX Comet around 1978 to a guy in Irving. Boy I wish I still had it now. I ran it for a while with a Boss 302. Also ran it with a set of JR headers. Those were a b*tch to get on and off as I recall. Curious as to where that car is now. I do have some old photos of the car and am going to post them online to see if someone recognizes the car from the decals and can enlighten us as to where the car is now. Hope it survived and can be accounted for. As I recall the car had like 60 miles showing on the speedometer back then.
@@jimtatum6865 Hello, Jim. 🙂
Like you, I wish I still had the car, and wonder where it is today.
It was rather rare, as it was still in more than 90% of the way it came to Holiday Lincoln-Mercury [Fort Worth] from Stroppe.
Man that little 289 has a nasty sound to it. The 64 Ford Thunderbolt was probably the fastest of any of the factory lightweight race cars of that era
Comets are out of this planet. ..and the looks of these cars are truly one of a kind...
Thxxxx 4 the video the Car is Just Simply Beautiful I had a 2966 Ford Mercury Cyclone n I Truly wished I didn't have 2 Sell 4 500 Dollars back in 1991 was trying 2 Survive in Belle Glade Florida n had 2 sell the car 4 Groceries Palm Beach Mustangs gave me 500$ n I went 2 the U Save Supermarket n Bought 2 months worth of groceries Damn I cried went they picked it up on a flatbread!
I have 1 Last thing 2 Comment!
SMOKE EM IF U GOT EM
N DAMN THAT CAR CAN DEFINITELY SMOKE EM!
Ah yes..pure love. I own a '65 404 Comet with a nitrous huffing 331 stroker, C4 with transbrake and a period correct 9" with a spool and 4:56 gears. She's named "Tiffany's Revenge" 😍😍❤️❤️
This thing mopped the floor with slowpars and GM DOMINATED
What a car beauty👍
My dad still had his first car which is a 1965 Mercury Comet that originally had a 289 and it is in great shape. It now has a brand new 302 that has like 100 miles on it. He hasn't done anything with it in like 17 years so he is giving it to me to have fun with.
Always liked those hot rod bad ass Mercury Comets!
The stance on those comets are perfect
What a great look/profile/stance. I saw Doug Nash's epic B/FX Comet at Detroit Dragway in '65/66. He ran low 11's.. The hi-winding noise at launch was incredible.
HAHA funny! You said it was "disguised" with a stock steering wheel and carpet. Anybody who thinks this is any kind of street comet has simply just arrived from some other planet where hot rods are strictly forbidden. This bad ass Comet is not to be mistaken for anything but a Hot Rod!!
However, this factory 'Hot Rod' actually came still-equipped with the OEM single exhaust muffler system ... or at least mine did. 🙂
BTW, the quarter and rear windshield glasses were factory LOF equipment, and the decklid was factory steel.
Nothing sounds Sweeter than a well built and tuned FORD, either small or big block they just have a unique sound all it’s own. The thing that has always cracked me up is how every single Race Sanctioning Body BANS FORD when they are unleashed as they absolutely destroy the competition from the other 2 manufacturers.
Sweet! My dad had a 65 Comet Cyclone with the 289, C4 auto in the red color with white interior. What a sweet car.
I love that that car is so low mileage, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been used properly or was babied all its life. Fantastic episode. Well done.
The Mercury Cyclone and Caliente's were some of the most beautiful cars of their time....their look was so purposeful. When you saw one you realized that the reason for their existence was to win races. They had nothing that they did not need; absolutely beautiful!
Absolutely love these cars!! Have seen them run and they wind out like a chainsaw! Absolutely fantastic revs!!
That hood is awesome
Great Car and great story
Who would think a 289 would put out 400+ hp. I owned a 67 Mustang Coupe with a 289. For it's small cubic inches it had some torque. Sadly I had to sell it to get my ass out of jail. 😪
I want another 67 Mustang, but can't afford one. Thanks for videos. Educational!
Freaking love this car. And the 65 comet with the cammer that this guys channel has
My senior year in HS I bought a 1964 Comet Cyclone, 289 HPO engine. The car was blue with white interior, bucket seats with a console, 4 speed. Unfortunately I totalled out the car after owning it for 2 months. That car is so rare today, I never see them. I sure miss that Merc.
I always loved the 289 and this car is sweet.I wish it was mine.
Nice 👍
Cool car and awesome sounding too. I bet you that sound brought around Dyno Don's spirit .
**Lovely, just lovely!**
My first car that I bought when I was 14 was a 65 Comet.
That car has the best sound you could ever hear from a car period.
Holy shit! What a monster.
Great service to show the cars, and keep the stories alive and available for new audiences. Thanks.
My first car was a Cyclone. Used to burnout for a block. Great car for an 18 year old. Maroon with console and buckets. I LOVE the mid sixties Fords. Hell all the manufacturers were kicking ass in 1965. Gto. Cutlass. Chargers. GT350. USA.👍🇺🇸🚀
@@jeremythompson9122 whatever
My dad has a '65 Comet Caliente that he's building for my daughter (she's 11 now). It's cool to see the race pedigree of the car. Hers will have a 302 and 4-speed manual.
Robert Read
Your Dad is the world's coolest grandfather if he is building a hopped up 65 Comet, with a 4-speed no less, for his granddaughter! Hopefully he will make sure the suspension is set up to better handle the 'possible' higher than normal speeds, for when it's going into corners and braking from higher than slow speeds.
I had a friend who had a moderately powerful 350 and a posi rear built & installed into his 70 Nova in like 1988-ish. He took us for a ride soon after the engine was installed. We lived in a semi-rural area with lots of narrow, curvy, hilly roads, and he was raising a little hell on one of these roads with a LOT of little rises and dips, and I can tell you that it was scary as hell in a 70 Nova with a stock suspension!
The shocks bottomed out a few times, because of the combination of age, high speeds, and being on a car that was NOT designed for high speed road racing! The Comet will probably be very similar if it's suspension is stock, especially since it'll be 3x older than that 70 Nova was in 1988! Fresh springs and nice high performance shocks should be the minimum standard, because it'll just be a matter of time before your daughter, or a friend of hers decides to raise a little hell in it!
is it running now???
Would your Dad adopt me? I don't eat much.....
Love those Crager wheels.
love that crackle,there's just a certain sound you get from a properly tuned beast.later valve covers looks like, but boy,she's a beauty.
just subscribed to your channel - great knowledge and excellent presentation!
289 s were real screamers when built properly. Way better looking than GMs and Mopars from the same era.
Mopar's were the best looking cars on the road in the late 50's but they never really had great styling in the 60's. They definitely did hit home runs with the 68-70 Dodge Charger R/T and 70-71 Plymouth Cuda and Dodge Challenger R/T and T/A. Mopar always had the most well engineered drivelines in my opinion. For a really long time the Chrysler 727 Torqueflite automatic transmission was the only automatic transmission on the market that could really handle a lot of horsepower and torque without breaking and could outshift even a skilled driver with a 4 speed manual. Although the 64 Pontiac GTO is credited as the first mid size muscle car the Detroit horsepower war was really started by the 55 Chrysler C-300...the first American production car with a 300 horsepower factory rating. The hottest Ford and GM V8's were still making less than 200 horsepower in 1955. It took Ford and GM until 1957 to catch up with Chrysler performance wise but after that the engines from all 3 major automakers just got more and more powerful every year until the muscle car era really peaked in 1969 and 70. But of course the federal government had to stick their noses in and fuck that up just like they do with anything else they touch
My first car was a 289 hi po
4bbl holley detroit locker and t-10 4spd Mustang. It was the only time I outran the cops 😜
love this show. these guys tell it like it was. showing all the cool cars I saw race as a kid. and the definitely give the Fords and Mercury's their just due. keep up the good work. and yea these cars were fast. See many of them run this coming Saturday 30 at Beaver Springs, PA last year over 400 cars were there. like going back to the 60's for a day.WAY COOL!
Have one in black. Too cool and thanks for this. It's the forgotten muscle car very few people know what my car is when they see. It's been called a GM PLym and all in between. Thanks again Pastor Scott
Truly awesome slice of Motorsports History. On Cleveland's near east side, was Stoney's Towing. He had one of these Cyclones, with white interior and a snorkel hood, he claimed was a gift from Dyno Don Nicholson. Last saw the car, in the late 80's. Only had like 7,000 miles on the clock. Was a local record holder.JTOrlando, FlMisfires CC
my first car was a 65 comet, my uncle built the engine ,and I ran the hell out of it. I will never have another like it. my uncle had a engine Stop for small aircraft and I never had much money so I would swipe airplane high octane out of the planes and the car ran great.
so cool my brother had a comet same year . so bad ass love your show.
my pop HAS 65 CYCLONE 4 SPEED CAR, RED WITH BLACK INTERIOR, BEAUTIFUL CAR
Love this channel. Always wondered what AFX stood for. Man one fricken cool car.
Richard Gill
I think "FX" is factory experimental, and "A" denotes big block V8(427), while "B" denotes small block(289).
My grandma had a '66 Comet when I got my first car in 1973. My 1st car was a '66 Mustang. Both my grandma's Comet AND my Mustang had 289's. They drove the same and both were equals in power (1/4 Mile). I've been a MOPAR/BMW guy since the late 1970's but have fond memories of my grandma's Comet and my Mustang. A kid used to be able to build a respectable "hot rod" for under $5,000. Now, Hot Rodding is an old man's sport because so many Muscle Cars come from the Factory and are TOO expensive for a kid with a part time job. We used to pull and rebuild a V8 on a weekend and install a 4bbl carb and headers for a few hundred. With the right tires and rims you had your Hot Rod! Now, any clown with a fat check book can buy a $60,000 Muscle Car that would blow away anything we used to build in the 60's and 70's. 500 Horsepower was unthinkable in 1966.
You did some of the best commentating I've ever seen I had to A code Cyclones. They're my dream cars I could never get no parts for them. But Crites sells nice fiberglass hoods bumpers. Fenders trunks
I owned a '65 Cyclone and a 202 back in the 90's and yes, parts were very hard to find. I actually found 3 other Cyclones within a 20 mile radius. One was perfectly restored SS racer, one was sitting up w/ a Boss 302 and the third was a bone stock A code sitting in a field. The racer was for sale for the right price, the other two owners wouldn't budge. Finally sold mine because of parts unavailability.
Like vintage music too ...always wonder where do you find your background music . Always perfect match and not too intrusive , your last week episode almost mimic ledzep
Love it
11:37 is really cooking....very hard to achieve even with all the lightweight parts....so these little engines could really move the air thru them!! Good Stuff!!
Anyone notice those rare "Cyclone" center caps on the factory-equipped Cragar SS wheels? Tried to locate a set for my Cyclone, as the factory wheels were missing when I got the car, but even Cragar no longer had them ... or the dies used to produce them for Stroppe. 😒
Why is the Cross bar to the shock towers a weld on and not a bolt on export brace. That car also has the early shock tower braces. It must be a early made one. My 404 had welded braces but I now have a original 65 A-Code bolt on export brace. I love both
Really like the Caliente style hood.....those Comets were beautiful. My brother had an earlier one with a hopped up 260 that really surprised me for a street car. This thing sounds like my '66 Nova with the LT-1 that I had back in the day. Trailer only....made it down to low 12's with Rock Crusher and 9-inch rearend with 5.56 gears. Wish I still had.
I thought it's a cyclone hood
@@garyjohnson6858 It probably is.....I'm not that familiar with them. Thanks.
AFX 427 SOHC. Check that vid. I like this car better but i like the big beef in the rear on that car and the super badass 427 SOHC. They're so rare and exotic. You just don't ever see cars with that motor. 289s were everywhere, back in the 60s. Both cars have the same hood.
Actually, Stroppe built two versions of the A/FX Cyclones: a 427 High Riser version sold to dealerships and the 427 SOHC-equipped ones built specifically for the "factory" guys: Nicholson, Schartman, Sox & Martin, among others.
Our local dealer here in Stittsville Dilwari Mercury had one of these and dragged it extensively in Canada.It was called Malika as the dealership was owned by East Indian family. They were great people. It went through many changes in the following years including altering the wheelbase, Webber carbs, special heads etc.
I remember it had a 5:31 nine inch rear end and it revved like crazy but because it was very light it was fast. I dont know what happened to it but I think its still in the area.
Interesting, many dealerships in Vancouver are Dilawri AUto Group and I had no idea they would have ever had a Comet race car. I will ask next time I see one of family.
I think you meant 5:14-to-1 rear axle ratio gearset.
I like vintage drag cars. LOL!
I have that car it's a badass car and yes it it's pretty fast cyclone
Love all the old muscle,but I remember my friend had a 65 mustang 289 3 speed standard and when the 77 trans ams came out he outran the new pontiac.
I call BS
I love the Ford K-Code 289. So much potential for such a small V8. Very lightweight engine that was capable of 400 plus horsepower with the right mods. Also loved the Chevy 302 that was only available in the 67-69 Z28 Camaro
@jeremythompson9895 DZ 302 '67-'69 Z/28 Camaros were sloth slow turds.
I had a 65 Falcon with a Shelby spec 289. That car was so much fun to drive! Not so much fun to gas up. I think the tail lights & trim on the Falcons were much better looking, but I have to say, the vintage Comets I've seen are almost always in better shape than the Falcons. That may just be a coincidence, but it lends to the impression that the Comets were somehow better put together. Either way, these were the best looking cars in their class, I think. Blows my mind that the Mustangs were more popular. But I'm clearly biased. This Comet is just gorgeous.
That hood tho......wow
..i would steal it
I would trade my left testicle to own this one, the interior is too cool.
There would be many of nutless gents in this world, if gonads were cash...
Can you tell me what size rims and tires on that car I love it!!!
Do you want to know where the 10th car is? Still looks like it did. Back in 65.
Well yeah! Happy to learn of its whereabouts. You can email to info@v8tv.net and we can chat. Thanks!
@@V8TV I sent my info did you receive it?
That B/ FX has a ford 8”
I had one of these cars back in the 1970's. It was campaigned for a time by a local racer in Dallas, Tx. I found the car in his mother's back yard in Carrolton, Tx, I traded him a 1970 428 Mustang Super Cobra Jet 4 speed car for the Comet. The Comet was complete except for engine. It did not have a top loader 4 speed in it but rather an aluminum cased 4 speed out of a Shelby Cobra. I installed a Hilborn injected Boss 302 and raced it for a while. I eventually sold the car and bought a Harley instead. This was around 1977 or so. Mine had the fiberglass bumper but I also had the original steel bumper that was on the car s delivered. That fiberglass bumper had "Thanks to Dyno Don" painted on it for it was the bumper from his 1964 A.FX car. If anyone knows the location of this car today, I would be curious to know where it is. I was told years ago that it was in a museum in Marietta, GA.
Jim Tatum
I grew up and got my license in the 80s, and even then 65 Comets were incredibly rare to see, which is partly due to Mercury making significant bodystyle changes pretty much every year. So a 65 looks different than either a 64 or a 66 Comet. The primary difference between the 64 vs 65 Comet was that the 64 had side-by-side dual headlights, while 65 has over-under dual headlights. Also 64 had more add on body trim along both sides of the car. From the side the 64 and 65 Comets look fairly similar, but very different from the front, and the side trim was different. Then in 66, the Comet basically became a Fairlane. But even if you go back to 61-62-63 Comets, they too are significantly different as well. It seems odd
Hello, Jim! So that's what happened to my old Cyclone! Great to know! 😀
Like you, I wonder where it is today. 🤔
BTW, the bumper was one of Dyno's left over '65 bumpers. That was the reason for the "Thanks to Dyno Don" acknowledgement on the bumper.
Odd that it's a Cyclone, but sports a Caliente grille...
Yep
You noticed that, too. 🤔
Mine also had that same grill, but I always thought it was because the Cyclone grill had been damaged in the minor accident incurred by the original driver and the dealer "cheaped-out" by replacing the "two-tone" Cyclone grill with the cheaper "chrome" grill.
My bad a 1966 Ford Mercury Cyclone
Very cool!
I know where one is that is probably not accounted for!
Love watching these race, Do the Brothers have any of the Mopar factory B/FX's, some of them were using the slant six and holing there own.
...but , the real sound track is really here 3:50
Sueet
Ford power !!!
2 secs slower than a Thunderbolt though
I don't claim to be an engineer but I really don't see how a fiberglass Fender could be lighter than sheet metal..... if anything aluminum would have been the lightest of all three materials.?.?.?
Is this a Ford only show?
Steve Solo why not
Nooo, uh, there is Mercurys and Lincolns too, LOL! 😁
Steve Solo No it’s about some guys,(plural)collection and they have some of everything!
Mercury, the forgotten badass. I have owned mostly Mercury products in my years and I will be 55 soon, just to name a few, 68 Cougar XR-7, 66 Comet 202 2dr sedan called "Grandma " several 70-71 Montego Cyclone 351 cars, and so on. I am remiss to say that I don't own a Mercury at the moment, but do have a fox body 4eyed 83 Get Stang and I know where a Mercury Capri fox body 82-84 is wasting it's days in someone's back yard doing nothing. It's my next conquest. I say these things cause people either have forgotten or are too young to know just how badass Mercury's are/where. They never embarrassed me. I am still pissed off at Ford for tanking them and keeping the piece of Shit Lincoln line alive. Smfh.
GT Mustang. Fn spell check. Lol
I agree. I'm a Ford man but I actually prefer Mercury. I'd take a 67-70 Cougar over a similarly equipped Mustang any day of the week. The Cougar was a much nicer car than a Mustang. My favorite Merc ever made is either a 70 Cyclone Spoiler 429 SCJ or a 68 Cougar GT-E 7 Litre with the 427 Side Oiler. Love the 69-70 Boss 302 Cougar Eliminator too. Probably my favorite small block pony car ever made other than a 70 Plymouth AAR Cuda or Dodge Challenger T/A with the 340/6 BBL/Six Pack. I'm a Ford/Mercury man but nobody did muscle cars like Mopar did in those days. Seemed like Ford was always a little behind Mopar and GM(specifically Chevrolet and Pontiac) as far as street performance went...at least in those days
"light weight" does not effect power output
A lighter weight race car will be faster than a heavier one with the same power though!
shiit
no roll cage ?? wtf
Back then even simple roll bars were optional ... even in NHRA.
Ford killed these engines. It was a shame. I was there.
You can call this comet powerless. 16 sec car at best as it is today.