I still have my 1970 Cyclone GT from when I was 16yrs old, first car, first love....She still runs and looks very good. Have modified the automatic transmission to be bullet proof, and changed out the rear gears for a little higher ratio, has the ram air function package on it, and you can here that flap bang open when you crack the throttle, makes people look, engine was rebuilt in 1980 and has only 25,343 miles on it... I paid $800 for her as the second owner...
@@chrisgaffney1646 Yeah, i doubt it. You don't even know for sure what engine is in his Cyclone. You may feel pretty confident if it's a 428 or 429 but if it happens to be an R code 427 or better yet an SOHC 427 i'm wondering if you'd like some catsup spread over that paint job before you dig in? After all, that's a 1970 model year. Yours is a 1974. Earth to Chris... Your mighty SD T/A has, if factory correct an 8.4:1 emissions compliant engine factory rated at 290hp. I could go on but suffice it to say. It was a survivor. A relic that was a last gasp effort at producing factory muscle but really it's kind of the best of a bad situation. Forget any reverse gear antics. Those cars would be pretty evenly matched because and only because it's still an SD but cast crank, 8.4 :1. Against a 1970 375 hp rated 429? The only reason you stand a chance against that Cyclone is that 429's were boat anchors.
Gregory Timmons I know right who cares. why does everybody have to be such a know it all this car is awesome so are the t/as big deal..... how old is this person20..... point is is these are cool cars go to a car show and start ripping on everybody's car that you don't like or think that your car is so great....nice comeback Gregory made me laugh have a nice day
A lot of these cars were not big sellers. I worked for a Mercury dealer from 66 to 1970 and I cleaned up very few Cyclones and never any special ones such as this. The big seller was cougar and Lincoln in the small dealership where I worked. They were good times and Is where I got my 66 Ford Fairlane GT 390 when a guy getting married traded in on a Merc Marquis. I got the car for trade in value, clean it up in my spare time and drove it like a nut for 3 years until I sold it and purchased a 350 Chevy Malibu 72, what a mistake but it was at least 4 speed LOL.. I was getting married too :(, mistake #2 LoL..
Those Mercury's always "stood out." Beautiful piece from the era. No mistaking it for any other brand/model. Probably in reality putting out 475HP. "De-troit."
Very nice. I remember reading back in the day, that the 429CJs had a restriction in the exhaust port design (or was it intake?), and the first thing draggers did when they got one was have the heads worked a little to remove that restriction and that really turned these motors on.
@@styldsteel1 yah ur right, as long as it puts me in the seat..been sitting a while .took my kid 4 a ride. As he's holding the dash he says, dad now I know why u kept this car all these years. Then we blew the clutch apart due 2 it's age. 25 years .
I am the previous owner of this cyclone.I actually have some pictures from 1971 when my friend bought the car from the Ford Mercury dealer in Aledo Illinois he was having carburetor trouble. So he took it back to the dealership. The dealership called him and said they could not get Any parts for the carburetor it was a six barrel Holley carburetor. Ford said they were not even supposed to have the carburetor. Ford Motor Company sent the dealership a 4 barrel Holley and intake manifold to replace the six barrel one. Before they did he took pictures of the six barrel set up.
The 429 SCJ engine, 4-speed trans, and "super drag pack" option, all together, cost $711.00 in 1970, which seems to be roughly $4,700 today. I can't help thinking that's still a bargain....
Hell yeah. The internals of the 429 SCJ were beefed up quite a bit compared to a regular 429 CJ when you ordered the 3.91 or 4.30 gears. Seems like a steal to me
I was there! These car's could take a beating. A close friend had a red cyclone, just like this one. He didn't maintane anything ever & that Mercury just took it. Ford's & Merc's were built like Caterpilar's in that era. Almost that heavy too...
It was a really strange time because even though there was just one FORD dealer in my area and it was a worker class family based set of streets for the neighbourhood, I did see a 1970 Cyclone and a huge Mercury marauder S-22 I think that was a fastback version of the Marquis with a rear deck on a red exterior . These were 6 passenger cars that older men bought while I noticed a young couple in 1969 bought a Montego MX in a tangerine with Black vinyl roof and black inside as a 5 passenger with the 302 V8 . I also saw a odd 68 Merc Park Lane with the wood trim you expected on a wagon. The big three tried to cover every niche market , too bad that I never saw a Tbird until someone came by the local Hockey rink with a new 1966 in Black with Black interior . I did catch a heating Oil Company employee that drove a new 65 Vette coupe in yellow with a black roof and black inside with the wood steering wheel , it was amazing and had a speedo that went to 160. What a decade it was .
I remember when I was a kid and the Mercury dealership here in Weatherford had a Cyclone SCJ painted bright gree. At the same time, they had a Cougar painted the same color and it had a Boss 302. Those were beauties.
Actually this class or size of vehicle wasn’t looked upon as a family vehicle at that time. The full size such as Impala, Galaxie 500, Custom, Custom 500, LTD, Pontiac Parisienne (Canadian car) etc were family cars. The Cyclone, Montego, Fairlane,, Plymouth Satellite, Chevelle, Malibu, etc were classed as midsize. In 1973 I drove a ‘71 Ford Custom 500 302ci 2 door hardtop and came close to buying a used well actually very well used Cyclome GT with the 429 Cobra Jet. Also in red but with the black graphics. It could have been a fun car but it was in so rough condition I passed on it even though it was cheap. This car that you featured is a true one of a kind.
A good friend of mine since childhood bought a 1970 Cyclone GT w/429 when he came back from Vietnam in 1970. It was FAST and he kept it spotless, always waxed and detailed. PTSD, Booze and Drugs killed Junior in his early 30's and his wife sold the car. Who knows where that beautiful car is today?
Bought one of these i in Sask. 1984, the 429 was gone, it was a base Cyclone, faded red, black bench, column automatic.Awesome body shape that looks even better up close in person than in pictures. I shipped it to Ontario & sold it, wonder where it is now....
We went to visit my wife’s aunt and uncle back in the early 80’s. There on their front porch lawn was one of these but with a 351. When I saw them again at a reunion, they told me they junked the car. I asked why, what was wrong with it, the told me, nothing, it was too big! I would have bought the car from them. Years later, her uncle bought a Class A motor home!
That is a cool car. The 375 HP sounds underrated unless that was supposed to be net horsepower. Then it would probably be closer to correct. Gross HP easily over 400 with that compression ratio.
About 415 to 425 HP stock at the crank in the real world. Ford used net hp ratings to keep insurance rates down. Ford is a very conservative company and they weren't necessarily interested in advertising high HP numbers like GM and Chrysler were.
@@frostroxie2740 - This Ford easily made 450+ lbs at the crank stock. Big inch performance Buicks and Olds made at least 500+ lbs. back then. LS6 Chevys, etc.
I had a gold 1970 GT auto on the column with black bucket seats, my dad made me trade it after 1 year because he thought it was going to kill me. Wish I still had it. That engine sounded awesome. I could floor that car at 30 mph and it would leave 2 black streaks 10 feet long.
Still have my 1970 Cyclone GT. Bought it 10-2-77. Going thru a complete rebuild right now. 351 cleveland, 4 speed toploader, added a locking differential, adding disc brakes. Re-did the motor 20 years ago with roller cam, roller lifters, and roller rockers. Mallory unilite distributor and ignition.
Man I LOVE THE CLEVELAND STUFF...A CLEVELAND MAKES MORE HP. PER CUBIC INCH,THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING..QUICK RESPONSE,HIGH RPM. THEY ARE BAD TO BREAK CRANKS IF YOU AINT CAREFUL
My husband used to work for a used parts company here in Indiana that had a junkyard and they would get prototype and test cars from the big manufacturers to get crushed. He wasn't even supposed to sit in the cars or pop the hood lol. Top secret, how ridiculous. But that was the agreement with the manufacturer (did they really think they wouldn't take a look?) He told me they even got a few running and drove them around the yard lol. This was around 2000-2010 and he said there was some far out stuff in them.
The oil coiler is not a "Cobra Jet piece" but rather a part of the drag pack option. I've heard mention twice the term " 4 speed drag pack option," which is less than accurate. The only option that determined whether or not the car was to receive the drag pack option was the gear ratio. If you ordered 3:90 or 4:30 gears on a Ford with a CJ motor you had to buy the drag pack [ 150 dollars ], the type of transmission [ auto or 4 speed ] had no bearing on the drag pack, you could order either one. Great videos.
Why would anyone want a Chevelle, when they could've had the "Gunsight" grille SCJ Cyclone, the rarest of the fast musclecars. HP way underated for insurance purposes. A real bad boy!
f4udhorn Well, to answer your question, I think it's because the marketplace was well supplied with unique muscle no matter what brand you wanted. Not everyone liked that gunsight grill. Some people scratched the Cyclone from their shopping list because of that very design element. There was a great selection to choose from in 1970 among the domestic brands. The 429 was not a favorite among performance buff's. Marginal streetability with those huge intake ports. Thank you for featuring this.
Mercury said "grandma and grandpa". "Vrooom!" was not associated with the brand. Maybe in the early days (1939 - 40 and 1949), but later it got a plushmobile image.
Im a Mopar guy but I'll take a 70 Cyclone 429 SCJ over a dime a dozen Chevelle SS any day...even an LS6. I love the 70 Cyclone Spoiler and Torino Cobra body style...especially the Cyclone with the gun sight grille. The center of the grille is actually removable to make cam changes easier. Awesome car
@Choff C An LS6 Chevelle might be a little faster but I'll still take the Cyclone Spoiler 429 SCJ over an LS6 Chevelle. Chevelle's are a dime a dozen compared to these cars
That's a bad ass Merc. Probably the baddest Ford muscle car since the 67 R-Code 427 Fairlane. I actually prefer the 429 Super Cobra Jet to the street version of the Boss 429. The Boss 9 only came with a 735 cfm carb and a really restrictive exhaust system. But the Boss 429 was a whole different animal with no smog equipment, an 800 or 850 cfm carb, and headers. No idea why Ford de-tuned the street Boss 429 so much
I got a ride in one in 71? I remember it was that brown-copper color.It had a shaker hoodscoop with a 4 speed.I dont know which 429 it had.I did go sideways very nice!
According to Hemmings Classic Car these early prototypes were supposed to be crushed. If not then the company owed a huge tax bill upwards of $150,000. This info per the Hemmings article on the AMX prototype which was one of two to be crushed. Or rather burned then crushed. It was documented as crushed but at the last minute the second car was spared and actually sold really cheap to the grandfather of the owner at the time of the article being published. Grandad worked the line at AMC and the car went in his modest collection. It was actually a pre production show car with shiny foil covered door handles etc. Because it was documented as destroyed AMC skirted the tax issue but the car is untitled and has some minor design differences. Including the doors and a rumble seat! Something that never would have made production with safety regs coming in.
Love it has a maverick rear lights pretty cool I bet it's worth a pretty penny ,beautiful car , listen to that car , that's true muscle and how cars were really built love it
Ah. I see the HP numbers were fudged for the 429 too. The HP listed for the stock 428 was 335. That's laughable cause my 428 could spin it's wheels at 20 mph, id love to see what a drag pack 429 could do.
Imagine if this sexy front built on fastback body style, you know like the 68 cyclone has! But engine specs, rear taillight, Interior, dash remains same of 70 only! Also I saw on internet this 70 cyclone with Shelby wheels, it was looking more beautiful like those wheels were made for this cyclone!
Loved this video. Subbed. I thought a Detroit Locker diff came with the Drag Pack? Why did the car only lay rubber with the passenger side tire at 5:54?
My cyclone came with a posi always did 2 wheel burnouts , then casing split. After that single trac burn outs only . Yours might e broke , if it don't lay down a. Nice posi burn out, going straight . I couldn't find the right part to fix mine ended up with a locker and hate it. Car use to handle, now it dont
The 3.91 axle came with the friction plate Traction-Loc center section, while the 4.30 came with the DAPCO (Detroit Automotive Products Company) No-Spin "ratcheting" center section: the famous "Detroit Locker".
@@jamessacco4816: There is an aftermarket billet steel center case available for the rather weak original Traction-Loc case, which had a nasty tendency to split the ring gear mounting flange from the inner case half ... when the "hat" part didn't split between the clutch ear holes, that is. 😬
A 70 429 SCJ Cyclone is one of my absolute favorite muscle cars ever made. Just a mean looking car with the gun sight grille. I'll take this car or a 68 Cougar GT-E 427 over any Mustang or Torino
*EXCEPT* there were *far* more Mercury Cyclones and Ford Torino Cobras built than the *extremely* rare 427 (early) and 428 CJ (later) 1968 7.0 Litre and XR-7 7.0 Litre GT-E Cougars.
That car needs a set of 15 inch magnum 500 wheels like the boss mustang had or the Mach 1 had . Beautiful car to give it taste and classic look. My brother had a 1971 black with Argent silver stripes mach 1 with magnums . The stance of the car look great. Back then cars had originality and looked different from each other
I am the previous owner of this cyclone I sold it at a sell in Indianapolis, Indiana several years ago. I was surprised the buyer never contacted me after he bought it. I know all the information about this car from when it was purchased new. The dealership. It was purchased at. And all the previous owners.
Had a 429 Cyclone Spoiler back in the late seventies. Brought it for $175 bucks... Being a kid with no brain I used the 9-inch posi-traction, narrowed it and put in a V-8 Vega... Had I known better and had a brain I would have trashed the Vega and kept the Cyclone. Had the Cyclone up to 143MPH one night coming back from a concert. The beast would fly. Being an automatic it would fry tires in 1-2 gears. No overdrive in those days so 3 gears in an auto was all you got. But what a horse this thing was. The body is rusting away in Hillsboro WI, the motor yanked and in a boat in Madison WI. If I could kick myself...
I'm the same way in regards to several of my cars from that era. Most of all my '67 Corvette 390hp 427 4 speed lift off hardtop but unless daddy owned a warehouse where are you going to store cars like that? 40 years beside your folks house is not going to leave you with much.
The 429 SCJ is somewhat overlooked but was one of the most powerful RPO engines available in the muscle car era. Vintage drag tests proved that this engine could propel a 4300 lb heavily optioned car to more than 102 mph in the quarter mile. That's about 415 net horsepower at the crank.
Ford, over the years, overrated several of their engines. The Thunderbird 352, and 390 were rated at 300 HP. Same with the GT 390. They were dogs. This engine, along with the Boss 302 CJ 428 were underrated.
Scooter George I don't know about the others mentioned but the GT 390 was anything but a dog. I was not really a Ford guy then, or now for that matter but I loved '66 - 67 Fairlane GT's I had plenty of exposure to nearly all the hot factory muscle back then and those Fairlane's did just fine against the closed chamber 396.
I noticed a lot of the body lines do not match up. It's a shame that Mercury didn't take a effort to make it better.. But on the other hand if this Cyclone was not meant to be driven on the streets... it is understandable... Still a very nice car.. I can remember seeing a cyclone in a junkyard back in the 70s that had the 429 engine. Not realizing what the car was worth then and what it can be now. Let me kick myself in the butt..
Scj was a engine designation.drag pakwas a seperate option.scj was solid lifter 4 bolt main and Holley 780 c.f.m.with exhaust headers.c.j.was hydraulic lifter Rochester spread bore carb and some were 4 bolt main some were 2 bolt main.
I'm surprised it has 40,000 miles! Finally, an old car that isn't/wasn't just put in storage in some rich dude's basement. This thing was driven, and beat on. Like all good muscle cars should be.
The same is true of the 1971 Boss 302, and that car has been located and documented, it too was not crushed, it was ignomously stripped of its boss trimmings and drive train and renumbered as a basic Mustang with a basic engine and sold to the public. The engines were available as crate motors but no production cars were produced, even though most of the parts were cataloged for spare stock for dealers to repair production cars.
@@67marlins81 my father actually bought a 70 Torino cobra 429CJ 4 speed brand new. It was yellow with the black hood. I remember seeing him pull in our driveway for the first time and me and my brother running out the door to get him to take us for a ride. Man I loved that car. He's still kicking himself in the ass for selling it
I always liked the looks of the 70 Cyclone's with the gun sight grille and the sloping rear window. I'd take this car over a 70 Torino Cobra 429 SCJ any day. In fact it's probably my favorite Mercury other than maybe a Cougar Eliminator BOSS 302 or a 427 Marauder
If you just put racing fuel in those things and advance the timing the horsepower goes up like 100 HP. It is unbelievable how responsive they are to raise fuel and timing.... It makes them so much faster....
I still have my 1970 Cyclone GT from when I was 16yrs old, first car, first love....She still runs and looks very good. Have modified the automatic transmission to be bullet proof, and changed out the rear gears for a little higher ratio, has the ram air function package on it, and you can here that flap bang open when you crack the throttle, makes people look, engine was rebuilt in 1980 and has only 25,343 miles on it... I paid $800 for her as the second owner...
I envy you!! I have a '70 Marquis 2-door hardtop - a poor man's Marauder...
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show some pics
l'll beat that cyclone in reverse, with my 74 SD TA
@@chrisgaffney1646 Yeah, i doubt it. You don't even know for sure what engine is in his Cyclone. You may feel pretty confident if it's a 428 or 429 but if it happens to be an R code 427 or better yet an SOHC 427 i'm wondering if you'd like some catsup spread over that paint job before you dig in? After all, that's a 1970 model year. Yours is a 1974. Earth to Chris... Your mighty SD T/A has, if factory correct an 8.4:1 emissions compliant engine factory rated at 290hp. I could go on but suffice it to say. It was a survivor. A relic that was a last gasp effort at producing factory muscle but really it's kind of the best of a bad situation. Forget any reverse gear antics. Those cars would be pretty evenly matched because and only because it's still an SD but cast crank, 8.4 :1. Against a 1970 375 hp rated 429? The only reason you stand a chance against that Cyclone is that 429's were boat anchors.
Gregory Timmons I know right who cares. why does everybody have to be such a know it all this car is awesome so are the t/as big deal..... how old is this person20..... point is is these are cool cars go to a car show and start ripping on everybody's car that you don't like or think that your car is so great....nice comeback Gregory made me laugh have a nice day
A lot of these cars were not big sellers. I worked for a Mercury dealer from 66 to 1970 and I cleaned up very few Cyclones and never any special ones such as this. The big seller was cougar and Lincoln in the small dealership where I worked. They were good times and Is where I got my 66 Ford Fairlane GT 390 when a guy getting married traded in on a Merc Marquis. I got the car for trade in value, clean it up in my spare time and drove it like a nut for 3 years until I sold it and purchased a 350 Chevy Malibu 72, what a mistake but it was at least 4 speed LOL.. I was getting married too :(, mistake #2 LoL..
We all have that same problem. I once traded my 67 camaro, for 69 elcomieno and 72 dodge charger
Those Mercury's always "stood out." Beautiful piece from the era. No mistaking it for any other brand/model. Probably in reality putting out 475HP. "De-troit."
i own a 1970 mercury cyclone spoiler 429 CJ 4 speed , grabber blue i am now 55 years old and still have the car , 570 HP 4 MILES to a gallon it gets
Very nice. I remember reading back in the day, that the 429CJs had a restriction in the exhaust port design (or was it intake?), and the first thing draggers did when they got one was have the heads worked a little to remove that restriction and that really turned these motors on.
Nice! The mpg doesn't matter any. Unless it's your every day car. I'm quite positive it's not.
@@styldsteel1 yah ur right, as long as it puts me in the seat..been sitting a while .took my kid 4 a ride. As he's holding the dash he says, dad now I know why u kept this car all these years. Then we blew the clutch apart due 2 it's age. 25 years .
@@jamessacco4816 oophaa!
James , just curious if you still have it , are you interested in selling it
I am the previous owner of this cyclone.I actually have some pictures from 1971 when my friend bought the car from the Ford Mercury dealer in Aledo Illinois he was having carburetor trouble. So he took it back to the dealership. The dealership called him and said they could not get Any parts for the carburetor it was a six barrel Holley carburetor. Ford said they were not even supposed to have the carburetor. Ford Motor Company sent the dealership a 4 barrel Holley and intake manifold to replace the six barrel one. Before they did he took pictures of the six barrel set up.
Really..,wow. Me speachless ...thankz
Awesome story , thanks
Why did u sell it??
It may have had a 3x2V carburetor setup, but I highly doubt it had a 6 barrel carb.
The 429 SCJ engine, 4-speed trans, and "super drag pack" option, all together, cost $711.00 in 1970, which seems to be roughly $4,700 today. I can't help thinking that's still a bargain....
Hell yeah. The internals of the 429 SCJ were beefed up quite a bit compared to a regular 429 CJ when you ordered the 3.91 or 4.30 gears. Seems like a steal to me
@@jeremythompson9122 heck ya
Love the rear tail light area.
Classic Larry Shinoda styling. Nice Sleeper.
I was there! These car's could take a beating. A close friend had a red cyclone, just like this one. He didn't maintane anything ever & that Mercury just took it. Ford's & Merc's were built like Caterpilar's in that era. Almost that heavy too...
It was a really strange time because even though there was just one FORD dealer in my area and it was a worker class family based set of streets for the neighbourhood, I did see a 1970 Cyclone and a huge Mercury marauder S-22 I think that was a fastback version of the Marquis with a rear deck on a red exterior . These were 6 passenger cars that older men bought while I noticed a young couple in 1969 bought a Montego MX in a tangerine with Black vinyl roof and black inside as a 5 passenger with the 302 V8 . I also saw a odd 68 Merc Park Lane with the wood trim you expected on a wagon.
The big three tried to cover every niche market , too bad that I never saw a Tbird until someone came by the local Hockey rink with a new 1966 in Black with Black interior . I did catch a heating Oil Company employee that drove a new 65 Vette coupe in yellow with a black roof and black inside with the wood steering wheel , it was amazing and had a speedo that went to 160.
What a decade it was .
I dig FMCO stryling from here to Australia they made the best looking muscle cars
I remember when I was a kid and the Mercury dealership here in Weatherford had a Cyclone SCJ painted bright gree.
At the same time, they had a Cougar painted the same color and it had a Boss 302. Those were beauties.
The Cyclone and the Cougar are definitely 2 of my favorite Mercuries of all time other then the Mercury M100.
My favorite car ever built by Mercury. It's between this and a 69 428CJ Cale Yarborough Cyclone Spoiler
I have the same car. 429 Cobra Jet with Ram Air. Nice car.
Actually this class or size of vehicle wasn’t looked upon as a family vehicle at that time. The full size such as Impala, Galaxie 500, Custom, Custom 500, LTD, Pontiac Parisienne (Canadian car) etc were family cars. The Cyclone, Montego, Fairlane,, Plymouth Satellite, Chevelle, Malibu, etc were classed as midsize.
In 1973 I drove a ‘71 Ford Custom 500 302ci 2 door hardtop and came close to buying a used well actually very well used Cyclome GT with the 429 Cobra Jet. Also in red but with the black graphics. It could have been a fun car but it was in so rough condition I passed on it even though it was cheap. This car that you featured is a true one of a kind.
I've seen these cars,i had a neighbor who had one,it was a black and red cyclone with the 429 scj engine.rare but I seen a few.
Mustang/Cougar so much more unique than Camaro/Firebird
A good friend of mine since childhood bought a 1970 Cyclone GT w/429 when he came back from Vietnam in 1970. It was FAST and he kept it spotless, always waxed and detailed. PTSD, Booze and Drugs killed Junior in his early 30's and his wife sold the car. Who knows where that beautiful car is today?
That a sweet ride with a manual 4 speed just really cool
Still to this day the test mules created are being crushed, hard to understand why. Too sad!
i had a 70 Mercury Montego with a straight 6, 3 on the tree, and that car would burn rubber. i can imagine 429 cubes. beautiful car.
How many did they make like that?
@@rosenb37 Dam few , not many Mrecs with a 6 except for the little Comet ! Most everything got at least the base V 8 .
@@thomasdaum1927Except the Montego came standard with a 6, so there must be some out there.
@@rosenb37 👍
Bought one of these i in Sask. 1984, the 429 was gone, it was a base Cyclone, faded red, black bench, column automatic.Awesome body shape that looks even better up close in person than in pictures. I shipped it to Ontario & sold it, wonder where it is now....
One of the prettiest cars of the muscle car era.
We went to visit my wife’s aunt and uncle back in the early 80’s. There on their front porch lawn was one of these but with a 351. When I saw them again at a reunion, they told me they junked the car. I asked why, what was wrong with it, the told me, nothing, it was too big! I would have bought the car from them. Years later, her uncle bought a Class A motor home!
Ah man...
Awesome car.
Not a ford guy at all but man this car is just awesome!
Thanks for the uploads!
That is a cool car. The 375 HP sounds underrated unless that was supposed to be net horsepower. Then it would probably be closer to correct. Gross HP easily over 400 with that compression ratio.
About 415 to 425 HP stock at the crank in the real world. Ford used net hp ratings to keep insurance rates down.
Ford is a very conservative company and they weren't necessarily interested in advertising high HP numbers like GM and Chrysler were.
450 Ft Lbs of torque..... that’s where the power is!!! I had a 69 GTX with a 426 Max Wedge..... 455 SD and HD were bad ass also!
@@scdevon
So true.
@@frostroxie2740
Yes you know your cars and engine torque and what torque actually means.
@@frostroxie2740 - This Ford easily made 450+ lbs at the crank stock. Big inch performance Buicks and Olds made at least 500+ lbs. back then. LS6 Chevys, etc.
Some BFG radials and A/C would truly make this a great Driver ! I would like a 70 Cougar Xr-7 built this way !
I had a gold 1970 GT auto on the column with black bucket seats, my dad made me trade it after 1 year because he thought it was going to kill me. Wish I still had it. That engine sounded awesome. I could floor that car at 30 mph and it would leave 2 black streaks 10 feet long.
I had a 67 cyclone 390 high performance 4 speed! It was something else. Wish I still had it.
Still have my 1970 Cyclone GT. Bought it 10-2-77. Going thru a complete rebuild right now. 351 cleveland, 4 speed toploader, added a locking differential, adding disc brakes. Re-did the motor 20 years ago with roller cam, roller lifters, and roller rockers. Mallory unilite distributor and ignition.
Man I LOVE THE CLEVELAND STUFF...A CLEVELAND MAKES MORE HP. PER CUBIC INCH,THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING..QUICK RESPONSE,HIGH RPM. THEY ARE BAD TO BREAK CRANKS IF YOU AINT CAREFUL
I always wanted one of these 70 Mercury's.
My husband used to work for a used parts company here in Indiana that had a junkyard and they would get prototype and test cars from the big manufacturers to get crushed. He wasn't even supposed to sit in the cars or pop the hood lol. Top secret, how ridiculous. But that was the agreement with the manufacturer (did they really think they wouldn't take a look?) He told me they even got a few running and drove them around the yard lol. This was around 2000-2010 and he said there was some far out stuff in them.
AWESOME FORDS. AWESOME MERCURY. 🇺🇸
The oil coiler is not a "Cobra Jet piece" but rather a part of the drag pack option. I've heard mention twice the term " 4 speed drag pack option," which is less than accurate. The only option that determined whether or not the car was to receive the drag pack option was the gear ratio. If you ordered 3:90 or 4:30 gears on a Ford with a CJ motor you had to buy the drag pack [ 150 dollars ], the type of transmission [ auto or 4 speed ] had no bearing on the drag pack, you could order either one. Great videos.
👍 Great job. I love the Murcury comet tail lights. It's just straight up Bad ass
Why would anyone want a Chevelle, when they could've had the "Gunsight" grille SCJ Cyclone, the rarest of the fast musclecars. HP way underated for insurance purposes. A real bad boy!
f4udhorn Well, to answer your question, I think it's because the marketplace was well supplied with unique muscle no matter what brand you wanted. Not everyone liked that gunsight grill. Some people scratched the Cyclone from their shopping list because of that very design element. There was a great selection to choose from in 1970 among the domestic brands. The 429 was not a favorite among performance buff's. Marginal streetability with those huge intake ports. Thank you for featuring this.
Choff C go fuck your self!!!!
Mercury said "grandma and grandpa". "Vrooom!" was not associated with the brand. Maybe in the early days (1939 - 40 and 1949), but later it got a plushmobile image.
Im a Mopar guy but I'll take a 70 Cyclone 429 SCJ over a dime a dozen Chevelle SS any day...even an LS6. I love the 70 Cyclone Spoiler and Torino Cobra body style...especially the Cyclone with the gun sight grille. The center of the grille is actually removable to make cam changes easier. Awesome car
@Choff C An LS6 Chevelle might be a little faster but I'll still take the Cyclone Spoiler 429 SCJ over an LS6 Chevelle. Chevelle's are a dime a dozen compared to these cars
It is different. Neat!
Love it, nice machine, good video!!! Thanks.
That's a bad ass Merc. Probably the baddest Ford muscle car since the 67 R-Code 427 Fairlane. I actually prefer the 429 Super Cobra Jet to the street version of the Boss 429. The Boss 9 only came with a 735 cfm carb and a really restrictive exhaust system. But the Boss 429 was a whole different animal with no smog equipment, an 800 or 850 cfm carb, and headers. No idea why Ford de-tuned the street Boss 429 so much
I got a ride in one in 71? I remember it was that brown-copper color.It had a shaker hoodscoop with a 4 speed.I dont know which 429 it had.I did go sideways very nice!
As best as I can remember, the "Shaker" was only available with the SCJ package.
The most beautiful
According to Hemmings Classic Car these early prototypes were supposed to be crushed. If not then the company owed a huge tax bill upwards of $150,000. This info per the Hemmings article on the AMX prototype which was one of two to be crushed. Or rather burned then crushed. It was documented as crushed but at the last minute the second car was spared and actually sold really cheap to the grandfather of the owner at the time of the article being published. Grandad worked the line at AMC and the car went in his modest collection. It was actually a pre production show car with shiny foil covered door handles etc. Because it was documented as destroyed AMC skirted the tax issue but the car is untitled and has some minor design differences. Including the doors and a rumble seat! Something that never would have made production with safety regs coming in.
Beautiful car 🚗
Another very cool car awesome hard to find this one love it
Beautiful RED!!!
I had one, 4 gear sweet ride. Passed everything but a gas station. 13.3 in the quarter mile.
Love it has a maverick rear lights pretty cool I bet it's worth a pretty penny ,beautiful car , listen to that car , that's true muscle and how cars were really built love it
Remember new fords back then and esp in the 70s had a distinct new car smell. Loved it lol
The horse power was underrated, for insurance reasons!
Yep - same with the Boss 302 Mustangs
Ah. I see the HP numbers were fudged for the 429 too. The HP listed for the stock 428 was 335. That's laughable cause my 428 could spin it's wheels at 20 mph, id love to see what a drag pack 429 could do.
What a well made beuty!
Imagine if this sexy front built on fastback body style, you know like the 68 cyclone has! But engine specs, rear taillight, Interior, dash remains same of 70 only! Also I saw on internet this 70 cyclone with Shelby wheels, it was looking more beautiful like those wheels were made for this cyclone!
Loved this video. Subbed. I thought a Detroit Locker diff came with the Drag Pack? Why did the car only lay rubber with the passenger side tire at 5:54?
No posi-traction.
My cyclone came with a posi always did 2 wheel burnouts , then casing split. After that single trac burn outs only . Yours might e broke , if it don't lay down a. Nice posi burn out, going straight . I couldn't find the right part to fix mine ended up with a locker and hate it. Car use to handle, now it dont
The 3.91 axle came with the friction plate Traction-Loc center section, while the 4.30 came with the DAPCO (Detroit Automotive Products Company) No-Spin "ratcheting" center section: the famous "Detroit Locker".
@@jamessacco4816: There is an aftermarket billet steel center case available for the rather weak original Traction-Loc case, which had a nasty tendency to split the ring gear mounting flange from the inner case half ... when the "hat" part didn't split between the clutch ear holes, that is. 😬
Awesome Mercury.
Time capsule thank ya good footage informative 💡
A 70 429 SCJ Cyclone is one of my absolute favorite muscle cars ever made. Just a mean looking car with the gun sight grille. I'll take this car or a 68 Cougar GT-E 427 over any Mustang or Torino
*EXCEPT* there were *far* more Mercury Cyclones and Ford Torino Cobras built than the *extremely* rare 427 (early) and 428 CJ (later) 1968 7.0 Litre and XR-7 7.0 Litre GT-E Cougars.
I'd never heard of or seen this car before this video. Very cool. Thanks V8TV.
My dad had a 70 montego mx that was beautiful. i am trying to find something close now
Oh, I would enjoy that car.....
Just an absolute beauty
That car needs a set of 15 inch magnum 500 wheels like the boss mustang had or the Mach 1 had . Beautiful car to give it taste and classic look. My brother had a 1971 black with Argent silver stripes mach 1 with magnums . The stance of the car look great. Back then cars had originality and looked different from each other
Awesome ride
Nice car
Awesome car!
Awesome !
The 4:30s are perfect
Unbelievably low sticker price for this exotic looking large high performance midsized coupe.
great car respect!
The dog dish hubcaps are bad ass.
I am the previous owner of this cyclone I sold it at a sell in Indianapolis, Indiana several years ago. I was surprised the buyer never contacted me after he bought it. I know all the information about this car from when it was purchased new. The dealership. It was purchased at. And all the previous owners.
That would be me please call I still have it Jimmy 732-713 6374
Had a 429 Cyclone Spoiler back in the late seventies. Brought it for $175 bucks... Being a kid with no brain I used the 9-inch posi-traction, narrowed it and put in a V-8 Vega... Had I known better and had a brain I would have trashed the Vega and kept the Cyclone. Had the Cyclone up to 143MPH one night coming back from a concert. The beast would fly. Being an automatic it would fry tires in 1-2 gears. No overdrive in those days so 3 gears in an auto was all you got. But what a horse this thing was. The body is rusting away in Hillsboro WI, the motor yanked and in a boat in Madison WI. If I could kick myself...
We were all young and dumb I know what your saying if we could only relive those days over and know what we know now
I'm the same way in regards to several of my cars from that era. Most of all my '67 Corvette 390hp 427 4 speed lift off hardtop but unless daddy owned a warehouse where are you going to store cars like that? 40 years beside your folks house is not going to leave you with much.
looks much more classy than the Torino of the same year
70 Cyclone GT Commercial 1970 Cyclone GT Commercial
V8TV Very impressive presentation and beautiful rare car. You packed a lot of info into that - no filler, great job!
The 429 SCJ is somewhat overlooked but was one of the most powerful RPO engines available in the muscle car era. Vintage drag tests proved that this engine could propel a 4300 lb heavily optioned car to more than 102 mph in the quarter mile. That's about 415 net horsepower at the crank.
DONDIVA1969 The 375 HP rating was ridiculous. They made much more than that.
+scdevon The nascar version made over 500hp, they were detuned for the street
Ford, over the years, overrated several of their engines. The Thunderbird 352, and 390 were rated at 300 HP. Same with the GT 390. They were dogs. This engine, along with the Boss 302 CJ 428 were underrated.
Scooter George I don't know about the others mentioned but the GT 390 was anything but a dog. I was not really a Ford guy then, or now for that matter but I loved '66 - 67 Fairlane GT's I had plenty of exposure to nearly all the hot factory muscle back then and those Fairlane's did just fine against the closed chamber 396.
He sounds like Ron Swanson !!!
Stunning car. Wow.
I love the look of a heavy yank-tank with an imposing manly grille. Just great. I wanna get one.
You have good taste in cars, Sam.
I noticed a lot of the body lines do not match up. It's a shame that Mercury didn't take a effort to make it better.. But on the other hand if this Cyclone was not meant to be driven on the streets... it is understandable... Still a very nice car.. I can remember seeing a cyclone in a junkyard back in the 70s that had the 429 engine. Not realizing what the car was worth then and what it can be now. Let me kick myself in the butt..
Scj was a engine designation.drag pakwas a seperate option.scj was solid lifter 4 bolt main and Holley 780 c.f.m.with exhaust headers.c.j.was hydraulic lifter Rochester spread bore carb and some were 4 bolt main some were 2 bolt main.
I'm surprised it has 40,000 miles! Finally, an old car that isn't/wasn't just put in storage in some rich dude's basement. This thing was driven, and beat on. Like all good muscle cars should be.
shes a beauty , i would be afraid to drive it on the street
love it
375 hp sure it is
Very cool car👍🏼
Grill got a bit odd in 1970. Now the 1971 LTD, that is so very pretty for a big car. Owned several of those
The same is true of the 1971 Boss 302, and that car has been located and documented, it too was not crushed, it was ignomously stripped of its boss trimmings and drive train and renumbered as a basic Mustang with a basic engine and sold to the public. The engines were available as crate motors but no production cars were produced, even though most of the parts were cataloged for spare stock for dealers to repair production cars.
BACK IN THE DAY THESE KIND OF BIG MUSCLE CARS WERE OLD MAN MUSCLE CARS
I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK.
and they still showed their taillights to young men's cars...
@@67marlins81 a 429SCJ 4 speed 70 cyclone with a 4.30 rear is "Anything But" an old man's car
@@jeremythompson9895 that's for sure.
@@67marlins81 my father actually bought a 70 Torino cobra 429CJ 4 speed brand new. It was yellow with the black hood. I remember seeing him pull in our driveway for the first time and me and my brother running out the door to get him to take us for a ride. Man I loved that car. He's still kicking himself in the ass for selling it
Nice car.....
Badazz Merc!!
That was great Keven, love the cyclones Aka Dave Person! #21
I always liked the looks of the 70 Cyclone's with the gun sight grille and the sloping rear window. I'd take this car over a 70 Torino Cobra 429 SCJ any day. In fact it's probably my favorite Mercury other than maybe a Cougar Eliminator BOSS 302 or a 427 Marauder
I would say otherwise. The roof is identical to the hard top Torino. The sportsroof Torinos looked better but damn both look good
HAD ONE......Sweeeeet Ride !!!
I bought one for my 17th birthday gift with help from my dad my girlfriend's present for my 20th was to burn it such a shame
Thanks
Would look good with a set of Magnum 500 wheels like the Boss 429 Mustang.
+trucking604 429 SCJ was a 4 bolt main block and solid lifters.
Those on this particular car are the same as the "BOSS 9" 'stang came with: 15x7" in chrome.
If you just put racing fuel in those things and advance the timing the horsepower goes up like 100 HP. It is unbelievable how responsive they are to raise fuel and timing.... It makes them so much faster....
.....,wow!!
so beautiful! thanks for posting!
That’s my dream car
A guy in my town has a Spoiler version in Grabber Blue. Until I saw his a couple years ago I never knew these even existed.