The Mercury Cyclone wasn’t long for this world. In the eight years the model was on the market, it underwent a name change (it launched as the Comet Cyclone), was the subject of a dramatic redesign and saw four different generations released into the wild. Though it never quite caught on, the last iteration, which debuted in 1970, has its partisans. All you need to do is to look at the variant to see why. The high-performance model came with spoilers in the front and back, racing stripes, and an available 429-cubic-inch Super Cobra Jet V-8. The engine had a factory-rated output of 375 hp, but to this day some enthusiasts are convinced it had even more might than that. It was also rare, with only 341 examples rolling off the line.
From the article by Robert Ross, Bryan Hood, Erik Shilling
