Mercury Cyclone

[vypurr59]

This is the Mercury Cyclone that won the Daytona 500.

The monday following the event, Ford pulled their sponsorship from the Mercury team.

Ford felt that the "b" team should never have beaten their Torino Talladega "a" team

[cobraman]

I love the old "Stock Cars". I really don't care for the Nascar "Butter dish" looking cars. Just my opinion.

[bbowser]

Nice job Jeff. Great looking Cyclone. Lee Roy was one of the giants back in the day.

[vypurr59]

  On 9/9/2012 at 1:08 AM, bbowser said:

Nice job Jeff. Great looking Cyclone. Lee Roy was one of the giants back in the day.

Thank-you Bruce...I always root for the underdogs

['70 Grande]

Beautiful build Jeff! Is this the Polar Lights kit? Did you build it with the 427 or 429 engine, (looks like the 429 decal is on your hood)? I had always heard that fitting the 429 engine into the engine bay on these Polar Lights kits was next-to-impossible! If that's a 429, how'd you do it?

What other issues did you have building this kit? (I'm asking because I'm about to start one myself; the Wood's Bros. Mercury).

[Jim N]

Very well done!

[vypurr59]

  On 9/9/2012 at 2:08 AM, '70 Grande said:

Beautiful build Jeff! Is this the Polar Lights kit? Did you build it with the 427 or 429 engine, (looks like the 429 decal is on your hood)? I had always heard that fitting the 429 engine into the engine bay on these Polar Lights kits was next-to-impossible! If that's a 429, how'd you do it?

What other issues did you have building this kit? (I'm asking because I'm about to start one myself; the Wood's Bros. Mercury).

Yes this is the Polar Lights kit, and you are correct that the decals say it has the 429, but I decaled the body then found that the 429 did not fit, so it has the 427 in it.

If you are going to build this with the 429, you will have to relocate and/or fabricate the shock mount bars, so the 429 will fit. This was one of those "should have tested fit" type cars. But other than that, make sure the front of the car slopes down. Some of these Polar Lights cars had some issues from the cowl forward that the nose was up from the stock position, but some hot water and bending"ever so easily" got the nose of the car down.

Thank-you all for the kind words also

[TooOld]

Really nice job with the PL kit , it looks great ! Nice to see one of LeeRoy's cars , he was one of my favorites .

[Truck parts]

Great job!!!! I need to build the ones I have,

[jake88]

Love the cyclones! Looks awesome!