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Mercury Cyclone

Cyclone
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A car produced by Mercury from 1968-1971.

The Cyclone name was first applied to a high-performance version of the Mercury Comet from model years 1964-1967, and became a separate model in 1968.

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History

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Mercury Cyclone page on 24 July 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

The Mercury Cyclone is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from 1964 to 1971. It started as a performance model of the 1964 Mercury Comet, and was named the Mercury Comet Cyclone through 1967. For 1968, the "Comet" part of the name was dropped. Options such as GT, Spoiler and Cobra Jet were added and removed. In 1971, it was integrated into the Mercury Montego line as their performance model.

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Photographs

	1969 GT Photo ©2012 Bill Crittenden for $15,000 at the Mecum 2012 Fall Premier Auction View photo of 1969 Mercury Cyclone GT - 3.0MB
	1969 GT Photo ©2012 Bill Crittenden for $15,000 at the Mecum 2012 Fall Premier Auction View photo of 1969 Mercury Cyclone GT - 3.9MB
	1969 Cale Yarborough Spoiler II Photo ©1986 John Walczak View photo of 1969 Mercury Cyclone Cale Yarborough Spoiler II - 1,286KB
	1969 Cale Yarborough Spoiler II Photo ©1986 John Walczak View photo of 1969 Mercury Cyclone Cale Yarborough Spoiler II - 1,389KB
	Spoiler Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden WCS & NGMC Spring All Make & Model Carshow May 31, 2009 View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 4,949KB
	Spoiler Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden WCS & NGMC Spring All Make & Model Carshow May 31, 2009 View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 3,114KB
	Spoiler Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden WCS & NGMC Spring All Make & Model Carshow May 31, 2009 View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 3,822KB
	Spoiler Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden WCS & NGMC Spring All Make & Model Carshow May 31, 2009 View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 4,308KB
	Spoiler Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden WCS & NGMC Spring All Make & Model Carshow May 31, 2009 View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 5,381KB
	Spoiler Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden WCS & NGMC Spring All Make & Model Carshow May 31, 2009 View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 3,206KB
	Built by Ron Koeller, Jr. Photo ©2010 Bill Crittenden March 2010 Meeting of C.A.R.S. in Miniature View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 3,418KB
	Built by Ron Koeller, Jr. Photo ©2010 Bill Crittenden March 2010 Meeting of C.A.R.S. in Miniature View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 3,412KB
	Built by Ron Koeller, Jr. Photo ©2010 Bill Crittenden March 2010 Meeting of C.A.R.S. in Miniature View photo of Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Model - 3,396KB

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Merchandise

Type & Item #	Name	Details
Die Cast - GMP 8291	Cale Yarborough 1969 Mercury Cyclone	1:18 scale, white & dark red street car; Production:  3,450
Die Cast - Johnny Lightning 204-05	1971 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler	Muscle Cars U.S.A., small scale, green
Model Kit - Model King 21776P	1972 Cyclone Stock Car	AMT, #21 Bobby Brown

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Article Index

Date	Article	Author/Source
24 January 2004	Show Me State Publisher Fills The Gaps For Ford Owners	PAH Publishing
18 March 2011	Mercury Cyclone - The Muscle Car With a Heart	William Jason

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