As the muscle car era rolled into the 1970s, manufactures continued to look for new ways to set their cars apart, sometimes even more so from the in-house competition. Taking advantage of some of powerhouse options developed by Ford, Mercury designers set out to make the 1970 Cyclone into a tire burning, head turning street machine that was sure to leave a mark at every stop light (and sometimes in the passenger shorts). The result was the 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler, a performance driven muscle car with standard features like a 429ci Cobra Jet V8, four speed manual Hurst shifter, competition handling package, and factory graphics package, while the car could run the ¼ mile in 14.5 seconds at 99 mph. The most stunning feature of the Cyclone Spoiler was arguably the wild W-shaped front end with protruding center cross hair grill that’s sure to make any driver feel like a fighter pilot.