1968 Mercury 428 Street Cyclone Road Test - Car Life Magazine Page 16

This is a scanned page (page 16) from Car Life magazine featuring a road test article titled "Can Mercury's Daytona Image Maker Deliver? 428 STREET CYCLONE." The page shows two black-and-white photographs by Paul E. Hansen. The large top photo depicts a Mercury Cyclone fastback and a Mercury Cougar drag racing side-by-side at a dragstrip with grandstands and a Goodyear banner in the background. The caption explains that the Cyclone's great torque and the traction of Goodyear's new Polyglas tires made the fastback the clear winner over the 427-cid Cougar, which lacked a limited-slip axle and wasted torque spinning its right rear tire; the Cyclone recorded quarter-mile times in the low 14-second bracket. A second photo at the bottom shows the Cyclone fastback from the rear on a road course. A red "CAR LIFE ROAD TEST" banner appears at lower left. The right column of body text is mostly cut off at the page fold and only partially legible, mentioning the 428 Cobra Jet engine and performance topics. This is the opening page of a multi-page road test of the 428 Street Cyclone.