Cool Torino-Based NASCAR Prototypes to Appear at Lowes Motor Speedway

By Jen Dunnaway

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A pair of ultra-rare NASCAR protos will be featured at the upcoming Food Lion AutoFair, an annual car show at Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte that draws upwards of 160,000 attendees. The Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II (pictured) and the Ford Torino King Cobra were a couple of big-block monsters designed for the 1970 season as competition for the likes of the Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird. But Ford's round-nosed cars never made it to mass production, in part because of shifting fuel and insurance standards that would've made ownership more expensive, and in part because of changes in NASCAR regs requiring race cars to be production vehicles of 3000 or more units. This Cyclone Spoiler II is the sole survivor of the pair of cars that were built (this one was dragged out of a chicken coupe in Indiana prior to its restoration), and the Torino King Cobra is one of only three in existence. See them in person on April 3-6.

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