“Whatever happened to all of the cool cars?” We hear that question often, especially when it involves a car that wasn’t so cool for many years. When was the last time you saw a Pontiac Catalina, or a late-60s Imperial cruising around for no good reason on a near-daily basis? You don’t. Most of the cars of old have either meandered their way to the junkyard, are sitting in a field somewhere, or are lucky enough to still be in the hands of a loving owner who takes care of it as if it was the second day of ownership. Americans, on the whole, seem to move on to the next big thing and cars are seen as disposable. In other countries, that isn’t the case. The Scandinavian area of Europe has a taste for distinctly American iron, something we’ve learned through our forum members over the years who live up there. Even though they cost a bit more than the local rides available, they cannot get enough of the big Yank tanks.
This 1969 Mercury Cyclone belongs to Alexander Brevik, and oddly enough, this is his driver, not his project car. His project cars tend to be European Fords…Escorts, Granadas, Scorpios and the like. Brevik is a man who likes to work on the car. He likes to repair, to tune, to spin wrenches…to him, there is great satisfaction in fixing a car. But sometimes the work can wear one down, so the Mercury, which had been restored around 2000 in the U.S., became his. It’s a 351 with a three-on-the-tree car, it’s clean, and it’s not overdone. Add in the backdrop of Norwegian country roads, and have the video masters at Petrolicious film everything, and you have a story worthy of a man who spends his days bringing iron back to life…and the car that recharges him when he needs it.
