Well, this is interesting...

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 01/08/2020 at 17:28 • Filed to: None

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Carbon fiber Merkur XR4Ti for sale in Kentucky somewhere. Throw a voodoo under the hood and it would be a fun canyon carver.

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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 17:40

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1000/10 wants. I’d thro a 1 liter Ecoboost in it. 

feather-throttle-not-hair > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 01/08/2020 at 18:21

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You’re a monster! But heh...that would be pretty fun.

Blondude > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 19:05

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Is it a Merku r or a Sierra ? It has Ford badging and it doesn’t have the split rear side window like an XR4Ti.

Either way it looks like a DIY version of the Merkurs that used to run in Trans Am.

vondon302 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 19:11

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Want it as is.

Too cool.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Blondude 01/08/2020 at 19:13

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I agree - it looks more Sierra, but the add lists it as a Merkur. I figure they either imported the parts, or just took some liberties and associated shortcuts.

DIY? Possibly, but in carbon fiber?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Blondude 01/08/2020 at 19:48

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I would assume that it started life as a Merkur. The Cosworth nose and large rear window are reasonably common modifications on Merkurs (the nose far more than the Window though I have personally seen a handful with the window modified) .

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 19:50

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Personally I would stick with the 2.3. They are good engines, if heavy for a 4 cylinder.

I’m also totally biased because my dad owned 2 Merkurs. 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/08/2020 at 20:02

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If you want to keep with the Sierra XR4i theme, I’d stick with a V6. The TT out of a Ford GT would do nicely, I think.

Or you could go with the standard choice and:

just-a-scratch > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 20:07

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According to the poll, 8/10 would daily.

Maxima Speed > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 20:16

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Thats epic!

RacinBob > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 20:25

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I don’t recognize the series but it sure looks like a full on pro car to me. The kind of car that cleaned up costs more than 100k and probably cost more originally.

It seems like to many difficult to fabricate details to be a home made kit. I suspect the only Merkur parts on it are the headlight, roof and rear deck assembly. It’s a tube frame with a race body I wonder what it was built for..If somebody buys it for $12k, they stole it......

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 21:26

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This badly needs the new EcoBoost High Performance engine... the RS-spec engine for longitudinal fitment that they just put in the Mustang for 2020.

UserNotFound > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 21:28

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Somewhere out there there's a build thread for that car. I recognize it from like a decade or more ago when I was looking for a cool first car and first learned about Merkurs.

RacinBob > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 23:50

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Answer from another forum

“ That car was built by Gene Young. I saw it when I bought his Lotus 7. He was just starting on the carbon body back then. His pal, Paul Bird, was building a similar SN95 Mustang for AIX.”

“ Here’s the XR4ti back when I saw it.”

RacinBob > RacinBob 01/08/2020 at 23:51

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That is a pretty impressive homebuilt......

RacinBob > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/08/2020 at 23:59

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Well looky this...

https://www.facebook.com/mc2racing