The Ford Torino was the best selling intermediate car in America multiple times. We cover the GT’s, Cobras, Grand Sports, Broughams, and even the Squire Wagons in this video. For the full history of the car, check out this video. All the drivelines, special editions, and options are covered.
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I think the 1972 Torino styling was the best. I liked your personal story at the end. Great informative video!
a MoPar guy since the late 1960's the 70 /71 Torino's are great looking cars
Does my 1975 Ford Elite, 351W, count as a Torino ? 🙁
They finally got the styling right in 1972
When I was a teen, we had a 1970 Fairlane 2 door with the 302 2BBL. I didn't realize just what a nice looking car it was, and opted to drive our Pinto instead most of the time.
What a great video
Older guy down the road from me has that king cobra snake!!! Badass car!!!!
Years back about 2006 I would go out to a public dirt bike park and on my way home I would always see a 56 ford pickup for sale alongside the highway so one day I said the hell with it stopped and got talking with the guy the truck was pretty rotten so I passed on it. When I was talking with him he could obviously tell I was into old cars and trucks he said come look at these. Went back behind one of his building and in the field lined up in a row was 8 or 9 Torino cobras they were all 1970 models green, blue, a couple yellow ones, orange. That kinda funny grabber blue color. They were all shaker hood 429 cars and a few had the rear window louvers. I remember being being completely dumbfounded and he said I have a couple more up in the barn but those are my babies. I wanted to ask if I could buy one but I chickened put. I was only 20 years old. It was crazy you couldn’t see them from the highway, I don’t know if anyone knew they were back there? I heard a few years later he had died never have heard what became of them.
luv Starsky and Hutch….great car. ..ICONIC ..
In my late teens I was fortunate enough to own a 1969 Torino GT with the 428 CJ engine, but no ram-air, although it did have the hood scoop. This particular car was pale yellow with gold stripe and a gold painted hood scoop. It looked very similar to the car shown here at 5.25. I stupidly sold it around 8 years later after getting married. It was actually a good handling car. I used to run it hard on some twisty roads in Virginia, including US 60 up the back of the Blue Ridge mountains and down that scary drop on the western side to Buena Vista. I'd do several runs and folks in the little shop/cafe at the top of the mountain would be waiting outside to get a look at the beast. Miss those days…
I had a 74 2 door 351 Windsor. It was my first car, used paid for by my dad. It was a great year for me and my friends!
I’m wondering if you took delivery around July of 2019? I drove trucks and I have a pic of one on a car carrier from then. I was on interstate 40 in eastern AZ. I’d like to attach the pic but I don’t think I can on YouTube.
My first car was a 1974 Gran Torino 2 door. Dad bought the car new for mom when it came out. After many years of it being the family car, when I got my license, it became my car, (with the understanding that I was then responsible for driving my little brothers around).
While I hated it at the time, (the whole "hand me down from mom" thing) I came to love it, and it is my biggest regret that it got sold out of the family, when I joined the Marine Corps in the spring of 1991.
I had a 1969 Torino Gt and a 1974 Grand Torino Elite.
Had a 71 torino cobra …it was scary fast
I had a '71 Torino 500 351C and it was a sweet car. I then had a '74 Elite 351W and it was a horror show with a flaky wiring harness- put me off Fords for a long time. BTW, weren't Rancheros based on Torinos?
Starsky and Hutch is an awesome show 👍 before my time but it's definitely one classic I watch and yes I like Starskys Torino Sport in the show one of the coolest tv cars ever!
Evolución del Ford Torino 1968/76; en Venezuela mi país es conocido cómo Fairlane 500; ensamblado en la ensambladora de Ford Motor Company de Venezuela; saludos.
Had 68 Torino gt two years later a rust bucket.
Great vid, could listen to this history lesson all day
When I was younger,I owed a 76 Torino with a 460 c6 auto transmission,after that I had a 75 Torino with a 351w now I'm rebuilding a 73 Mach 1.
I had a 73 grand Torino sport with sports roof 351 Cleveland Cobra Jet 4bbl, I had it bored it .030 over hooker big tube headers and a posi rear end put 355 gears in it . This was one bad ass street rod it pulled 455 horses. Had a great time on the streets with it.
My brother is restoring a1972 Gran Torino broham it is a 351 Cleveland cobra jet four speed car
Lot's of great info although I was hoping to see something on the rare models such as the Torino Cobra Twister Special and the Torino N/W editions. You are obviously very knowledgeable on Torinos and hope you can do a follow-up. Thanks for all your time and effort.
Torinos my favorite Ford. Got a 63 Fairlane 500 4 door nothing special originally a 221 car. Got a 289 in it now. Gotta love ford and those damn shock towers lol.
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I owned a 1971 Torino Brogham coupe with the hidden headlight option and a 351-4v M Code. I wish I had never sold that car
I learned to drive in my dad's '69 Torino 428 CJ 4 speed. Wild looking back, it had a device in the trunk from the factory that replaced the air cleaner, it had a flap that would go up into the hood scoop on acceleration.
My first car ever was a 75 Gran Torino. It was 10 years old when I got it, but it was built like a tank as a crazy woman hit the car on the passenger side door at about 40mph. Me and a friend were unhurt and a body shop dented out the door and the car ran fine.
Hi can I get a Grand Torino Like Starsky & H.???????
Brilliant video! And of course the '72 Gran Torino was also featured in the epic Barry Newman movie, "Fear is the Key" where his "stolen" GT was all but fit for the scrap yard at the end of the chase!!
I had a 69 Cobra Torino. 428 SCJ. It was awesome. Lots of differences between the 428 CJ and SCJ. Possibly a topic for a future show!
My dad bought a 70 sh*t brown bench seat 302 2bbl. He had terrible taste in cars.
This conversation starts and stops with the one and only Detective David Starsky’s 1976 Gran Torino coupe.