One of 3,939 examples built in 1970, this Torino GT sports a replacement 351 V8 with an automatic; you couldn’t tell it’s not original just by looking at it
If you like to play puzzle games, take a shot at estimating the right price for this worn-out muscle car with uncertain provenance and an absolute need for TLC
Only 27 examples of the intermediate-sized muscle car from FoMoCo came with the big-block motor and a four-speed manual transmission in 1970; this is one of the
Although in production for just eight years, the Ford Torino is by no means a rare breed of car on today’s pre-owned and collectors’ markets. But as with most things in life, some representatives of this breed do have that special aura only cars made in limited numbers can have.
Did you know Ford almost ended up using the Torino nameplate for the Mustang during the latter’s development stage? Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed, although the Torino still has plenty of fans among classic car enthusiasts.
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Take a good long look at the cars that happen to be around you, and ask yourself: how will our grandchildren look upon them half a century from now? Will they cherish them as much as we do the machines made 50 years in our past, or will they see them as relics worth nothing more than a footnote in some industry history book? 6 photos
My personal guess is they’ll be forgotten. Granted, present-day cars are monuments to cutting-edge technology, but design-wise they (and by
they I mean pretty much all of them) lack the visual impact cars of the 1960s and 1970s had and still have.