If it wasn’t for the paint color, I’d swear that I’ve seen this car before. But the slot mag wearing formal roof Gran Torino from days gone by was bronze and didn’t have a vinyl roof. It made one hell of an impact on a kid, a tail-happy big-ass two-door sedan that always seemed to be stepping out. I don’t know if that was just a perk of living with a gearhead with a tire-smoking habit or of the car was really that twitchy, but the feeling of a car I never suspected to be good proving me wrong scratching that itch of, “okay, this thing actually rocks!” was something I haven’t forgotten to this day. Not bad for a car that was traded off within months of showing up for…a dead-stock Fairmont, if I remember right. Yeah, that wasn’t a smart move.
Okay, enough about cars from the past. IT’s the present, and up for grabs are two 1972 Gran Torinos. They fit the budget properly: two cars for $4,250. Not bad. Both are 351 Clevelands with two-barrels. Both are up for sale because the owner hasn’t gotten around to making one badass car out of the two on site. What would we do? We’d determine which one is the more solid of the two (our money is on the green one), get the good parts together, including the 4.10-equipped 9-inch with the Detroit Locker, and build until it’s done. The white car doesn’t look too bad itself…ugly, yeah, but it’s not that horrifying. Maybe that one gets a roof-ectomy and is turned into a daily driver. Could work…
Facebook Marketplace link: (2) 1972 Ford Gran Torino
I have no where to put them…
WHY DO YOU TEASE ME LIKE THIS!!!!!
Clevo engine capable of over 500 hp … Freiburger just built one for teh Commando
Bobby Unser tribute car ?