The one-year-only body of the 1972 Ford Torino lineup was a visual sleeper hit: the deep grille, the small bumpers, the Coke-bottle shape of the car all came together just right. They only recently started to gain traction in the marketplace thanks to two major starring roles in films, as a villain car in a Fast and Furious movie and as the car star in Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. Both of those cars were the two-door Sportsroof style, the traditional muscle car shape of that time.
So what does that have to do with a California-sourced green station wagon on turbine wheels and bricks? Look at it for a moment, and if you don’t see the potential, then we don’t know what to tell you. It’s got the sport hood, and we’ll coin-toss between a 302 and a 351 underhood, which doesn’t run. There’s only three photos, all of the outside, but we’ll hazard a guess: worn but complete interior in matching emerald green and black.
A repaint in this factory green, a very healthy 351, and we’d be handing over money as if it was making our hands itch. As it sits, we suspect it’ll take a die-hard to want to save it. We know a couple of Torino freaks…wonder if they’d want to go out to Cali?
Flat black paint, a blower sticking out of the hood and raised suspension – then play out all your Mad Max fantasies!
That there is a car I’d like to road trip in, given a modern drivetrain that would get the mpg and power up and a general going-over with a drop and some fat 18’s, etc. Brother had a ’73 for stuffing full of people and whatever in the day and I really liked it for that, ’72 is better. Super-intact, a rare find.
The guy next to you in the souped up, Honda…wouldn’t know what hit him!
Just hope the new owner keeps the mouldings and trim and also the turbines. In my opinion it makes the whole car that much nicer. I hate when people just strips every last moulding off and put on 18s thinking it makes it look more modern. Sometimes things are just that much better left alone.
Totally agree! I have a Shovelhead FXR and I like to keep it looking stock with a few flourishes. Others in the Harley community in general are just about falling over each other trying hop on the latest bandwagon trend. Latest one seems to be ‘outlaw’ style bikes. In two or three years it’ll be something else. Mine will always be in style just like it is.
No pics, no info, $3500?? Take yer time, guys. It’ll be there for a while.
As a kid went from South Carolina to Oregon and back in one of these looking out the back window. I would love to find one just like this. Ours was green same wheels. Miss that car.
It finally made it to BangShift. Been watching this one for a while.
I had 72GTS just like in movie from 1973-78 , sold it, miss it,Want it back in Illinois. Was great fun car. Memories! Used Amsoil synthetic lubricants in it.
I had a 1973- I also live in Northern California. Mine was pretty clean. So clean, in fact, that the guy I sold it to shipped it back to Petershagen, Germany and put it in a Ford museum!