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Ken Block's Gymkhana videos are proof of the amazing tributes to hoonage that can be created when you have a full race team, a professional camera crew and plenty of money from your sponsors to throw around. We're pretty sure this Polish hoon fest was created without any of these things, but it came out pretty cool anyways. More »
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There are two great moments in Argentine motoring history centered around the Nürburgring and then there’s a third, a fourth-place finish at a race you’ve never heard of. Of course it’s the latter that’s the pride and joy of Argentine car enthusiasts: the story of the Torinos at the 1969 Nürburgring 84 Hours. More »
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A preview of things to come, Car and Track heads to Ford's test track to check out the new for 1969 Ford Torino 428 Cobra Jet in this vintage road test. Although the car wasn't completely ready yet, the 428 cubic inches of TNT were in place under the hood. It didn't take long for host Bud Lindemann to determine the '69 Torino 428 Cobra Jet was one wild super car. More »
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Welcome to Found Off The Street, our look at cars found on the cape that rust liked so much it decided to summer there; Cape Cod, MA. Today we have a 1975 Ford Torino wagon. More »
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"Apparently, no one told Ford about smog emissions, high insurance premiums, and the new legislation-sponsored safety laws." More »
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Ford may be racking up the accolades at the Detroit Auto Show this week, but Nice Price or Crack Pipe remembers a time when they weren't just award-winning, they were Gran. More »
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Last weekend we found ourselves amongst the Achievers in Louisville for the 8th Lebowski Fest. Among the attractions was the ringer fling, a green Plymouth Fury acting as a stand-in for the Dude's Gran Torino. More »
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Today we're showing the work of a Los Angeles-based pro photographer who heads down on the street to find his subjects: battle-scarred American cars in their natural habitat! More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Next up are some high-quality photographs, courtesy of Wimbles. More »
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We know, The Dude's Gran Torino was a 1973 model, but this '74 would have done an equally good job as Jeff Bridges' movie ride. Hollywood stardom eluded this Malaise Ford sedan, however, and now it awaits a trip to the Schnitzer Steel facility at the Port Of Oakland. More »
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Yesterday, we saw the Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 Hell Project competition go to the '72 Volvo 1800ES by a Nixon-over-McGovern-style landslide, with 73% of the vote favoring the Volvo over the '72 Cougar. Today we're going to punish reward Graverobber for his run of incredible PCH tirades (such as this one, this one, or- my personal favorite- this one) by making him work harder for a PCH Tipster T-shirt than anyone else ever has. The deal I made with him: he chooses the cars, he writes the tirade for the cars, I include the tirade in the post... and everyone wins! Well, except for those who grumble about seeing Mercury Cougars in two consecutive Choose Your Eternity challenges, that is, but we'll pay that price. More »
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We love weird South American versions of North American cars, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a car with a more complicated family tree than the Renault Torino. Conceived as the result of AMC-Renault cooperation, based on the '65 Rambler American Rogue, with body redesign by Pininfarina and power by Kaiser, the Torino was built in Argentina until 1982. We really, really want one to use for Official Jalopnik Business... and now there's this '72 for sale on eBay! Make the jump for a vastly expanded gallery. [eBay Motors] More »
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Mr. Vader, the latest in your ever expanding fleet has arrived. We thought the Spadaconcept Codatronica was but a glimmer in the eye of some crazy Italians. After months of development work and the creation of a production company, Spadavetturesport has announced production readiness for the Spada TS Codatronca. The car is a masterwork of stealth combined with aerodynamics, menace with purpose. Clad in black with an aluminum V8 sporting 630 HP and 492 lb.ft. of torque, the terror from Torino can top out at 211 MPH. More »
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This DOTS Bonus Edition thing has really taken off, with photos coming in faster than I can post them (be patient- my jumble of files rigorously organized system will result in everyone's shots appearing sooner or later). We've seen North American cars and a few in Europe, and now it's South America's turn. Chilean reader Felipe sees this '74 Torino parked in his neighborhood (I forgot to ask which city), and he's gone out and interviewed the owner for us. ¡Gracias, Felipe! Make the jump for the car's story... but before that, let's look at a Malaise Torino that's not quite as nice as this one! More »
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So Ford grabbed the same incredibly wholesome dancers they used to sell the '69 Mustangs when it came time to try to move some '69 Torinos off the showroom floors. Compare the nauseating perkiness of this ad to the worldly white-collar hoon in the '68 Torino ad. But look at all the engine choices you got! Make ours a 428 Cobra Jet fastback with 4-speed, please. More »
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While we could not locate Steve Strope the man at the SEMA, we did find his 1972 Ford Gran Torino. The latest from Purevision packs a 514 cubic inch Ford crate engine and a 4-speed top loader backed by a Gear Vendors overdrive that translates four into eight speeds. The heavy rides on Bonspeed wheels sized at a mere 20X12 out back and 18X8 in front. The wheel size stagger accentuates the already pronounced space-age '70s Torino swagger. An Art Morrison four link holds everything together underneath the slope of the sportroof. Look closely and Strope himself can be seen in shorts. The Starsky and Hutch version of the Torino didn't roll here or in France until 1976. [Purevision Design] More »
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What with all the talk about Starsky and Hutch Torinos, Personal Dilemma Torinos, and Celebrity DUI Torinos around these parts, we've been keeping our eyes open for good examples of the old classic Ford. Today, we've struck gold: Dragon Torino! This '74 blows away the Dragon Image Per Vehicle record with its airbrush work, it's got a heated-up Cleveland, and it could be yours for a starting bid of just $10,950! Is that a reasonable price? Take the poll after the jump and let us know! [eBay Motors] More »
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Since I decided against buying my friend's '65 Falcon Wagon in my first Personal Project Hell Dilemma, I've had to keep my eyes open for a project suitably cool/hellish enough. Fellow Jalop Ben Wojdyla went ahead and solved his personal dilemma- well, at least the initial part- by buying the '64 Continental of his dreams, Bumbeck has a project Starion and Starlet, and I'm still driving the ol' '97 Crown Vic and '92 Civic hatch. The peer pressure builds. Something must be done! But now my dilemma gets all the more tantalizing, because I have been offered a numbers-matching 428 Cobra Jet '68 Torino GT... for free! Thing is, it's a little far away, and it needs some work... More »
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With the Mopar Minivan getting the win over the Blown Buick in Friday''s PCH Turbo Sleeper Edition poll, today seems like a good day to return to some good ol' no-replacement-for-displacement Dee-troit muscle. Sure, you could always whip out a fat roll of Benjamins and turn it into a cherry big-block machine that'll wow the car show judges... but this is Project Car Hell, where wallets are thin and Bondo is thick! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=300692&view=rss&microfeed=true When we had Intergalactic Malaise Era Torino day earlier in the week, we showed the Torino-versus-dumpster crash scene from the Torino-riffic film The Big Lebowski. It turns out that the influence of the "You see what happens, Larry?" Corvette/Torino-beating scene from the movie is so pervasive that even Croatians feel compelled to recreate it on some sort of Iron Curtain Fiat clone. But wait, there's more! More »
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First of all, apologies for the crappy quality of the image above; we scoured the internet for literally dozens of minutes and this was the best we could do. Since we've decided to follow up International Corinthian Leather Day with Intergalactic Malaise Era Torino Day, it's only right that we mention one of the most famous Torinos of them all: the 1976 Torino (equipped with vinyl top, of course) that Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington rammed into a tree, a telephone pole, and a house after passing out drunk behind the wheel. This incident served as the inspiration for the 70s "do as I say, not as I do" anthem "That Smell." [Official Lynyrd Skynyrd History Site] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296666&view=rss&microfeed=true Since we're on the subject of Malaise Era Torinos today, we should probably watch the classic Torino-versus-dumpster scene from The Big Lebowski. The 70s Torino occupies a special place in our mythology, and the cool thing is that they're still quite affordable. Movie-car geeks might notice that the private dick tailing The Dude is driving a Beetle, just like the private dick in the Coen Brothers' first movie. More »
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Today we're going to try a sort of gallery hybrid, with a few hi-res photos available below the "traditional" DOTS stuff. You'll definitely want to get a nice close look at this fine piece of Early Malaise Era hardware from the folks at Dearborn. I used to be indifferent to the '70-76 Torinos, but in recent years I've really come to appreciate these cars. I saw three of them at the Pick Your Part in Hayward recently, which was sad, but you still see them on the street as well. More »
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It was great seeing all the vintage race cars at Laguna Seca a couple weekends back, but what struck us about most of them was how small they really are in person. Then we saw this monster: it's the NASCAR '72 Torino driven by Bobby Unser to a fourth-place finish at Riverside in 1973, and it made the Lotus 11s parked nearby look like mechanic's creepers. Dig that 625-horsepower Boss 429! Now we can see why all 70s Torino owners need to go out this very minute and chop about 5" off their cars' ride height. We were very, very disappointed that this car wasn't let out onto the track with a bunch of high-strung Italian race cars. 3800 pounds of Detroit iron coming through! More »
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While the other camera-burdened folks at the Monterey Historics were throwing elbows trying to get in position to shoot entire cars, we Jalopsters were leaning as far into engine compartments as we could manage without actually having wrenches in our hands. There were some painfully beautiful engines there, and we should be forgiven for saying things like "Hey, that thing looks like it would fit great in a Vista Cruiser!" Actually, with our brains completely befuzzed with Unobtainable Engine Overload, we were mostly just groaning out stuff like "Oooh. Engine pretty. Engine good." So here's the first installment of 2007 Monterey Historics Engine Porn for y'all. We got us some Italian, some American, and some British stuff here. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=291132&view=rss&microfeed=true The first thing that comes to mind when watching this ad should be: Why didn't all Torino buyers get the 4-speed with Hurst shifter? With epilepsy-triggering flashing lights and nerve-wracking soundtrack, Ford buyers knew that time was running out to get their new '71 Torinos. The wide-angle road shots make the car look great, though we tend to prefer the late-60s fastback Torinos. More »
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As an artist best-known for his photorealistic painting of a '74 Torino wagon parked in an Alameda driveway, Robert Bechtle definitely gets the coveted Jalopnik Approved Artist Certification. Bechtle didn't (and doesn't) limit himself to just the Torino when it comes to subject matter, however; check out SFMOMA's interactive gallery in the link below for paintings featuring Novas, Thunderbirds, even a Triumph. Some may say his work reflects the inherent contradictions in the American Dream, with overtones of postwar ennui, but we know it's really about the cars. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=261792&view=rss&microfeed=true The mysteries of marketing can be confounding. Take this ad for the '68 Ford Torino GT- here's a car that's clearly designed to win the hearts of sunburned gentlemen in the former CSA who like the feel of a four-speed shift knob in one hand and a cold beer in the other as they roar off to the infield scene at the Jefferson Davis 500. Yet Ford's marketers cooked up an ad apparently targeted at wholesome turtlenecked insurance brokers in Connecticut who like to cut loose with an extra highball at the local turn-n-surf. Catchy tune, though. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=258323&view=rss&microfeed=true For some reason, Starsky and Hutch became an overarching theme during our recent Euro-trip. And well, frankly, if you've never heard the en Francais version of the theme song, you totally owe it to yourself to mash play. After all, it's avec David Soul! Be forewarned, however — it may get stuck in your head for life. Possibly cause tumors, too. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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