Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Junkyard Find: 1976 Ford Torino

Torinos (and Montegos) were among the Malaisiest of Malaise Era machines, so it seems fitting to follow up the '75 Gran Torino Junkyard Find with today's '76. Yes, just as Nixon's resignation came just before the Fall of Saigon, Ford kept following up one big, slow midsize car with even bigger and slower versions.
This may be a Ford Elite, the short-lived personal-luxury-coupe version of the Torino, but the Wikipedia entry indicates that the Elite came standard with cloth seats, not the vinyl seats seen here. The emblems are all gone, so this could still be an Elite with a seat swap.
Just to confuse everybody, Ford added the 351M (a destroked 400M) to its array of (nominally) 351-cubic-inch pushrod V8s. That means that Windsor/Cleveland/Modified mixups will be driving parts-counter guys crazy until the last Ford V8 gets melted down.
This car is a bit rustier than the '75 we just saw, but it's an (allegedly) more desirable coupe and you'd expect such cars to be worth more than scrap value. Not in Denver, it seeems!

02 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1976 Ford Torino Down On the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin

from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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