Ford’s big-block Torino Cobra Jet 429 arrived at the peak of the muscle car era, a short-lived factory weapon that now ...
The Ford Torino first roared onto the scene in 1968 as a more upscale, performance-oriented sibling of the Fairlane. It arrived the same year Ford unleashed its potent Cobra Jet engine. It entered a ...
The Torino was Ford’s answer to the muscle car movement in the late sixties and early seventies (before the whole thing came tumbling down under the combined and mischievous attacks of EPA, insurers, ...
In the beautiful world of big-block muscle cars, the 1970 Ford Torino Cobra Jet often plays second fiddle to the likes of the ...
However, in 1968, Ford introduced Torino as a Fairlane trim level. A two-door, SportsRoof version of the new intermediate is the car that, when ordered as a GT, Cobra, or Cobra Jet, was loaded with ...
The term musclecar was originally used to describe big engined, ground-pounding, factory street thumpers. After all, cubic inches have always been notorious muscle builders and the "bigger is better" ...
Much of the reason for this is that the Torino couldn't get out from under the Mustang's mighty shadow. Introduced mid-model ...