Ford Torino, NJ.

 

From Jonathan Welsh: "Trends in the car business were changing quickly when Ford rolled out this largely one-year styling exercise. The front end was a departure from earlier Torino's but the following year's model got boring again and stuck around mostly unchanged for years. Our neighbor had one just like this when I was a kid and yes, my friends and I thought it was very cool. Later models became famous as the car that TV cops Starsky and Hutch drove. The '72 was Clint Eastwood's costar in the 2008 film, "Gran Torino."

AL: we caught a Gran Torino in Marfa Texas a while back. And here's a quick Torino on the Maine Turnpike. In the mid-Seventies, Ford was desperately trying to catch up with the Chevrolet Monte Carlo.