My great uncle, Chester Salazar, served in WWII in Patton's army as a machinist.. .came back home and started one of the best body shops in Austin, Texas. My brother brought a car in to him that he had bought... '69 Camaro, rusted body, but it had an L-82 engine with drivetrain... My great uncle did a once around and told my brother, paused, and said "This is what we in the industry call a piece of s***". I have never forgotten that line.. and it comes to mind with this video.
It's amazing no one saw the value in this car before it got in this shape!! Me and a friend have been restoring mustangs for years now, and I can tell you now that car is worth saving because it's a limited production of a very famous tv show and the more recent movie!!
Cool find I remember back in 93 I bought a 74 Elite had a 351 Windsor and a C4 it was so loose the engine sounded like a stone polisher I bought a wrecked 74 LTD it had a 351m and A fmx transmission went to the parts store and bought a points type distributor for a 400 engine mounts for a 429 and I put that sucker together believe it or not side by side with a 6-6 Firebird the one with the big bird on the nose and hood scoop I could stay side-by-side with him from 0 to 90 after that he would pull on me and when we would drop back down to about 60 65 and hit passing gear he would pull on me again only because he had a big old Quadrajet and I had the standard Motorcraft 2 Barrel that boat anchor of a 351m ran pretty damn good
Well when your done with that wrecked but I hope you'll get picks of it an on this channel cause it's gonna be purty.....can't wait to visit the S & H Torino when it's done...goodluck yall
I think it would've been easier to find Jimmy Hoffa lol! You know it's buried when you need a lumberjack to help get it out. I don't know why so many people think that a car is gone when the floors are rotted. That's what patch panels and welders are for. I've seen cars worse off than this brought back. You don't just toss aside a S&H original just cause it needs some work. I hope it eventually got brought back. Nice job getting it out. I love it when a plan comes together. ;)
These were inside a old closed junk yard... this was the only limited edition Starsky and Hutch there... I ended up selling this one and another one to help finance my screen used Starsky and Hutch movie car
Eeekkkk a bucket seat car 2 of TV cars were bench seat originally but at least 1 got buckets retro fitted to prevent David Soul ( Hutch) from sliding into Starsky on harsh corners
I was just at the former Lorain Assembly Plant today, where this car was born. I currently live about 3/4 mile from the former plant and have lived in the area most of my 55 years. It was a huge employer in this area from the late 50's til 1997. There were quite a a number of the Starskey and Hutch Torinos rolling around the area back in the day. Sadly, Much of the plant has been torn down now. A friend leases a big chunk of the south end (formerly Shipping) and rebuilds railroad locomotives. I won't go into the whole back story told to me by some plant employees and the second owner , but in 1984 I purchased a well used 76 Mercury Montego MX Brougham 4 door, locally, that was supposedly built for a certain Plant Manager. He "followed it down the line", as they used to say, adding and deleting options. It had the 460/4V/C6/Dual Exhaust driveline that was, supposedly, only an option on the S&H Torino. Padded vinyl top and really cushy vinyl/cloth interior, 2 tone green in and out, 60/40 power bench seat (2 door only option, had releases on the back of the seats to tilt forward), Premium Stereo, AC, Sport gauges (2 door only option?), manual windows, no clock, Magnum wheels, etc. It was a really interesting mixture of "options". I guess I can say that I once owned a 1 of 1 car, LOL. I traded it in 1986 for a new EXP.
lsrx101 they made the Tomato in Lorain?! I used to live in Westlake, and my hubby’s from VOL right down the street! My FIL worked at the Avon plant. Oh man, if I had known that back in the day. 😔
Good on you for sharing the video. I guess it's restorable all it will take is A LOT of money & time. Not sure what the availability of resto parts are produced now. A good trades person would be able to make a good job of it, but would be good if new floor pans etc were available? Keep us updated please. Cheers
Last I saw, it was put in the scrap for parts pile. Just cause of rotten floorboards. The body was almost perfect, we never got to see the frame, and now we won't be able to see what it could have been.
It was a old closed junk yard. My friend found it when looking for old cop cars and talked the owner into letting us go in. He told me if I could get it out, I could have it. A challenge it was.... Was to rough and rusty for me, so I sold it to a friend who is currently restoring it.
Your Right !!!!! A Project to big for me. A big adventure I wouldn't like to do again. I had to sell a lot of stuff to buy the Movie Car, so this car went to a good home. You wouldn't recognize it now.
Yea I don’t know it all and don’t claim to, but I racked my brain and never heard of a starsky and hutch edition Torino. This was a factory package ? If so I guess I learned something new today!!
I do believe that by the looks of things that you are going to have your hands full. namely that whole front uni-body,and torque boxes (?) I have somewhat of a similar set-up on my '70 Ranchero. Let me know how you made out with all that .. Good Luck !
I would consider it to be worth saving and not a parts car. Floors can be replaced and so can anything else it needs. What can't be replaced is a limited edition car that is parted out and what's left scrapped out. Yeah the original engine n such are gone but so what. Rebuild it anyway
Si hay algo en esta vida que quise tener es un Ford de esos , pero bueno no todo se puede , muy buen video y que pena que hayan tirado asi esos autos , no se si eran buenas maquinas , porque para la serie capaz que los tocaban un poco
I just saw your video and I hope that you don't make it a parts car there is still sheet metal for it and it would make a damn good restitution car and there are lot's of 460 4vs I've got a 73 Gran Torino Sport and in the process of restoring it so GOOD LUCK .
Ford factory built 1305 of the Starsky and Hutch limited editions... To see if you have one look for a code 0022 on door jam sticker and on the metal tag on firewall under hood on passenger side.
seems like " back in the day" someone I knew had a 76 Merc Montego that was blue with the stripe, with the 460, and said it was Mercury's version of the Starsky car never saw another one, never saw a write up on it , it would have been new, or nearly new I think it " may" have ended up in California ( I am in NY) I don't understand the reasoning behind junking the Torino, at any time as it seems these were " collectors" from day one .. unless it was wrecked ..(?)
my first thought was if anybody's going to do something with that Vehicle how are they going to get papers for it?it's become a real problem that I'm aware of here in Canada a lot of these old cars you can't just go to the department of motor vehicles and get papers. you can't legally register the vehicle for the road without papers and there's vehicles like this all over Canada where there's no way to track down the paperwork and the department of motor vehicles will do absolutely nothing for you. I've known a couple people who got in a position where when they went to the motor vehicle department including myself they refused to do anything and tell you the vehicle is scrap and you can't legally do anything till you find the last owner and have him sign over the papers they won't even tell you the name of the owner address or anything I don't know if there's anything different in the US but that's the way it is here in Nova Scotia and it's why a lot of these vintage cars are unable to be anything done with them. You hear these stories about somebody finding a semi-restored vintage car and a burn where the car is in immaculate condition under a car cover and been there for 20 or 30 years and they can't do anything with it because they can't get registration papers for the Car and that's why whoever started the car never finished it.
Here in the States, and Texas at least it is possible to file for something called "Bonded Title" where you can transfer ownership legally and they allow you to re-title cars. It does say you can't consider a junked or abandoned car to get Bonded but I am sure many people eventually do this or find loopholes to do so at least here in Texas. www.txdmv.gov/motorists/buying-or-selling-a-vehicle/bought-a-vehicle-with-no-title
Rock On with life style of play your have brighten up the world for my day like the intro off to the rescue song choose . I been being watching utube Starsky & Hutch & bios how the people why picked & how the red tomtomato came in play. As youngster in area l grew up someone copied the red tomtomato record up when saw people in it path to get attention fun to see . I wonder where it is today or if same person own the tomato. I car truck bike motor & pedal any form of trasportation l love it. B&N l go for the car truck mags . I with belated & few extended day members ho to bike car shows & junk yards . I late 80s college days up state NY. Oass the hub cap capital or k thought so in hick out of way place. I have few mags photo a in my rented room like a door lid or teen wirh teen beat. Like sex symbol few l like. I had for college 1st car 1878 or 1879 white on white rolling couch the bar trip home mobile even though 2 blocks down the street .ever college kids live off campus botyo. Hill from the college if not live in college form or price house apt.condos turn into college kids home away from home . I not drink for reasons so James the driver few pass out in back sleep it off whatever last of early morning .So comfy aka name rollng couch. Love to see more rescues with history or connection of dime interest. Rock On!🖒continue eith best adventures in 2020 l be back to join in the fun 1st time sees you in utube fun.🤓 Thanks for the fun memories.
Sad thing is in the future we'll be autonomously driven around in pastel coloured, electric engined, egg shaped soulless vehicles, but hey, they'll have "yawn" apple car play and "yawn" even more amazing tech "yawn"
Are they worth anything? Obviously they wouldn't have been anywhere near as fast as true muscle cars from several years earlier. It's basically just a bloated, heavy family sedan without any horsepower, that's been rotting in the woods for a long time. They should pay you to remove it IMO. To each his own I guess, but if not for the increasingly high prices for an ever smaller supply of 60s muscle cars, very few people would spend money on these. It could be cool if done up as a resto mod with a high horsepower 351M or C.
Really sad the way people treat things. I doubt that car is worth restoring, considering how bad the rust is, and the fact that most of the parts are not available from aftermarket sources for that model. I have been in the vintage/classic/collector car scene for more than 40 years, and many cars are not restorable due to the lack of parts, especially body and interior parts. Even if it could be restored, the cost would be several times the cars restored value. Unless you are super rich and just want something no matter what it costs, it's better to stay with cars that will appreciate in value.
+Gerald Scott Appreciate in value?! BAH- HUMBUG! REAL admirers of Starsky and Hutch will take the time / spend the money to properly restore Starsky's Gran Torino to a quality and quickness that Starsky himself would approve of.
My great uncle, Chester Salazar, served in WWII in Patton's army as a machinist.. .came back home and started one of the best body shops in Austin, Texas. My brother brought a car in to him that he had bought... '69 Camaro, rusted body, but it had an L-82 engine with drivetrain... My great uncle did a once around and told my brother, paused, and said "This is what we in the industry call a piece of s***". I have never forgotten that line.. and it comes to mind with this video.
It's amazing no one saw the value in this car before it got in this shape!! Me and a friend have been restoring mustangs for years now, and I can tell you now that car is worth saving because it's a limited production of a very famous tv show and the more recent movie!!
OMG , you found the legendary magic forest for all classics cars fans !!!!! It's like a dream if you have money to restore them !!!!
Cool find I remember back in 93 I bought a 74 Elite had a 351 Windsor and a C4 it was so loose the engine sounded like a stone polisher I bought a wrecked 74 LTD it had a 351m and A fmx transmission went to the parts store and bought a points type distributor for a 400 engine mounts for a 429 and I put that sucker together believe it or not side by side with a 6-6 Firebird the one with the big bird on the nose and hood scoop I could stay side-by-side with him from 0 to 90 after that he would pull on me and when we would drop back down to about 60 65 and hit passing gear he would pull on me again only because he had a big old Quadrajet and I had the standard Motorcraft 2 Barrel that boat anchor of a 351m ran pretty damn good
love Watching STARSKY & HUTCH..
Me. Too 💜💜
It's cool this one was saved, they only made 1000 (?) official Ford ones, although there are lots of copies :)
Well when your done with that wrecked but I hope you'll get picks of it an on this channel cause it's gonna be purty.....can't wait to visit the S & H Torino when it's done...goodluck yall
Starsky and Hutch made these cars cool. Not the best year IMO but does not deserve to be abandoned in the woods.
i found a PS 22 unit in a salvage yard years ago,...an S&H fan came and got it.
I think it would've been easier to find Jimmy Hoffa lol! You know it's buried when you need a lumberjack to help get it out. I don't know why so many people think that a car is gone when the floors are rotted. That's what patch panels and welders are for. I've seen cars worse off than this brought back. You don't just toss aside a S&H original just cause it needs some work. I hope it eventually got brought back. Nice job getting it out. I love it when a plan comes together. ;)
ANYTHING CAN BE SAVED ..IT DEPENDS HOW MUCH MONEY YOU WANT TO SPEND..
These were inside a old closed junk yard... this was the only limited edition Starsky and Hutch there... I ended up selling this one and another one to help finance my screen used Starsky and Hutch movie car
I like that song !
Torino Man where is the junk yard how did you find about it
Did you notice the big Lincoln parked beside the Torino was just like the one used in the pilot chase scene? Lol
Eeekkkk a bucket seat car 2 of TV cars were bench seat originally but at least 1 got buckets retro fitted to prevent David Soul ( Hutch) from sliding into Starsky on harsh corners
I was just at the former Lorain Assembly Plant today, where this car was born.
I currently live about 3/4 mile from the former plant and have lived in the area most of my 55 years. It was a huge employer in this area from the late 50's til 1997. There were quite a a number of the Starskey and Hutch Torinos rolling around the area back in the day.
Sadly, Much of the plant has been torn down now. A friend leases a big chunk of the south end (formerly Shipping) and rebuilds railroad locomotives.
I won't go into the whole back story told to me by some plant employees and the second owner , but in 1984 I purchased a well used 76 Mercury Montego MX Brougham 4 door, locally, that was supposedly built for a certain Plant Manager. He "followed it down the line", as they used to say, adding and deleting options.
It had the 460/4V/C6/Dual Exhaust driveline that was, supposedly, only an option on the S&H Torino. Padded vinyl top and really cushy vinyl/cloth interior, 2 tone green in and out, 60/40 power bench seat (2 door only option, had releases on the back of the seats to tilt forward), Premium Stereo, AC, Sport gauges (2 door only option?), manual windows, no clock, Magnum wheels, etc. It was a really interesting mixture of "options". I guess I can say that I once owned a 1 of 1 car, LOL. I traded it in 1986 for a new EXP.
lsrx101 they made the Tomato in Lorain?! I used to live in Westlake, and my hubby’s from VOL right down the street! My FIL worked at the Avon plant.
Oh man, if I had known that back in the day. 😔
Ahh man if only you would of known that sounds like a keeper. I bet that Exp is long gone.
Love these cars have a 73 ranchero squire and a 76 montiego mx love them both.
Good on you for sharing the video. I guess it's restorable all it will take is A LOT of money & time. Not sure what the availability of resto parts are produced now. A good trades person would be able to make a good job of it, but would be good if new floor pans etc were available? Keep us updated please. Cheers
So you took it out of a junkyard to use it for parts and then scrapped it? How the f*** is this a rescue?
They should have gotten starsky and hutch to book him for CRIMINAL DAMAGE OF A RESPECTED PUBLIC CLASSIC ICON!!!.🌹✊🕊️🙏🇬🇧💎😎
WOW thank you for restoring her she was worthy of your best efforts!!
Last I saw, it was put in the scrap for parts pile. Just cause of rotten floorboards. The body was almost perfect, we never got to see the frame, and now we won't be able to see what it could have been.
Video was worth the blast from the past Ringo hit. If the Torino works out, that's gravy.
Awesome that you saved it
Texas plates, wrong wheels...dumped in the woods of somewhere. That's crazy
ANY UPDATES ON THIS CAR? ...I HOPE IT'S BEING SAVED!!
That is correct.. also the build sheet will say Starsky and Hutch Unit at the bottom.
Shadetree 101
This is interesting, I can’t say I ever heard of this model.
Sold to my friend.. he has a 76 Torino parts car with good floors and a engine.
It's on its way to be restored. But will take a lot of time.
I used to have a 73' Police interceptor same body ,bigger motor, bench front seat, gold paint. But really fast !!!!!
It was a old closed junk yard. My friend found it when looking for old cop cars and talked the owner into letting us go in. He told me if I could get it out, I could have it. A challenge it was.... Was to rough and rusty for me, so I sold it to a friend who is currently restoring it.
How does it looks today?
Your Right !!!!! A Project to big for me. A big adventure I wouldn't like to do again. I had to sell a lot of stuff to buy the Movie Car, so this car went to a good home. You wouldn't recognize it now.
how'd you find it?
I'm Currently Fixing a 1974 Torino With My Dad, Great First Car For Me! Lol
Great car, easy to work on,Best to find a rust free car.They don't make very many repo parts for the 74 to 76 cars. A parts car is a good investment.
Glad to hear it went to a good home, rusty but repairable and a rare car, nice to see it saved.
I saw one of those, same color and everything on season one of Dukes of Hazzard ! I have season one on DVD that shows the car !
I own a Ford Thunderbird 1975 brown rust color. Montgomery,MN.
Looks like my '76 .Great backseat .
Yea I don’t know it all and don’t claim to, but I racked my brain and never heard of a starsky and hutch edition Torino.
This was a factory package ?
If so I guess I learned something new today!!
good for you for giving that car new life.
The car looks like Starsky + Hutch finished the series and dumped it off in some forest lol
Cest celle de la série
I had a 72 Torino squire wagon with a 351 c and spanked some people taunting me in a mustang. Talk about a sleeper.
It told me it was upset that you towed it with a Chev !!
U PEOPLE TREAT THESE CARS LIKE THEY AINT NOTHING OMG REALLY DAMMMMM.😑😑😑😑
i hope you get it finished.....this old American steal is worth it .. factory red too.....just wait until you are carousing around in it....priceless
thomas dawe he color was "Candy Apple" red. As mentioned on the show.
thomas dawe I know right
I do believe that by the looks of things that you are going to have your hands full. namely that whole front uni-body,and torque boxes (?) I have somewhat of a similar set-up on my '70 Ranchero. Let me know how you made out with all that .. Good Luck !
I can only Hope you guys restored that car! So few were built by Ford! This is NOT a parts car guys!
Yep, it’s a parts car, that’s why it was in a junkyard!
I would consider it to be worth saving and not a parts car. Floors can be replaced and so can anything else it needs. What can't be replaced is a limited edition car that is parted out and what's left scrapped out. Yeah the original engine n such are gone but so what. Rebuild it anyway
Finally a video with GOOD music !!!! Thank you !!😎🎸🎶🌈✌️
1976 was the only year.. Built March, April, May.....Only auto was available and only white or black interior. Plus any ford option for the torino...
Mine had the white bench seat interior. And, all the cars were originally white before they painted the red on.
If they didn't leave the windows down for years,, I think it wouldn't have rusted out so bad.
thanks for posting , this is a good interesting video. Were thrse vehicles just abandoned in the wood. ? Cheers !
excellent !
Had to watch u drive though the trees for half of ur vedio, bull
Excelente rescate de unos de los muchos autos que usaron en genial serie
Si hay algo en esta vida que quise tener es un Ford de esos , pero bueno no todo se puede , muy buen video y que pena que hayan tirado asi esos autos , no se si eran buenas maquinas , porque para la serie capaz que los tocaban un poco
Wow! Unbelievable..............
I just saw your video and I hope that you don't make it a parts car there is still sheet metal for it and it would make a damn good restitution car and there are lot's of 460 4vs I've got a 73 Gran Torino Sport and in the process of restoring it so GOOD LUCK .
hey, you know it don't come easy
Ford factory built 1305 of the Starsky and Hutch limited editions... To see if you have one look for a code 0022 on door jam sticker and on the metal tag on firewall under hood on passenger side.
I have 72 Torino all original with a 3 spd on the colum my grandad bought it new. I would like to restore it. Can you offer any suggestions
Would like to get in touch with you to discuss options about parts
I have a 72 Mercury Montego GT 351CJ C-4, hard to find these anymore.
Restore the frikkin' thing, maaaaan, how often do you see one of these ? "looks like it's gonna be a parts car".... WTF ?
my uncle has 3 of the original starsky an hutch cars bought of studio lot ,
That's great you found a real one, but you could have spent half the price and made a clone. Those are a dime a dozen here in Michigan
save yourself 3 minutes and start here 3:00 your welcome. better yet, don't waist your time at all.
WELL WORTH RESTORING
Yes. Such a POPULAR car. 🚕
Cool brit music......
Yeah daddio....groovy...
Missing the massive 460 ci. putting out in 1976 trim a fire breathing 245 HP !
If it came with a 460. The 351 was the standard engine, 400 and 460 were options.
Music from Ringo Starr released in 1970, I believe.
Was a nice car but could not stop Charger Dukes of Hazzard
Hell fix it up. Alot of clones running around but no original edition cars seen much.
What happened to the torino that was in the 1st Duke's of hazzard episode?? Is that this one??? If not any info on that striped tomato?? Thanks
Top 5 classic muscle car of all time.
LMAO !!!
This thing may be one of the Classic “cars” but this thing weighed too much to even be considered a muscle car. It was a beast.
Good job
To bad it was in bad shape, oh well it would be great to find another one ???
Better looking too
"In the woods. Middle of nowhere." HELLO!?
Why do people leave cars sitting around with open windows?
3:33 So, you take a close up the tags and yet I cannot read what it says! Weren't you watching the video as you took it?
Did you just get it from the woods or did you find the owner. What are the steppes to get an abandoned car like yours?
Vrey cool flm and cars
seems like " back in the day" someone I knew had a 76 Merc Montego that was blue with the stripe, with the 460, and said it was Mercury's version of the Starsky car never saw another one, never saw a write up on it , it would have been new, or nearly new I think it " may" have ended up in California ( I am in NY) I don't understand the reasoning behind junking the Torino, at any time as it seems these were " collectors" from day one .. unless it was wrecked ..(?)
thank you.
What year's was the S&H package available on the Torino? Also, were they available in the 4 speed? Seems like they were always Auto.
Sorry ,, I have 3 Gran Torino's and save all my parts.. I never know what I might need, I collect parts.
Torino Man then you shouldn't title this a rescue
I was able to salvage parts off a '73 (?) grand Sport Torino w/bucket seats,console,and a 429
my first thought was if anybody's going to do something with that Vehicle how are they going to get papers for it?it's become a real problem that I'm aware of here in Canada a lot of these old cars you can't just go to the department of motor vehicles and get papers. you can't legally register the vehicle for the road without papers and there's vehicles like this all over Canada where there's no way to track down the paperwork and the department of motor vehicles will do absolutely nothing for you. I've known a couple people who got in a position where when they went to the motor vehicle department including myself they refused to do anything and tell you the vehicle is scrap and you can't legally do anything till you find the last owner and have him sign over the papers they won't even tell you the name of the owner address or anything I don't know if there's anything different in the US but that's the way it is here in Nova Scotia and it's why a lot of these vintage cars are unable to be anything done with them. You hear these stories about somebody finding a semi-restored vintage car and a burn where the car is in immaculate condition under a car cover and been there for 20 or 30 years and they can't do anything with it because they can't get registration papers for the Car and that's why whoever started the car never finished it.
Here in the States, and Texas at least it is possible to file for something called "Bonded Title" where you can transfer ownership legally and they allow you to re-title cars. It does say you can't consider a junked or abandoned car to get Bonded but I am sure many people eventually do this or find loopholes to do so at least here in Texas.
www.txdmv.gov/motorists/buying-or-selling-a-vehicle/bought-a-vehicle-with-no-title
Ford did make it in a blue color and striped identical to it an old girlfriend of mine had one
Surly you did not stop the car. It should be restored
Rock On with life style of play your have brighten up the world for my day like the intro off to the rescue song choose .
I been being watching utube Starsky & Hutch & bios how the people why picked & how the red tomtomato came in play.
As youngster in area l grew up someone copied the red tomtomato record up when saw people in it path to get attention fun to see .
I wonder where it is today or if same person own the tomato.
I car truck bike motor & pedal any form of trasportation l love it. B&N l go for the car truck mags .
I with belated & few extended day members ho to bike car shows & junk yards .
I late 80s college days up state NY. Oass the hub cap capital or k thought so in hick out of way place.
I have few mags photo a in my rented room like a door lid or teen wirh teen beat. Like sex symbol few l like. I had for college 1st car 1878 or 1879 white on white rolling couch the bar trip home mobile even though 2 blocks down the street .ever college kids live off campus botyo. Hill from the college if not live in college form or price house apt.condos turn into college kids home away from home .
I not drink for reasons so James the driver few pass out in back sleep it off whatever last of early morning .So comfy aka name rollng couch.
Love to see more rescues with history or connection of dime interest.
Rock On!🖒continue eith best adventures in 2020 l be back to join in the fun 1st time sees you in utube fun.🤓
Thanks for the fun memories.
How can they do that to a classic Starsky and Hutch car was the s*** that was a badass and everything was Factory and totally stock
If you didn't get to that car it was going to return back to the earth
Damn...let it rest.
Sad thing is in the future we'll be autonomously driven around in pastel coloured, electric engined, egg shaped soulless vehicles, but hey, they'll have "yawn" apple car play and "yawn" even more amazing tech "yawn"
Didn't this have the same steering gear from a pinto or mustang 2? Parts must be easy to find.
found one at the you pull it salvage yard,, was lucky they had a 4 door Torino at the time
How many of these were made
Damn why this car?
どこにあったんだ、こんなにいい車を草ヒロにするなんて、もったいない！
if the dso # is 0022. and pait code 2b its a real deal
DID YOU JUST TAKE IT ????
Should have used older Torino little lighter 68 thru 70
End Results!!!???
That’s a damn shame
Great song man no
make it a tv car
I thought the S&H Torino was a fatback, my mistake... Clint Eastwood's Grand Torino FASTBACK was hotter.
Are they worth anything? Obviously they wouldn't have been anywhere near as fast as true muscle cars from several years earlier. It's basically just a bloated, heavy family sedan without any horsepower, that's been rotting in the woods for a long time. They should pay you to remove it IMO.
To each his own I guess, but if not for the increasingly high prices for an ever smaller supply of 60s muscle cars, very few people would spend money on these. It could be cool if done up as a resto mod with a high horsepower 351M or C.
I prefer torinos to mustangs
Ringo!
Really sad the way people treat things. I doubt that car is worth restoring, considering how bad the rust is, and the fact that most of the parts are not available from aftermarket sources for that model. I have been in the vintage/classic/collector car scene for more than 40 years, and many cars are not restorable due to the lack of parts, especially body and interior parts. Even if it could be restored, the cost would be several times the cars restored value. Unless you are super rich and just want something no matter what it costs, it's better to stay with cars that will appreciate in value.
+Gerald Scott Appreciate in value?! BAH- HUMBUG! REAL admirers of Starsky and Hutch will take the time / spend the money to properly restore Starsky's Gran Torino to a quality and quickness that Starsky himself would approve of.
did this turn into a parts car?
+Mark Last I sold it to fund the Movie car purchase. He said it will be rebuilt using a parts car. Lots of luck to him.