I was born in 1963 and fell in love with the Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino when the show came on TV. I have a tribute car that I consider my "dream come true" car. It's the closest thing I could ever get to the real thing but I love it just the same. Shout out to Steve from Born again Torino's. Much respect to Steve Bordi for preserving one of my most treasured memories. The Striped Tomato.
I actually met the owner and his S&H Torino at a convention recently. really nice guy and his car is in amazing shape. his car and the 2 other vehicles they had on display were the best part of the convention.
FORD...found on road dead, fucked on race day, fix or repair daily, first on recall day, fast only rolling down hill, fireball on rear denting (Pinto), forced on reluctant drivers, flipped over roadside disaster, fails on rainy days! I'm a MOPAR guy where Most Often Parts Are Reversed!
Not in mass production cars, for sure. Maybe some of the lexuses, you don´t have to like them, but its the only brand i can think of´, that tries something differnt designwise.
Born in '76 behind the Iron Curtain (Hungary) so I saw the series in the 1980's and I fell in love with the color, the shape, the sound. So if I ever win the lottery I'm gonna give a call to Mr. Bordi. :)
I have a '73 Monte Carlo that you can drive with one finger. I think that was the way power steering was in the '70's. Also, just want to let you know that I really appreciate all the effort you put into these videos. I know its a labor of love for you and always enjoy watching them. So THANK YOU!!!
Watch the power brakes on the GM's from that era. Just the thought of applying the brakes seemed to apply them; putting a foot on them would almost put you through the windshield. Had this happen many a time when my older brother drove Mom's Chevy wagon after being used to his Mustang.
The reason I think it’s important to showcase engine/squad 51 is culture impact the show emergency! Had on this county. When the show first aired in 1972 there were only 12 paramedic programs in the county. By the end of the show’s run in 1977, almost all major cities in America had some form of emergency medical service and by 1982, almost half of Americans had access to emergency medical service within in ten minutes response times.
The show also dealt with culture issues of the day. At a time when the fire service was largely made up of men, the show dealt with women in the workplace and how women could be seen at equals in the work place.
I'm a born Ford man, own 4 Fords now from a 1944 Ford GP to a 1974 Bronco, and imho, the ONLY problem with the Starsky car is that, in the tv show anyway, the car didn't have a posi rearend, the one-legger burn outs just didn't cut it....other than that, the Starsky Torino is a badass ride...
I owned a 76 Torino in high school and my twenties. I kick myself in the butt daily for ever getting rid of it. Maybe someday I’ll be able to find another. That deep rumble while idling and then the mean growl when you gas it... I love that!
My mom had the starsky n hutch car back in the day, fresh off the showroom floor. I came home from school one day and there it was in the driveway, cant express how excited I was lol
Seeing the Gran Torino in this video brought back memories of my 1976 Ford Elite which was a luxury version of the Torinos from 1974-76. The dash in my car was similar to the Starsky & Hutch car.
Great video! Great car! Great memories! I used to love watching Starsky and Hutch when I was a kid in the 70s. Also one of the reasons I became a cop. :)
In 1975, i was 7 years old and for the last episode, in 1979, 11 years old. All my childhood. Two things in this show that i love: The stripped tomato and the Vest that wore Paul Michael Glaser alias Starsky. 😂
My brother returned home from California in late 75. My dad helped him get a really good job in construction working for Mclean Contracting Co. He needed a car to get back and forth to work so my dad co signed for him. He bought a 76 Gran Torino in medium chestnut poly. It had the 351 W 2V auto trans. It had the small quarter top with the opera windows and the plain steel wheels with the little Ford Motor Co. caps. We use to sit and listen to the Eagles, Hotel California, and Peter Frampton, Do You Feel Like I Do. He added a Cobra CB and I would listen to him talking to others. He kept that car till 1980 when he started driving tractor trailers. A mechanic at the place he drove for bugged him to sell the car. He had added a set of Cragar SS wheels to it by then. The guy made a deal with him for the Torino. He got a 65 GTO hardtop and a parts car plus a top and bottom box full of tools. To me that was a great deal and I loved that 65 GTO. It had a 67 400 with a four barrel and M21 and 4.10 gears.
I took my drivers ed in 1977 in a 1973 Gran Torino (4 door, of course). Suffice to say, that thing was a sad specimen for the brand, being beaten as a former cop car, then dumped off on the school system like that. They put governors on them in those days, so the thing wouldn't do more than 25mph even with you standing on it. We still tried to make them smoke tires or at least squeal them as we ran around the painted course in the high school parking lot. I can still hear the Instructors' voice over the radio: "Car 23, SLOW DOWN!" :-) Yes, I was a big fan of the original series as well and even though I turned out to be a lifelong Mopar guy, there is an admitted soft spot for the striped tomato car in me somewhere to this day. Look, we're all car guys. We love car guy stories, especially ones with happy endings where the special cars wind up in the hands of those who prove to be good stewards for the cars - and that's what we all are, really, stewards trying to keep these cars alive for the future car guys to see hopefully. I love this channel on YT and I love what this young man is doing. Keep up the awesome work!
What I wouldn't give to have just one! I'm 52 and I still would love to have one of these......Hell at 11 years old I wanted this car. Lucky guy. Beautiful cars. Nice video
Can verify, the Torino is an easy handling car. Doesn't handle that well when going fast, but for cruising, it's silk. Had a replica when I was younger. That may influence my opinion, but I think this is the best video you've done. Great info, loved hearing Steve discuss his collection and glad he restored that old Season 2-4 Gran Torino. It's simply stunning!
If you grew up with this car, watching it on the TV as we did in the UK, it was the coolest car on TV. The General Lee was cool, but Starsky's car was something else... Of course, I am biased... Starsky and Hutch is and always will be my favourite Cop Show! Thank you for the memories! ❤️
The car was the star off the show. I heard that this car almost did not make the show. Because the guy in charge was a Chevy Camaro fan and he wanted a Camaro like his car. He found out Ford was the company that's supplies the cars for the show. The Gran Torino was in the parking lot so that's what they had to work with. Thank God! Because it really worked better for the show. Plus the car looked so very cool after they fixed it up. Next to General Lee of the Dukes of Harzard this car is still a head Turner. Great video!
I remember the black and white TV series, I was 7 years old kiddo then, I love this video, thanks for upload this stuff, this is so wonderful and amazing to me... Greetings from Virginia, The United States of America.
I had a triple blue 74 Gran Torino Sport. 351C, C6 auto, buckets, floor shift, etc. It was 3 years old when I bought it and I drove it until it died. Loved the car even though it wouldn't go over 105 mph and never got over 10 mpg until about a month before it died. I'd love another one.
I bought a red 1975 Gran Torino from Hertz Rental Cars in 1977. It was not the “correct” red, but it was good enough for me. I had Paris Auto Body in Rockford, Illinois paint the white stripe on it, then bought slotted dish mags and air shocks. The car looked cool but had nowhere near enough horsepower to get it moving. The doors were so long you could barely get in or out of it in a parking lot with cars next to you. All the same I enjoyed it for a couple of years and then had it repainted all black and sold it. Do I wish I had it today? Yep.
I love that a young guy is loving these older cars. We took them for granted and then again... We didn't. Cool has always been cool and they were appreciated but we still didn't realize how awesome those cars were. However, they didn't start going downhill in the mid seventies, they were well on their way. It was still a very cool era all in all.
Love the video, Torino’s are under rated cars, mostly hear about Camaro’s, Chevelle’s or Charger’s and Callenger’s, ‘72 is my favorite year for the Gran Torino coz the rounded front end and rear bumper, my dad was a big Torino fan, he owned a few of them, the one I remember was his ‘72 which was stolen then wrecked, being the late 80’s he didn’t want it anymore cos the damage and I was 5 years old and cried coz he sold it to the junkyard, I still remember that, when I was 16 my dreams came true I found in a barn a ‘72 with heavy layer of dust on it, got it for $400, it needed work but was a steal, I took auto body in high school and restored the body, I was blue with blue interior, being a fan of Starsky & Hutch I painted the original blue with pure white stripe, 20 years later it still beautiful. I bought it with 78k original miles on it and now only have 89k. I love my Torino and can not put a price on it.✌️
😉😂🤣😄😆😅 It is everything he said it is no doubt about it, except a muscle car. Long gone by then, no high compression cyl. heads, no leaded premium gas, lousy rear gear ratio, and big ugly fat federal government mandated bumpers! Oh the humanity😠😡🤬😢😥 And you can make any car sound powerful with an overdubbed soundtrack........
@@thomasschoon8407 That's right that how that car was made then Ford wanted to cash in on the show so they sold ,1000 of them with 460 ,motor to see if the thing move it didn't was a dog look good.
The very end, where the owner talks about how nice it road. They did, they had a ride that you couldn't believe from a "mid size". My 72 Gran Torino four door with a 351 was pretty quick too ! With a Pioneer super tuner and Jensen tri-axiales cranking and way too many beer bottles rolling around we put some miles on that baby !
As a kid, my whole neighborhood was Ford. Mom drove a 72 Gran Torino 351 CJ, but it was brown metallic. My brothers and I would always egg her on to light'm up.
The fuel economy light wasn’t a new idea - Pontiac came out with the vacuum gauge back in late 1963/64 as an option on the Grand Prix and Bonneville. It was connected to the intake manifold , and the more you feathered the accelerator at cruise , the higher in the green(“economy”) range the needle rose.
Only a guy that young would call a '75 Gran Torino a muscle car! Too funny. Great feature and the cars are iconic. A friend in high school had one and yes, first thing that was done was to buy a set of slotted mags and air shocks. His was brown and a '72 two door but it still had the look. Muscle? Not so much. The base models came with a Windsor 302 2 bbl and could barely spin the wheels. Hollywood put a lot of mods into those S&H cars to make them do what they did. By the way, after purchasing the DVD set I came to realize that while I watched as a kid mostly to see the tomato in action, the show was actually well written and holds up today. You just didn't find TV shows in the 70s dealing with things like heroin addiction in such an up front way like S&H. The show is still very watchable today. I'll skip the movies. Those two dorks just didn't get it.
Yea i was thinking the exact thing. The muscle car era had long since ended. By '75 cars were slow and detuned to meet smog regulations in calif. Back in those days they had to be US mag slots and BF goodrich radial TA's for it to be cool
Technically.. it’s a muscle car if we’re using a dictionary, but to enthusiasts they’re simply "sport appearance packages". I’m not trying to be an asshole, but the host’s terminology is correct.
Torinos with the 428cu and 429cu engines were considered muscle cars. Off the top of my head, I do not know what the engine was chosen to S&H Gran Torino.
A 1970 ad transfixed me back then: "Torino... styled by the wind. We asked the wind..." as desert sand blew off a 2-door. To me it's the elegant big brother to the beefcake '76 of Starsky and Hutch.
I had a 73 Grand Torino sport with the FMX trans and the 351 cleveland, I loved the way it drove it was predictable and well behaved for the young driver that I was at the time. Keep up the videos
I had a 71 gto convertible, 400 ci 4 spd, black / white top and interior. My best friend had a 71 Torino gt, dark blue. I'll I ever saw was his taillights, but at the next stop, he'd see all the "tail" I had riding with me. What great times!
@@Thirdgen83 The Ford Torino had already established itself as a muscle car before the federal government brought on the smog restrictions that all american muscle cars had to deal with. They all had to reduce emissions and increase fuel mileage. But they still had earned the muscle car honor before that happened so I consider them a muscle car. It’s not the fought of the manufacturers.
Oh my God Steve you shaved your magnum mustache off 😲. How you been? Best ACO officer I ever worked with. We gotta get together my friend. And congratulations on all of your success. You deserve it.
Another great video Chris! I wish I saw this earlier today as I was running around in Herbie earlier and I was stopped by a recent high school grad who wanted a photo of my car. He said that he really wants to build a "Striped Tomato" replica as he watched the show religiously as a kid.
The low fuel light in the Torino was controled by vacuum or more accurately low vacuum so every time you lay into the throttle the vacuum drops in the engine and the light pops on it's a very simple system that worked, it was just a reminder not a limited....
my first car was a 79 T-bird,but i fixed it up as my "Starsky & Hutch" Car,T-birds had the same parts as a Torino,steering wheel,seats,dash board,bumpers,interior,it was a wide car to,so when i put wide tires and deep dish rims on the back,plus air shocks,man that car was beautiful,got a fire engine red paint job,it was my inspired car,i called it the "HOOPTY BIRD"!
Imagine if you will, a resto-mod version of 1 of these devastatingly volatile monsters, with a supercharged 5.2L Voodoo V8, & a frame/suspension that actually allowed the car to perform in turns! (spoken in Rod Serling's voice)
I had one back in the 1980`s. It was a 1975 ford factory car. wish I had it now. My car had the 351. Bench seat. No bumperetts. It was a fun car. Everybody knew it was mine.
When I was in High School in 1975, I had a 72 Gran Torino Sport exactly like the one in the Clint Eastwood movie, 351c 4v, auto. But if I ever win the lottery I'm heading straight to this guy for a S & H tribute Torino.
Coolest car ever. This guy is awesome. Oh I have a lot of the same collectables ... but I would love to have the real deal. I give the guy his due... he is the most dedicated S&H fan ever to own the original Torino from the show. Wow. The movie was goofy but I loved that the car(s) were painted with viper red instead of the old ford stock red. Also, they made a slight adjustment to the outside curve of the stripe which matched the body lines just a bit better. I'd be giddy driving that car around. Childhood dream. Too cool.
Hi everyone, I am the proud owner of a 1975 Ford Gran Torino which I want to restore, which I am suggested to do to get some parts. I live in Venezuela in the City of Caracas. After watching the video, I was very encouraged to continue with the restoration of the vehicle.
Took mine driving my own 4 door Gran Torin. Blue metallic, white landau top, all the goodies except power windows. 240c 351C. Not fast by any means but it would destroy its tires lol.
A variety of Gran Torinos were provided by Ford for use in the filming of the series, ranging from 1974 to 1976 models. Depending upon their role in filming, some cars received 351-cu.in. Windsor V-8s, while the stunt cars received either 400-cu.in. or 460-cu.in. V-8s, depending upon model year. To improve acceleration for the (frequent) chase scenes, rear gearing was altered on some of the cars, prompting the studio to place a “Do Not Exceed 50 MPH” warning label on at least one vehicle’s dashboard used in second-season filming. All of the cars had a few things in common, however: All came painted in code 2B “Bright Red,” all received a white “vector” stripe designed by the show’s transportation coordinator, George Grenier, and all wore five slot mag wheels with blackwall tires (to avoid promoting any particular brand).
I'm not surprised that the Gran Torino felt planted when he was driving it. The car weighs almost 2 tons and was so heavy the original 351 Windsor couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding, so the gearing was changed to appear to make it faster. The actors seriously tried to wreck it because it was so heavy and cumbersome. Worth a bloody fortune today
I was born in 1963 and fell in love with the Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino when the show came on TV. I have a tribute car that I consider my "dream come true" car. It's the closest thing I could ever get to the real thing but I love it just the same. Shout out to Steve from Born again Torino's. Much respect to Steve Bordi for preserving one of my most treasured memories. The Striped Tomato.
I actually met the owner and his S&H Torino at a convention recently. really nice guy and his car is in amazing shape. his car and the 2 other vehicles they had on display were the best part of the convention.
How can you not like the Ford Gran Torino, I'm a GM guy and love Trans Am older Mopar and definitely the old Fords like this it's just cool style
FORD...found on road dead, fucked on race day, fix or repair daily, first on recall day, fast only rolling down hill, fireball on rear denting (Pinto), forced on reluctant drivers, flipped over roadside disaster, fails on rainy days! I'm a MOPAR guy where Most Often Parts Are Reversed!
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I wanted one of these back in the day, Until... I drove my first Trans Am...Forevermore, the Trans Am was number one...
Yeah, just look at the Shit Ford "Europe" gave us. You had so many great cars. All's we had is the "Capri" or as I
used to call it the "Crappy"
@@garydunn3037 capris are brilliant mate
You can’t get more ‘70s than this.. Love the guys passion
this car is just like the genral lee it's a icon of the 70s they just just don't put character in cars any more
Not in mass production cars, for sure. Maybe some of the lexuses, you don´t have to like them, but its the only brand i can think of´, that tries something differnt designwise.
that dodge guy Exactly mate.
that dodge guy Dukes of Hazzard was a 80s show.......
Yup that car is just like the General Lee....RACIST!! It don't need no Rebal Flag with that BIG WHITE RACIST STRIPE !!!!!
Wayne pick a number between one through 10
I was 10 years old and this was everything. This was so great to see.
Late 70’s , I went cruising on Van Nuys blvd. and saw 4 or 5 of Starsky & Hutch Torino’s all in a row ..
Blew my mind as a kid...
Born in '76 behind the Iron Curtain (Hungary) so I saw the series in the 1980's and I fell in love with the color, the shape, the sound.
So if I ever win the lottery I'm gonna give a call to Mr. Bordi. :)
The fuel economy gauge is just a vacuum gauge. Wide open throttle causes manifold vacuum to drop. They were somewhat popular back then.
Thanks for featuring the striped tomato...and thanks for not having a boat load of commercials!!!
One time I saw three of these together going down the highway and they were all in mint condition.
The production value alone of this channel deserves way more subscribers. Great job.
Facts!!
I have a '73 Monte Carlo that you can drive with one finger. I think that was the way power steering was in the '70's. Also, just want to let you know that I really appreciate all the effort you put into these videos. I know its a labor of love for you and always enjoy watching them. So THANK YOU!!!
Sam Solo thank you so much!! I kinda wanna buy a 70 Monte carlo
My dad sold my '77. It still hurts. (but yeah, you could drive it with one finger.)
Watch the power brakes on the GM's from that era. Just the thought of applying the brakes seemed to apply them; putting a foot on them would almost put you through the windshield. Had this happen many a time when my older brother drove Mom's Chevy wagon after being used to his Mustang.
I drive my car with one finger all the time. OUT THE WINDOW!!! It's my New York finger!
+ThatJoser
Your dad sold YOUR car? No wonder it hurts.
This car came out before I was born and I'm still super nostalgic for it. This is a true muscle car
My childhood dream car!!! I always loved that car, as well as the Dodge paramedics' truck, from "EMERGENCY!".
Don't forget the Ward and the Crown!
Those two are a little big for the garage.
Squad 51, and both incarnations of Engine 51 are at the LA County Fire Museum in Belleflower,California.
The reason I think it’s important to showcase engine/squad 51 is culture impact the show emergency! Had on this county. When the show first aired in 1972 there were only 12 paramedic programs in the county. By the end of the show’s run in 1977, almost all major cities in America had some form of emergency medical service and by 1982, almost half of Americans had access to emergency medical service within in ten minutes response times.
The show also dealt with culture issues of the day. At a time when the fire service was largely made up of men, the show dealt with women in the workplace and how women could be seen at equals in the work place.
Love it! My first car was a 1974 Gran Torino. I really miss that car. Nice Video 👍👍👍
I'm a born Ford man, own 4 Fords now from a 1944 Ford GP to a 1974 Bronco, and imho, the ONLY problem with the Starsky car is that, in the tv show anyway, the car didn't have a posi rearend, the one-legger burn outs just didn't cut it....other than that, the Starsky Torino is a badass ride...
Man, this brings back some memories! I grew up watching the show and a local Ford dealer had one of the factory cars for sale.
I owned a 76 Torino in high school and my twenties. I kick myself in the butt daily for ever getting rid of it. Maybe someday I’ll be able to find another. That deep rumble while idling and then the mean growl when you gas it... I love that!
My mom had the starsky n hutch car back in the day, fresh off the showroom floor.
I came home from school one day and there it was in the driveway, cant express how excited I was lol
Seeing the Gran Torino in this video brought back memories of my 1976 Ford Elite which was a luxury version of the Torinos from 1974-76. The dash in my car was similar to the Starsky & Hutch car.
This is awesome! Back in the day when cars had personality.
There is nothing today like the roaring engine, raised rear suspension, and wide rear tires of a car from the 70's. Thanks for sharing.
I had a 72 Gran Torino [my first car] and I really miss her too.
Great video! Great car! Great memories! I used to love watching Starsky and Hutch when I was a kid in the 70s. Also one of the reasons I became a cop. :)
In 1975, i was 7 years old and for the last episode, in 1979, 11 years old. All my childhood. Two things in this show that i love: The stripped tomato and the Vest that wore Paul Michael Glaser alias Starsky. 😂
My brother returned home from California in late 75. My dad helped him get a really good job in construction working for Mclean Contracting Co. He needed a car to get back and forth to work so my dad co signed for him. He bought a 76 Gran Torino in medium chestnut poly. It had the 351 W 2V auto trans. It had the small quarter top with the opera windows and the plain steel wheels with the little Ford Motor Co. caps. We use to sit and listen to the Eagles, Hotel California, and Peter Frampton, Do You Feel Like I Do. He added a Cobra CB and I would listen to him talking to others.
He kept that car till 1980 when he started driving tractor trailers. A mechanic at the place he drove for bugged him to sell the car. He had added a set of Cragar SS wheels to it by then. The guy made a deal with him for the Torino. He got a 65 GTO hardtop and a parts car plus a top and bottom box full of tools. To me that was a great deal and I loved that 65 GTO. It had a 67 400 with a four barrel and M21 and 4.10 gears.
I took my drivers ed in 1977 in a 1973 Gran Torino (4 door, of course). Suffice to say, that thing was a sad specimen for the brand, being beaten as a former cop car, then dumped off on the school system like that. They put governors on them in those days, so the thing wouldn't do more than 25mph even with you standing on it.
We still tried to make them smoke tires or at least squeal them as we ran around the painted course in the high school parking lot.
I can still hear the Instructors' voice over the radio: "Car 23, SLOW DOWN!" :-)
Yes, I was a big fan of the original series as well and even though I turned out to be a lifelong Mopar guy, there is an admitted soft spot for the striped tomato car in me somewhere to this day.
Look, we're all car guys. We love car guy stories, especially ones with happy endings where the special cars wind up in the hands of those who prove to be good stewards for the cars - and that's what we all are, really, stewards trying to keep these cars alive for the future car guys to see hopefully.
I love this channel on YT and I love what this young man is doing. Keep up the awesome work!
Great guy. Great car. Great story. And great video!
B Caldwell how interesting my brother's name is Bill Caldwell
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My cousin from Chicago's name is Bill Caldwell :)
Erik Caldwell all these Caldwell's how interesting..!
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@@ron593 Only if your name is Caldwell.
What I wouldn't give to have just one! I'm 52 and I still would love to have one of these......Hell at 11 years old I wanted this car. Lucky guy. Beautiful cars. Nice video
Don't give up! It took me over 40 years, but I finally got one.
Can verify, the Torino is an easy handling car. Doesn't handle that well when going fast, but for cruising, it's silk. Had a replica when I was younger. That may influence my opinion, but I think this is the best video you've done. Great info, loved hearing Steve discuss his collection and glad he restored that old Season 2-4 Gran Torino. It's simply stunning!
That's what I call a beautiful car.
Obviously I’m a Mopar guy but I love that car and the series. I have one in the man cave next to my Road Runner.
1969 Plymouth Road Runner lucky bugger 👍🏻🇬🇧
If you grew up with this car, watching it on the TV as we did in the UK, it was the coolest car on TV. The General Lee was cool, but Starsky's car was something else... Of course, I am biased... Starsky and Hutch is and always will be my favourite Cop Show! Thank you for the memories! ❤️
The car was the star off the show. I heard that this car almost did not make the show. Because the guy in charge was a Chevy Camaro fan and he wanted a Camaro like his car. He found out Ford was the company that's supplies the cars for the show. The Gran Torino was in the parking lot so that's what they had to work with. Thank God! Because it really worked better for the show. Plus the car looked so very cool after they fixed it up. Next to General Lee of the Dukes of Harzard this car is still a head Turner. Great video!
I remember the black and white TV series, I was 7 years old kiddo then, I love this video, thanks for upload this stuff, this is so wonderful and amazing to me...
Greetings from Virginia, The United States of America.
I had a triple blue 74 Gran Torino Sport. 351C, C6 auto, buckets, floor shift, etc. It was 3 years old when I bought it and I drove it until it died. Loved the car even though it wouldn't go over 105 mph and never got over 10 mpg until about a month before it died. I'd love another one.
I bought a red 1975 Gran Torino from Hertz Rental Cars in 1977. It was not the “correct” red, but it was good enough for me. I had Paris Auto Body in Rockford, Illinois paint the white stripe on it, then bought slotted dish mags and air shocks. The car looked cool but had nowhere near enough horsepower to get it moving. The doors were so long you could barely get in or out of it in a parking lot with cars next to you. All the same I enjoyed it for a couple of years and then had it repainted all black and sold it. Do I wish I had it today? Yep.
That's what you call passion. This guy is so lucky to have the original car!
One of the movie Cars there were definitely more than one
Just wanted to advise that when I was a cop in the 70s we had one of the cars that Narcs used. It was used in the Chesapeake, Va department. enjoy
Nice to find this the same day we find out David Soul passed away. Beautiful classic car
I ALWAYS wanted this VEHICLE... One of A KIND
I love that a young guy is loving these older cars. We took them for granted and then again... We didn't. Cool has always been cool and they were appreciated but we still didn't realize how awesome those cars were. However, they didn't start going downhill in the mid seventies, they were well on their way. It was still a very cool era all in all.
The old Starsky and Hutch show is a great show to watch for old muscle cars all over the place.
"then I found out about ebay and I just went nuts" yep. Can't believe how good that car looks.
Love the video, Torino’s are under rated cars, mostly hear about Camaro’s, Chevelle’s or Charger’s and Callenger’s, ‘72 is my favorite year for the Gran Torino coz the rounded front end and rear bumper, my dad was a big Torino fan, he owned a few of them, the one I remember was his ‘72 which was stolen then wrecked, being the late 80’s he didn’t want it anymore cos the damage and I was 5 years old and cried coz he sold it to the junkyard, I still remember that, when I was 16 my dreams came true I found in a barn a ‘72 with heavy layer of dust on it, got it for $400, it needed work but was a steal, I took auto body in high school and restored the body, I was blue with blue interior, being a fan of Starsky & Hutch I painted the original blue with pure white stripe, 20 years later it still beautiful. I bought it with 78k original miles on it and now only have 89k. I love my Torino and can not put a price on it.✌️
My Grandpa Designed the Torino, and that guy has stories for days about his time working for Ford.
A little-known fact is that Ford also produced a few '76 Torinos in white with a blue stripe.
An inconspicuous car for under cover, plain clothes police officers.
Aw, hell, thats a car that I'd choose to hide in.
😉😂🤣😄😆😅
It is everything he said it is no doubt about it, except a muscle car. Long gone by then, no high compression cyl. heads, no leaded premium gas, lousy rear gear ratio, and big ugly fat federal government mandated bumpers! Oh the humanity😠😡🤬😢😥
And you can make any car sound powerful with an overdubbed soundtrack........
@@thomasschoon8407 That's right that how that car was made then Ford wanted to cash in on the show so they sold ,1000 of them with 460 ,motor to see if the thing move it didn't was a dog look good.
They would use Hutch's turkey turd tan beater LTD when they wanted to be nondescript.
bloodybones63 ... David Soul claimed the LTD was way faster than the Torino.
The very end, where the owner talks about how nice it road. They did, they had a ride that you couldn't believe from a "mid size".
My 72 Gran Torino four door with a 351 was pretty quick too ! With a Pioneer super tuner and Jensen tri-axiales cranking and way too many beer bottles rolling around we put some miles on that baby !
Love it! My first car was a ‘76 Torino with a 351W. $1,200, 65,000 miles in 1982. Rear air shocks. Great times!
As a kid, my whole neighborhood was Ford. Mom drove a 72 Gran Torino 351 CJ, but it was brown metallic. My brothers and I would always egg her on to light'm up.
My first car was a 1974 Ford Ranchero GT which shares the same platform as the Gran Torino so I've always had an affection for 70's Fords.
The fuel economy light wasn’t a new idea - Pontiac came out with the vacuum gauge back in late 1963/64 as an option on the Grand Prix and Bonneville. It was connected to the intake manifold , and the more you feathered the accelerator at cruise , the higher in the green(“economy”) range the needle rose.
Only a guy that young would call a '75 Gran Torino a muscle car! Too funny.
Great feature and the cars are iconic. A friend in high school had one and yes, first thing that was done was to buy a set of slotted mags and air shocks. His was brown and a '72 two door but it still had the look. Muscle? Not so much. The base models came with a Windsor 302 2 bbl and could barely spin the wheels. Hollywood put a lot of mods into those S&H cars to make them do what they did. By the way, after purchasing the DVD set I came to realize that while I watched as a kid mostly to see the tomato in action, the show was actually well written and holds up today. You just didn't find TV shows in the 70s dealing with things like heroin addiction in such an up front way like S&H. The show is still very watchable today. I'll skip the movies. Those two dorks just didn't get it.
well LOTS of people have a loose definition of what a muscle car is . thats life .
Yea i was thinking the exact thing. The muscle car era had long since ended. By '75 cars were slow and detuned to meet smog regulations in calif. Back in those days they had to be US mag slots and BF goodrich radial TA's for it to be cool
Technically.. it’s a muscle car if we’re using a dictionary, but to enthusiasts they’re simply "sport appearance packages". I’m not trying to be an asshole, but the host’s terminology is correct.
Torinos with the 428cu and 429cu engines were considered muscle cars. Off the top of my head, I do not know what the engine was chosen to S&H Gran Torino.
A 1970 ad transfixed me back then: "Torino... styled by the wind. We asked the wind..." as desert sand blew off a 2-door. To me it's the elegant big brother to the beefcake '76 of Starsky and Hutch.
I had a 73 Grand Torino sport with the FMX trans and the 351 cleveland, I loved the way it drove it was predictable and well behaved for the young driver that I was at the time. Keep up the videos
I wish I had my 74 Gran Torino Sport back now ! Someday I will own another ! ♥️
The Gran Torino was so ahead of its time. We owned a Gran Torino Wagon.. the whole line was great.
G'day Kevin here from Australia. I remember the show well. As a kid i always looked forward each week to watching this car race around the streets. 👍
When I drive my PT Cruiser, I pretend that I am in a Ford Torino. My husband doesn’t understand that feeling either ! 😂
I love that red FT so much!
I had a 73 Blue Gran Torino Sport. Very sharp looking. Bucket seats. Automatic console on the Floor. 351 Cleveland, 4 bbl and duel exhaust.
Body on frame are the best! Built like truck ( tough). I wish Ford would bring back an updated version of the Crown Vic.
I had a 71 gto convertible, 400 ci 4 spd, black / white top and interior. My best friend had a 71 Torino gt, dark blue.
I'll I ever saw was his taillights, but at the next stop, he'd see all the "tail" I had riding with me. What great times!
this car would be SO MUCH COOLER with a 4 speed.
Like how he keeps calling it a "Muscle Car" LOL .
Hardly a muscle car lol
@@idontlikecops1 LOL ! Guy is an Asshole Deluxe !!
@@seanrickerson1563 A 1976 anything would NOT ever be a musclecar. A 68-72 Torino yeah but never a 76 anything....
@@seanrickerson1563 Musclecars were not made after 1974 for several decades, and were really down on power by '72.
So YOU are the "donkey".
@@Thirdgen83 The Ford Torino had already established itself as a muscle car before the federal government brought on the smog restrictions that all american muscle cars had to deal with. They all had to reduce emissions and increase fuel mileage. But they still had earned the muscle car honor before that happened so I consider them a muscle car. It’s not the fought of the manufacturers.
Wow TV history this car is for me my childhood in the 70's
Oh my God Steve you shaved your magnum mustache off 😲. How you been? Best ACO officer I ever worked with. We gotta get together my friend. And congratulations on all of your success. You deserve it.
Great Job Steve
your absolutely correct on the people that love TV & Movie cars a great crowd of people world wide.
my grandfather had a yellow 1974 torino with skirts on the rear wheels he gave it to me!
Love it! And, love the owner.... he respects the actors, the cars and the time the car comes from!
It was a memory in my younger days. My brother & his girlfriend -> wife had a Torino I did drive it was not bad don’t handle like my 78 T/A😂
Dude drives by my north Hollywood location all the time with one 💖..the starsky and hutch one
Another great video Chris! I wish I saw this earlier today as I was running around in Herbie earlier and I was stopped by a recent high school grad who wanted a photo of my car. He said that he really wants to build a "Striped Tomato" replica as he watched the show religiously as a kid.
Mike Dyer thanks so much!! Wow even a recent high school grad likes starsky and hutch 😁
The low fuel light in the Torino was controled by vacuum or more accurately low vacuum so every time you lay into the throttle the vacuum drops in the engine and the light pops on it's a very simple system that worked, it was just a reminder not a limited....
Only the three intended for the series had the special 429, while the production ones for the masses had the 351 Cleveland...
I've had 2 a 76 door and a 73 2 door sport they were both excellent car's and would fly!! i miss both of them especially the 73 sport
I had a Starsky and Hutch car with a CB radio in the back for a toy. Kind of wish I still had it.
Starsky and Hutch was one of the reasons I wanted to be a cop. I went on to be one for 25yrs but never got a car like that. Lol
Very good story & Vídeo, thank you for upload, greatings from Brazil!!! God Bless!!!
Ditto , "Great guy. Great car. Great story. And great video!"
my first car was a 79 T-bird,but i fixed it up as my "Starsky & Hutch" Car,T-birds had the same parts as a Torino,steering wheel,seats,dash board,bumpers,interior,it was a wide car to,so when i put wide tires and deep dish rims on the back,plus air shocks,man that car was beautiful,got a fire engine red paint job,it was my inspired car,i called it the "HOOPTY BIRD"!
A life dedicated to the car used in a cop action TV series IS A LIFE WELL LIVED!
I have a die cast version of this car as well as many other famous TV and movies cars. Would love to own the real thing one day. Love it!
Just about to build a 75 torino vintage stock car. Always loved this body style. My dad had a montego when I was a kid.
'72's were the lookers for that generation of Torino. 1976 had those funky bumpers. I had a '69 GT that I loved to death.
I had a 73 GT Sport. My friend had a Torino 1969 and a half. That what his owner manual said.
For the record, the show's first regular season was Fall of 1975, not 1976.
Imagine if you will, a resto-mod version of 1 of these devastatingly volatile monsters, with a supercharged 5.2L Voodoo V8, & a frame/suspension that actually allowed the car to perform in turns! (spoken in Rod Serling's voice)
I had one back in the 1980`s. It was a 1975 ford factory car. wish I had it now. My car had the 351. Bench seat. No bumperetts. It was a fun car. Everybody knew it was mine.
When I was in High School in 1975, I had a 72 Gran Torino Sport exactly like the one in the Clint Eastwood movie, 351c 4v, auto. But if I ever win the lottery I'm heading straight to this guy for a S & H tribute Torino.
Coolest car ever. This guy is awesome. Oh I have a lot of the same collectables ... but I would love to have the real deal. I give the guy his due... he is the most dedicated S&H fan ever to own the original Torino from the show. Wow. The movie was goofy but I loved that the car(s) were painted with viper red instead of the old ford stock red. Also, they made a slight adjustment to the outside curve of the stripe which matched the body lines just a bit better. I'd be giddy driving that car around. Childhood dream. Too cool.
I love this Car. ! I have a Clone from 76 er Ford Gran Torino "Starsky & Hutch". Best regards from Germany
Loved. Clint Eastwood’s in Gran Torino movie that car is *MINTIEST* ever!
great looking cars that really has that distinct 70s American charm. saw one powered by a roush 588 BBF a while ago, that thing was mindblowing !
Hi everyone, I am the proud owner of a 1975 Ford Gran Torino which I want to restore, which I am suggested to do to get some parts. I live in Venezuela in the City of Caracas. After watching the video, I was very encouraged to continue with the restoration of the vehicle.
Thanks for profiling this car. I have one myself and I love it. so much fun to drive around. I just night take it for a spin today now.
Thank you for watching and liking my video :) I love hearing about people's passion for movie cars
I took my drivers license test driving my grand dads 74 Gran Torino .
Grand dad? Thanks for making me feel old. I remember when these things were new!
Took mine driving my own 4 door Gran Torin. Blue metallic, white landau top, all the goodies except power windows. 240c 351C. Not fast by any means but it would destroy its tires lol.
I owned a 70 Torino GT back in the 70's but I wanted one of these so bad!
A variety of Gran Torinos were provided by Ford for use in the filming of the series, ranging from 1974 to 1976 models. Depending upon their role in filming, some cars received 351-cu.in. Windsor V-8s, while the stunt cars received either 400-cu.in. or 460-cu.in. V-8s, depending upon model year. To improve acceleration for the (frequent) chase scenes, rear gearing was altered on some of the cars, prompting the studio to place a “Do Not Exceed 50 MPH” warning label on at least one vehicle’s dashboard used in second-season filming. All of the cars had a few things in common, however: All came painted in code 2B “Bright Red,” all received a white “vector” stripe designed by the show’s transportation coordinator, George Grenier, and all wore five slot mag wheels with blackwall tires (to avoid promoting any particular brand).
I'm not surprised that the Gran Torino felt planted when he was driving it. The car weighs almost 2 tons and was so heavy the original 351 Windsor couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding, so the gearing was changed to appear to make it faster. The actors seriously tried to wreck it because it was so heavy and cumbersome. Worth a bloody fortune today