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dwbr · Post by **dwbr** » September 19, 2007, 9:24 am

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Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » September 19, 2007, 10:16 am

From the "What were they thinking" category
how the hell did they go from this:

to this butt ugly Land Yacht in ONE year

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » September 19, 2007, 11:48 am

Johnny Canuck wrote:From the "What were they thinking" category
how the hell did they go from this:

to this butt ugly Land Yacht in ONE year

The '72 front ends are just cool lookin' in my book & flow well with the rest of the body lines on the car, making for an overall damned sexy car!
The '73 & later front ends just do NOT go with the rest of the car. They look like they belong on a Granada or something.

I'm guessing bumper impact laws was the main beauty killer.

Speaking of sexy 72's, as of yesterday, THIS little beauty is my current wallpaper!

Too bad it's gut is so friggin' green.

Comet · Post by **Comet** » September 19, 2007, 2:25 pm

In 1973 the US Govt mandated 5mph bumpers and other new crash laws. Mfrs did not know how to gracefully implement this, styling wise. So for severall years, we had to deal with these huge over hanging bumpers and bloated bodies. That is what happened. Function trumped style

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » September 19, 2007, 3:07 pm

Bull cookies.

here's a '72 mustang:

and a '73:

I am aware of the legislation changes, Mark. Looks like Ford purposely boatified the Torino. but somehow the Mustang did not suffer.

Phil · Post by **Phil** » September 19, 2007, 3:47 pm

Fairlane Club of America states the 73 bumper deal too so I tend to buy it.
Not sure how the stang escaped.

That white one is super hot.

I may be one of the few guys who like 73s. My 1st car ever was a brown/copper color 73 with a 302, I came to like it with no history or info about the car. I sold it to fund a 78 Camaro. Ill never own another Chevy.

That 73 got me looking at a 70 brougham 7 years ago and now I am thouroughly hooked on Torinos.

My friend Mike McPhillips is a 72 nut. He had to sell a really nice 72 Gran sport 4 speed car due to bills. Ive loved 72s ever since I saw his.

Ever see a standard 72 non-Gran Torino? 73 is better than this:

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » September 19, 2007, 4:43 pm

Heavyhauler wrote:
Ever see a standard 72 non-Gran Torino? 73 is better than this:

About equivalent in my book.

It's amazing how much less appeal that front end has with a standard eggcrate grille on it.

dwbr · Post by **dwbr** » September 19, 2007, 4:56 pm

Heavyhauler wrote: I may be one of the few guys who like 73s. My 1st car ever was a brown/copper color 73 with a 302,

my first car was also a 73 torino, Puke green with a dark green vynal top, had a 351 w in it, i thought it was a hot rod!
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cookster4495 · Post by **cookster4495** » September 21, 2007, 7:41 pm

dont mean to jack thread,but since the 72 is mentioned,,,I have a sport hood 4 sale if anyone is looking. larry

Phil · Post by **Phil** » September 21, 2007, 10:18 pm

can you PM me an email address, Ill put it up on Torino Cobra, Those guys will likely be intrested

glennz · Post by **glennz** » September 24, 2007, 11:54 pm

hey now there is nothing wrong with the 72 standard torino, that is the model i have, i have incoporated a gt hood on to it, 351c with AOD trans

ugly in pics but being redone as we speak

also the 73 mustangs had the impact bumpers they were just hid better, the 71-72 had the smaller chrome bumpers and some had the small urethane as pictured, but if you took a 72 and a 73 bumper the 73 weighs almost double and is mush larger insize, if i recall the 73 bumper i had on my car was close to 75-100 lbs

Phil · Post by **Phil** » September 25, 2007, 7:22 pm

I knew you'd see that

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » September 25, 2007, 8:08 pm

Point was, they could have done that with the Torino too, regardless of if a '72 bumper weighs 60 lbs and the '73 weighs a hundred.

Ford made a conscious decision to uglify the car in 73 , obvious to me. It came in Spades, to the Mustang in '74.

Phil · Post by **Phil** » September 25, 2007, 8:33 pm

I think teh stang was a flagship car in 73. Worth the tooling.

73 saw 5343 more Torinos and Rancheros sold than 72 for a total of 544,xxx total

Johnny Canuck wrote:It came in Spades, to the Mustang in '74.

No accounting for taste. Hell I like Subarus

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » September 25, 2007, 9:02 pm

a recap
1972

1973

1974

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » September 26, 2007, 10:42 am

Man, a saw a silver one just like that '73 this morning during the hellish commute. It had been rear-ended fairly hard & the gas tank was laying on the ground.

At least it didn't catch fire. Hope it gets fixed.