A house down at the end of my street here has a ‘68 Torino parked in the back yard, and I find myself lusting after it.
I used to see a late 60s Camaro, white with orange stripes, in a back yard on my way to work. There was a sign in the window...
“Not For Sale”
I guess the owner got tired of people trying to buy it!
A house down at the end of my street here has a ‘68 Torino parked in the back yard, and I find myself lusting after it.
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Talk to ‘em, make ‘em an offer. You might be pleasantly surprised!
[a ‘68 Torino parked in the back yard, and I find myself lusting after it.]
Better than sex. and cheaper.
WHICH ‘68 Torino? Fastback? Vinyl “Hardtop”?
Power by — 428CJ, perhaps??
LOTS and lots of 302s and 351W plants in those Torinos.
We had an avocado green ‘69 GT with 351W power plant.
Pop sold it a year before I got my Permit ‘cuz he thought the transmission was getting a little slippy. Hell, it was a C6! A trip cross town to Art Carr (back when that name was reputable) and for the same money AAMCO would’ve charged to just rebuild it to OEM specs, we could’ve had it built to cope with 500HP!
Buuuut... Dad was from a line of folks that got rid of their cars every 4-6 years whether they needed to or not. ‘Cuz bogeymen, for all I could ever tell.
Thus it is that the family owned — and got rid of — multiple true classics. The Torino GT was just one, and they’re now kinda rare, and very collectible.
Mom had a ‘56 T-bird in black with Corinthian white interior and a conti kit. GONE.
Right outta the Army Dad owned a late ‘50s Skyliner. GONE.
My grandparents had a ‘63 Galaxie 500GT convertible with the 406, tri-power carburetion, and manual transmission. GONE.
Then they had a ‘67 Skylark sedan. GONE.
My other grandparents had a ‘60 Cadillac Sedan DeVille in white on white. GONE.
The only sane family were my Mom’s sister and husband: they had a ‘64 Mustang they held onto, and my cousin eventually bought it from them and kept it up.
I’ve managed to get my hands on a ‘63 Impala 4dr “Hardtop” Sport Sedan that I’m keeping roadworthy until I drop into a hole.
Ain’t no school like the Old School.