1974 Ford Torino
The famous 1974 Ford Torino from Starsky and Hutch, 1974 2-door coupe is a six-seat flanked by a 351cid V8 / 5L8 - 154cv came out for the first time in 1974, 1000 copies only. Very rare, the real 1974 Ford Torino are powered by 351 Cleveland V8 300 horsepower. But this is not the 1974 Ford Torino most powerful model.
1974 Ford Torino
Designed in 1972 for the sole purpose of selling a popular vehicle gentrified (equivalent to our Ford Focus and Ford Capri in his day), the 1974 Ford Torino, which sounds like a lot today (over 5.25 m long to 2.02 m wide), a car was very ordinary and that might have remained in anonymity without the TV series. At one time, in 1974 Ford Torino, where the sports models with powerful engines had already disappeared because of the drastic anti-pollution measures taken in the USA from 1971.
1974 Ford Torino
Unsuited to the 1974 Ford Torino constraints of time and energy to emerging competition from Japanese cars, the Ford Torino was a bulky car (especially after 1973 with the passage of larger bumpers), a poor build quality and a outdated technology.However, its attractive design, with rounded rear fenders, hood with its endless his big vertical 1974 Ford Torino grille surrounded by four headlights "threatening", its raked windshield, his style is both "upscale" and almost sports that make it desirable TODAY 'Today among fans of legendary cars.The 1974 Ford Torino is actually a good representation of what is expected of an "American". A 1974 Ford Torino with a "mouth of hell" and equipped with a big V8 purring under the hood.
1974 Ford Torino
In the 1974 Ford Torino minds of many people in Europe and especially France, Starsky's car is often the first idea that one is an American car, that is to say a car long, broad and impressive.
1974 Ford Torino
This 1974 Ford Torino simplistic and outmoded is nevertheless quite close to the reality of the U.S. car market and its conventions in the years 1960-1970, where the external appearance, size and engine size were the main interests of the average customer. As such, the 1974 Ford Torino is the perfect embodiment of excess motor current in the United States just before the first oil shock.