It is a tacit fact that anyone who is averse to mindless cliches and tired idioms must grin and bear them (ha ha) when studying online classifieds like Craigslist. It “ran when parked,” is “ready for restoration,” has a “stahl converter,” or, to quote the currently most heinous money grab of the bunch, is a “barn find.” This Torino is certainly not covered in dust or “patina,” but the advertising header certainly uses the classic “bandwagon appeal” form of rhetoric.
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1973 Ford Gran Torino Barn find!! – $6400
Very clean, very solid, 1973 Ford Gran Torino
302 v8 motor, rebuilt 12,000 miles ago, performance cam, all ready for a 4 bbl carb and headers if you want.
Odometer reads 33,xxx, My guess it rolled, so I would say 133,xxx possible.
Car came from California, motor was rebuild, vinyl top, factory steel wheels, tires in good shape, new exhaust, new brakes, new shocks, springs, steering box, alternator, wiper motor, battery, plugs, wires, cap, coil, All ready to go.
If you want any more pictures, please let me know.
Does have 1 small tear on the drivers seat as shown in the picture.
Runs and drives great, very solid for sure!
Craigslist and used car dealer radio advertisements seem to share a certain feel. I can imagine it now… Hey folks, come on down to Frank’s Auto where we have hot dogs and balloons for the kids and deep discounts for you! Rows and rows of clean, low mileage vehicles are on the lot with low, low financing. No credit, no problem! Here’s a clean, clean barn find 1973 Ford Gran Torino Hardtop. It’s a good gas mileage vehicle with nice vinyl seats for the kids. Super solid car, folks, and we can show you the Carfax.
This honey has dual exhaust, guaranteed to add 50 horsepower to this classic muscle car! And look at those lines! They don’t make ’em like this anymore!
It may come as no shock that a small dealer is selling this Torino. I actually drove by it last night, and although I didn’t get out to look because I have no interest in buying a ’73 Torino, I may be the only one in the room who thinks the color is just right. ’70s sherbet-like greens are delightful, especially when accentuated by a contrasting vinyl top.
Folks, that Ford 5.0 is one of the greatest motors in the bizness…made ’em forever!
If serviceability and parts availability are important, then the ubiquitous Ford 302 is a nice choice; moreover, you could have a slumber party with all of your friends inside that engine compartment, and the engine wouldn’t even have to move over. Atop the intake manifold is almost assuredly the Motorcraft 2100/2150, which is simplicity itself, and a continuous run of some 30 years means that engine parts are as close as the corner NAPA. As far as propelling over two tons on body on frame solidity is concerned, well, you needn’t be in any hurry anyway.
Just look at that nice, open floor! Sit six across! You can take the whole family for a ride…Dream Cruise ready!
Can’t you just picture yourself behind that wheel, four windows rolled down, serenely cruising down an open two-lane highway, reliving your Starsky and Hutch childhood fantasies? OK, so maybe it’s not a tomato red ’74, but you can drive away in this honey for a fraction of the price!
Just look at that back seat; nobody has ever sat in it. It’s clean, clean, clean. And if little Jimmy spills his ice cream cone, that tough vinyl upholstery means easy cleanup for you!
We’re taking top dollar on trades, too! Push, pull, or drag your old jalopy in and we’ll give you up to $2500! Don’t delay, folks! Take this Gran Torino home today for a low, low price!
You are correct. The color (and wheels) are the only redeeming features of this Torino. But I am also highly biased against Torino’s in general.
You are also correct on ads. I’ve put a few ads on craigslist and Hemmings and have never noticed any menu for choosing cliches and idioms despite so many ads having the same ones over and over again. Is it apathy or inability to express and/or distinguish ones self? It’s hard to know.
And that 302? My parents had a ’73 base model Torino with a 302. 12 mpg regardless of how you drove and it would eventually wheeze and strain its way to a 90 mph top speed.
The wheezing and straining of a ’73 302 is easily fixed today!
Very much so.
That car was went away around 1982, its rust almost perfectly camouflaged by its turd brown paint.
Wish I could contact them
A nice little car although I don’t like Fords/Torinos .
This one has nice color combo .
No kidding about the wheeze factor of the durable 302 ~ I had a 1979 F150 shop truck for a while , my current clapped out 250 CID Chevy truck goes up hill easier and faster than it did .
-Nate
Personally, the car needs some pizazz. It needs the lazer stripes (multicolored) down the side that could be ordered, lose the vynle top, and paint it a nice color.
Minus the special wheels and black wall tires with raised white letters, most 1973 American intermediates left the showroom equipped like this car. In that respect, this car is a time capsule, so I wouldn’t be inclined to “improve” it.
A laser stripe on a notchback? No way. On a fastback (sportsroof), sure. Though I think even on those its final year may have been ’72. On a notchback, this is what you need. Vinyl roof, period-correct color (and what a color it is), magnum 500’s. The raised white letter tires even work here and I generally don’t care for those.
The Laser stripe was available in 1973, formal roof and fastback. it was different from the 1972 strip though.
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I enjoy looking at this car because it’s so 70’s. I’d never want to actually own something that color though.
Words to ignore in any old-car ad: “barn find.” Unless the ad is accompanied by photos of the car still in the barn.
I didn’t like these very much when they came out, but my feelings toward them have softened. I wouldn’t buy one, but I’d be happy to encounter one like this at curbside or in a show.
@Words to ignore in any old-car ad: “barn find.”
Just remember that if the car had been any good to drive xx years ago, it wouldn’t have gotten parked in the barn and forgotten about in the first place.
Way back about 1974 or 75 my sister and I took her near new Mustang II Ghia back to the dealer for yet another attempt to get the many “bugs” removed. The dealership gave her a 73 Torino 4 door as a loaner car. She drove it less than a block before asking/pleading that I take over for the 20 miles home. That car seemed to barely fit in it’s lane of the curving, mountainous, 2 lane road and the driver’s seat (a bench) offered no support and looked as long as a 6 or 7 foot couch. The “crowning touch” was steering nearly devoid of feel.
Oddly, my father’s 66 and 69 LTDs felt like they were longer and NARROWER than that Torino.
If I REALLY wanted a 73 Ford-built intermediate, I’d go for a Mercury Montego. Still, this is a nice car, just a shame about that front bumper.
Isn’t a Montego the same car with Mercury sheetmetal?
Not loving that color. It reminds me of the tux I had to wear at a cousin’s wedding in maybe 1976. Or a Shamrock Shake.
I am with you on the over/mis use of “Barn Find”. To me, a barn find is a car that has been pulled out of improper storage after 20+ years. It is covered with dust and dirt, and probably has rodent damage, but is fairly straight and unmolested. And when I see a car with an engine rebuilt with a hot cam yet with a 2 bbl carb, it makes me wonder what else on the car has been half-assed.
I am also not much of a fan of these, but this one is not bad as they go. I will say that one thing I always liked on Fords of this era was how they mounted the window cranks way up high on the door so that you didn’t have to lean way forward to roll your window up or down like with most everything else.
Survivor is an overused term too. What do we really mean by it? My dad used to call the Mustang I’ve got now a “survivor” and it is impressive that an un-restored car is still with us nearly 50 years later having spent far and away most of its time in salty, wet, rusty Ohio but it certainly isn’t “all original” which many people mean when they say things like “survivor.”
I’ll bet there are thousands of pictures of 70s guys with long hair parted down the center standing akwardly in their colorful tuxes and ruffled shirts with their prom date next to Torinos like this one (covered in toilet paper flowers). Ah the 70s. Good times.
Oh boy, a Gran Torino with a vinyl roof, for when you really wanted a Monte Carlo but were very loyal to what Hank The Deuce was spitting out of his company.
Who puts a performance cam in a 2 barrel car? (Oh wait I put a MSD ignition on a 2 barrel 289… never-mind then.)
“AC works, just needs charge”
“Needs new such and such, parts store says it only costs this much and is an easy fix. I just don’t have time to do it.”
I love it when sellers of old cars say things like that. If it’s so easy and/or cheap to fix…then why didn’t you simply do it yourself?
“AC works, just needs charge”
I retired after working on HVAC equipment for a number of years. One lot lost a sale on a Tahoe by trying to tell me that. Probably should have tried it on someone else. Then he said the freon level would probably come back when the weather got hotter. I really liked that Tahoe but won’t deal with a liar. Oh well. It put me in my 4runner.
AC works, just needs recharge. Every 20 minutes.
And WHY does it need a recharge? Well, something must be leaking….
The worst is the slow leak. My 780 had nice cold A/C when I bought it. A few weeks later, it had mediocre A/C. About a month after that, the A/C was merely a vent.
I don’t even know if I can blame the seller. He’d only owned it for about 9 months and I bought it last June. So he’d certainly had to recharge the system, but unless the owner before him mentioned a leak, it might not have been intentional misrepresentation. Or it might, on a cheap car I suppose one can’t be too choosy anyway.
A slow leak is almost always the evap coil. It was a major issue on all Chrysler products when I worked for them. Simply a cheap coil.
Circa 1998-99, I had a 76 cougar in that same color combo. Loved that car.
Another thing…
There have always been people who flipped cars for cash, but it seems as though every Tom, Dick and Harry is doing it now, always with caveats.
“We couldn’t find any rust on it.” is one of my favorite cop outs.
I guess this color polarizes us. For me, any light green like this is attractive. Maybe because my Grandad had a light green ’48 Ford sedan delivery.
I never noticed how much the Torino looks like an oversized Mustang II though, until you open the hood and see how tiny the 302 looks compared to the overstuffed Oreo appearance in the Mustang.
Because it looks easy on TV. And of course it IS easy when your “reality” show is scripted.
These Torinos were pigs to drive – wallowy suspensions, rattles as the cars aged, and miserable fuel economy. In 1978 a friend offered to sell me his ’75 Ford Elite (a Torino/Montego luxury derivative). Even though the car had a 460 (!) under the hood, it was pretty gutless and attempts to corner at any speed were met with washout understeer. I passed on the Elite, and I can only conclude that Ford was pretty cynical about its cars in the 1970s.
My dad’s 460 Elite would light up the tires and rip up to 125 mph. Maybe because it was a Canada-spec unit with dual exhaust and no cat. You’re right about the handling, though.
When I was in college (mid-70’s) I actually got to drive university motor
pool cars full of fellow students on a couple of class field trips (imagine that today!). Anyway I remember driving a Torino and a Satellite?Coronet? equivalent Mopar. Both somewhere between ’74 and ’76 vintage, 4 door, drab fleet cars. The Ford was miserable, the Mopar quite pleasant. I had driven quite a few cars by that age – European, Japanese, American, and my own car was a 4 speed Vega GT – and the Torino would be pretty far down the list for road feel and general ride/handling. OTOH any V8 felt pretty good to me in those days.
Stock suspensions were soft. Get the heavy duty or competition and these cars were decent handlers for their day. Many cars were equipped with optional suspensions, they weren’t rare options, but like most other American cars of this vintage the majority had soft wallowy suspension. They put on weight from 1972 onwards and after 1973 (last year for the competition suspension), the suspensions were more focussed on soft rides (the Elites were some of the worst offenders). My old PS road tests shows the earlier cars performing better than the later Torinos on their handling tests.
I have numerous old test articles where the HD (Cross Country) and Competition suspensions were highly regarded. I can tell you that my 150K mile unrestored car is very tight, has no squeaks and rattles and will easily smoke both it’s rear tires. As for the suspension, my car was original a HD suspension and handling was good for it’s era. I have since refurbished the suspension and it handles very well, even by modern standards (the only upgrades were stiffer springs, modern shocks and the largest factory sway bars). The design on the suspension and chassis wasn’t the issue, it was that Ford put too soft springs and shocks.
It makes you wonder who at Ford was responsible for putting these on sale like that, and what else he (it would’ve been he in those days) fouled up. Not one of Ford’s better ideas.
BTW : bring on the barn finds ! .
I’ve been rescuing old forgotten vehicles since the 1960’s , still having fun doing it and reading about it .
-Nate
While it’s nice to see any car of that vintage in such great, original condition, at the end of the day it’s still a Torino. Great colour for a car of that era, I’d forgotten about the colour-keyed rear bumper pad. I’m surprised colour keyed rub strips weren’t more of a thing in the Seventies.
“Color-keyed” was a pretty popular trim feature of Ford cars in the 1970s, such as color-keyed wheel covers, carpeting, etc.
I have been musing about the proper descriptive term for old cars like this for quite a while now. I have a 71 Alfa Spider Veloce that I have been working on for about four years now. It was in rough and unlove shaped when I got it. It hadn’t moved in about five years, but it wasn’t forgotten and abandoned – just neglected- so I don’t think it qualifies (in my book anyway) as a “Barn Find”. I have rebuilt the engine, transmission, suspension, and interior, and it it currently all apart again getting ready for a major body freshening and repaint. The work being done goes past what you would call a “Resurrection, but even when everything is done I don’t think it will be original enough or perfect enough to qualify as a “Restoration. I’ve made some minor but noticeable modifications to the body (dumped the side markers) and engine (webers, cams). “Rebuilt” suggests only the mechanical work, not considering the cosmetic. Right now I call her my “Rehabilitated Shelter Puppy” but I don’t think that qualifies as a proper ‘term of art’ in the car world. So, what would be the correct descriptor?
I do have a a phrase for that 73 Torino, but IMHO right before Ford hit the bottom of the trough for the 70’s: “Coprolite”. Yeah, I never liked them (except for the station wagons) and I don’t think time and survival have improved them.
Sweet looking car. Although I’m not a fan of 1972 and 73 Torinos and Gran Torinos, this one looks really nice! Not what you’d expect a “barn find” to be. Generally, a barn find has patina covering its body, the inside may, or may not be in ok condition, the battery is dead, and the engine is seized. This car doesn’t look anything like that. This car looks like it was parked in the barn overnight, but driven daily, and well taken care of. A true survivor. I like that. 🙂
Barn Find, Rat Rod, and others have become Craigslistese for hulking pile of junk.
I’ve been looking around for a Fox Mustang Notchback that hasn’t been beaten to death lately. Virtually every one of the ads I’ve viewed has had some stupid line in it.
If it’s in pieces it’s an “Easy project”
“No Rust” Really? Where are the rocker panels?
“Barn Find”, Where did you find a Barn in Downtown Chicago?
My biggest peeve is “Rat Rod”.. No, your Flat Black 99 LeSabre is not a “Rat Rod”..
That 73 is nice but it’s in no way a “Barn Find”.
I have always liked these cars despite their shortcomings. And the’75 Torino Elite I had for a brief time was only the second biggest POS I have had, top honors go to my ’75 Granada. 1975? Bad year for Ford. Hank the Duce’s spending the farm on racing, booze, and call girls 10 years earlier finally caught up with them.
To be fair, this isn’t the stripper wagon my parents had, but if you mentioned ” ’73 Torino barn find” to my dad, he’d just tell you to burn the barn down around it, based on his experience with one of these.
Last year of the hardtop for Ford I believe. Even Thunderbird and Mark IV abandoned rear seat passengers after ’73 with fixed windows. One of the early signs of the apocalypse of malaise.
Yes, this was the last year for opening rear windows in these, as well as it’s Montego, T-bird and MkIV platform mates. The windows actually retracted horizontally into the C-pillar, and the feature was eliminated in 74 due to some beefing- up in that area to meet federal rollover standards.
Thunderbird wasn’t a platform mate yet–’73 was still in the “big bird” generation. It didn’t slot onto the Torino platform until the ’77 downsizing. To the best of my knowledge the Mark series never used it, saying on the big personal luxury platform through the Mark V and then switching to the Panther platform for the VI.
However, I’m sure you’re correct that they all dropped the feature at the same times. Presumably the same new rollover standards that (temporarily) killed the convertible caused extra bracing to need to be added to the few remaining hardtops.
The 1972 -76 T-Bird and Continental MK IV & V was indeed a stretched version of this chassis, with the same basic front and rear suspension design.
The main difference was that the senior models used the big-car bolt circle.
I had been led to believe it was a refreshed/stretched version of the Mark III/”Glamour” Thunderbird platform. Evidently I was incorrect on that assumption…
“Ran when parked” has always been my favorite. It’s usually reserved for the sorriest, rusting heaps of junk that are “ready for restoration”. Just because something ran doesn’t mean it should be parked in a puddle in the middle of a field with the windows down. More importantly, it doesn’t mean it’s worth money because it’s been held onto for decades.
My favorite descriptive phrase in an ad was a refreshingly honest, “looks good, on a dark night, in the rain.” 🙂
“Ran when parked”
No shit!
Really, it may be semantics but if a car moved after it was not running it was simply moved. Parking is an operating procedure, if the car is not operating it cannot be parked.
Engine has slight rattle when cold, smooths out to pleasant thump when warm. Only needs oil change, low mileage oil and filter in bucket on back seat. Included with sale. Transmission has no reverse gear or third gear, just needs fluid change. Tires in excellent shape, neighbor may want to exchange for cement blocks currently under his car. All lighting non functional except for right rear side marker (lens cracked), just needs fuse. Brakes worked excellent when car rolled off showroom floor. Exhaust needs a little work, have coat hanger and soup can repair parts in trunk for easy fix. Air conditioning ice cold, just needs recharge every morning. Great car, I would let you drive coast to coast without worry after cash payment in arranged meeting area. Divorce forces sale.
I think you win!
Yeah, ‘barn find’ is yet another variation on the old ‘only driven by little old lady on sundays to church’ lie. Amazing how right PT Barnum was.
On a more positive note, the best thing about the ad is that the seller took photos with the rear quarter windows down, showing that it was a true hardtop (and, likely, one of the last). It was around this time that hardtops disappeared from the domestic scene, en masse.
Does anyone know the last domestic hardtop? This may very well be it as I suspect that in the Torino’s final years, those lowering rear quarter windows became fixed. In fact, the idea of touting it as a rare car because it was the ‘last American car with lowering rear quarter windows’ would at least be more original than the ‘barn find’ crap.
GM B-body two doors and and B and C four doors still had pillarless hardtops through ’76, built alongside the ‘last’ convertibles. I think Ford’s last true four door hardtops were in ’72, oddly enough, built right along side four door pillared ‘hardtops’ and sedans. ’73 was the last of the Ford two door hardtops. Chrysler continued with C-body hardtops through ’78 but continued with the frameless windowed R-bodies through ’81.
Perhaps some of this also hinges on your definition of “hardtop”. It’s pretty clear that a 4-door hardtop has no b-pillar between the door windows. But must a 2-door hardtop have roll-down rear windows to be considered a hardtop? As an illustration, consider a ’74 Torino notchback, or a ’79 Lincoln Mark V. Both have fixed rear windows, with a chromed trim strip at the leading edge of the window. But is that actually a pillar? I’d say no. it’s not structural and does not greatly impinge on the view outward. So I’d still call that a hardtop.
Contrast, for example, with, say, an ’80 Lincoln Mark VI two-door. Shrunken Mark V styling, and to the casual observer, same window arrangement from the outside. But on the inside, you’ll see that the double chrome strips in between the quarter window and the front glass hide a structural B-pillar. Hence, not a hardtop.
Traditionally, ‘hardtop’ is an offshoot of the term ‘soft-top’, which is to say, a convertible except the top isn’t made of cloth or vinyl but is ‘hard’. And, as such, since the rear quarter windows of all convertibles lower, I would think that anything where they didn’t (even if they had in the past) would then be considered coupes. Besides the Torino, Chrysler did the same thing with their brand-new-for-1971 B-body two-doors. For the first couple of years, the quarter windows lowered but, by the end of the run in 1974, they were fixed (even though they looked identical to the earlier lowering windows).
Even better would be the 1970-71 Challenger ‘Deputy’. It was the cheapest Challenger you could get, and even though all other Challengers were hardtops, since the Deputy’s rear quarters didn’t roll down, it then became a coupe.
It would seem to exempt the four-door hardtops except for the fact that there ‘were’ domestic four-door convertibles (the last one being the sixties’ Continental?).
So, I would think that anything with fixed rear quarter windows, even if they had lowered in previous iterations, would be a coupe and not a hardtop.
Vinyl seats and NO Air Conditioning would be a “Deal Breaker” here in Hot & Humid New Orleans.
I think I hear Walt Kowalski singing “Gran Torino”. 😉
I’d much rather hear Kenny Rogers and The First Edition singing, “I Just Dropped In, To See What Condition My Condition Was In” from The Big Lebowski.
I hate the freakin’ Eagles.
Even though the 72-76 Torinos were geared for mainstream buyers looking for ‘lux for less’ back in the day, nostalgia has given them the ‘muscle car’ label. Same with “S&H” and “Gran Torino” movie.
The barn find thing always baffled me.
One, because somehow every other classic car inexplicably wound up in a barn for some reason.
Two, how is that appealing? I’ve been in my share of barns – they’re damp, musty, smelly, infested and full of a bazillion pointy heavy objects hung with twine. Pretty much the last place in the world I’d seek a car out from would be a barn and if I did I’d expect it to be incredibly cheap, like $1500 for a Hemi Cuda convertible cheap, but it somehow seems to add value to most sellers.
When I was in college in Iowa in 1957 I met a car collector who had just bought a car that he referred to as having been found in a barn. It was a 1935 Ford coupe in black with apple green stripes, and it appeared to be in mint condition. Even the 1935 Iowa license plates on it looked new. He assured me that it ran and drove as well as it looked, and I believed him in that he wasn’t trying to sell it to me. The farmer had died shortly after buying the car, and his wife didn’t drive so she had it put in the barn and covered up.
It’s stories like that – some few of which are actually true – that have caused “barn find” to be thrown around with such abandon nowadays; that and an increasing preference among well-to-do car collectors for original as opposed to restored cars.
At a Hershey AACA fall show in the late 1980s, I saw a mint, original 1959 Oldsmobile 88 hardtop coupe for sale on a trailer.
The information was that a couple bought the car brand-new in 1959, and the husband died of a heart attack three weeks later. The wife simply parked the car in the garage, and never used it, but did maintain it. Given the condition of the car – it was immaculate – that scenario was believable.
Contrary to belief, there actually are some cars out there that one day are parked and not driven. The only problem with that is when it actually happens and we see it advertised we are prone to think it is BS. The old “crying wolf” scenario.
My great Aunt actually did this when my Uncle died. She never drove a day in her life, and didn’t want his car sold or the garage to be empty so she kept his low mileage, “lightly” optioned, mint condition gold 1978 Delta 88 Royale coupe for almost 15 years before she decided to eventually sell it. She never let anyone touch or drive that car too, so it really SAT and SAT for years. I think it had maybe 15,000 miles on it when she sold it. I remember seeing that car driven as a daily driver for many years after and it killed me to see it deteriorate. (My Uncle had special ordered it, and as I said it really didn’t have many options at all, not even a vinyl top!) But there you go, a true story of an undriven car for over 15+ years.
Getting back to the “barn find” description, it surely is getting over-used. I want to go to every barn I can find in the country and look in it to see if there is a 1973 Super-Duty Trans Am sitting in there (extremely rare) or perhaps a 1970 Plymouth Superbird (also extremely rare).
We see some very low mileage Lincolns at our LCOC meets, always with a story! Recently, I saw two 1979 Lincolns, a Mark and a Town Car, with 4 and 10 miles, respectively.
Here’s the Mark.
I always liked the 1972-73 Ford Gran Torino’s a lot, I wish they would have kept the taillights on the bumpers on the later Torino’s, I always associate the 1973 Ford Gran Torino with the Dude on The Big Lebowski and the 1972 Ford Gran Torino with Walt on Gran Torino.
Other common ad verbiage mistakes that grate on my nerves:
“Needs restored” Needs rebuilt” “breaks(brakes)” “original miles” (as opposed to Non-original?) I could go on, but you get the picture! 🙂
I think the advent of YouTube greatly accelerated the number of “barn finds.”
Last generation Ford Focus offered a similar shade of green, but even more pale. Nice to see in a world of silver white red and black drones out there.
Never did like the Torino after 71. The “Sportsroof” profile made it look like a bloated Pinto and the tail lights only underscored that impression.
Love the color of this one though. Cut through the BS and it’s probably a solid old car and would give someone an inexpensive way to enjoy the hobby.
“And only 100,000 built that year. Extremely rare.”
There is boat for sale on Craigslist in my area. The ad starts by saying “I’ve got 5 guys interested in this boat.” They must all be broke or not so very interested. The ad has been running for 2 months.
Almost reminds me of the green color off of one of my close friends’ 2007 Toyota Avalon Limited.
Knowing full well there’s not enough barns standing to support all of these claims, I’m waiting to see the “outhouse find.” : – )
Ah yes… the hot new descriptor: Patina!!!! And now we have fake patina… when a little surface rust isn’t enough, we wet sand good paint down to the metal so it’ll start rusting or worse, spray a little red primer in random spots then clear over it all.
Not my thing…
I also hate the way the term “barn find” is tossed around. I always understood it to mean an original,intact,unmolested example that had been in some type of covered storage. Shed. Garage Old warehouse.Not properly prepared for long time storage. Usually the motor was seized up. Used to be able to find original unrestored old cars for sale by their elderly owners or heirs. Mostly stripper four doors because their owners had been the frugal type who felt no need to update their transportation. Now these old tubs are listed as rare classics.
Anyone know anything more about this actual Torino as I’m now looking to possibly purchase it and it’s now in the uk. It still looks exactly as it does here!