My mom had the Gran Torino Elite with those twin oprah windows. It was black on black with leather seats, and would absolutely cook you in the summer. Mom was notorious for smoking the tires with the 351 Cleavland.
You are aware that the Elite is like a Montego so not really a Torino, right ? They try to make them the same car bc of the massive popularity of the tv show Starsky & Hutch but in truth the elite is like a bad copy or a fake if you will Look at the front end and pls look at the sides of the elite then look at a Montego. That's the close relation there, very different from the actual Torino
When I was a kid, my dad had a ‘74 Gran Torino hardtop coupe (no opera window). It was a 351-2v. I loved it, and my dad drove it well into the ‘90s until everything started to break.
For a change a US car which sold comparatively well in Denmark in 1974 and 1975. Not only as 2 and 4 door models, but also in the Ranchero pick-up version and the Squire Wagon style. I drove the 1974 Ranchero as a student. Much later got the Brougham Coupe.
Wow how times have changed. Coming home from the hospital in front seat in Mothers arms. No baby seat no nothing. Mind you I remember laying in the back of my parents 77 Vista Cruiser back in the day on the way to Florida.
My nephew was not allowed to bring their newborn baby home from the hospital without a signed certificate verifying the baby seat was correctly installed, and the required and appointment.
We had a 1956 Dodge Plaza. No seat belts. As small kids we would stand on the center hump from the back and talked to my dad while driving. He would have one hand on the steering wheel and the other hand holding a cigarette.
As a 4 year old, I used to lay on the back shelf area (what was called a 'package shelf!') of our 1957 Chevy, looking straight up through the back window of the car. Sorta like this, only on my back. i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/0a/b4/f00ab4949f3fc90d2361f3262b832cf0.jpg
@@michaelracicot233 yeah, at best from what I gathered from a search on google, the Torino got 15 mpg highway at 55 mph which would get you 390 miles on it's 26 gallons. I averaged somewhere between 65 and 70 mph over the 425.5 miles I traveled going up into the mountains of NH and back from MA recently on a 13.1 gallon tank and still had 1 1/2 gallons left lol
The '73 fuel shortage just happened and ford went to a optional bigger tank to stay full by not refueling more often at that time. standard was 20 gallons, My 74 LTD has a regular 22 gallon tank.
I rode in a Brougham once when I was a kid, and buckled it in for fear that the buzzer would sound, but didn't know until late that this was the year that they mandated that ignition interlock system, which would set a lot of people off like you wouldn't believe! Thankfully it was written out of the lawbooks before the end of that calendar year!!
Everyone's belted in except the baby, and no "Baby on board" sign to warn the other motorists! Oh well I guess you can't get too hurt with all that plush carpeting and pillow like seats. lol
🤓 Outstanding job guy’s having her hold her Newborn in the front and she doesn’t have her seatbelt on while driving around. I remember jumping around between the front and rear of our Country Squire Wagon and playing with my Brothers while getting around! 🙄 Dad and Mom both not even looking our way up front! God must have surrounded us kids with Angels! 😌❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
yes things have changed not for the better back then you got more car for less money their were less people in the world and when people had better attitudes and were nicer you actually got more of anything for less money and last way before Covid-19 shame everything keeps spiraling down hill everyone needs to stop and look around and see what's happening instead of ignoring it
Hello ? Gran Torino and Elite are not the same car. Actually the elite is like a dumb montego (compare front back and sides). Torinos have a unique fell finished fancy front and the stylish double lining running from the middle of the car to the tail lights Sorry elite owners, your car is not a Torino quit saying that it is
It's funny, the young couple drives home from the hospital with their new baby in a 2 dr Torino. The man and woman are safely belted in, and the baby is just held in the woman's arms. Could be trouble...
Today, car makers sell connectivity more than the car itself, back in those times, they sold opera windows, carpets and seats, in a coffin on wheels pretended to be "solid". One of the biggest errors of the time... Produce big, glutton, technologically obsolete cars, for people only concerned about appearance and cheap luxury (oxymoron).
Car sizes tended to 'creep' year by year as they tried to provide more legroom, etc. Look what happened to the Mustang from '65 to '73 or so. By the late 60's or early 70's, 'mid size' cars were about as big as full sized cars from 10 years earlier had been (at least, Chev / Ford / Plymouth).
@@coyleatkinson True. The Torino was succeeded by the LTDII which was only available from 1977-79. There was no mid-size LTD variation in 1980. However, there was one in 1984-85.. which happened to be built on the FOX platform, and just so happened to be the successor to the Fairmont, which was discontinued (as you said) in 1983. So in 1980 the mid sized Fairmont would have been the more logical successor to the mid size Torino/LTDII than the full size Crown Victoria.
The big focus on the large interior the new front end..... nothing on safety and holding a newborn baby in your arms lol.... these days you likely would have child protective services on your hiney as well as charges longer than that baby lol
While these cars may have been mid-sized, and had luxury ride, etc, remember we're talking about the mid seventies, and cars have the worst gas mileage until everything shrank and became more fuel efficient
Believe it or not the Torino and Elite were considered mid size cars in the 70's compared to the full size Galaxie 500 and LTD when parked side by side. The Elite always looked like a full size car to me because I remember when these cars were a common site on the highways back in the 70's and 80's.
Wow, that baby in the commercial would be 47 years old now!
If you wanna know for sure, ask it's Mom, actress Teri Garr! (in the commercial)
That's Teri garr in the advert holding the baby !
My mom had the Gran Torino Elite with those twin oprah windows. It was black on black with leather seats, and would absolutely cook you in the summer. Mom was notorious for smoking the tires with the 351 Cleavland.
You are aware that the Elite is like a Montego so not really a Torino, right ?
They try to make them the same car bc of the massive popularity of the tv show Starsky & Hutch but in truth the elite is like a bad copy or a fake if you will
Look at the front end and pls look at the sides of the elite then look at a Montego.
That's the close relation there, very different from the actual Torino
Oprah windows, you get a window, you get a window and you get a window!
Had a 74 Torino 4door 351. Great car.
When I was a kid, my dad had a ‘74 Gran Torino hardtop coupe (no opera window). It was a 351-2v. I loved it, and my dad drove it well into the ‘90s until everything started to break.
When u had to create a jingle for a car commercial
These cars have almost completely disappeared..... I haven't seen one in years
Just love those checker pants!
Good-looking They were very popular back in the day. I had a Ranchero with the same front end.
For a change a US car which sold comparatively well in Denmark in 1974 and 1975.
Not only as 2 and 4 door models, but also in the Ranchero pick-up version and the Squire Wagon style.
I drove the 1974 Ranchero as a student. Much later got the Brougham Coupe.
Wow how times have changed. Coming home from the hospital in front seat in Mothers arms. No baby seat no nothing. Mind you I remember laying in the back of my parents 77 Vista Cruiser back in the day on the way to Florida.
My nephew was not allowed to bring their newborn baby home from the hospital without a signed certificate verifying the baby seat was correctly installed, and the required and appointment.
We had a 1956 Dodge Plaza. No seat belts. As small kids we would stand on the center hump from the back and talked to my dad while driving. He would have one hand on the steering wheel and the other hand holding a cigarette.
As a 4 year old, I used to lay on the back shelf area (what was called a 'package shelf!') of our 1957 Chevy, looking straight up through the back window of the car. Sorta like this, only on my back. i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/0a/b4/f00ab4949f3fc90d2361f3262b832cf0.jpg
@@nomebearwhat weenies.
That looks like actress Teri Garr
Mile long hood, CHECK
Short pony trunk, CHECK
Moon/Opera windows, CHECK
Vinyl top, CHECK
Shag Carpet, OH YEAH BABY!
Torino!
Hey lets pick up Huggy Bear.
lol, a 26.5 gallon fuel tank, that's twice as big as what I have on my car
My 2011 F150 has a 31 Gallon fuel tank.
And your car will probably go further on a full tank than this boat
@@michaelracicot233 yeah, at best from what I gathered from a search on google, the Torino got 15 mpg highway at 55 mph which would get you 390 miles on it's 26 gallons. I averaged somewhere between 65 and 70 mph over the 425.5 miles I traveled going up into the mountains of NH and back from MA recently on a 13.1 gallon tank and still had 1 1/2 gallons left lol
The '73 fuel shortage just happened and ford went to a optional bigger tank to stay
full by not refueling more often at that time. standard was 20 gallons, My 74 LTD has a regular 22 gallon tank.
I rode in a Brougham once when I was a kid, and buckled it in for fear that the buzzer would sound, but didn't know until late that this was the year that they mandated that ignition interlock system, which would set a lot of people off like you wouldn't believe! Thankfully it was written out of the lawbooks before the end of that calendar year!!
First project: bypass the interlock!
When cars were beautiful, and affordable.
Bring back thick warm quiet carpeting instead of German inspired paper thin sparse carpeting in ALL new cars today.
If Hugh Downs is telling me that the Grand Torino is the car for me, Who am I to disagree with him?
No, he told you that the GRAN Torino is the car.
@@townhall05446 hell, if you asked for a green tornado they'd still sell you a torino, no problem.
Everyone's belted in except the baby, and no "Baby on board" sign to warn the other motorists! Oh well I guess you can't get too hurt with all that plush carpeting and pillow like seats. lol
You are correct, the only way to get hurt with that car is if someone drags you out and beats the hell out of you!
Baby on board is supposed to warn other motorists? My only thought when I see those is who cares?
I don't what they are saying in the commercial over and over but I hear "The Boat" lol
Now I can't unhear that.. 😂
My uncle across the road had one. I drove it in the 90s until a Jeep rear ended me
Teri Garr made a lovely Mother!
I saw her in young frankenstein hot mf
And again in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
She made a lovely everything!
@@edpoe4622 AMEN!
🤓 Outstanding job guy’s having her hold her Newborn in the front and she doesn’t have her seatbelt on while driving around. I remember jumping around between the front and rear of our Country Squire Wagon and playing with my Brothers while getting around! 🙄 Dad and Mom both not even looking our way up front! God must have surrounded us kids with Angels! 😌❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
People weren't weenies back then
Didn't the base Torino have different front end than the Gra
Yes, flat faced with a full with grille rather than the separate center section. They looked very downmarket.
yes things have changed not for the better back then you got more car for less money their were less people in the world and when people had better attitudes and were nicer you actually got more of anything for less money and last way before Covid-19 shame everything keeps spiraling down hill everyone needs to stop and look around and see what's happening instead of ignoring it
Me gusta el carro
Let s go with Starsky and Hutch. 26 gallon fuel tank in 1974 , today my Kia car have 8 gallon with 1250 cc jaja
My 2011 Ford F150 with the 5.0L Coyote V8 has a 31 gallon fuel tank.
Hello ?
Gran Torino and Elite are not the same car. Actually the elite is like a dumb montego (compare front back and sides). Torinos have a unique fell finished fancy front and the stylish double lining running from the middle of the car to the tail lights
Sorry elite owners, your car is not a Torino quit saying that it is
It's funny, the young couple drives home from the hospital with their new baby in a 2 dr Torino. The man and woman are safely belted in, and the baby is just held in the woman's arms. Could be trouble...
Does your mom still breast feed you?
Would love to see any lady smiling at me like that if I pulled into her driveway in one of those today. I highly doubt she would be. 😆
Mine would!
Today, car makers sell connectivity more than the car itself, back in those times, they sold opera windows, carpets and seats, in a coffin on wheels pretended to be "solid". One of the biggest errors of the time... Produce big, glutton, technologically obsolete cars, for people only concerned about appearance and cheap luxury (oxymoron).
Even in '74, I'm not sure I would have classified a Torino as a "mid sized" car. But, whatever.
It was sized between the compact Maverick and full size LTD.. so yes, it was a "midsized" car at the time.
Car sizes tended to 'creep' year by year as they tried to provide more legroom, etc. Look what happened to the Mustang from '65 to '73 or so. By the late 60's or early 70's, 'mid size' cars were about as big as full sized cars from 10 years earlier had been (at least, Chev / Ford / Plymouth).
by 1980, the torino morphed in to a ltd crown victoria
There was no Torino after 1976.
became the ltd2 and then the ltd/ crown victoria
Actually would have been the Fairmont in 1980.
@@BrilloBush fairmont- zephyr arrived in 1978 ended in 1983
@@coyleatkinson True. The Torino was succeeded by the LTDII which was only available from 1977-79. There was no mid-size LTD variation in 1980. However, there was one in 1984-85.. which happened to be built on the FOX platform, and just so happened to be the successor to the Fairmont, which was discontinued (as you said) in 1983. So in 1980 the mid sized Fairmont would have been the more logical successor to the mid size Torino/LTDII than the full size Crown Victoria.
The big focus on the large interior the new front end..... nothing on safety and holding a newborn baby in your arms lol.... these days you likely would have child protective services on your hiney as well as charges longer than that baby lol
Yeah, people are douchebags!
While these cars may have been mid-sized, and had luxury ride, etc, remember we're talking about the mid seventies, and cars have the worst gas mileage until everything shrank and became more fuel efficient
Mid-size .... really?
Believe it or not the Torino and Elite were considered mid size cars in the 70's compared to the full size Galaxie 500 and LTD
when parked side by side.
The Elite always looked like a full size car to me because I remember when these cars were a common site on the highways back in the 70's and 80's.
I wish you ever did the captions for that would learn to spell brome b r o u g h a m is the proper spelling
People pronounce it bro ham too!!!