Meet the Ford Torino Talladega. More than three decades ago, however, stock-car racing was quite a different matter. The cars were actually similar to those everyday vehicles that folks drove to ...

Whether in race or street-legal homologation special guise, the 1969 Ford Torino Talladega was one of the first American-built performance cars developed with a keen focus on aerodynamics rather ...

Ford tried fitting its beastly Boss 429 as well as 429 Cobra Jet and Super Cobra Jet V8s in the Torino Cobra, with one of the cars even getting a three-speed automatic gearbox compared to the four ...

This 1969 Ford Torino Talladega sports a real Boss 429 Hemi, ... so to homologate the Talladega for NASCAR racing, Ford had to produce at least 500 cars for the public before it was allowed to ...

The race car didn’t have four doors, ... the Ford Torino Talladega and the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II. The Mercury won eight Grand National races in ’69 and ‘70, ...

Tom Bailey, noted Camaro builder and Drag Week winner, thought this 1969 Ford Torino Talladega was so cool he could forget his bow-tie loyalties for it.

The protagonists, meanwhile, are a 1970 Ford Torino Super Cobra Jet 429 and a 1974 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Super Duty 455 – a couple of rivals among the last of the true over-the-top muscle ...

In 1968, Ford released the Torino as a high-end package upgrade to the Fairlane, a full-sized car it'd been making since 1955. In two short years, it had become such a hit that the Blue Oval ...