To the point, outside of a period NASCAR piece, when was the last time you saw a highly mod-ified '72 Gran Torino? Uh ... but little else-other than a Ford Racing 514 quietly resting between ...

His name was Bud Moore, and in the 1972 season, he prepared a Ford Torino with a potent small-block to compete in nine NASCAR races. The success of the Ford Torino came from Bud Moore's experience ...

Produced only between 1968 and 1976, Ford’s Torino nameplate had a concise career. It managed to gain widespread NASCAR recognition ... the series with Torino, Gran Torino, and Gran Torino ...

In the spring of 1972, Scott Geller’s father Steve traded in his ’68 Ford Mustang fastback car for a brand-new ’72 Gran ...

Back in 1969, Ford and Dodge were the front-runners in NASCAR competition. Ford's new Torino fastback that debuted in 1968 was an effective design, but Dodge's Hemi-powered Chargers still had it ...

The thing that brought this muscle car back under the spotlight is 2008's American movie Gran ... the Torino era right before that, in the late 1960s. It was Ford's main entry in NASCAR, back ...