Word: torino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided I would climb mountains. As it was, I executed a clumsy power turn in the parking lot of Peck and Peck's, exited amidst much dust and crying of tires, bottomed the car out on a curb, and almost ripped the oil pan off my mother's Ford Torino in the process. At the time I assumed it was love...
...During the first minutes of the film proper, he shoots up some cops and abducts Suzy Kendall, who just happens to be sitting around a Louisiana courtroom, a stroke of luck about as likely as finding Jean Shrimpton whittling in front of some general store. Stealing a convenient Gran Torino, he then sets off over back roads and along the edges of levees, pursuing a band of international heavies while at the same time being pursued by the state police, who mistake him, understandably, for a menace to society. "I hate you so much it hurts," Suzy spits at Newman...
...sterling silver Sheaffer pen (p. 12); a General Electric Potscrubber dishwasher (p. 25); Seagram's Crown Royal (p. 26); flying with Jo on National Airlines (pp. 41-42a); some De Beers Consolidated diamonds (p. 56); a Kodak Carousel projector (p. 76); and a Gran Torino Hardtop with bucket seats, vinyl roof, wheel trim rings and white sidewalls (back cover...
...person who spends $4,000 to $5,000 for a car wants to be different." Apparently on the same theory, Ford Motor Co.'s 1972 Thunderbird is bigger than the 1971 model both inside and out, and its V-shaped nose has been slightly blunted. The Ford Torino will have a new oval-shaped grille, and the Continental Mark IV will be 4 in. longer. The Mercury Montego, which has not sold well in 1971, is being made to look like the better-selling Ford...