Searching 4 a 4 Door 1973 Gran Torino

  I'm in GA as well. I have a 74 4 door project I might be willing to part with. Lmk if you might be interested in checking it out? 

Bodies are the same, the difference is in the back, because of the addition of the 5mph rear bumper and different taillights. Which nose did your childhood car have on it? 

Wow! Okay, I was looking back through the model brochures posted in the 72-76 section. My grandfather was a salesman at the Curtis Youngblood dealership, so we had all sorts of marketing items around their home. We always played checkers on this weird, knee-high foldout table that was built like a bear trap in grey steel.  Tonight I discovered that was a special design for the kids’ seats in the station wagons. I suspect that the legs must have fit into the seat bodies somehow…

the most obvious difference is the front fascia. this is a 1973 base model Ranchero, not sure if this example is factory or assembled somewhere along the timeline of it's life

That Ranchero is not factory. It had a front fascia swap at some point. All 72-76 Rancheros came with the year's Gran Torino front end treatment. Technically, there was no base Ranchero per se....the 500 was the lowest trim model.

For years, I thought otherwise....all because of this:



That shows up 10 minutes into the movie Any Which Way You Can. As a kid, I simply didn't realize that someone did a swap. It led me to years of thinking that "base" models existed.

factoryinteriors.com looks good, but all I see is the vinyl insert for the driver....actually, that is all I have ever happened to see. I was not aware that there were more options as far as the vinyl inserts.