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Taillight difference on 70 torino's

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Topic: Taillight difference on 70 torino's
Posted By: NYjohn
Subject: Taillight difference on 70 torino's
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 2:45AM
Can anyone explain why there are 2 different taillight types on 1970 torinos or am i wrong about that?



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Posted By: pete rad
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 2:55AM
The regular torino models and the torino cobra have the two tail lights like the picture below.


Posted By: pete rad
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 2:56AM
The GT models have the one tail light across the whole rear or the car, above the rear bumper, like the picture below.


Posted By: NYjohn
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 3:05AM
great explanation. thanks pete. So were some cobra jets GTs and some not ?


Posted By: n2fordwagons
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 3:07AM
What Pete said.  The GT's got the tail light panel that goes all the way across the back.

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Jeff

72 base Torino (modified)
72 Gran Torino Squire


Posted By: pete rad
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 3:09AM
You're welcome, actually a cobra jet is a ford engine like the 351 and 429 cobra jets. The 1970 torino cobra is a torino model and the torino GT is another 1970 torino model.


Posted By: n2fordwagons
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 3:11AM
Yes, you could order the CJ engine in the GT.

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Jeff

72 base Torino (modified)
72 Gran Torino Squire


Posted By: pete rad
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 3:19AM
Yes, I agree with n2fordwagons above. ^^^ 


Posted By: unlovedford
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 3:28AM
Oddly, I had a friend that owned a '70 or '71 Torino Brougham that had the lights all the way across. The car was original and this was back in the early '80's. Anyone else know of this? Am I thinking of a lit filler panel between them instead of all 1 piece?

It also had the hidden headlights.


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Joe
1972 Mom's Squire Wagon
1972 Torino Wagon
1976 Torino       
1968 Cougar XR7-First batch
1972 Torino 460
1989 BroncoII/Jeeps/Titanimous
Popeye and Brutus (Rams)


Posted By: n2fordwagons
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 3:50AM
Hidden headlights were definitely available on Broughams.  Actually, a lot of them had hidden headlights.  Here's how the rear panel of a Brougham should look.  Is this what you remember?
 
 
 
By the way, the convertible was custom made, the roof cut off.  Here's another pic of it:
 


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Jeff

72 base Torino (modified)
72 Gran Torino Squire


Posted By: unlovedford
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 5:04AM
It could have been that, but I thought it was reflectorized. Lots of beer, women, and years since then could have made the old mind a bit fuzzy, LOL.

I would be afraid to lop the top off a vintage unibody car. Very little structure to hold it together.

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Joe
1972 Mom's Squire Wagon
1972 Torino Wagon
1976 Torino       
1968 Cougar XR7-First batch
1972 Torino 460
1989 BroncoII/Jeeps/Titanimous
Popeye and Brutus (Rams)


Posted By: jversch
Date Posted: 10-December-2014 at 5:37AM
CAR LOOKS GREAT AS A CONVERTIBLEThumbs Up

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Jerry VerSchneider
1972 Gran torino formal roof H Code
1973 Gran torino fast back H code.



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