73 Hood
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Topic: 73 Hood
Posted By: Gold73
Subject: 73 Hood
Date Posted: 14-September-2021 at 3:39PM
| Do the 1973 Torino and 1973 Gran Torino Sport use the same hood and front bumper? |
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Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 14-September-2021 at 10:41PM
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i believe so ------------- JOHN 74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
Posted By: mkshelton
Date Posted: 15-September-2021 at 3:21AM
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Actually sometimes the bumper can be different, there was a very basic base bumper that has no wrap around at the ends, it's just kind of a simple flat faced piece like a truck bumper. I think this was for fleet cars. ------------- "Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually UNinventing the wheel" |
Posted By: 72 RS 351
Date Posted: 15-September-2021 at 10:48AM
That should be a base model/Torino I'd guess, those were always very rare. ------------- Don 73 Ranchero "Sport 72 front end", floor shift/console, planning EFI 7000+ rpm 351-4V &4R70W 73 Ranchero GT 351C-4V &4R70W for sale later. 92 Lincoln Mark VII SE GTC, OBDII 347/4R70W |
mkshelton wrote:Posted By: MrSmog
Date Posted: 15-September-2021 at 3:31PM
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73 base has a wrap around ends and is the same bumper as a 73 gran torino. not sure what mkshelton saw, but it wasn't factory for any 73 and up factory Torino |
Posted By: Gold73
Date Posted: 15-September-2021 at 4:41PM
| Thanks for the input guys. The one I’m looking at has the wrap around ends but no bumper guards or any rubber strips. |
Posted By: mkshelton
Date Posted: 15-September-2021 at 5:02PM
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It's possible the one I found didn't have the original bumper. It was an old school district fleet car and who knows what they had done to it. It looked like it was original but it was very rusty/chrome long gone and maybe the ends were cut off for some reason. I remember a 67? f200 my dad bought from a school. It was setup for a snow plow but it was only 2wd. It had a full size step side bed that was decked over with a 3/4"steel plate and when my dad filled that up with snow, it had pretty good traction on the rear military tires. It was 6 cylinder with a 4 speed on the floor and no heater and it had split rims. ------------- "Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually UNinventing the wheel" |
Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 15-September-2021 at 5:08PM
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any of them were available smooth chrome, bumper guards, or rub strips ------------- JOHN 74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
Posted By: hogfiddles
Date Posted: 24-December-2021 at 3:08PM
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and, the same hood was used on a number of other cars, as well. The base Torino hood is a different hood, though, and is a different shape at the. Front since there is no header panel, and the grill is a different shape, etc……. ------------- 1973 Gran Torino Sport - Q code “Q-Clone” project-on-hold 1972 Gran Torino Sport - Q code new project 1972 Gran Torino - parts 1969 Torino GT - M code 95+/- mid-80's Yamaha XJ-Series (10 trophies) |