72 Torino floors and trunk
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Topic: 72 Torino floors and trunk
Posted By: ronbow70
Subject: 72 Torino floors and trunk
Date Posted: 02-March-2026 at 2:46PM
| Have a 72 Torino and a 98 Lincoln Town car and want to know how close the floor pans match to use the Town car as patch panel for the Torino? need to replace trunk floor and a couple places under the seats. Thanks |
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Posted By: Eliteman76
Date Posted: 04-March-2026 at 6:30PM
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Realistically, it's metal. Floor pans should be close size wise, but I have no personal experience but the dimensions should be about the same and Ford was channeling the body over the 98 frame, much like the 72-79 stuff was channeled over the frame. My advice, do a lot of measuring, always easier to trim off as opposed to having to weld it back on! Trunk floor, I don't think it's remotely close. The CV and Lincoln trunk has a big drop, and the fuel tanks are between the trunk floor and the rear axle on the 98. Not to way you couldn't use the metal, but I've told guys...look to the 70-74 Chevelle or 70-74 Olds Cutlass trunk floors. Metal is metal, just trim as needed, use sheets of cardboard to template the Torino floor and then chop-cut-weld it in. -------------  Andrew:GTS.ORG admin, '72 Q code 5 speed RestomodPondering: #99Problems |
Posted By: ronbow70
Date Posted: 05-March-2026 at 12:31PM
| That is what I was thinking about using a Chevelle parts. The main reason I was looking at the Towncar is because I have it but you are right, they do have a large dip. Metal is metal. Thanks for the information. |
Posted By: 72FordGTS
Date Posted: 05-March-2026 at 1:35PM
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Check this project. A former member started to swap a Torino body onto a CVPI frame and seemed to be able to use the Crown Vic floor pans. The town car is the same car, just a bit more length so you might be able to make them work. https://forum.grantorinosport.org/72-gts-cvpi-frame-coyote-swap_topic15882_page2.html" rel="nofollow - https://forum.grantorinosport.org/72-gts-cvpi-frame-coyote-swap_topic15882_page2.html As Andrew said, the trunk it too different because the Panther cars use a vertical gas tank. ------------- Vince 1972 Ford GTS Sportsroof - Survivor, One Family car GTS.org Admin |
Posted By: ronbow70
Date Posted: 06-March-2026 at 2:03PM
| Think I may wind up using the Town car for any in the front and a Chevelle trunk floor. I went and looked at his Torino/Crown Vic build. Pretty cool but am glad I don't need that much metal work. |
Posted By: hogfiddles
Date Posted: 19-March-2026 at 4:06AM
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Like many others that start off with great idea…..this one seems to have been dropped by the wayside, too——haven’t seen the guy here since 2021. That’s a shame….. I was really watching that to see how it would turn out. Dfox ------------- 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 100+ mid-80's Yamaha XJ-Series (14 trophies) |
Posted By: Eliteman76
Date Posted: 19-March-2026 at 7:03AM
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I think sometimes folks bite off more than they anticipate, get discouraged and sell the project. My GTS took 9 years for the first refresh. So I get it. ------------- Andrew:GTS.ORG admin, '72 Q code 5 speed RestomodPondering: #99Problems |
Posted By: 72FordGTS
Date Posted: 21-March-2026 at 6:29AM
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I wss hoping that project would get done too, but sadly I think that was the end. With guys making Chargers out of Crown Vics, someone has to be able to so it with a Torino. They are dimensionally pretty close, closer than a Charger. ------------- Vince 1972 Ford GTS Sportsroof - Survivor, One Family car GTS.org Admin |