My 1968 Torino autocrossing.

[Duane Black]

I was instructing in our clubs autocross school recently, which I knew gave instructors lunch runs for fun. For entertainment, i took my 1968 Torino, 390 4v (carburetor barrels, not valves for you young ones out there), and its column shifter C6 automatic. it was primarily entertainment. All but 2-3 novices outran this.

As runs begam, i asked if anyone wanted a ride. Two females hopped in the back, @Apex3V hops in the passenger seat, and we took 2 runs.

1 run looking over the nose, one run watching me wrestle a no power steering car around.

I have put this car om the scales, it tips 4000 by itself on 225/70R14 bfg radial t/a tires. But its fun to fight with.

 

[Apex3V]

Right before the fun happened!

 

[Duane Black]

@Boone should appreciate this too

 

[xr7]

Thanks for posting the vid. Fabulous, my favorite Torino/Fairlane body style. Brother has a 69 Fairlane Cobra 428cj 4spd and I have a 68 Cougar 428cj C6 car. Agree would have a hard time beating a Smart car in a tight autocross course.

 

[blacksheep-1]

in 1969 my parents went to Scarritt Lincoln Mercury to buy a used car, they picked a 69 Plymouth sport fury..unfortunately. Because I did all I could to talk them into the Torino's cousin the Cyclone. Not just any Cyclone, but a genuine Cale Yarborough edition Mercury Cyclone Spoiler. I practically begged them to buy that car. That was the car I learned to drive on and if they had bought he Merc, I would have still owned it to this day

 

[xr7]

My brother and I stopped at the local Lincoln Mercury dealer one day to check out the Cyclones and Cougars. There were a couple of the Cale Yarborough Specials there, really sharp looking cars.

 

[Grey1988]

That’s awesome I sold my 1969 Torino that was also an S-code 390 C6 to get my current 2013 Boss 302. I had plans to turn that car into an autocross/HPDE car and had some light suspension work done to it and ended up building a fuel injected 445 FE stroker and started to have a lot of reliability issues with the car and realized it wouldn’t be the best track car unless I dumped tens of thousands into it and just did not want to modify the car too much more at that point. Glad to see someone mess around with an old car like that just for fun on track.

 

[Duane Black]

Wooo the old thread was resurrected!

The car is now actually blue amd gold with proper metal patches and has autocrossed again!

 

[Grey1988]

Wooo the old thread was resurrected!

The car is now actually blue amd gold with proper metal patches and has autocrossed again!

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Looks great. Still probably has about the same body roll as a new challenger

 

[PatrickStapler]

Probably one of my favorite color combinations.

 

[Duane Black]

Its basically an overweight ND Miata

 

[Grey1988]

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It seems like you need to look into some global west suspension and wilwood brake products for that car

 

[PatrickStapler]

You could probably drop a second or two with three less people in the car…

 

[xr7]

My favorite Fairlane/Torino body style, love your color choices and those wheels.
Now head down that rabbit hole, aluminum 427, a 5 speed, wheels, tires and some suspension pieces.

 

[KazarS197]

That looks like the definition of pure fun!