75 gran torino wagon

nice, white with no trim to catch water and rust.

Another without roof rack.

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/3829436546.html

 

Boy, if you don't want a Squire, this would be a great one to buy......

 

That thing is cleaner than an operating room and twice as white. I love it. No wood to worry about, no accesories to rust, rot, or leak into the body. And the price is right. If I were looking for a 1975 Gran Torino this would be it!

 

I had seen this one before. I thought it had been sold. It looks great. The one thing that puzzles me is the green on the door panels. Would expect it to be brown.

 

Never noticed. Seems odd. Maybe this car holds secrets we don't know.:confused:

 

I have seen it, for some strange reason some tans and brouns fade green....why.how I don't know but they do????

 

Yes, you are right. Why didn't I think of that? An easy fix with some spray dye. A very nice looking wagon.

 

I can't remember all the rocket science behind it but.... some fabrics/carpets will not except any dye period....I have no idea how painting a fabric would work.


My main experience with colour fade has been with Fords fabric carpet and seats although I did a Volarie that went green from tan.. didn't have much luck on that one.

What I have had great success with is......




And you can get it at Wall mart cheap. My last real faded interior was my old Fox wagon with turned from red to orange almost like above. Hot summer days are the best for drying and remove the seats. As hot as your hand can hadle HOT water with dye, scrub brush, and shop vac at hand.... whip the stuff up to foam and try to use as much foam rather than soaking with water, scup in, vac out and repeat.....let the sun bake it dry. It looked freeken great after.

My daughter also with "RIT" , and mixing some tast pieces with lite and dark blues mixed together came up with a pretty darn close match for the headliner I put in my 83..... I used denim for that.

 

My 55 Chevy wagon had a custom interior when I got it. Highback bucket seats and fuzzy black carpet. The carpet way back had turned that ugly green color.
I've died vinyl seats with a paint type stuff from NAPA. Very thin and stinky but it covered. Also for vinyl there are spray dyes like paint that work. I died the black vinyl wagon seat bright red trimmied in white. White over black!
If we weren't so cheap we'd pay $10,000 for a custom interior!

 

Anyone notice the one VERY unusual thing in this picture?



That is a Radio Delete Plate! Not many of them around, period, and even fewer on a Gran Torino with the Brougham option package! Very rare car indeed. Looks to be in extremely good shape as well.

 

I used to see those radio-not-to-be-installed-in-here plates on only thrifty cars. Maybe, the previous owner was either deaf or couldn't stand local music radio

 

I hope the new owner resists the urge to install any kind of sound system, even factory original. I found a really clean 1959 Thunderbird once with radio delete, of course the next owner had to stick a sound system in. I'd either use a portable, or a carefully wired in no holes drilled system. My cars aren't perfect, but I'm really peculiar about certain things I will and won't do. And in my case, I can go for a while in my vehicles without noise from music or talk radio. I am a great fan of both, however.

 

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The left rear quarter is bashed in by the rear bumper. It looks like somebody backed into something or it was hit and it pushed the bumper into the quarter because the bumper looks high there too. The lower right fender and rocker look like they have the funk along with the left rear dog leg.
The car has been painted or had a lot of major touch-up work because there's overspray inside the wheel wells and all over the tail gate seal, the spare tire well is painted, the seals are shot. Bad workmanship always makes you wonder what else they cut corners on to flip it? It probably had wheel opening and lower fender, rocker, and quarter rust. That will cost a lot to fix the body damage and have it painted. California does not automatically mean rust free and Fords start rusting out before they roll off the assembly line.
It may have been a city or state vehicle, company car, or used as a taxi with radio delete, it sure looks like one.

 

Thought this sounded familiar. This Gran Torino was on eBay last September.

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21260&highlight=1975+gran+torino

 

That radio delete plate unscrews from the back. The dash underneath is precut and formed for the standard radio, as is the bracing behind the facia. A Classic Autosound unit can be installed with no cutting or hacking. Just hang onto the plate as they are harder to find than hen's teeth!

I doubt, though, that this one was used for taxi duty or anything like that. Not with the Brougham package and power windows and door locks. Taxi package cars were normally a very basic Torino, no a fairly loaded Gran Torino Brougham. I do hope this one gets saved. It may have issues, but it is also a rare combination of Brougham, convenience options, and radio delete. Almost certainly a one of one.