Hi From Australia

What Ford Motor Company marketted for Oceania is quite envious. Why didn't we likewise get sporty Torino version options?

 

We did, Dog - they were just different from the ones we had..........

'71 Torino Cobra:


'72 Torino Sport:

 

Down there, R/Ts were Valiant-based. Why didn't they fancy up our assigned to us Mopes this way?



They call this a "HEMI Six Pack

 

GM's 308 may look like a Smallblock. It's supposedly a design of its own. Check out this header-like exhaust manifold, in this following Chevelle-alike

 

Why didn't Ford offer these Falcons to us?

 

Second upload try

 

If these body parts and interiors are interchangable with ours, there could have been money in importing these parts?

 

Here's one in action:



Here's a recently-spotted sedan version. These had the 215 c.i.d. aluminum Buick eights:



These don't look like Buick heads. Those exhaust ports are evenly spaced apart, and those heads sit at an angle like Oldsmobile's version did. Those free-flow header-type manifolds, as well as heads, have to be Leyland castings:

Yeah, but theirs got the Cougar treatment where the eyelids shut and the beak stuck out of the grille. If I could get in a time capsule, I'd go back and invest hoarding a load of those front clips for import