Scott T.'s Limited Production
1976 "Starsky & Hutch"®Ford
Gran Torino®
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This is Scott T.'s fully restored 1976 Limited Production
"Starsky & Hutch" Gran Torino with original white interior. Scott and his brother Jeff also restored
John & Penny Q.'s S&H Torino, which we bought from Scott in 2001. Scott has owned this car since 1986!
He has traced the history of the car back to its original owner who has sent Scott some pictures of it when it
was brand new.
The car originally had a 351 Windsor with C4 floor shift. Scott still has the original engine, but the car now
has a 1969 351 Windsor in it that has been bored .030 over with a 492 lift cam, aluminum intake with a 600cfm Holley
4 barrel carb, and a set of headers with cherry bombs and dual exhaust pipes with big bore chrome tips. The transmission
is now a built-up Cobra Jet C6 with shift kit. |
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Scott recently re-installed the factory A/C unit back
onto the car but with R134 charge in it. The car has air shocks and heavy-duty springs on the rear and 460 springs
on the front. It has 14-inch wheels on the front and 15-inch on the rear. Scott had the wheels professionally polished
out to look like chrome a few years back. The car, he says, has a lot of NOS Ford parts on it. |
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Scott and his brother Jeff updated the car some time
around 1990-1992. They repainted it the original 2B Bright Red with original factory stripe using DuPont paint.
They put in new carpet and two new seat inserts in the bottom of the front buckets, but otherwise the rest of the
interior is original. Scott drives the car 40-50 miles a year and the rest of the time it is kept safely under
cover in a garage. Scott has owned and refurbished several S&H Torinos (two of which I have owned and at least
one other that is featured on this site) but this one is Special! I hope he'll get to keep enjoying it for at least
another 25
years! |
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