Found a Limited Edition 0022 car.. 76 Gran Torino in salvage yard destined for the crusher. We Pulled it out and got it home....Was very rusty, but a real Ford built 1976 Starsky & Hutch unit.
It's amazing no one saw the value in this car before it got in this shape!! Me and a friend have been restoring mustangs for years now, and I can tell you now that car is worth saving because it's a limited production of a very famous tv show and the more recent movie!!
My great uncle, Chester Salazar, served in WWII in Patton's army as a machinist.. .came back home and started one of the best body shops in Austin, Texas. My brother brought a car in to him that he had bought... '69 Camaro, rusted body, but it had an L-82 engine with drivetrain... My great uncle did a once around and told my brother, paused, and said "This is what we in the industry call a piece of s***". I have never forgotten that line.. and it comes to mind with this video.
Cool find I remember back in 93 I bought a 74 Elite had a 351 Windsor and a C4 it was so loose the engine sounded like a stone polisher I bought a wrecked 74 LTD it had a 351m and A fmx transmission went to the parts store and bought a points type distributor for a 400 engine mounts for a 429 and I put that sucker together believe it or not side by side with a 6-6 Firebird the one with the big bird on the nose and hood scoop I could stay side-by-side with him from 0 to 90 after that he would pull on me and when we would drop back down to about 60 65 and hit passing gear he would pull on me again only because he had a big old Quadrajet and I had the standard Motorcraft 2 Barrel that boat anchor of a 351m ran pretty damn good
Last I saw, it was put in the scrap for parts pile. Just cause of rotten floorboards. The body was almost perfect, we never got to see the frame, and now we won't be able to see what it could have been.
Well when your done with that wrecked but I hope you'll get picks of it an on this channel cause it's gonna be purty.....can't wait to visit the S & H Torino when it's done...goodluck yall
I think it would've been easier to find Jimmy Hoffa lol! You know it's buried when you need a lumberjack to help get it out. I don't know why so many people think that a car is gone when the floors are rotted. That's what patch panels and welders are for. I've seen cars worse off than this brought back. You don't just toss aside a S&H original just cause it needs some work. I hope it eventually got brought back. Nice job getting it out. I love it when a plan comes together. ;)
I was just at the former Lorain Assembly Plant today, where this car was born. I currently live about 3/4 mile from the former plant and have lived in the area most of my 55 years. It was a huge employer in this area from the late 50's til 1997. There were quite a a number of the Starskey and Hutch Torinos rolling around the area back in the day. Sadly, Much of the plant has been torn down now. A friend leases a big chunk of the south end (formerly Shipping) and rebuilds railroad locomotives. I won't go into the whole back story told to me by some plant employees and the second owner , but in 1984 I purchased a well used 76 Mercury Montego MX Brougham 4 door, locally, that was supposedly built for a certain Plant Manager. He "followed it down the line", as they used to say, adding and deleting options. It had the 460/4V/C6/Dual Exhaust driveline that was, supposedly, only an option on the S&H Torino. Padded vinyl top and really cushy vinyl/cloth interior, 2 tone green in and out, 60/40 power bench seat (2 door only option, had releases on the back of the seats to tilt forward), Premium Stereo, AC, Sport gauges (2 door only option?), manual windows, no clock, Magnum wheels, etc. It was a really interesting mixture of "options". I guess I can say that I once owned a 1 of 1 car, LOL. I traded it in 1986 for a new EXP.
lsrx101 they made the Tomato in Lorain?! I used to live in Westlake, and my hubby’s from VOL right down the street! My FIL worked at the Avon plant. Oh man, if I had known that back in the day. 😔
Good on you for sharing the video. I guess it's restorable all it will take is A LOT of money & time. Not sure what the availability of resto parts are produced now. A good trades person would be able to make a good job of it, but would be good if new floor pans etc were available? Keep us updated please. Cheers
These were inside a old closed junk yard... this was the only limited edition Starsky and Hutch there... I ended up selling this one and another one to help finance my screen used Starsky and Hutch movie car
Eeekkkk a bucket seat car 2 of TV cars were bench seat originally but at least 1 got buckets retro fitted to prevent David Soul ( Hutch) from sliding into Starsky on harsh corners
What a friggin crime. Back in the eighties there were two of these cars in my very small town on Long Island. Apparently they were bought at the police auction cuz they were doing some bad stuff with the car..drugs probably. Whoever bought these cars were collecting some speeding tickets now. The car really isnt fast..thats a fact that the drivers chose to ignore....pretty cool to see them speed down the road...definately made you stop to look and admire how nice the car looked. I wanted one so bad but I ended up with a pinto....so embarrassing but better gas mileage.
K.A. GORDON Haha same but different. I’m upstate from ya and when I was a kid , a neighbor bought a little red express for himself. Ah what the heck he treated the wife to one too why not. If I remember right they were 78s, round headlights.
Si hay algo en esta vida que quise tener es un Ford de esos , pero bueno no todo se puede , muy buen video y que pena que hayan tirado asi esos autos , no se si eran buenas maquinas , porque para la serie capaz que los tocaban un poco
Your Right !!!!! A Project to big for me. A big adventure I wouldn't like to do again. I had to sell a lot of stuff to buy the Movie Car, so this car went to a good home. You wouldn't recognize it now.
It was a old closed junk yard. My friend found it when looking for old cop cars and talked the owner into letting us go in. He told me if I could get it out, I could have it. A challenge it was.... Was to rough and rusty for me, so I sold it to a friend who is currently restoring it.
Yea I don’t know it all and don’t claim to, but I racked my brain and never heard of a starsky and hutch edition Torino. This was a factory package ? If so I guess I learned something new today!!
I would consider it to be worth saving and not a parts car. Floors can be replaced and so can anything else it needs. What can't be replaced is a limited edition car that is parted out and what's left scrapped out. Yeah the original engine n such are gone but so what. Rebuild it anyway
I just saw your video and I hope that you don't make it a parts car there is still sheet metal for it and it would make a damn good restitution car and there are lot's of 460 4vs I've got a 73 Gran Torino Sport and in the process of restoring it so GOOD LUCK .
I do believe that by the looks of things that you are going to have your hands full. namely that whole front uni-body,and torque boxes (?) I have somewhat of a similar set-up on my '70 Ranchero. Let me know how you made out with all that .. Good Luck !
Ford factory built 1305 of the Starsky and Hutch limited editions... To see if you have one look for a code 0022 on door jam sticker and on the metal tag on firewall under hood on passenger side.
Rock On with life style of play your have brighten up the world for my day like the intro off to the rescue song choose . I been being watching utube Starsky & Hutch & bios how the people why picked & how the red tomtomato came in play. As youngster in area l grew up someone copied the red tomtomato record up when saw people in it path to get attention fun to see . I wonder where it is today or if same person own the tomato. I car truck bike motor & pedal any form of trasportation l love it. B&N l go for the car truck mags . I with belated & few extended day members ho to bike car shows & junk yards . I late 80s college days up state NY. Oass the hub cap capital or k thought so in hick out of way place. I have few mags photo a in my rented room like a door lid or teen wirh teen beat. Like sex symbol few l like. I had for college 1st car 1878 or 1879 white on white rolling couch the bar trip home mobile even though 2 blocks down the street .ever college kids live off campus botyo. Hill from the college if not live in college form or price house apt.condos turn into college kids home away from home . I not drink for reasons so James the driver few pass out in back sleep it off whatever last of early morning .So comfy aka name rollng couch. Love to see more rescues with history or connection of dime interest. Rock On!🖒continue eith best adventures in 2020 l be back to join in the fun 1st time sees you in utube fun.🤓 Thanks for the fun memories.
seems like " back in the day" someone I knew had a 76 Merc Montego that was blue with the stripe, with the 460, and said it was Mercury's version of the Starsky car never saw another one, never saw a write up on it , it would have been new, or nearly new I think it " may" have ended up in California ( I am in NY) I don't understand the reasoning behind junking the Torino, at any time as it seems these were " collectors" from day one .. unless it was wrecked ..(?)
Sad thing is in the future we'll be autonomously driven around in pastel coloured, electric engined, egg shaped soulless vehicles, but hey, they'll have "yawn" apple car play and "yawn" even more amazing tech "yawn"
my first thought was if anybody's going to do something with that Vehicle how are they going to get papers for it?it's become a real problem that I'm aware of here in Canada a lot of these old cars you can't just go to the department of motor vehicles and get papers. you can't legally register the vehicle for the road without papers and there's vehicles like this all over Canada where there's no way to track down the paperwork and the department of motor vehicles will do absolutely nothing for you. I've known a couple people who got in a position where when they went to the motor vehicle department including myself they refused to do anything and tell you the vehicle is scrap and you can't legally do anything till you find the last owner and have him sign over the papers they won't even tell you the name of the owner address or anything I don't know if there's anything different in the US but that's the way it is here in Nova Scotia and it's why a lot of these vintage cars are unable to be anything done with them. You hear these stories about somebody finding a semi-restored vintage car and a burn where the car is in immaculate condition under a car cover and been there for 20 or 30 years and they can't do anything with it because they can't get registration papers for the Car and that's why whoever started the car never finished it.
Here in the States, and Texas at least it is possible to file for something called "Bonded Title" where you can transfer ownership legally and they allow you to re-title cars. It does say you can't consider a junked or abandoned car to get Bonded but I am sure many people eventually do this or find loopholes to do so at least here in Texas. www.txdmv.gov/motorists/buying-or-selling-a-vehicle/bought-a-vehicle-with-no-title
Are they worth anything? Obviously they wouldn't have been anywhere near as fast as true muscle cars from several years earlier. It's basically just a bloated, heavy family sedan without any horsepower, that's been rotting in the woods for a long time. They should pay you to remove it IMO. To each his own I guess, but if not for the increasingly high prices for an ever smaller supply of 60s muscle cars, very few people would spend money on these. It could be cool if done up as a resto mod with a high horsepower 351M or C.
