There wasn’t a hint of a smile as he climbed out of his 1968 Holman-Moody Ford Torino. He had just finished second to Richard Petty in Sunday’s American 500 here at N.C. Motor Speedway after ...

Ford never published any statement concerning its reasons for discontinuing the Torino line, but we can infer quite a lot about why it failed. In short, the Ford Torino was discontinued due to ...

Lee Petty driver of the #42 Oldsmobile leads Johnny Beauchamp driver of the #73 Holman Moody Ford during the ... along with the Ford Torino. They ushered in a new era of cars made to race on ...

RM Sotheby’s will sell a Ford GT40 Mk II on behalf of the Indianapolis ... This one, bearing chassis number P/1032, was entered by Holman-Moody and driven by Mark Donohue and Paul Hawkins.

However, his plans to return to USAC would change after receiving a phone call from 5-time cup winner and team owner Ralph Moody on December ... in the No. 98 Ford Torino in place of LeeRoy ...

it was designed and built specifically to beat the Torino that Ford was rolling out for 1969. Tired of being outclassed, the Blue Oval was aggressively upping its NASCAR game through Holman-Moody ...

In 1968, the Blue Oval released a new two-door fastback body for the Grand Torino and Cyclone intermediates. The new body proved aerodynamically efficient, helping the Ford-backed Holman-Moody ...

Moreover, David Pearson and his no. 17, Holman-Moody-prepped Torino, clinched the title. The Mopar teams quickly realized that superior aerodynamics was Ford's secret, so they focused on prepping ...

Instead, it was only dubbed after focus grouping the Mustang name along with T-Bird II, Cougar, and Torino ... After debuting in 1964, Ford contracted Holman & Moody to “prepare 10 427- ...

For some of us, all that human interaction would be too much. Instead, we’d start collecting vintage race and rally cars – that Holman-Moody Ford Torino Talladega we’ve always drooled over, or a ...