Fast & Furious 4: Ford Gran Torino

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What Clint Eastwood did for the 1972 Gran Torino in Gran Torino, Fast & Furious will try to undo. Because in this movie, the very nastiest bad guy — you know, the chief henchman who does the dirtiest deeds and dies just before the big boss bad guy gets his — drives a '72 Gran Torino Sportsroof.

The inspiration for the Gran Torino in Fast & Furious comes from a similar Torino built for Dan Widmann at Steve Strope's Pure Vision Design — the same shop from which emerged the Hammer Road Runner that's also featured in the film. Strope brought Widmann's Torino to a casting session and a star — well, a co-star — was born.

The one significant visual change between Widmann's Torino and the replicas built for the film is that Widmann's car is blue, and the bad guy Torinos were painted green. It seems that blue was already assigned as super-dreamy Paul Walker's color in Fast & Furious, so the bad attitude character "Fenix Rise" (played by Laz Alonzo) would have to wear green.

Little matter, however, as the Gran Torino looks dang good in green.

To portray Fenix's FoMoCo, the picture car department acquired six '72 Torino Sportsroof models and one '73. As with the Charger, some of the stunt cars were fit with Chevy crate V8s and automatic transmissions, but at least one of the cars was originally equipped with a 429 and four-speed manual transmission. Five of the cars were either destroyed during production or ripped apart for parts.

Among the Torinos destroyed was that 429 four-speed car. Sometimes evil must be done in order to portray evil.

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[sirlordwhitman]

@FWQR3T No doubt. Here I am.. hankering to own just one of these cars, give them a great home and provide lots of loving and care... and you see these hollywood nipple lumps fucking them all up.

[zigZag776]

They have enough money they could just make replica's of this car. I can't believe they wasted factory Torinos. I might go cry now...

[chamblizi]

FUCKING FAGGOTS TORINO IS RARE AS WELL AS THE FUCKING RANCHERO!

[mxislikesex308]

fucking idiots you should all die for wrecking these beautiful cars.

[cassidy323]

thats 4 less torinos in this world now thanks assholes for ruining original cars

[dalotel]

@mrdestoryit Just go play your video games and and do your homework. GTO tri-power, Hemi Dodge, 427 Camaro, 428 7 litre Ford, 455 Stage 1 Buick, 454 Chevelle, AMX 390, all would kill this tank of a Gran Torino.

[ww2gunexp]

ford torino= mustang wannabe

[dalotel]

These are NOT muscle cars. These were too heavy. Muscle car era ended in 1970.