The Torino that you see here rolled off the assembly lines with the second-best engine choice in 1969 (and the best in 1968): the 428 (7.0-liter) Cobra Jet introduced on the first Torino.

According to Kevin Marti's Deluxe Marti Report, there were only 660 '68½ Torino GT fastbacks with 428 CJ engines and C6 automatic transmissions produced in 1968. From what information Giulio ...

On top of that, it's also a super-rare gem. Sure, Ford sold more than 150,000 Torinos during the 1968 model year, but only 23,940 units left the assembly line as GT-badged hardtops.

Naturally, the 428 is in a billion pieces in the trunk, the heads are incorrect (off a 2V 390, meaning I'd need to spring for some real-deal CJ units), and the main caps are missing so it'll need ...

Ford had redesigned the Torino and its platform-mate, the Fairlane, for the 1968 model year. Production got underway in the late summer of 1967 but was halted by a 68-day UAW strike occurring over ...

However, the fastback design was gone. As for that 1968 Galaxie convertible you ask of, only 11,832 ragtops were produced in 1968 and of them just 316 were XL GT's with the 428 Cobra Jet engine.

Although the owner claimed it was a real-deal R-code 428 Cobra Jet, Keith still had his suspicions. "To be honest, at the time, I didn't even know that Ford had made a 1968 428 Cobra Jet Fairlane." ...