In the spring of 1972, Scott Geller’s father Steve traded in his ’68 Ford Mustang fastback car for a brand-new ’72 Gran Torino Sport fastback with the Q-code 351 Cobra Jet V-8. The reasoning ...

Consequently, many '73 models looked just like their '72 brethren, except now they had a small front porch. This car escaped that fate as the Torino was restyled anew for 1973.

With the Gran Torino being Gunny's first car, his father, Ron, decided that while the choked down two-barrel Windsor had to go, his son didn't need to boil the back tires.

The 302ci engine was the base V8 on the 1972 Gran Torino. Ford offered several more powerful versions, including two 351 configurations with two-barrel and four-barrel carburetors.

That’s the second rarity of a 1972 Gran Torino Sport – after a short production run, the rev-meter was replaced with a much more modest 6,000-RPM dial. The manual transmission could only be ...