Muscle Car Of The Week Video #75: 1970 Ford Torino Cobra 429 SCJ
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Muscle Car Of The Week Video #75: 1970 Ford Torino Cobra 429 SCJ
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www.musclecaroftheweek.com - The Ford Torino has always been an aggressively styled Muscle Car, but for 1970, it received a whole new look! This 1970 Torino Cobra is powered by the 429 Super Cobra Jet V8 engine making 375 HP and enough torque to fry the tires at will. It is finished in Vermillion, which provides a stark contrast against the satin black hood, shaker scoop, and tail panel accents to let everyone know this Cobra is not messing around. From the Brothers Collection.
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These are probably the most aggressive looking muscle cars ever designed. Pure, built for muscle look.
Definitely one of the best styled muscle cars of that era. Just a mean looking car.The 68-69 Torino/Cyclone fastbacks we're great looking cars too...but a 70 Torino Cobra 429SCJ/4 speed/3.91 or 4.30 gears is my favorite mid size muscle car Ford ever made. The 70 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler 429SCJ as well
Jeremy Thompson what about 1970-1972 Buick GS
Jeremy Thompson what about the cougar eliminator
@@jeremythompson9895 i got a 68 Mercury Cyclone and my dad has a 69 Mercury Cyclone CJ I love these cars planing on engine swaping my 68 Cyclone right now she has a 302 with a original dual quad aluminum intake off a 289 with matching Carter carbs and I wanna drop my rebuilt 429 in I know she's gonna just barely fit but it will be worth it
@@jacobbondy1767 Friend that lived behind my house had several different 429's over the years. He had just picked up several 69 Thunderbirds and robbed them. Nobody back then noticed, well because they were Thunderbirds. Anyways he tried to put one in his 60 Starliner that had the 330hp 390. He tinkered around with it and the C6 for some time and gave up. He was going to have to cut the firewall of the Starliner to get the 429 backed up enough to operate a fan. This was in 1980 so electric water pumps were costly at best. But that's one way to imagine the pure size of that beast.
Absolutely love these. Best looking Torino by far, even though a lot of people like the ‘68 & ‘69’s the most. These cars still look great & I think they’re extremely underrated to this day.
I love this body style too. I actually like the Cyclone even better but these are one of the meanest looking muscle cars ever built. The 68-69 fastback is a beautiful body style too but I prefer the 70-71 Torino/Cyclone...particularly with the 429SCJ-4 speed-3.91 rear axle setup. The 4.30 rear is awesome for drag racing but not very street friendly
‘70/‘71 is my second favourite car ever
I owned a 70 429 Cobra Jet from 88-97 I absolutely loved it. Would take just about anything on the street at the time. Loved it when the new Corvettes would roll up next to me at the stop lights.
I had a a 70 Ford Torino Cobra Jet SCJ. It was a beautiful car, British Racing Green with a yellow stripe down the side. The Cobra insignias on the sides and back were chrome, not decals. It had the bench seat (black interior) , 4 barrel and Hurst 4 speed. The HP was closer to 540 than the 390 they advertised. With that cam, it was a sweet sounding car and FAST! It you search, you can find a couple of videos here with them smoking the tires/ burn outs. What was always impressive to me was its acceleration at higher speeds. You could be cruising at 60 or 70 mph, hit the gas and when that 4 barrel kicked in, the front end felt like it was going to leave the ground. One of the saddest days of my life was when a deer jumped out in from of me at 2AM, while cruising around 100 mph on a 2 lane in Wyoming.
I can't imagine! That must have been awful for you! They can do SO much damage, either directly or indirectly, when that happens. Not to mention, injure the passengers and driver inside!!
We hit a deer, years ago, in the middle of the night - really around 11:30pm or so, but it really doesn't get any darker than that, no matter what time it is, out in rural Virginia when the highway you're driving on has absolutely no lights on it, is run through an uninhabited portion of the countryside on Route 17, and looks exactly like a hallway with 60-80 foot pine trees down both sides!
Fortunately we were NOT driving MY 1971 Ford Torino GT SportsRoof with the 351C-4V, C6 Console Shift, 70 series tires on the front, 60's on the rear, High Back bucket seats, HideAway Headlights, in beautiful solid dark burgundy without the laser stripe. I didn't really care for many of the stripe/paint color combinations they offered for the time, but since we bought the car used, it was not really an issue - jyst luck of the draw. Only a very few really looked like a good combination, the others were anywhere from "meh"😧 to 😨! 😂
Anyway, we were in the "family grocery getter" - a 1981 Ford Escort Station Wagon! (Bought used, but extremely low miles, and excellent condition for its age. I think it was about 1985, and the kids needed a little more room in the back, as they were doing what most all kids do - growing up! And after driving a car with an all black vinyl interior, and withOUT A/C for about 8 years, it was time to be able to cool off a little during the Midwest's sultry, hot 🌞🌡🌩🌪 "90/90" summertimes!
My brother owned one these 429 Cobra Jets. Had the 3 speed automatic. That car was an insane beast from stem to stern. Couldn't believe what a beating that C6 transmission took and never failed. Got to drive it quite a few times. Can't believe I never got a ticket.😀
I owned a 70 429 Cobra Jet from 88-97 I absolutely loved it. Would take just about anything on the street at the time. Loved it when the new Corvettes would roll up next to me at the stop lights.
It should also be noted that the magazine new car drag tests of the 60s and 70s this car was a top 10 and ran the exact same et as a 435 hp corvette
70-71 torinos have always been my dream car , crazy how it seems like they never got the publics attention like the other muscle cars
Also 1971-1973 mustang no attention
Fords in general have never gotten much attention, it’s always been a Chevy and Mopar world. Ford didn’t seem to mind that because they sure didn’t do anything to attempt to change it.
Thanks for the video. The 1970 SCJ Torino is truly one of my most favorite & respected performance cars!
One of the hottest cars on the road in its day. A real beauty. Love it.
Absolutely gorgeous rare muscle car. These don't get the credit they deserve
This Torino is my FAV Ford muscle car of the muscle car era.
Definitely one of my favorite Ford's. Probably my favorite mid size Ford other than a 66-67 Fairlane 427. I actually prefer the 70 Cyclone Spoiler over the Torino Cobra. Love the Cyclone's gun sight grille. I like the 69 Fairlane Cobra/Cyclone CJ too but I prefer the 70-71 Torino Cobra and 70 Cyclone Spoiler. I would've ordered the Drag Pack option with the 3.91 rear axle because 4.30 gears were just too short to drive on the highway
I had a 71 Grabber blue Torino Gt with a 302 3 speed Cruies o matic that was the nicest car I owned up to that time. Had the chrome reverse wheels with Bonnieville white letter tires. Wish I still had that car. Lots of good times were had with my Torino. Great car.
Wow, that really looks killer. Shaker hood, nice Coupe lines... Great!
Love the 429 SCJ's, we are rotisserie restoring a 70 429 SCJ, 4 speed,Drag Pack car
MustangConnection1 You got any videos of that ?
What color are you going to paint it ?
Good to hear. Do the world a favor and keep it as stock as reasonably possible
Oh man my dad used to own a Super Cobra Jet drag pack one with the 433s he sold it when I was just a baby would love to see a video of yours if you have it on TH-cam
You really got to love that old school look of these particular Torino's. Raw rare and badass.
Drive this set up you don't need a four speed. High stall converter and a shift kit made these cars unbeatable. I know I watched their tail lights many times through the 1/4 mile.
Anything automatic with a Cobra on it is a sin
In this day a 4 speed is a lost art there are so few guys that could even drive one and do it justice any more.
the days of Dick Landy, Butch Leal or Armen Fadley are long gone!
Automatics are for idiots who lack driving skill.
I really like your Torino.
Nice motor! Always liked the Torino.....
absolutely awesome--only thing missing is the 4 speed. my favorite !!
i had the 4 speed in my 429 scj torino cobra, and never lost to an automatic.
You do a great job! Very factual. Thanks.
Great choice! Love Torinos
cruisin the coast right now in Mississippi, one of those is here and its a beauty and the man says not for sale.
Beautifully perfect car FORD TORINO
I had a 1971 Torino super cobra jet and I miss It. I had the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to clock me at over 150 mph in 1973. I was a cop at the time and we planned It using a helicopter. What a great car!!!!
Actually I was doing closer to a 170 mph but I figured I would be better off not bragging about It. The next year my wife made a left hand turn and was broadsided by a pickup truck and totalled It. Almost divorced her.
Jerry Robinson How could you get that kind of speed out of it when the SCJ 429 was required to have either the 3.9 or 4.3 rear axle ratio?
@@gregorytimmons4777Gregory all I know is that It was an Airplane without wings. I was a crew chief on fighter jets during my stent in the Air Force. I bought It with 50,000 miles on the speed odometer. Someone may have beefed It up somewhat before I bought It. All I remember that day was telephone poles looking like a picket fence going by. The Highway Patrolman that did the clocking isn't around any longer to verify. Sorry!! No one in 4 counties around me could outrun It. Including Chrysler and General motors products. My wife was driving it when a local Ford pickup owner broadsided It when she was making a left hand turn. He was coming in from a curve and didn't see her in time.
Jerry Robinson The reason I asked is because the SCJ package required a low geared rear end more suited for quick acceleration for drag racing and those limit your top speed because the engine redlines first. I'd guess at around 110mph.
@@gregorytimmons4777
I don't know about It redlining at a 110 mph. No pun intended. But I cannot count the times I buried It past the 120 mph speed odometer and after slowly letting off It took a few seconds before the speed odometer needle showed back up. I am really not contesting you because you obviously know quite a bit about this engine. My brothers were always asking me to give their friends a thrill ride and I did. Their assholes were so tight you couldn't have poked a needle into their asses without bending It. Lol. My brother would push against the floorboard with his feet and grip the seat with his ass.
@@jerryrobinson5163 - So how does that make it HER fault? She obviously didn't see HIM in time either.
The same way I didnt see the cop car I rearended in a rainstorm, on a blind right hand curve on a slick 4 lane city street, at dusk, while he was sitting in the left (middle) traffic lane, withOUT a turn signal, waiting to make a left hand turn!
Under those particular circumstances, I didnt even get a ticket, although I still got charged with "failure to maintain proper lookout" or some such nonsense (apparently my xray vision that lets me see around blind corners wasn't functioning that day.) I was only 16 at the time, AND it was New Year's Eve. Not only that, but I missed the "Point System" on drivers licenses by 6 hours! I did have to go to "Defensive Driving School" because apparently the judge wasn't going to let me just walk away, I passed with a 98, and my "failure to maintain proper lookout" (bogus charge, but you know how traffic court can trump up the silliest nonsense - especially since the COP wasn't using HIS turn signal at the time)....was dismissed, and never showed up on my driving record.
"Almost divorced her" indeed....
I never knew so many classic American muscle cars came with automatic 3-speed options especially with a column shifter until I started watching this channel years ago. I actually love it.
Especially the sleeper ZL1 69 Camaros.
They made a lot of 429 torinos, there were few super cobra jets around but lots of cobra jets. two in my neighborhood alone so a big seller for ford. 429 was a great motor all they needed was a good exhaust which was not too common those days. My Dad had a 69 T bird with the 429 I think it was 10.5 compression or better ! torque monster
1969 429 & 460 had 11.3 to 1 compression ratio and ran best on Sunoco 260 like most hot cars .
My buddy had one rode in it many times. Torque monster. It was a C6 automatic yellow. Would blow the tires off at 50 MPH kickdown!
I live in Germany and two months ago I finally got my 71 Torino GT. What a great car.
I like that this guy cared enough about his girl that he forwent the usual bucket seats, console and floor shifter in favor of the bench seat and shifter on the column. He must've been a real ladies' man.
Love your videos!
I love that this dude has done so many videos with so much knowledge on these old cars. Thanks dude.
My model and year favorite of Ford Torino!! I have in 1/18 by Ertl Autoworld, awesome muscle!!!
88rock X ; I bought the ERTL torino cobra and when I opened the hood, I got pissed. The engine looked like a 260ci or someone forgot to put the cylinder heads on the short block. Either way, I boxed it back up, took it to Toys R Us and got a refund. ERTL did the same thing to the Boss302. ERTL hit it out of the park with the 1960 Starliner though. White with blue interior. 5 spoke mags. 352, 2x4's with spark plug wires to boot.
my favorite car
A beautiful car. My uncle Phil had a 1970 Torino with the 351ci motor. It was junked in 1975 when the engine caught fire. 😢
Gorgeous car
The 70 & 71 Torino GTs have always been my favorite cars, ever since they came out. I even bought, and still have the Motor Trend Mag that featured the Torino(s). I had a 1970 GT with the 351 Cleveland, 4blb with automatic with floor shifter and bucket seats. I bought it 7 days before meeting my wife, but sold the car two years later with orders to Germany. My brother convinced me that it would be too big over there. I could still kill him for talking me into getting rid of it!
Believe it or not the 1968-69 model fast back actually proved to be more aerodynamic.
Yes they were and NASCAR used them in 1970 and 1971 and not the 70 or 71 models .Many went with the 427 T.P. and not the Boss 429 ,Too. in those years .,
@@edge2sword186 ; Wendell Scot used the 1970 Torino. Most NASCAR tracks were short track where aerodynamics wasn't a factor. AND, if you say that all Ford teams used the 68-69 fastback, especially the Talladega, then Ford should've mopped up the field like they did in 1969. Don't know if the 69 Charger Daytona was used in 1970? Many went back to the 427 because Ford pulled the plug on it's "Total Performance".
Great video. But one point of clarification: The 1970 Torino looked all new and did indeed have all new sheet metal. But underneath, it was not too much different from the 1968-1969 Torino's. The original design actually began with the 1966-67 Ford Fairlane, a unit body car with leaf springs in the rear. For 1972, the Torino was truly all new, with separate body frame construction and (finally) coil spring rear suspension. Almost nothing was carried over from 1971 except for some hub caps and a few engines (which were further de-smogged for 1972). But you have to give Ford credit. They made three distinctive versions of their 1966-71 intermediates that allowed them to keep the unibody platform in production as long as possible.
Michael Witas Thanks for the notes!
Kevin great report. I missed the "order it like you want it era" by a few years and one car that I think of to have had a chance at marking the option boxes is related to your subject, the 70 1/2 Ford Falcon. Similar in design but, when equipped like the Torino that sleeper designation kicks in.
My step dad and I had a 71 Torino 500 and we loved that car but sadly it was parked and went to ruin. ::sigh:: I will hopefully find and restore another. Love these cars!
I had a 70 GT 351c shaker hood 4sp grabber blue 🔵. I added 12.3 to1 pistons and an isky cam turned mid elevens
Always wanted to build me a Torino. Probably my favorite Ford.
Just ad a 3,000 stall convertor and a shift kit and that car would have been really hard to handle back then especially on the old polyglass tires technology of that time.
I have a 70 SCJ with a console shift C6. I have a stage 3 shift kit, a slightly higher stall converter and traction bars. It launched hard with modern tires but back in the day those old polyglas tires sucked... Lol
Yes!!
I used to own this very car. It's great to see it getting driven. The car was originally ordered by Bill Ireland, who used to race for Northwest Ford dealers.
Jason Taylor sounds farfetched to me.
Richard Newton You sound like a know it all. How is what I said far fetched?
Jason Taylor it sounds like a tall tail and for publicity. I don't think you owned the car.
Bill owned Ireland Auto Electric in North Portland, Oregon and straightened out an electrical issue in the ignition system on my 67 Vette 427. As a factory Ford racer he also raced the famed 64 Fairlane Thunderbolt back in the day. RIP Bill. You are missed.
Jason. You got a split personality or what? You seem to be arguing with yourself here.
I've got a 1973 grand torino sport gt with a 351 Cleveland engine. Red with a black top. Love it.
A friend who raced back in the day, said the torino was the best Ford for drag racing because it had the right weight ratios and hooked up better.
Better than a 1971 boss 351 or a 1969-70 Shelby GT-500
I had one grabbagreen SCJ 429 in high school mine was automatic on the floor C6 transmission factory headers hideaway lights factory 50 series tires and rear 60 series tires in front
Nice.
My sister had one. Competition orange and flat black. Louvered rear window. Very fast.
Cool! Did she have it long?
@@V8TV about 2 years. Late '70's and the gas was too much, so she sold it.
@@kurtdietrich5421 Still must have been fun. She's got good taste in cars! Did she have any other fun rides?
@@V8TV no. But my twin sister had a '66 mustang, convertible with a 289 4bbl. It was called Crazy Horse.
I still have my 1970 Cyclone GT. Soon to go under a complete rebuild.
@@kurtdietrich5421 Very cool. A blue oval family for sure! Best of luck with the Cyclone!
My dad owned a couple of these when he was younger three different ones to be exact this is by far his favorite car the coolest one was a white Super Cobra Jet drag pack 4 speed with 433 gears that was the most radical one and the last one he ever owned
Beautiful styling. Not sure the 429 SCJ would be my first choice. I think 428 would be the most practical big block. Although the 427 would be the hottest and I'm sure the most expensive option but well worth it for a hand built race engine.
The 428 CJ/SCJ or 429 CJ/SCJ was probably the best BBF engine for street use. The FE 427 and BOSS 429 were racing homologation specials de-tuned for the street. The HiPo 390 was also a pretty good BBF engine...especially the 390 Police Interceptor
Any hope of reviewing Australian muscle cars, including but not limited to Ford Falcon XB, a John Goss Special or even a Mad Max Interceptor replica with or without a functioning supercharger???? The Mad Max Interceptor may be my favorite muscle car.
I had one of these monsters. Probably the best looking beast I have ever seen....and it wasn't mentioned much in the usual muscle car "rags"....Hot Rod, Hot Rodding, Car Crap, etc. Lots of Chevies of course and whty were also lukewarm on Mopars.
Would take one of these over a dime a dozen mustang any day!
I actually bought one of these in the exact same color in 1975 in Monterrey, CA. with the same automatic. I managed to get 8 speeding tickets in the time I owned it, 2 in CA, 1 in AZ, 1 in NM, 1 in OK, another in AR one in KY and the last in VA as I entered the DC area. These were all on the same trip from San Francisco to DC by way of LA, Phoenix, Lubbock, TX, Little Rock, the Cumberland gap and Arlington, VA. Made the trip in two 11 hour days, man that car could move. Alas, my first wife HATED the car because she could not drive it, and forced me to trade it in on a new 77 PINTO (yes the one that had both an exploding tank and Firestone 500 self detonating tires). This could be why I divorced her shortly after (should have kept the car and dumped her instead).
Rides before brides!
@@iamgumbydammit2217 Yeah, I learned that lesson the hard way, lol.
the axle ratio determined if you got the CJ or SCJ 3.91 and 4.30 gear received the SCJ and drag pak package. Mustang was same way with the 428
My uncle also had a Torino and it was a seat sinker...
I had one of these challenge my 68 Coronet 440 super bee once. He got by me and I had one hell of a time running him down. I'd say they were very close to equals in factory trim.
No the cobra was faster mid 13's stock your car was a mid 14 second car
@@darrellsomers5427 It wasn't a drag race. He blew by me on the highway and I chased him..I caught him about 10 seconds later and passed him doing well over 120. We were both at full throttle when I went by him.
I saw an article were they built and dynoed a 428scj. It made 462hp
I'd take this over any classic Mustang.
In 1988 I found one exactly like it for 1.200,in very good condition, I had all but 300 an my mom wouldn't lone it to me.
Brutish sweet car! Only thing I wish is that it had the Hurst-shifted 4 speed.
it had the hurst shifter.
Me want it!!
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Ford Torino doesn't get the credit it deserves
Yes a lot better looking than the 69 but 2 to 3 mph slower down the straights on a big nascar track with the same running gear.
The basis of the XA,XB, XC coupes
I love the Aussie Falcons and noted the roof line looked similar. It is too bad the big blocks did not make the trip across the pond along with the basic body.The Falcons are my favorite "classic" muscle car.
Chrysler definitely took a page from the Torino when they penned the ‘71 Charger/Satellite, especially the rear window and C-pillar.
And this is the reason I wont buy a Prius!
Love these cars but, what is the difference in a '70 with exposed headlights compared to the hidden headlights?
My first car was a 1971 torino gt grabber green with the yellow stripe 351 cleveland 4 speed shaker hood i paid 1400. For it in 1980
Bill Schenk designed a BEAST!
I know they rated them at 375 horse but I seen an article a few years back a guy restored a 429 Super Cobra Jet to factory specs with period correct parts Dynoed it and it made 450 horse and almost 500 foot pounds of torque LOL how about that for under rating
I ran across a 70 Fairlane coupe with a factory 429 4 speed in Orange in 85 in Santa Maria California. Wanted like 3500 - 4000.
and let's make it even more confusing, the 429scj was a bad ass performance big block but also a different engine from the boss 429 found in mustangs which was the pinnacle of ford performance in the day
A stock 429 SCJ would smoke a stock BOSS 429. The BOSS 429 came with a way too tiny 735 cfm carburetor, a very restrictive exhaust system, and way too mild of a camshaft. Lose the smog equipment and open up the exhaust, bolt on an 800-850 cfm Holley, headers, a 1970 429 SCJ camshaft, and adjust the timing a bit and the BOSS9 was an absolute MONSTER of an engine. It was so detuned by Ford from the factory that it barely resembled it's racing bretheren
This car has a legendary status despite never winning a drag race on the street against anything with a V8.
Ya right they run mid 13's out of the box and its heavy 4.200 pounds the 429 SCJ is a bad ass short stroke big bore
@@darrellsomers5427
.....and against a 396 Nova?
What about any GTO or a 327/power glide Chevy II?
Toast that's what.
It may have done mid 13s in the quarter. Street races are usually less than a thousand feet. On the street, it was a DOG!
What I don't understand is how TH-cam videos show that a Red Torino 429 scj can vary with times of 13.71 vs Red Cuba with 440 of 13.78 on here to another 1970 Torino 429 of 12.93 to a Transam of 13.23 to a 1970 Red Torino 429 of 13.64 vs a Camaross396 of 13.59 to a 1970 Torino 429 with 13.08 vs Olds w-31 which wound up doing real bad so didn't write down time to finally a 1970 Torino 429scj of 12.72 to a 1969 Yenko 427 Camaro of 12.0 then 12.59. Then it was mentioned that Motor Trend ran a 1970 Torino 429 scj with 4 speed and driver to 4206 lbs. to a 13.99 time in Feb. 1970. These times ranged so badly that I thought maybe read end as one guy stated that stock was geared 3.91 with Detroit Locker gearing being 4.30 but that couldn't be right as narrator advised 1970 Red Torino with 429scj had 4.57 factory gearing for 12.72 race so something else had to account for difference of 1.27 seconds but what?????
para los que no saben el torino junto con el cyclone ocupan el segundo lugar en el circuito nascar dentro de la lista de los autos que han corrido en esa competencia desde 1949, que fué cuando inicio
For Torino experts.. does the 70 come with grill cover the all front fascia ??
a 4 speed one of these has been sitting behind a house a few miles from me since 1986 ...
I had to watch a split window 327 corvette rot in a yard.
Owners son died and left it where his son parked it.
Wouldn't even talk about it.
@@hulaganz the owner of the car i speak of died in 1986 and the widow will not git rid of it .. her kids will when she goes ..i`m of the age myself where i dont want it anymore ..
Used to say I d rather push a Chevy than drive a Ford but for her I d make an exception!
Mine is 512 Rousch 525hp and the most incredible sound with the acceleration to go with it. I still have the orig 429 and 70000 miles on car sex on wheels and cheaper to keep going
D Charles liked it
Kevin is wrong, there was only 1,475 Torino's made in 1970 with the super cobra jet...there was a total of 7,670 Torino cobra's made in 70'
One of the few good looking muscle cars not a mustang that wasnt a full sized car like the galaxy. But it was still to heavy, A dodge charger is as big maybe bigger but it was lighter.
What’s the white car in the intro with the lip spoiler ?
So all SCJ cars have the Drag pack?
Johnny Yum yes
@@jerryvesely1336 no, the drag pack was an option, then their was the super drag pack option.
Fords big block motors are hard to keep strait, they have the 427, 428, 429, then there's a 429 hemi, and the 427 SOHC, 7 liter, 460.
11.5 compression ratio.
the SR-71 Blackbird was a top secret plane , how can you imply it was patterned after that aircraft?
Just the look man jeez. It wasn't all THAT secret. People knew about it.
@@AutoYoung sure everybody knew about the blackbird, had one on display at wright-paterson a.f.b.in 1976.
Perhaps its operational features, and its activities were "top secret" but the existence of the plane itself wasn't.
@@dannyfields2065 - My husband and I, fresh out of the Air Force, were making our way from his last duty station at Langley AFB, and my hometown, in Hampton, Virginia to his home area in northwestern Indiana/northeastern Illinois in late August 1977. We were traveling west on I70, after having stopped overnight in Pennsylvania, and were approaching the interstate exit in Ohio for the Air Force Museum at Dayton/Fairborn, and decided to make a mid-day stop to visit there, and get some lunch, since we certainly weren't sure when we would get back that way. The museum was certainly a microcosm of what it was destined to become, and is today, but we enjoyed what was there a great deal, including the SR-71 Blackbird they had on display, and the space exploration materials and equipment they had. NASA has a facility at Langley, and had trained some of the previous astronauts there for moon landings, when I was still in school, so it was of personal interest as well. We still have photos of the two of us at various displays, looking a little "worse for wear" from our trip, being a bit ragged from traveling from the hot and humid southeast to the hot and humid Midwest in late August in a 1969 Ford Galaxie 500 - maroon with black interior - without air conditioning!
(I wouldn't get my '71 Torino GT SportsRoof with 351C-4V C6 Auto Console shift, HideAway Headlights, and highback bucket seats, also the same maroon paint (no stripe or louvers) and black interior, until the following February, since it was my 21st birthday present from my husband.)
We arrived on September 1, 1977, and within a week I had my first case of bronchitis, with a sinus infection to boot. Should have taken that as a warning of what was to come, but being an adventurous 20-year-old, I toughed it out, including my almost immediate introduction to Midwestern winters, with the infamous "Blizzard of 78!" Living less than 20 minutes from I65, and under 2 hours south of Chicago, we were snowed in from all forms of civilization, except what we lived next door to, and walking distance from, in up to 4-1/2' of snow for almost 10 days.
After 42 years, I'm still "toughing it out." Definitely NOT my chosen climate!
Mustangs also had the Super Cobra jet engine?
Johnny Yum Yes they did. 69' and 70'. Could be a Cobra Jet or Super Cobra Jet. They used the FE engine. The 428.
@@tonyelliott4153 that is correct, it was different engine.
I prefer the ‘68 Torino design. Ford might have claimed the Blackbird influenced their design but to my eye these always looked like an elongated Chevelle. Only the rear deck and windshield remained from the 68-69.
I have a 68, 69,70,& 71. I owned 2 70 Chevelles, can't see the similarity. The rear deck from the 68, 69's don't even come close to the 70, 71's either.Maybe the windshield though.....Oh well.
429 Windsor? If it was a Cleveland, then it would be powerful.
I think you got the wrong engine family. 429 - 460 is the 385 engine family. Never heard Cleveland or Windsor associated with them.
@@gregorytimmons4777 yes, this engine had nothing to do wit the windsors or clevelands.
Correct. Nothing to do with Cleveland or Windsor. "Cleveland" was a more performance oriented 351 c.i. v8 manufactured at the Cleveland Ohio engine casting plant. Ford also made a "Windsor" 351 v8, but different, and made at the Windsor Ontario plant.
Was the SR-71 Black Bird, even Born at that time ??
Its not honeycomb. Its snake scales. The snake scales pattern is inside as well. Each line in the seats is a snake. Surprised it isn't shown more.
1971
is that engine smoking when idle.
Shouldn't it have the Cobra logo on the grill?
The 1971 had a grill emblem, the 1970 did not. I know because my 1970 looks like the featured one only it's a four speed.
a better burn out please
I love it but i prefer the 1969 model year..