What is it? Well, it’s technically a Ford Torino except this one has (at seemingly vast expense) been converted to Talledega spec. Effectively, before the Superbird and Daytona, Ford exploited every (and I do mean every) loophole in the NASCAR rulebook to built a car that was designed to go stock car racing. On a per race basis, it’s the most successful stock car ever made.
Except that this hasn’t been modified to be a Talledega road car. It’s been modified to be a race spec one and to this end, it has a very large number of actual Talledega race parts in it… and it’s road legal.*
I’ve been having a whale of a time on the Japanese Autotrader equivalent. There is some qwality madness for sale there. I’ve particularly been enjoying finding actual physical examples of things I remember ‘driving’ on the Gran Turismo games. Case in point; a Honda S2000 with tuning by Spoon Sports;
