This particular Gran Torino Sport also sports the Rallye Equipment Group: eight round gauges – or ‘pods’ in Ford parlance – adorn the instruments cluster.

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.

Moreover, the somewhat quirky redesign isn't favored by the Torino crowd, which usually prefers the 1968-to-1971 styling. Come 2023, and 1972 Gran Torino values aren't exactly encouraging either.

The 1970s buddy cop series "Starsky and Hutch" and 2004 follow-up movie featured a 1976 Ford Gran Torino painted orange with ...

Greg Korfe from Long Prairie, MN owns an original 1976 “Starsky and Hutch” special edition ...

Under the hood there is plenty to launch the car in the form of the big-port 351 Cleveland 4V engine. Check out more of this 1973 Ford Gran Torino Sport at Mustang & Fords Magazine.