Olds442redberet

A friend mine is a Toronado nut and just recently found this car up in Tennessee. He called me about the car and when he told me about the interior and the asking price I immediately I told him to buy it. We wound up going in together in order to get the car.

It's a well optioned car, runs and drives, the motor sounds great, it doesn't smoke or knock. I am thinking about putting this motor into one of my cars. Maybe the 70 442.

Being an Illinois car, the body is quite rusty. The interior, stainless, chrome and mechanicals are in good condition. The car is coming apart easily which is surprising because the last Northern car I bought required a lot of surgical cutting in order to pull it apart.

svnt442

There is a guy on here somewhere that would LOVE to have a spindle nut from that car if you are willing to part with it.

Laqueesha

Nice find; it's even got the 1980s Illinois license plates.

oldspackrat

Tom,
Does it look like those buckets & console are factory installed? I know the Delta 88s could have had buckets & console but not sure about the Toronado. I thought the sportiest they got was the strato bench seat? If factory installed the bottom section of the console will be Toronado specific I believe? Nice score!

svnt442

I found this looking for an answer. It's hard to find anything on the interior for Toronados.

ThePackRat

Few & far between but it was an option.

svnt442

If you compare it to this you can see that the console has a different shape to it at the front. The A body one slopes up where the Toro console is much flatter.

Mr Shifty Sidney

I had a 70 Toronado GT once. The front fender is over 6 ft. long on these cars. The car had studded tires on the front...talk about an asphalt eater.

Don W

Olds442redberet

The seats and console a original to this car.
This is the second bucket seat Toronado My friend has seen.
It's my first.

Unfortunately this one is already spoken for. I got the engine and my friend is transferring just about everything else to his Toronado.

cherokeepeople

if it is factory buckets console that column won't have a shifter lug.that has to be a super rare unit floor shift tilt tele!!! sure this car isn't a gt???

Olds442redberet

I didn't see GT anywhere on the car.

Oldsmaniac

The Gt emblem is only on the hood but a good hint would be the notched rear bumper as that was standard with the GT for duals.

twintracks

And the pink tranny tag.
Too bad the Toro doesn't get more love. They are fabulous highway cars. I love them. It's also too bad that they rust out so badly. I've always said it's because they sit so low. In the mid-90s I drove a '71 Toro into the junkyard under it's own power. It had been my winter beater for about 5 years. The frame was so rusty, that there was very little holding the rear axle in place except for the weight of the car. I should have stripped off more than the tires and battery, but it was a different time in my life.
I'm glad at these parts will be recycled. If it were a Cutlass, I'm sure it's future would be different.

EightballZ

the tranny tag on a 1970 toro GT is pink..it should read "OM"

Olds442redberet

I'll check the tranny this week

Octania

I can tell you that a Toro with console is HELLA rare.

Ck for cutout rear bumper, OM trans code [performance final drive??]

I would save that body tag and paperwork you find for posterity. Broadcast card, IBM Hollerith card, anything like that.

Looks like a gold mine in Toro parts and quite an engine.

toro68

Same issue with my Dad's matdor red 1972 Toronado, back in June of 1982, the rear frame let go. Too bad excellent car, trouble free car he ran for 10 years (June 1972 - June 1982), with only 149,800 miles on the dot.