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1970 Ford TORINO COBRA

In 1970, Ford’s Drag Pack option may have been the best $155 you could spend — possibly in all of Detroit.

The new-for-1970 Torino Cobra was a pretty hot package for your $3,270 entry fee, with its standard 360-horse Thunder Jet four-barrel V-8 (code N)

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