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REVELL 1976 FORD TORINO

If it wasn’t for the ludicrously unsubtle red and white ‘under cover’ police car that was featured prominently in the Seventies’ American cop show Starsky & Hutch, Ford’s intermediate Torino might have been all but forgotten, overshadowed by its stablemate, the Mustang. Yet despite this, the Torino, named after Italy’s equivalent of Detroit (Turin), was produced from 1968 to 1976. Initially a sub-series of the Fairlane, the tables turned in 1970 and the Fairlane became a

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