Gran Torino began the fall

Published January 1, 2009, 12:00 am, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

The title character in Clint Eastwood’s Motor City morality tale, “Gran Torino,” is, by the reaching light of history, a fairly negligible hunk of machinery: a green 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, with a sleek “SportsRoof” and a gold “Laser Stripe,” one of many million overfed, undersprung and largely unlamented muscle cars that poured out of Ford, GM and Photo caption: The 1972 muscle car ...

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