Two white 1969 Ford Fairlane hardtops, one in a 3/4 rear view an…

mu :1 alllatruuwn, r. 4 valveSSlCleveland mm many design Chalactortxlu 302Y but: was much cu m m. on the street. The 4295 w .m M l , y. onlythis timeyou had to :lslg lm lw l. GTrankS.Whereasktngfmmml required itmore was what yr) tr' swapping the standard Zillrhm w w lm .. re-breathing smallrblock l':l .1 m4, mm lulm ,lls ,- u lllllt mum. l 71m llw l klllwltl') l'l l-llt lllll Stimslhml mutt ls .l kltll'l'r luitl :tll tltl ~ll xi suing Ill-mutthtlnwn limrl nl'uxml >1 [1 m l lnurlisllur. nlhvrlln: l will luml my .tunmsl tlu- . m l 3 ll ll~ mm What's In A Name? the cast Cobra emblem on later editions. Sowhat model was the '69 CobraTonno or Falrlane? Good question. When the Tonna nameplate rst appeared in 1968, it signified the highest trim level in the Fairlane model line Factory brochures announced the uxurlous Fairlane Torino '63. Fine, but then the 69 brochure reterred ',to he "Fairtane/l'orino/Cobra" as it they were three different Apparently, Ford models. promotional people werent sure 'how they wanted the car portrayed. Introductory ads mentioned nothing more than L hetwonew Cobramotjlel .the these racing "Tonno Cobras" when promoting the street-driven Cobras. But the tact of the matter is the tlrst Cobras were actually Fair/ans Cobras. that is it you believe what you see in the Ford Dealers Fact Book tor 1 969. On page 37 (shown at lelt). the two '59 Cobra models are pictured below a heading plainly stating Fairlane Cobra Hardtops." Obviously. this meansTorino Cobra is a misnomer, at least as tar as the '69 model is concerned, What it also means is that the same applies to the Talladega, the NASCAFl-lnspired Cobra derivitive. Even though the NASCAR guys again liberally identied the racing Talladegas as Tarino Talladegas. it only (allows logically that, it the Cobra was a Fairlane. the Talladega was. Well. you get the picture. From all this, it appears ' satest to simply refer to the two as Cobra" and 'l'alladega": nothing more, nothing less. t'st'tu they'v have been impruperty ide Its only because ' 2 earsaq} Mt in its mmt than rm 1 htWtHtS .Int :Hl) l\l v\ll>ll\\ SF