{"id":232,"date":"2004-12-03T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/lenos_toronado.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:39","slug":"lenos_toronado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/lenos_toronado.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Leno’s Toronado"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JayCheck this car out. It’s Jay Leno’s Custom 1966 Olds Toronado<\/a>. I have a soft spot in my heart for 60’s American cars and Oldmobiles in general (I learned to drive on Dad’s 1977 Cutlass), but I’ve always loved the early Toronados. Lots of style, room and power.
\nWell, this is no ordinary Toronado. It’s powered by a prototype GM 425 cubic inch crate motor with twin turbos that makes 1,070 HP and 1,000 ft\/lbs of torque. That’s 5 times<\/i> the power of my 1999 Oddysey, 4 times the power of my 1960 Thunderbird and about a million times as much as my tired 1993 Escort.
\nUnder the restored, stock sheet metal is a stretched C5 Corvette chassis. It’s been converted from FWD to RWD and utilizes a beefed up Corvette automatic rear transaxle. Custom 17″ alloy wheels that look just like the originals keep the outside looking stock.
\nGeneral Motors photo as seen on Serious Wheels<\/a>, a site with lots of cool car pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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