Anonymous

Reviewed a 1974 Ford Elite on Oct 20, 2007

This '74 Gran Torino Elite was the strongest car I've owned. Unfortunately it probably cost me the most on repairs. The C6 tranny would fry out once a year, up until I installed a low stall torque converter. The higher stall torque converter would burn out the clutches. I painted the car myself, and wanted it stripped to the metal. But I made the mistake of taking off the factory primer. I had no idea it was so thick and didn't know how well it had protected the car... up until I took it off. Then, the car rotted. And it rotted from the inside out, it seemed, because all of a sudden there was huge holes that were too bad to fix. I also painted my other Elite, and left the factory primer on. That car is still good to this day, and I painted it 21yrs. ago with Tremclad.