Jay Traugott has been writing about and testing cars for over a decade. His passion for everything with four wheels began when he saw "Back to the Future" as a kid. The DeLorean DMC-12 remains his ...
For anyone who thought we would never see a Clint Eastwoodcharacter less of a social animal than the plain-spoken DirtyHarry, well, meet Walt Kowalski. He may not be so pleased to meetyou, though, or ...
If Clint Eastwood wins his first Academy Award for acting come February, besting Sean Penn for “Milk” and Mickey Rourke for “The Wrestler” among other probable nominees, it’ll be like 1971 all over ...
As you may have deduced from the title of this story, the owner, Gunnison Jones, isn't old enough to drive just yet, but that hasn't stopped him from getting the Gran Torino out on the streets and ...
"Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!" has never carried quite the resounding curmudgeon-next-door rancor as it does spewing forth from the locked-and-loaded lips of Clint Eastwood. This is one scary old ...
In the grand “Gran Torino,” Clint Eastwood’s loutish Walt Kowalski is 25 years older than his Dirty Harry Callahan day-making character from “Sudden Impact,” but that threatening growl is indubitable.
Nick Schenk’s Gran Torino screenplay wasn’t written with Eastwood in mind as the film’s star and director, but you’d never guess that was the case, so comfortably does the film fit the lauded ...
"Gran Torino" maintains the quality of Clint Eastwood's Oscar-decorated run that includes "Unforgiven," "Mystic River," "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters From Iwo Jima." The new film, about a bigoted ...
His idea to build the car was inspired by a big-screen Torino, but not the one in the acclaimed Clint Eastwood movie. It was the car driven by baddie Fenix Caldero in 2009’s Fast & Furious, the fourth ...
Although this final generation Torino may conjure up images of the ‘Starsky & Hutch’ car from the seventies television series, that car, a notched-backed member of the ‘73 and up club, was homely ...
This '73 Ford Gran Torino Sport is a true survivor from the musclecar era, and it belongs to Jim and Cindy Batie of Graham, Washington. It's a good-looking midsize model from the end of the musclecar ...