Ford retired both the Fairlane and Falcon nameplates for 1971, folding everything into a fourteen-model Torino lineup that ranged from a plain two-door sedan to the four-speed, 285-hp Torino Cobra. EPA-mandated compression cuts quietly trimmed horsepower across nearly every engine that year, even as Ford kept offering genuine performance touches like the Ram Air shaker hood and Hurst-shifted four-speeds. Read on to find out what a magazine-tuned Cobra 429 could still do at the drag strip in 1971.
