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This 1970 Ford Torino King Cobra prototype was built to fight Chrysler’s aerodynamic NASCAR cars, wrapping an extended nose around the race-bred Boss 429 V8 before NASCAR’s rule changes killed the entire program. Only a handful of these prototypes were ever built, making this one of the rarest Fords in existence. Take a detailed look at a car that came remarkably close to reaching Ford showrooms before the aero wars ended.
This photo captures one of NASCAR’s rarest creations: a genuine wing car from the sport’s brief but wild ‘aero wars.’ Built by Dodge and Plymouth to chase top speed with towering rear wings and extended nosecones, cars like this one dominated the 1970 season before a single rule change legislated them out of competition almost overnight. Read on to find out why that rule mattered so much, and why surviving examples are worth seven figures today.