The 1969 Dodge Daytona and 1970 Plymouth Superbird ... so to homologate the Talladega for NASCAR racing, Ford had to produce at least 500 cars for the public before it was allowed to compete.

and racing officials soon outlawed it for being too fast for its own good. The Slippery 1969 Ford Talladega Was Too Fast For NASCAR Ford built the 1969 Torino Talladega as a homologation special ...

on February 1 for the 1969 Motor Trend 500, Petty was in a Ford with backing from ... the Blue Oval was aggressively upping its NASCAR game through Holman-Moody Racing. Concerned about being ...

Whether in race or street-legal homologation special guise, the 1969 Ford Torino ... of money into their racing programs. The biggest, most contested stage was NASCAR, where, unlike today, race ...

It's also a historically significant Ford ... drag racing, and sports car division. Established in 1957, Holman-Moody won two NASCAR championships in 1968 and 1969 and the Daytona 500 in 1967.