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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the oval, Ford’s Boss 429 V8 took home some 26 wins throughout the 1969 season ... s Galaxie in everything from NHRA and NASCAR to road racing and touring car classes, so the dirt oval ...