Ford Taunus ca '62

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Yeah, that is a European model. I don't beleive it was ever imported to the US. They were common as grass when I lived in Germany in the mid 80's.

S0 he's got a dirt common european car that should be non-existant here? Sounds like quite a challenge to restore. I'm thinking resto mod :) Good luck either way.

Ford Taunus was Ford's best-selling car in Europe in the late 70s and the mid 80s, and one of the most common on the road until Toyota put the Corolla on the street, and VW came out with the Golf.

You still see lots of them all over Europe. It got replaced by the Sierra, which in turn got replaced by the Mondeo. The Ford Mondeo/Sierra is known in North America as the Taurus. The current Taurus shares headlights, engines, transmissions, and a lot of other parts with the Mondeo, the rear half of the car is however completely different. The Sierra and the old Taurus share visual design, but are mechanically completely different.

I'm unaware of any North American model similar to the Taunus from the same period. Europe had desperately high fuel prices and retorded to small relatively economical cars, while the states went for fuel guzzling V8 power plants. So to get parts, you may have to specially import them from Europe. European cars, built in Europe, use different sizes and standards than their American counterparts - especially older ones.