JoHan '72 Toronado; School Me

[Dodge Driver]

Hello and thanks for reading.

Picked up a JoHan '72 Olds Toronado rebuilder on ebay. It's going to need an engine, suspension parts and wheels. The hub caps are kit specific, that much I know. How much of this kit is interchangeable with earlier JoHan Toros and earlier/later Eldorados?

Thanks!

 

[Can-Con]

All the chassis and everything on the engines except the "CADILLAC" script valve covers is the same in all the JoHan kits from '66 to '72. 

The engines are all Oldsmobile. They just put the Caddy script on the Eldorado kit valve covers.

The inner fenders, firewall, rad wall and other underhood stuff is pretty well the same too, if not 100% carried over from the '66.

 

[disabled modeler]

Steve is pretty much right... I once owned a 72 Toronado..it was my first real car.

[Can-Con]

Here's my '72 I built over 10 years ago. I "took some libertys" with it.  But aside from the valve cover, air cleaner swap and scratch made panel in front of the radiator, it's all JoHan Toro under the hood.

Edited May 3, 2017 by Can-Con

[tim boyd]

Steve....that is one gorgeous model you built there.....TIM

[Dodge Driver]

All the chassis and everything on the engines except the "CADILLAC" script valve covers is the same in all the JoHan kits from '66 to '72. 

The engines are all Oldsmobile. They just put the Caddy script on the Eldorado kit valve covers.

The inner fenders, firewall, rad wall and other underhood stuff is pretty well the same too, if not 100% carried over from the '66.

 

Thanks for the info and the photos, Steve. I really appreciate them. The model is gorgeous. I like what you did with it!

[Dodge Driver]

Steve is pretty much right... I once owned a 72 Toronado..it was my first real car.

My Dad owned a '72 Toro when I was a kid. I hope to replicate that car in scale.

 

 

[disabled modeler]

My Dad owned a '72 Toro when I was a kid. I hope to replicate that car in scale.

 

 

Yeah that is what Id like to do too...make a replica of every vehicle the family had owned possible.  Mine was dark green with tan top and interior...beautiful classy car.

[disabled modeler]

Steve....that is one gorgeous model you built there.....TIM

Stunning Steve...Xs 2..!

[howsthat1959]

The Eldorado and Toronado engines are completely different. The most obvious thing is the location of the distributor: In the front on the Cad, in the rear on the Olds. The Johan Eldorado kits have the Toronado engine from the Olds kits. Guess the were lazy. Pix attached.

[Can-Con]

The Johan Eldorado kits have the Toronado engine from the Olds kits. 

Yes. That may have been mentioned. 

Edited May 12, 2017 by Can-Con

[Dodge Driver]

Thanks for the photos John. Shows me some areas of the engine/transaxle I haven't seen in 1:1 (the engine from the Toro kit is a glue lump).

[howsthat1959]

If you google 1971 oldsmobile toronado engine you will find many pictures.