JC Fernandez

Corrected entry: Walt's Gran Torino was built in Lorain, OH, not the Detroit area. Correctors like to say it is possible he could have been working in a plant closer to Detroit, such as Dearborn, (which in 1972 was building Mustangs) but want proof that Walt's two door fastback Gran Torino was not built in Detroit. It is not a matter of opinion or supposition, the information is available on the information plate of the car. One website submitted by a corrector only showed how to decipher the information on the data plate, and showed all the Ford plants in North America, not just where the Gran Torino was built. Contrary to the correction, this was not a key plot point in the movie, the plot doesn't fall apart because of it and the line about him installing the steering column is likely a mistake by the scriptwriter. As for proof the car was not built in the Detroit area: http://www.cleveland.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/01/clint_eastwood_in_gran_torino.html see the paragraph reading "Though the film is set in Michigan, it just as well could've been in Lorain - where the Torino was built in a now-closed Ford assembly plant. It rolled out more than 800,000 Torinos." another: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/planning-to-retire/2009/01/22/gran-torino-shut-out-of-oscars/comments/2 see the entry titled Gran Torino anachronism, from a former Ford employee telling where the Torinos were built. There are more examples I can give, but this entry is already too long. It is highly unlikely Walt would commute a minimum of two hours to work in Lorain when other Ford plants were closer, and it's more likely he would have built his pickup at the truck assembly in the Detroit area.

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