Hey Pintopower,
I agree if the Pinto was a Calif. car your price of 800.00 sound good.
Being a STRANGER as you say to rust. You have a good grasp on it.
DESSOLVE is the best description I've heard about a few of the pintos I have seen.
Rust holes above the body line big enough to put a size 10 shoe through.
There was a Pinto on a car lot in St.Louis a few years back.
Was repainted by MACCO. Looked good to the average eye.
No under hood skin
No metal on the doors below the vinal door pannel.
The core support was almost non-existant.
Holes in the body that Macco had put BIG pieces of cardboard behind and filled with putty.
The lot found some sucker to buy it.
The owner aproached me at an all Ford show that I go to every year.
Wanting to buy parts. I just said NO and walked away.
He wanted to buy an NOS steering wheel. for that P.O.S.
The guy stood there telling me that the car was all original.
Of course it had to be the 1 time in 10 years that I did not have one of my Pinto's at the show.
I brought my 1973 Econoline van. That show is at the high-point of the summer heat and humudity.
and my Econo has A/C.
My first Pinto was a 73 it was only 8 years old when I got it from my mom.
was already rusted to the door handels.
Midwest Salt and Humidity sucks!!!!!!!!
Read my bio. All Ca. cars.
From Pintony