This car is a reproduction. My buddy hauled 2 or 3 of these in from I believe Mich. in the late 70's. The local Ford dealer was selling them. I remember him telling me that is was a fly by night outfit that was putting them together. Also that he hauled 1 back to them. Interesting that there are a few of them still out there. Where did you find this at ?
   
 Dennis

The shop that HAD it called it a 'Pinto' (I would not call it a 'reproduction' anything, to me it's more of an 'immitation'), but yes, it WAS a 1980 Shay. I put that in the proper 'tense' because it sold today. Connie went with me to take another look at it and it was GONE; day late and a.....

The sad part is the new owner is planning to RUIN it with a 302. I can see 2.3 EFI, even 2.3T EFI, just to give it a little more go, but that car AND WHEELS + TIRES are just not made for stuff like that (it would be fun to enter the 'smoke show' at Carlisle with it....).

I offered to buy it after it gets hacked up; the good part is I should be able to get it for much less.


Bill

my very first car i built from the ground up. was a 26 model t. all pinto - the mustang fox rear end. 68$ for the steel for the frame / 20$ for the 77 pinto/ free 1926 model T (tall T) /5,000 hours and traded it for a 71 boss 351 mustang after only driving it for a week. dumb move!!!
used every single part off the pinto though didn't buy any thing to make it run and drive.  what a fun car. even just premiered brown.