The first time i ever remember seeing a pinto was back probably 12-13 years ago in my grandmothers driveway. I think it had been in the family but i am not sure....becaus e....i remember my dad saying that my grandma bought it for him, i think for $300. It was a baby blue 76 MPG Hatchback with dark blue interior. No options that i know of except for chome trim around the wheel wells and i think some kind of pinstripe down the sides. Something that my current 76 doesnt even have. (current 76 has nothing but an 8" axle, which the blue one didnt have...) Anyways, the first memory i have of a pinto is the blue 76 sitting in my grandmothers driveway on a nice sunny morning. Now then back on the 16th of november my grandmother too, lost her battle with cancer. I ended up with the blue 76 after it went back and forth between my dad and mom after they divorced. I sold it back in march of 2003. Really wasnt too much of anything left of it, but i still loved it and hated to see it go. But i knew it had to go....i lived in an apartment and couldnt have a non running car, and couldnt work on it. I was 17 at the time. Really had no money....every floorboard either had a hole in it that you could shove your foot thru, or was rusted so bad it FELT like you were gonna fall thru if you stepped on it. Anyways, i sold the car and now grandmas gone...and the house which had the driveway i first saw what was eventually going to be my car is going to be sold in a matter of months. The 6 kids are all fighting for it. I wish i could buy the house, and i wish i could have my blue 76 back. But most of all, i wish i could have my grandma back, too. Just thought i would share my little pinto story.