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On average DAILY, how many folks give you the thumbs up or other 'Yea Man' with your Pinto?

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This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« on: September 04, 2012, 09:33:19 PM »
I love driving my Pinto Daily- (I get to do that now since I finished my Green runabout about a year ago)...
I always get several folks with with a thumbs up or other very happy smiles when I ride by, how about you?
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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2012, 11:25:03 AM »
I have been using my 77 sedan as a daily driver for almost three weeks since it is cheaper on gas than my 08 Grand Prix  >:( . I get many looks and even got a mid to late 90s Monte Carlo to slow down, honk his horn & give me a thumbs up. That car is so sluggish most the time people are giving me the finger when they tailgate me & eventually pass me.
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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2012, 11:48:55 AM »
When My 72 racer actualy was licensed for street use, I drove to autocross events. On one return trip from Sacto to Napa, I engaged a  modified Corvette owner in a strategic "cat and mouse" chase thru Sunday afternoon traffic, I won and he made point of coming alongside and gave me the BIG thumbs up! Of course, this was highly illegal and I'm sure shockeda few commuters too! ;)
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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2012, 07:54:41 PM »
At least once a week I come out of a store and someone is sitting in their car writing sown their phone number, wanting to buy my car.
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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2012, 03:50:21 AM »
When My 72 racer actualy was licensed for street use, I drove to autocross events. On one return trip from Sacto to Napa, I engaged a  modified Corvette owner in a strategic "cat and mouse" chase thru Sunday afternoon traffic, I won and he made point of coming alongside and gave me the BIG thumbs up! Of course, this was highly illegal and I'm sure shockeda few commuters too! ;)

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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2012, 12:18:45 PM »
My Pinto has gotten a lot of parking lot phone/photo action.  Otto N Austin 

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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2012, 07:29:11 PM »
Almost everytime I drive the car people ask me about it and talk to me about how they had one and ran it for 100,000 miles etc. I talked to a guy who lives in my town with a '67 Mustang and he started talking about my car as he had seen it around. ( I had my big truck at the time).  Pintos are amazing conversation items. BTW Matt, a VW bus is much slower up a hill than our Pintos!
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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2012, 10:41:58 PM »
I had Ruby parked for the Cruisin' Grand car thing in Escondido and-I swear- I saw a couple driving a mid-'70s 'Vette rubberneck my Pinto! Sweet!  ;D

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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2012, 03:10:23 AM »
When My 72 racer actualy was licensed for street use, I drove to autocross events. On one return trip from Sacto to Napa, I engaged a  modified Corvette owner in a strategic "cat and mouse" chase thru Sunday afternoon traffic, I won and he made point of coming alongside and gave me the BIG thumbs up! Of course, this was highly illegal and I'm sure shockeda few commuters too! ;)

i put a new head on mine one morning and wasout for a 'test' drive on the 60 freeway in the la area. stopped at a Denny's for breakfast.
 
the onramp to the freeway was a bit over 1/4 mile long; a sweeper to the right as it merged. i was going about 105 when i merged and as it turned out, the only rubber necker that noticed was a CHP guy that i finally noticed about another mile down the road!
 
he was a pinto fan.  had one at home and couldn't have been more enthusiastic about talking to me about how dam fast i had it going.  (he said he was at 110 and accellerating)
 
moral of the story? run fast on the track ond NOT on the street.  by the way. he didn't write me up!
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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2012, 12:48:38 PM »
At least 2 a day as I drive my 76 trunk type as a daily driver. The previous owner did a rattle can black paint job with 2 red stripes. So SHINEY IT IS NOT. I have had people stop dead in the middle of an intersection to yell "A PINTO' while giving me a thumbs up.
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Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2012, 01:20:40 AM »
I get that, too! As for your '76 not being shiny... Ruby isn't the shiniest jewel in the box, either,... but she is priceless to me anyway!  ;D
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