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Offline JohnW

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'80 Runabout Daily Driver
« on: October 23, 2011, 11:13:38 PM »
I just realized I never posted up any photos.

Today cruising on the Kancamangus Highway up north with my friend's 81 Eagle:

I'm 18 and he's 19, so we got a lot of funny looks and comments.  And a few people gave us thumbs up on the main highway.  The Kancamangus is a windy mountain road, lots of fun - especially with CBs.  I need a proper antenna mount, though.  Probably when I build a roof rack.

Out shooting before a cop rolled up a couple months back:

He let us go after talking to us about guns and the Pinto for a bit.

And when I got it:



Looks a little worse now, but that's because I sprayed some Rust Reformer on it to stop spots of surface rust from spreading before I have a chance to get to them.
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Offline 75bobcatv6

Re: '80 Runabout Daily Driver
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2011, 01:43:14 AM »
john i have a friend with an 81 amc EAgle wagon 5in lift, and a 4.7l Inline 6, one regular unmodified 82 AMC Eagle wagon, and an AMC eagle Spirit.
I has no pinto's/bobcats of my own now. Just have a 2003 Caravan. Wife has a 1978 mercury bobcat im restoring. looking for a V8 conversiokn gone Awry that i can fix up

Offline 75bobcatv6

Re: '80 Runabout Daily Driver
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2011, 01:48:47 AM »

 for some reason it will not Flip on photobucket lol. but this is his 4x4 toy.

I has no pinto's/bobcats of my own now. Just have a 2003 Caravan. Wife has a 1978 mercury bobcat im restoring. looking for a V8 conversiokn gone Awry that i can fix up

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Re: '80 Runabout Daily Driver
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2011, 07:41:39 AM »
Awesome.  I really want an Eagle wagon, and so does he actually.  His is stock height with the 2.5l Iron Duke.  Spins tires decently for a 4 cylinder when he has it in 2wd.
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Re: '80 Runabout Daily Driver
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2011, 06:06:40 PM »
That's a cool 4X4

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Re: '80 Runabout Daily Driver
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2011, 10:30:54 AM »
yep i thought so too. its awesome to watch him Crawl in that thing LOL. he passes most of the guys who are stuck and on the way back down helps em out of their "holes" Hows that 80 coming along John? im still trying to find time to get stuff done on the wifes Wagon.
I has no pinto's/bobcats of my own now. Just have a 2003 Caravan. Wife has a 1978 mercury bobcat im restoring. looking for a V8 conversiokn gone Awry that i can fix up

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Re: '80 Runabout Daily Driver
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2011, 12:05:09 PM »
Hows that 80 coming along John?
It's coming along slowly.  Got the aftermarket Powermaster alternator installed and wired a few weeks back, rebuilt the carb and converted it to an electric choke.  It's got a 76 motor, so it had a water choke.  I want to get the much less rusted passenger door I have ready to go on soon and get to work on the rear quarters.  I'm afraid I'm gonna have to cut the fenders off to see how the inner fenderwell is and make any necessary repairs, then weld them back on.  Might wait til winter break and find a friend who will let me use their garage for like a week.  I have maybe a day a week to work on it between school and work.  Also want to replace the cat with pipe this weekend, pretty sure it's plugged.

Still gets me everywhere though, albeit slowly on the highway.  Gonna have to park it for the winter in the next month, I'm not gonna let it see snow and salt.
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Re: '80 Runabout Daily Driver
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2012, 09:34:48 AM »






I've got a roof rack on it now, as well as some Sylvania foglights and the PINTO vanity plate I posted in another thread. The hubcaps are gone as I've been running a mix of 13 and 14" wheels.

I've got an interesting 4 cylinder engine swap planned for this summer, we'll see how that goes.
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