Great sleeper. Love the trailer ball on the back. By the looks of the wheels and tires I bet this car went around corners pretty well also.
Thanks, the car was too heavy to be a real canyon carver with power EVERYTHING. The trailer hitch was used to pull the same boat as my wife's 80 Pinto wagon (pics near the start of this thread). I put a large anti-sway bar in the front and used my favorite cheap handling trick....using spring clamps to lower the front and raise the back. It stiffens the springs either way. About $25 did all four
I cloned the car into an extremely rare
PERFORMANCE version of the 79 Cutless called the W-30. No one bought it when it came out and no one remembers it now. People back then thought of Oldsmobile as your "DAD"s, or more likely your "GRANDFATHER's" choice...
ZERO performance image :amazed: I have a habit of cloning cars now that I think about it....I just can't leave things alone :evil: My 351W 69 convertible Mustang is a GT clone. My daily driver is a 2000 GT Mustang convertible Cobra clone (the Misses rapidly and unexpectedly modified the original bumpers :accident:) The Cobra bumpers came up on e-bay before the original GTs so I bought 'em. The Cougar XR-7 that I sold (Fastbak390's high school ride) was an Eliminator clone. One of the cars I sold (owned it for 10 years) that didn't need to be cloned...the real deal...was a 1970 Mustang convertible 428 R-Code. They made a total of 47 convertible 428s in 1970, both Q
and R codes , 5 being special prep'd Pace Cars. The 1970 Shelby's were just re-badged 69s with the stipes added, they were
all leftover 69s (335 total). Just to make it MORE unusual was the fact that it was painted by the factory Lincoln Mark III blue. 1 of 1 but, a terrible, dangerous, unbalanced piece of S*&! that should not have been released to the public. The engine torque twisted the convertible unibody and it was
SO unbalanced, it was like driving on ice even when the road was just DAMP :accident:
My Pinto is
my interpretation of the 1974 Lotus powered Hanto Pinto. The reason I cloned the HANTO Pinto is so I can legally go vintage racing with a Lotus twin cam engine and 5-speed. The original Hanto was blue with a white stripe. Mine will stay the
almost British Racing Green (original color of my car) with silver numbers. I'm also thinking about maybe doing numbers in airbrushed flames like below but with burning
Pintos instead of
Demons (sorry Dodge :devil:)....
IF race legal to do it
....no plans for any stripes. We'll see....
I thought I was getting
Deja Vu all over again
when I found my Pinto wheels in the junk yard....
NOW I remember why....I had similar ones on the Oldsmobile....
almost 30 years ago