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Shiny is Good! => General Pinto Talk => Topic started by: phils toys on January 08, 2007, 04:30:25 PM
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Here is a list of movies/tv shows ( hope this is what skrach had in mind)
movies
Back to the Future- Yellow late model
Blues Brothers- Red wagon
Kujo -Yellow Pinto
Almost Famous-looking through the windshield of a 72 Pinto.
Escape from New York & Escape from L.A. are Full of 2 or 3 pinto shells
Terminator 3 there is a pinto shell
Final Destination 2 in the collision gets plowed by a log
Dukes of Hazard movie
Silence of the Lambs.. clarice drives one
Miracles
Starsky and Hutch one driving on the street
Taxi Driver
Crocodile Dundee- There's a red hatchback
The Betsy - a Red Pinto Hatchback it was being used as a test bed for a engine..
Friday - a black Pinto "convertible"!
Red Dawn" a yellow wagon from the rear ( also gets smashed).
Top Secret" (1984) shows an early pinto getting gently "tapped" from behind before exploding.
The Spirit of 76". early blue sedan gets blown up.
Straight talk dolly pardon driving a 79 or 80 odd shade of orange trunk model pinto.
JoJo Dancer, You're Life is Calling' - A brown Pinto wagon
Terminator. At the end of the movie, there is a 75 or so Pinto sitting beside the gas station.
Poltergeist-pinto hatchback pinto hatchback
Police Academy -green pinto wagon
Cheech and Chongs Next Movie-blue 77 or 78 peeling out
Being There
Uptown Saturday Night
Smokey & the Bandit
The Mack
Capricorn One
Let's Do it Again
...and Justice for All
The Glove
Clerks" and a guy wanted to know " where he could buy a set of hubcaps for a 1972 pinto
Gone in Sixty Seconds (original)- several
Scarface-golden brown Pinto station wagon
The Falcon and the Snowman
Eat my Dust
Dawn of the Dead ( orininal)-zombies having a feast on top of a 74 -75 Pinto
Fast Company-several pinto sighting in that movie with one bad V-8 monster on the drag strip
American Gigolos
Cheech and Chongs Nice Dreams -orange pinto wagon
Thunderheart
Chris Rock movie CB4
Smoky & the Bandit .
48 hours at least 3 green hatch back sightings
Folks - a red pinto pours gas all over it and hand his dad a cigar.
Rumble in the Bronx - Red 74
The Man - commandeers a Pinto
Fletch -yellow wagon with woodgrain
Used Cars -runabout
Dazed and Confused -red pinto
Ghost Whisperer -'74-'76 orange sedan
Damnation Alley -Most notably, a Wagon
Return to Witch Mountain - Medium blue pinto
Speed-Unfortunately, a 79 or 80 white Pinto Wagon gets destroyed, Sandra talks about driving the bus and states that it is "like driving a really big pinto."
The Devil's Rejects -Pinto runabout sitting in the tall grass
Diamonds are Forever" (1971) -pinto parked behind Bond
Surf Nazis Must Die -dark green runabout
Trick or Treat" (1986) -yellow 75 pinto wagon
Ghostbusters -red pinto hatch
Dragnet-Yellow 71-73
Repo Man - at least 3 pintos a white, a blue and a brown wagon
Supernatural -yellow '79 or '80 hatchback
Bulworth -pinto wagon
Demolition Man -seen from the cockpit view from the helicopter, yellow hatchback
Commando -pinto hatch
Blood in Blood out
The LadiesMan -one of the guy drives a pinto
Angels in the Outfield
Who's That Girl- dark green (faded) Pinto
Taxi Driver (1976) background scenes you can see Pintos.
The Goodbye Girl (1977) a 76 ish green wagon.
Big Wednesday -nice brown window wagon
Oh God You Devil-blue 72
One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest-Red 72-? runabout
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - brown pinto
Lords of Dogtown - green runabout
A nightmare on elm st- blue trunk model
TV SHOWS:
Chips-
The Rockford Files allways had one or two per episode.
Nash Bridges- prized but somewhat rough Pinto was stolen
Seinfeld-mall parking lot several pinto's in the background
A&E or the History channel about the "Hillside Strangler" in LA - Pinto in the background
Charlie's Angels drove an orange Pinto
Emergency when the fire truck pulls out of the station a Pinto slows down to let it by
Matlock 1980 pinto
Pinto wagon in one of the latest Toyota commercials
In the Heat of the Night-green Pinto wagon
WB's Charmed
Stella on comedy central
Reno 911 selling fireworks out the back of a pinto wagon
Automaniac with Bill Goldberg he talks about pintos. and then they show a shot of a pinto
The History Channel does a series on Engineering Disasters. They did a segment on the Pinto
Married with Children brown pinto sedan
MTV's 70's house black 1977 or 78 Runabout
Smith System driving videos,
Guns and Gears- tv show
Desperate Housewives -orange trunk model 79 or 80
Sci-Fi channel series John Doe -79 or `80 Runabout
Full House -red pinto in a garage
( 8/3/06 ). It was an ad for ( I think ) Round table Pizza a sand pinto
Jesse James special evolution of Choppers. showed old 70s footage and several pintos were in it
Spenser For Hire -Pinto Squire wagon ('74-'78
The A-Team -several episodes
Eureka" (si-fi channel)-dark green Pinto
Cold Case Files - several episodes
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Great Job summing up the list........ :surprised:
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The Ladies Man!!! A guy drives a brown early seventies!!
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And the movie "Blood in Blood out" there is a white one that is hard to find!!!!
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Dukes of Hazzard- there was a light blue hatchback that was a regular "extra" when they was in town. 77-78 model. It's one of the cars Roscoe and Enos didn't hit
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I think their was one in madmax ?not shure
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There is a second Pinto in the movie Speed, a red hatchback. It can be seen some distance away as the Jaguar is about to pull in front of the bus.
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updated list
A nightmare on elm st.
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NEW SIGHTING! On the CW show Reaper last Tuesday a couple that escaped from hell who like to crash blue muscle cars to wreak havoc drive around in a 79 orangey cream hatchback. Looked really clean and of course the emblems were taken off.
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Here's an interesting one. In the Disney movie Sky High, there is a car that falls on one of the students. I am pretty sure it's an older Pinto sedan or Runabout. hard to tell.
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omg u all left out one best pinto ever
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
im loading a clip will post when done
OOPS!!
the move was friday! already on here
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Found a squire wagon in Genesis' video for Misunderstandi ng, brief shot when a green wagon of some sort drives past, there is a SW parked on the road behind it.
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Can't remember where, but my GF says she saw one in Jumanji, I'll watch it this weekend and find out where in there it is. Dang, and I thought that I was the only one who pauses, rewinds, and verifies that I saw a Pinto in a movie. We have a disease man...lol Hello, my name is Seth, and I'm a Pintoholic!!! LOL
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After a visit to Southfork Ranch last summer, my wife and I started purchasing the "Dallas" series on DVD. Own seasons 1-7 now, season 8 to be released in February. There is a white Pinto seen in a stock downtown Dallas traffic scene used frequently in the series over multiple seasons. It is a long shot and appears to have been filmed with a wide-angle lens so not sure of the exact year, although I can see it well enough to determine that it is the older, round-headlight version.
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Just watched the trailer for "Twilight". There is a Pinto in the background of a parking lot scene.
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I looked through the list twice and didn't see the low budget flick, "Double Nickels." There is a great scene where a Pinto is chased by police down some of L.A.'s infamous "stairway sidewalks."
Just go to U-tube, type in "double nickels" and enjoy!
Tom
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Saw the movie "Karate Kid" last night. In the opening scenes, in front of LaRusso's townhome, the camera pans up as he and his Mom are driving away to California, showing a line of cars parked in front. There is a '73 hatchback in the group.
ALSO: In the "Kolchak: Night Stalker" original series (LOVED it when I was a kid, have it on DVD), there are SEVERAL episodes which show both Pintos and Mavericks along the streets as Kolchak tools around town in his modest 60's Mustang convertible.
Chris
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In the movie "The Good Humor Man" there is what looks to be around a '74 red hatchback sitting on the street.
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some one who has alllllot of time on there hands should make a clip with all of these pintos on it.
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Internet Movie Cars Database for Ford Pinto:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&make=Ford&model=Pinto (http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&make=Ford&model=Pinto)
Mercury Bobcat as well:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&make=Mercury&model=Bobcat (http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&make=Mercury&model=Bobcat)
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Now why didn't anyone else think of doing this? ::) Thanks Kid Colt II.
A one-up for you!
Dwayne :smile:
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Now why didn't anyone else think of doing this? ::) Thanks Kid Colt II.
A one-up for you!
Dwayne :smile:
Did I do something right for a change?? :look: :D
Thanks for the 1-up, brother.
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this has been a grate thread to follow but now for the real question where r these cars. dose any one here have one these would be some higher $$$$$ car with this documentation to restore and sell at auction for more recognition
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Here is a list of movies/tv shows ( hope this is what skrach had in mind)
movies
Back to the Future- Yellow late model
Blues Brothers- Red wagon
Kujo -Yellow Pinto
Almost Famous-looking through the windshield of a 72 Pinto.
Escape from New York & Escape from L.A. are Full of 2 or 3 pinto shells
Terminator 3 there is a pinto shell
Final Destination 2 in the collision gets plowed by a log
Dukes of Hazard movie
Silence of the Lambs.. clarice drives one
Miracles
Starsky and Hutch one driving on the street
Taxi Driver
Crocodile Dundee- There's a red hatchback
The Betsy - a Red Pinto Hatchback it was being used as a test bed for a engine..
Friday - a black Pinto "convertible"!
Red Dawn" a yellow wagon from the rear ( also gets smashed).
Top Secret" (1984) shows an early pinto getting gently "tapped" from behind before exploding.
The Spirit of 76". early blue sedan gets blown up.
Straight talk dolly pardon driving a 79 or 80 odd shade of orange trunk model pinto.
JoJo Dancer, You're Life is Calling' - A brown Pinto wagon
Terminator. At the end of the movie, there is a 75 or so Pinto sitting beside the gas station.
Poltergeist-pinto hatchback pinto hatchback
Police Academy -green pinto wagon
Cheech and Chongs Next Movie-blue 77 or 78 peeling out
Being There
Uptown Saturday Night
Smokey & the Bandit
The Mack
Capricorn One
Let's Do it Again
...and Justice for All
The Glove
Clerks" and a guy wanted to know " where he could buy a set of hubcaps for a 1972 pinto
Gone in Sixty Seconds (original)- several
Scarface-golden brown Pinto station wagon
The Falcon and the Snowman
Eat my Dust
Dawn of the Dead ( orininal)-zombies having a feast on top of a 74 -75 Pinto
Fast Company-several pinto sighting in that movie with one bad V-8 monster on the drag strip
American Gigolos
Cheech and Chongs Nice Dreams -orange pinto wagon
Thunderheart
Chris Rock movie CB4
Smoky & the Bandit .
48 hours at least 3 green hatch back sightings
Folks - a red pinto pours gas all over it and hand his dad a cigar.
Rumble in the Bronx - Red 74
The Man - commandeers a Pinto
Fletch -yellow wagon with woodgrain
Used Cars -runabout
Dazed and Confused -red pinto
Ghost Whisperer -'74-'76 orange sedan
Damnation Alley -Most notably, a Wagon
Return to Witch Mountain - Medium blue pinto
Speed-Unfortunately, a 79 or 80 white Pinto Wagon gets destroyed, Sandra talks about driving the bus and states that it is "like driving a really big pinto."
The Devil's Rejects -Pinto runabout sitting in the tall grass
Diamonds are Forever" (1971) -pinto parked behind Bond
Surf Nazis Must Die -dark green runabout
Trick or Treat" (1986) -yellow 75 pinto wagon
Ghostbusters -red pinto hatch
Dragnet-Yellow 71-73
Repo Man - at least 3 pintos a white, a blue and a brown wagon
Supernatural -yellow '79 or '80 hatchback
Bulworth -pinto wagon
Demolition Man -seen from the cockpit view from the helicopter, yellow hatchback
Commando -pinto hatch
Blood in Blood out
The LadiesMan -one of the guy drives a pinto
Angels in the Outfield
Who's That Girl- dark green (faded) Pinto
Taxi Driver (1976) background scenes you can see Pintos.
The Goodbye Girl (1977) a 76 ish green wagon.
Big Wednesday -nice brown window wagon
Oh God You Devil-blue 72
One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest-Red 72-? runabout
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - brown pinto
Lords of Dogtown - green runabout
A nightmare on elm st- blue trunk model
TV SHOWS:
Chips-
The Rockford Files allways had one or two per episode.
Nash Bridges- prized but somewhat rough Pinto was stolen
Seinfeld-mall parking lot several pinto's in the background
A&E or the History channel about the "Hillside Strangler" in LA - Pinto in the background
Charlie's Angels drove an orange Pinto
Emergency when the fire truck pulls out of the station a Pinto slows down to let it by
Matlock 1980 pinto
Pinto wagon in one of the latest Toyota commercials
In the Heat of the Night-green Pinto wagon
WB's Charmed
Stella on comedy central
Reno 911 selling fireworks out the back of a pinto wagon
Automaniac with Bill Goldberg he talks about pintos. and then they show a shot of a pinto
The History Channel does a series on Engineering Disasters. They did a segment on the Pinto
Married with Children brown pinto sedan
MTV's 70's house black 1977 or 78 Runabout
Smith System driving videos,
Guns and Gears- tv show
Desperate Housewives -orange trunk model 79 or 80
Sci-Fi channel series John Doe -79 or `80 Runabout
Full House -red pinto in a garage
( 8/3/06 ). It was an ad for ( I think ) Round table Pizza a sand pinto
Jesse James special evolution of Choppers. showed old 70s footage and several pintos were in it
Spenser For Hire -Pinto Squire wagon ('74-'78
The A-Team -several episodes
Eureka" (si-fi channel)-dark green Pinto
Cold Case Files - several episodes
I seen a Price is right skit on Mad tv with a 1977 Brown pinto Sedan
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I seen a Price is right skit on Mad tv with a 1977 Brown pinto Sedan
http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php/topic,1216.msg39351.html#msg39351
BTW: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Ford_model-Pinto.html?PHPSESSID=e592e79ae0a6c4dc0529c31bc4cda54d
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About Schmidt - Red wagon
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I don't no why I watched this movie but it has a nice runabout in it, it's called "Cookie's Fortune"
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Repeated views of a pinto in the lot in scenes from Hell Ride.
Jim
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Last week's episode of "Supernatural" (great show) on the CW had one of the main characters driving a late model Pinto. Of course, the episode was set in 1973, so it was technically incorrect, but there was good coverage of the Pinto, no snide Pinto comments, and the Pinto didn't get destroyed!
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twilight
see the trailer
http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php/topic,10811.msg68510/topicseen.html#new (http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php/topic,10811.msg68510/topicseen.html#new)
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What about Norma Rae? The union guy drove a '76 light blue if I recall correctly.
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I just spotted a light green '73 Pinto Wagon with bumper guards in the 1986 movie "FX"! They show it very slightly from the driver's side and the camera slides in front of the car while they are at the impound lot getting stuff from the FX van.
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i believe i saw one in the movie hoover deuce.
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I watched Bernard and Doris the other night. Bernard drove a green '77 or '78 sedan or Runabout to his job intertview with Doris Duke. The poor green baby "broke down" before he quite got there.
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Ok, I didn't see it mentioned anywhere here so far, and come on you've got to know I'd have this one. :afro:
Saturday Night Fever: John Travolta (Danny) parks his friend's Chebby behind a dark green runabout with a dark green vinyl top when he goes to help his ladyfriend ??? move.
Chuck
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That's a movie I need to see. I love the music and the era. I have no excuse.
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I know that it's been mentioned before, but I caught "Blues Brothers" again last night. The Illinois Nazi party having a '74? orange Pinto Wagon cracked me up.....
Chris
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as long as the topic is alive again
Bachlor party-- in the parking lot durring the bus chase (ok i only cought the last part of the movie) there may be more.
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If I remember right in the Movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike back there is a seen with George Carlin hitch hiking and then a blue pinto wagon shows up shortly after.
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I'm gonna have to watch Jay and Silent Bob again...I liked it, but I can't remember that scene. ???
Chuck
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Ill have to watch it again too, but If i remember right there is a guy that asks for hub caps for a 72 pinto, in the corner store, that may be in one of kevin smiths other movies but I know I remember hearing that, and If I remember right its a nun that picks up the two of him then get kicked out after one of them tries to live by hich hikers code of the road.
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i take that back I watched it last night and its not a pinto, must have been another movie I was thinking of.
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The only really unusual car I remembered from Jay and Sil... was the wagon that picked up the chimp after they left the standoff at the truckstop.
Chuck
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I dont remember that one, I feel alseep before I got to that part
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I am going through the series "Dexter", a showtime TV show, and I am currently at the episode "Return To Sender" (episode six I think).
Dexter makes the comment "Nothing lasts forever. Just as a Ford Pinto."
Although contrary to what we believe, it's still a reference! :)
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Cheech and Chong "Up in Smoke", this movie has more pinto's in it than any movie I've ever seen
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Ill have to watch it again too, but If i remember right there is a guy that asks for hub caps for a 72 pinto, in the corner store, that may be in one of kevin smiths other movies but I know I remember hearing that, and If I remember right its a nun that picks up the two of him then get kicked out after one of them tries to live by hich hikers code of the road.
It was in 'Clerks'
"Do you sell hubcaps for a '72 Pinto hatchback? Ooh, Mini-Trucker Magazine! "
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Clerks! I haven't seen that in foreeeever! :lol:
"I wasn't even supposed to be here today!"
Chuck :afro:
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Seen one on Mad tv too
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at the end of the first terminator movie, when sarah conner is pulling into the gas station there is a yellow 74 or 75 on Stands
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Spotted one today... parked right behind a '73 Cadillac in "Flashdance".
Too brief a scene to tell much about it except that it was definitely a Pinto!
Dwayne :smile:
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I was watching a Dukes Of Hazzard DVD (the show, NOT the movie) and in The Ghost Of The General Lee, in the middle of that episode when the "General" was going "driverless" there's a white or powder-blue (I think) early Pinto parked in front of the courthouse or some other building. YeeeHaaaa!
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I was watching a Dukes Of Hazzard DVD (the show, NOT the movie) and in The Ghost Of The General Lee, in the middle of that episode when the "General" was going "driverless" there's a white or powder-blue (I think) early Pinto parked in front of the courthouse or some other building. YeeeHaaaa!
You just gotta love a gal who watches "The Dukes of Hazzard"! ;D When you trek eastward toward Carlisle in 2011, we'll have to introduce to Cooter's Place. They are "Dukes of Hazzard" museum/gift shops opened by Ben "Cooter" Jones... they are scattered throughout the southeast. Lot's of interesting stuff.
Dwayne :smile:
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What're you talkin' about... I grew up with the Duke Clan! You should've seen the DoH stuff I had... t-shirts, Mom made me DoH curtains, bedclothes, the cars, action figures, pajamas, coloring books, a Flash stuffed dog (I still have her), a I love (actually a heart) Bo with John Schneider and his acoustic guitar looking mmmm mmm good, so much stuff. I had the white plastic DoH cowboy hat (wore it at Huntington Beach in the early '80s and a wave took it from me. It's probably in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch collecting barnacles...An yway, while boys and men were drooling over Daisy Duke and her very short shorts I was drooling over both Bo and Luke. I did have a teeny crush on Cooter and Enos Strait too. I forgot how funny Rosco could be... :lol:
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What're you talkin' about... I grew up with the Duke Clan! You should've seen the DoH stuff I had... t-shirts, Mom made me DoH curtains, bedclothes, the cars, action figures, pajamas, coloring books, a Flash stuffed dog (I still have her), a I love (actually a heart) Bo with John Schneider and his acoustic guitar looking mmmm mmm good, so much stuff. I had the white plastic DoH cowboy hat (wore it at Huntington Beach in the early '80s and a wave took it from me. It's probably in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch collecting barnacles...An yway, while boys and men were drooling over Daisy Duke and her very short shorts I was drooling over both Bo and Luke. I did have a teeny crush on Cooter and Enos Strait too. I forgot how funny Rosco could be... :lol:
Then, I repeat... you'd LOVE Cooter's Place! Ben "Cooter" Jones and his General Lee are a fairly normal sight around here. Have spotted him tooling along I-81 numerous times and he often makes appearances locally. A little older, but still Cooter!
Dwayne :smile:
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"Breaking Away" Yellow Pinto can be seen at about 22 seconds of this trailer: http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=e18777&bitrateid=310&vendorid=102&type=.flv/ (http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=e18777&bitrateid=310&vendorid=102&type=.flv/)
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watched a movie the other day believed it is named winter kills the is a yellow pinto getting chased and shot at by a bunch of tanks
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I know Phil already said Smokey And The Bandit, but I HAD to chime in that I counted no less than three Pintos- a medium to dark blue sedan or Runabout in the scene where Buford T. and his very handsome but very dumb son were "stopped" at the funeral procession ((look behind white Ford F series truck (old of course)) when Buford T. steps out of his long-suffering patrol car); a white squire wagon parked in a yard (?) when The Bandit turns off the asphalt onto a dirt road to lose some State officers; and at the Run's finish line- a Runabout is parked along the home stretch. This is my hobby! lol. PintoSpotting! :lol:
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Not sure if anyone said this one or not...I believe there was one in the movie Gran Torino...trunk model...it was a night shot so color was hard to tell.
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If there wasn't one in Gran Torino there should've been. They are both from the same era and same manufacturer.
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"Straight Talk" Dolly Parton loses her job and heads from Arkansas to Chigago in a red 79-80 sedan with Arkansas plates to start a new life as a radio talk show host. I only saw the first 15 minutes of the movie, so I don't know if the car re-appeared after the opening credits.
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In the movie Beaches. You had to catch it quick, though. When the police woman drives Bette's character back to her pad drunk. There's a early-looking medium yellow gold Pinto sedan/Runabout parked on the street behind the police car. Also there's a Comet or Maverick (white or very light blue) parked on the left of the police car. ;D
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The tv show Sons of Anarchy, the 3th epoisode this year there is a pinto runabout in the background during the shootout over a gun sale gone bad with another club
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This is my hobby! lol. PintoSpotting! :lol:
chalange for you blue Police acadmey original how many pntos i saw 1 and it was used about 3 times in different locations can you also find the bobcats?
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Phil, is that a challenge?! I'm a girl who loves a challenge. Unfortunately I do not have Police Academy (though I love the first one!) I will see if I inadvertently added it to my VHS collection and if I did I will gladly accept the challenge! ;D
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The original "Gone in sixty seconds" had a few. This is not the Nicholus Cage movie. The Elennor was a 73 Mach 1.
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Phil did such a good job listing movies, and I'm afraid I'm having brainfarts repeating what he already said. That said, I watched Mask last night and spotted two Pintos- an early-looking medium brown metallic (? ) at the beginning where the screen says "Written by Anna Hamilton Phelan. (Pinto is on left of screen- driven from the right) and a tan (flesh-tone) '77-'78 when Rusty's parents and Rocky are getting ready to come in the house. Hooooo... that movie still wrings tears from me...
In 9 to 5, there's a dark colored Pinto wagon to the left when the girls are trying to dump their boss's body. It looks brown and early. ;D
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I'm sure this has been said already but The Blues Brothers has a few. Including the red wagon that the Illinois nazi's drive. My copy of it went to crap so i can't point out exactly were they are. But I know they're there!
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There are also two movie's comming up with Pintos in them. My white 78 is in the movie " The Lovley Bones " comming out in December of 09. There is a 76 in " The Soursers Apprentice " that they crush with a dumpster, But I don't know when it is comming out.
p84 :fastcar:
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I was wattching "HEROS" tonight on NBC and a scene in a small town in Georgia, one of the main charactors walks past a 73 white Squire wagon and it looked like it was only a couple years old.
I would swear this was the car I saw.
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My wife likes a show on TV called "The Ghost Wisperer"
One episode we watched a guy drove an orange Pinto, about a '76 model, he was a main character so the Pinto was shown throughout the entire show.
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I miss my TV! Well, cable and local stations anyway! Here's another sighting: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore- Alice's boy and the girl played by Jodie Foster are leaving a guitar lesson. There's one in the parking lot but I can't remember the color (light blue I think) or whether it was a sedan, Runabout or a wagon. ??? :-\ :)
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Phil mentioned Crocodile Dundee but it was a trunk model '79-'80 maroon Pinto... and I saw it twice in two different scenes when Mick went to start his American walkabout and when Linda K's character is madly running for the subway to catch up with him. :)
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Did anyone see the burned/trashed body of the Pinto
in front of the sleazy hotel that the nerds went to
in 'Revenge of The Nerds II' ??
Just curious--Dick
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Ghost whisperer, few weeks back red sedan/hatch.
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the first "twilight" movie had one in school parking lot, and i did see the burned out pinto in the nerds movie
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Phil, am I blind or did I not see Thelma and Louise in your list? There's a light colored '74 or '75 (judging by the bright trim around the taillights) Runabout in the parking lot where that a-hole would-be rapist gets a bullet in his black heart. You see it as he and Thelma are going towards the car where the deed was done.
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Back to the future 2. Down the block almost off screen where MFF lives in the future.
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I caught "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Jim Neighbors, Dom Delouis) on CMT the other night. There's a scene where a mule is sitting on the hood of an early model, Burt Reynolds (Sheriff this time) shoots his gun into the air to frighten it off, Didn't see the car after that though...
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I watched Cheech & Chongs Up In Smoke on HBO last night, laughed my a-- off, there were so many Pintos in that movie I could not keep count. Maybe it was the smoke.... :lol:
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I saw an old 70's scifi movie called the "Retaliator" and a Dark colored 72 or 73 was rear ended ( no explosion) and shoved aside by a Police car .
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Here is a list of movies/tv shows ( hope this is what skrach had in mind)
movies
Back to the Future- Yellow late model
Blues Brothers- Red wagon
Kujo -Yellow Pinto
Almost Famous-looking through the windshield of a 72 Pinto.
Escape from New York & Escape from L.A. are Full of 2 or 3 pinto shells
Terminator 3 there is a pinto shell
Final Destination 2 in the collision gets plowed by a log
Dukes of Hazard movie
Silence of the Lambs.. clarice drives one
Miracles
Starsky and Hutch one driving on the street
Taxi Driver
Crocodile Dundee- There's a red hatchback
The Betsy - a Red Pinto Hatchback it was being used as a test bed for a engine..
Friday - a black Pinto "convertible"!
Red Dawn" a yellow wagon from the rear ( also gets smashed).
Top Secret" (1984) shows an early pinto getting gently "tapped" from behind before exploding.
The Spirit of 76". early blue sedan gets blown up.
Straight talk dolly pardon driving a 79 or 80 odd shade of orange trunk model pinto.
JoJo Dancer, You're Life is Calling' - A brown Pinto wagon
Terminator. At the end of the movie, there is a 75 or so Pinto sitting beside the gas station.
Poltergeist-pinto hatchback pinto hatchback
Police Academy -green pinto wagon
Cheech and Chongs Next Movie-blue 77 or 78 peeling out
Being There
Uptown Saturday Night
Smokey & the Bandit
The Mack
Capricorn One
Let's Do it Again
...and Justice for All
The Glove
Clerks" and a guy wanted to know " where he could buy a set of hubcaps for a 1972 pinto
Gone in Sixty Seconds (original)- several
Scarface-golden brown Pinto station wagon
The Falcon and the Snowman
Eat my Dust
Dawn of the Dead ( orininal)-zombies having a feast on top of a 74 -75 Pinto
Fast Company-several pinto sighting in that movie with one bad V-8 monster on the drag strip
American Gigolos
Cheech and Chongs Nice Dreams -orange pinto wagon
Thunderheart
Chris Rock movie CB4
Smoky & the Bandit .
48 hours at least 3 green hatch back sightings
Folks - a red pinto pours gas all over it and hand his dad a cigar.
Rumble in the Bronx - Red 74
The Man - commandeers a Pinto
Fletch -yellow wagon with woodgrain
Used Cars -runabout
Dazed and Confused -red pinto
Ghost Whisperer -'74-'76 orange sedan
Damnation Alley -Most notably, a Wagon
Return to Witch Mountain - Medium blue pinto
Speed-Unfortunately, a 79 or 80 white Pinto Wagon gets destroyed, Sandra talks about driving the bus and states that it is "like driving a really big pinto."
The Devil's Rejects -Pinto runabout sitting in the tall grass
Diamonds are Forever" (1971) -pinto parked behind Bond
Surf Nazis Must Die -dark green runabout
Trick or Treat" (1986) -yellow 75 pinto wagon
Ghostbusters -red pinto hatch
Dragnet-Yellow 71-73
Repo Man - at least 3 pintos a white, a blue and a brown wagon
Supernatural -yellow '79 or '80 hatchback
Bulworth -pinto wagon
Demolition Man -seen from the cockpit view from the helicopter, yellow hatchback
Commando -pinto hatch
Blood in Blood out
The LadiesMan -one of the guy drives a pinto
Angels in the Outfield
Who's That Girl- dark green (faded) Pinto
Taxi Driver (1976) background scenes you can see Pintos.
The Goodbye Girl (1977) a 76 ish green wagon.
Big Wednesday -nice brown window wagon
Oh God You Devil-blue 72
One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest-Red 72-? runabout
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - brown pinto
Lords of Dogtown - green runabout
A nightmare on elm st- blue trunk model
TV SHOWS:
Chips-
The Rockford Files allways had one or two per episode.
Nash Bridges- prized but somewhat rough Pinto was stolen
Seinfeld-mall parking lot several pinto's in the background
A&E or the History channel about the "Hillside Strangler" in LA - Pinto in the background
Charlie's Angels drove an orange Pinto
Emergency when the fire truck pulls out of the station a Pinto slows down to let it by
Matlock 1980 pinto
Pinto wagon in one of the latest Toyota commercials
In the Heat of the Night-green Pinto wagon
WB's Charmed
Stella on comedy central
Reno 911 selling fireworks out the back of a pinto wagon
Automaniac with Bill Goldberg he talks about pintos. and then they show a shot of a pinto
The History Channel does a series on Engineering Disasters. They did a segment on the Pinto
Married with Children brown pinto sedan
MTV's 70's house black 1977 or 78 Runabout
Smith System driving videos,
Guns and Gears- tv show
Desperate Housewives -orange trunk model 79 or 80
Sci-Fi channel series John Doe -79 or `80 Runabout
Full House -red pinto in a garage
( 8/3/06 ). It was an ad for ( I think ) Round table Pizza a sand pinto
Jesse James special evolution of Choppers. showed old 70s footage and several pintos were in it
Spenser For Hire -Pinto Squire wagon ('74-'78
The A-Team -several episodes
Eureka" (si-fi channel)-dark green Pinto
Cold Case Files - several episodes
and canada`s worst driver brown wagon
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"Straight Talk" Dolly Parton loses her job and heads from Arkansas to Chigago in a red 79-80 sedan with Arkansas plates to start a new life as a radio talk show host. I only saw the first 15 minutes of the movie, so I don't know if the car re-appeared after the opening credits.
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Seen that one her front end is 1 inch from the steering wheel lololololol
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Not a Pinto and not a movie (makes me wonder why I'm here) but spotted a decent looking Maverick in ABC's "Modern Family" Wednesday night. It appeared to be solid and was in grey primer. I figure a Maverick is at least a first cousin to a Pinto!
Dwayne :smile:
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The new movie Legion had one in which it caught fire, not exploded, from a rear end collision. Bummer. - disregard other "legion (movie)" post, didn't see this was still active.
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dragnet
i should update the main list sometime.
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Here`s one to add to the list I seen today !!!!!The opening scene of WKRP in Cincinnati there is Green 74 on the highway coming towards you...
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In the tv series "Freaks and Geeks" a group of kids get in a fight in front of a Cruising Wagon that has its' right front tire removed and is sitting on a block or on a jack.
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Norma Rae,,,, with sally fields has a blue pinto 78
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Hell Ride, low budget biker movie that came out a few years ago has a runabout without headlights sitting in a yard half way thru the movie
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For a starring role I think it is hard to beat the black Pinto in "Double Nickels." That car had lengthy screen time going up and down the steep, stair walkways of L.A.. I'd venture to guess that no other Pinto has had as much continuous screen time and been the central focal point of the scene.
Tom
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I dunno about movies but call of duty-modern warfare theres a level that has a car that looks like a pinto and you can shoot it and blow it up. LOL
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For a starring role I think it is hard to beat the black Pinto in "Double Nickels." That car had lengthy screen time going up and down the steep, stair walkways of L.A.. I'd venture to guess that no other Pinto has had as much continuous screen time and been the central focal point of the scene.
Tom
I think you're probably right... I can't think of anything to equal it!
Dwayne :smile:
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Norma Rae,,,, with sally fields has a blue pinto 78
Uhhh.... Ernie... I already said Norma Rae a LOOOOOOOOONG time ago... ::)
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did`nt see that beck i seen a blue one like yours on the starting credits on The Streets of San Francisco
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niiiiiice! ;D
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OK I can't believe Phil missed THIS one! I've been watching the Mary Tyler Moore show and accidentally got on Season 3 episode 24 (I'm only on season 2 episode 2). Mary and Rhoda are getting their cars repaired and they seem to be at a Ford dealer. Outside I saw no less than two yes TWO brown or saddle bronze metallic Pintos in the lot and (ohhh I'm drooling!) an orange Runabout with creamy white interior in the showroom next to a green Mustang convertible. I'm thinking they're '73 models because the Pinto has a one-button pop-out rear quarter window. Oh to see a new shiny Pinto! ;D There might be more. I had to stop the episode because, well, I'm on episode 2 of season 2. ;D
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add Crooklyn. I just watched it on showtime. About a family who is making it in brooklyn while the Jazz player dad is on the road. Scene after little girl goes to the store and buys candy and chips, she walks out and a Pinto drives by.
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i have not seen mary tyler moore senice it was on tv when i was a child :lol:
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Me too! lol. I remember the theme song "Love Is All Around", the lettering, and her throwing her cap in the air the best! lol. It's a great show. Love the clothes and decor. Great stars on that show too! ;D
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I don't know about movies anymore but there were a few episodes of *supernatural* that have a 79 or 80 Runabout in them both the same car two diff Episodes =)
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OK I watched the whole episode of MTM season 3 episode 24 and saw, in addition to the coppery gold ones in the parking lot... a yummy-looking (to me anyway) Grabber Blue Pinto with black vinyl-top. Also, if you look closely at Mary's sales brochure... the cars on the back look suspiciously like Pintos... then she tosses them in the trash! Shame on you Mary!
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OK I watched the whole episode of MTM season 3 episode 24 and saw, in addition to the coppery gold ones in the parking lot... a yummy-looking (to me anyway) Grabber Blue Pinto with black vinyl-top. Also, if you look closely at Mary's sales brochure... the cars on the back look suspiciously like Pintos... then she tosses them in the trash! Shame on you Mary!
I noticed the same thing about those brochures! I thought that was interesting since it was a Mustang convertible that she was considering buying. Did you like the surprise ending concerning the yellow convertible???
Dwayne :smile:
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Yes... asnd no. The green one was prettier, but yellow with the DEluxe package and a/c was nice. Frankly, it would've been better if Rhoda just paid Mary back. Ideal scenario...Mar y and Rhoda each get a brand-new Pinto! ;D
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Yes... asnd no. The green one was prettier, but yellow with the DEluxe package and a/c was nice. Frankly, it would've been better if Rhoda just paid Mary back. Ideal scenario...Mar y and Rhoda each get a brand-new Pinto! ;D
I agree... it WAS rather presumptuous on Rhoda's part! Did you catch Rhoda's comment about her '65 Falcon? Still... it wasn't quite the way I thought the show would end. Actually, they probably could have both gotten a Pinto for the price of one Mustang convertible!
Dwayne :smile:
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chalange for you blue Police acadmey original how many pntos i saw 1 and it was used about 3 times in different locations can you also find the bobcats?
Phil I believe you did challenge me so I will hopefully do you proud with my sightings:
The dark green '77-'78 wagon- seen 3 times- #1 in the parking lot Mahoney worked at; #2 in the traffic jam when Mahoney's enemy pops a wheelie just before he crashes into the poor horse's arse; and parked in the parking lot at the Police Academy. Ahhh now the Bobcat(s): #1 driving in front of the police cruiser at beginning of movie (when the new recruits are coming in; #2 behind the one redneck cop-to-be when he's brown-nosing one of the senior officers; #3 (?) do I detect a headlight in that traffic jam (wheelie one)?; #4 Is that a Bobcat or Pinto sedan parked in that dark parking lot where the cop was hiding out when Mahoney and Hightower had a "driving lesson"? Possible other Pinto/Bobcat sighting- when the P.A. buses responded to the riots there was a very Pintoesque or Bobcatesque vehicle parked along the street. Thank goodness for dvd tracking! Phil, did I pass? Do I get a gold star!? Huh? Huh?
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I agree... it WAS rather presumptuous on Rhoda's part! Did you catch Rhoda's comment about her '65 Falcon? Still... it wasn't quite the way I thought the show would end. Actually, they probably could have both gotten a Pinto for the price of one Mustang convertible!
Dwayne :smile:
That's what I was thinking! :lol:
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Watched Lou Grant season 1 episode 1. Two different white Pintos and a red Pinto were confirmed. A Mustang II was seen passing one of the guys' cars in the opening credits. Possible Maverick sightings too. ;D
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Phil... do I get a gold star...?
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Phil... do I get a gold star...?
that was back in october and i forgot about it let me see what i can find for you
phil
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LOL. Sorry. I had only just gotten Police Academy! Great little movie! :lol:
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During "My Name Is Earl" earl lets the air out of 2 tires on a green pinto in the Robbed a Stoner Blind episode.
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OK got a new Movie with a Pinto in it.The move came out this summer , but my wife and I just saw it at the second run theader. The Sorcerer's Apprentice .We really enjoyed the movie.When the Pinto scene came on my wife asked If I knew there was a Pinto in it...I had no Idea!
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OK got a new Movie with a Pinto in it.The move came out this summer , but my wife and I just saw it at the second run theader. The Sorcerer's Apprentice .We really enjoyed the movie.When the Pinto scene came on my wife asked If I knew there was a Pinto in it...I had no Idea!
You should have told her that if you'd known that, you'd have spent the bucks to see it on its first run! :lol:
Dwayne :smile:
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I am sure i would of ! I will not reveal what scene to Pinto in in till people have time to see the move. It was quite the suprise!
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I've been watching reruns of Major Dad on Hulu. In season 2 episode 15 the General talks about his 1956 (?) MG in English Racing Green and Lieutenant Holowachuk talks about his 1977 Pinto. Major MacGillis replies, "You STILL drive a 1977 Pinto." lol. Go Holowachuk! ;D
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Found a squire wagon in Genesis' video for Misunderstandi ng, brief shot when a green wagon of some sort drives past, there is a SW parked on the road behind it.
Actually there were TWO Pintos... the green Squire mpg (check out the steel wheels) I'm guessing it's a post-75 Squire) and an early green sedan or Runabout. You can see the grille. Love that song BTW... great memories attached to it.
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Just finished watching sorcerer's apprentice with the family. What a great Pinto scene! :D Great side shot and some decent interior shots to, even if they were dark! :D
I had to replay the Pinto scene to see it again, my wife thinks I'm crazy! lol
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In the movie "the losers" there is a yelloe hatch back. I believe it gets blown up.
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On the Charley's Angels tv show, Jacklin Smith always drove a Pinto, and in one episode she was in a car chase in it and it got dented rather badly. I probably did not spell her name right, but you know what I mean! Lorenzo
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silane of the lambs friday has a pinto covn also stright talk with dolly parton driving a 80 pinto theres also a carrie underwood video
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Steven Segal out for justice.71 to73 sedan or hatch sitting out in front of the butcher shop where all the bad guys try to take him out.
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HA! I got one!! Married With Children, the episode where Steve sells Marcies prized Barbi. Him and Al are walking the streets of Chicago and come across some kids stealing the hub caps off a Pinto. Can only see the front fender so don't know what model.
P
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As matter of fact I think in the first episodes Peg had one.
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I just started watching the first season of the Rockford Files 1974 on netflix.I have seen a pinto in both episodes I have watched so far.The one I watched last night Jim drove a Vega to Parker AZ.I was on the lookout for Fred while watching it LOL ! In Parker he parked the Vega next to a Gremlin!
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watchng charles angles on tv ( the original series) and in a jail brake they rear ended a pinto and the other car had an insindery device for smoke but the pinto did not catch fire and it was hit hard enough for the trunk to pop open.
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I know this list has been lonely for awhile, but I had another Pinto sighting. Remember the series Twin Peaks? In season 2 episode 2 Lara Flynn Boyle's character takes over the late great Laura Palmer's Meals On Wheels route. Her first seen stop is this elderly woman shut-in and her grandson. It is suggested to the girl that she visit a "Mr. Smith next door", as he was friends of Laura's. When she walks out of the one house the parking lot can be seen in the background. A '77 or '78 brown Pinto front end can be clearly seen. I had my Pinto radar going for several episodes... then boom! there it is!
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The first scene of the Seinfeld episode where they lose their car in a parking mall garage in Jersey. Blue hatch with a luggage rack.
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A new show sighting! Larry The Cable Guy is into Pintos again- this time in a hilarious series called Only In America With Larry The Cable Guy. He's not actually in a Pinto... but in Season 1 Episode 1 he's talking about how moonshine led to NASCAR's beginnings. Yep... the #20 black car is an early small-bumper Pinto sedan. I've only seen this episode so far, but it's a scream and (so far) highly recommended if you like off-color humor. ::)
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New sighting!!! The main "car character" in machine gun preacher with Gerard butler is an early model red run about!!! It even gets "the deed" done in it in the first two scenes lol
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New sighting!!! The main "car character" in machine gun preacher with Gerard butler is an early model red run about!!! It even gets "the deed" done in it in the first two scenes lol
first movie that I thought of when I saw this thread.......s eems as I watch movies I see several pintos as I didnt notice them before I owned one.
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The present movie Pain and Gain has a Pinto in it where it was used to smuggle a girl across the border.
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Been watching old "Columbo" (rest in peace Peter) reruns. They seemed to do all the shooting on the street and there are many nice old cars driving by... tons of pintos you need to look careful as they drive by. can't tell you what episodes they are on, never paid much attention.
cheers
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A few Pinto's as background vehicles in Herbie, and A sad 77 Cruising Wagon in Salton Sea. American Gigolo has a yellow hatch that Richard Gere rents when his car is out of commision.
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Spotted a Pinto while watching L.A. Cops, episode 5, across the street from a guy protesting a punk store's window display. It's a Starsky And Hutch striped red one. :)
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Here's one for ya! It is called "LoveSick" It is a love story set in the beginning of the apocalypse. Two of the four horsemen are in it. War drives a nice red and black '10 Mustang California Special and Pestulence drives a white and green 74 Pinto squire wagon. Not seen it yet? That is because it is being filmed this weekend in Tacoma at the Pegasus Restaurant. The Pinto... is mine. The director read my post of how the car was stollen and recovered. He called me because I had my phone number in the first post and said it would be perfect. When I dropped it off last night everyone was so enamored with it, it was great! Can't wait to see it.
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Now THAT'S a story with a happy ending! Good for you and your wagon! ;D
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I've seen a screen dump from the forthcoming movie called "Jobs" about iGuy, Steve. The dump is of him and who I think is supposed to be Woz driving around in a Pinto.
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MacGyver Season one, episode three. The opening gambit takes place in a junk yard. There is at least one powder blue trunk model, and a cream colored wagon.
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August 2013 episode of Continuum on SyFy. About 9 minutes in a blue 77-78 glass hatch Runabout is used as a getaway car.
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In the 1977 "freaky Friday" when the adult "Annabelle" plays baseball at the park and hits a home run that's bounces in the trash can......there are two cinnamon brown squire wagons parked on either side of the street in the background. The closer is a small bumper. The other a 75 with rallyes.
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how in the world has this thread gone so far and nobody has mentioned one of the most iconic car chase movies in the history of movies???????? bullit.....
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1980 Get Smart movie "The Nude Bomb" saw a yellow wagon in front of a Nova and what may of been a silver ESS Runabout that was almost crashed into .
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Here's the Jobs trailer. The Pinto pops up near the end after 2:10 minutes in.
http://youtu.be/eYi1yAIL_Z4
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I know this was mentioned in this thread's very first post, but I just recently discovered "CHiPS" (don't know why I never watched it in the seventies or in re-runs later, but it's all new to me) and I can't recall ever seeing so many Pintos in the traffic scenes of any show! I watched one episode last week and counted SEVEN! I realize this it probably not news to anyone else here, but it absolutely amazes me. I have now set my DVR to record the show daily so I can keep spotting Pintos (and Mustang II's, Torinos, Galaxies, Falcons, etc.)!
Dwayne :)
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Isnt there a Chevy Chase / Goldy Hawn flick where during a chase scene a pinto gets lightly tapped and blows up?
SR
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No Chevy Chase or Goldie Hawn but a light tap Pinto explosion spoof with a big bumper model. I chuckle when they show the truck driver's terror as he see's the Pinto logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GGDOUDLhc
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I've got to admit... that's funny!
Dwayne :)
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In the movie Pain and Gain a few years ago a 1974 green Pinto very beat looking was used to smuggle a girl into the USA from Mexico. Movie was not that good.
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I saw a clip of The Day After,pinto on interstate.Als o Star Crossed TV show FM last year.One character(a girl,a regular character) is showing it some love by working on it to keep it running.
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I was watching that weird creepy show Wayward Pines the other night... in the episode where the wife gets hired as a "realitor", I spied a Bobcat Villager wagon. I could tell by the hood shape where it showed the door and part of the hood.
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I was watching that weird creepy show Wayward Pines the other night... in the episode where the wife gets hired as a "realitor", I spied a Bobcat Villager wagon. I could tell by the hood shape where it showed the door and part of the hood.
Yup, us eagle-eyed Pinto fanatics could never miss a thing like that!
Dwayne ;D
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Not sure if I ever mentioned this (long running post here) but the movie this Pinto is in http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_239281-Ford-Pinto-Runabout-1979.html is the first film I ever worked on. Oddly I wasn't all excited about the Pinto, but rather the Buick Centurion convertible on the far left. It is (still) owned by a guy I've known for over 35 years (he worked on the film too). He was so stoked when I found it.
BTW, the red AMC hornet wagon in the background, it was the DP's car. That is a sure indicator of what a low budget film it was. For those who have nothing better to do here is my account of working on the film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173866/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
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Not sure if I ever mentioned this (long running post here) but the movie this Pinto is in http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_239281-Ford-Pinto-Runabout-1979.html is the first film I ever worked on. Oddly I wasn't all excited about the Pinto, but rather the Buick Centurion convertible on the far left. It is (still) owned by a guy I've known for over 35 years (he worked on the film too). He was so stoked when I found it.
BTW, the red AMC hornet wagon in the background, it was the DP's car. That is a sure indicator of what a low budget film it was. For those who have nothing better to do here is my account of working on the film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173866/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
That's friggin cool :)
PS - I like that dark color on that car and makes me think about going a darker color now :D
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For those who have nothing better to do here is my account of working on the film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173866/reviews?ref_=tt_urv (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173866/reviews?ref_=tt_urv)
I had nothing better to do so I read your review. Now I can't stop laughing! Sounds like a real experience!!!
Dwayne :)