My ride is a white 78 sedan with blue interior. It has 84,400 original miles. I have had 7 pintos starting when I was 18 until now at 36. The first one was a 75 wagon bought for $190 in February 1991. I replaced the clutch and battery and drove it for two years. It looked aweful, but ran. Replaced it with a green/green 74 wagon and drove that until it didn't have enough compression to start. Next was a 75 red coupe with a black interior. Drove it till it started smoking really bad. In the 90's pintos were cheap and plentiful, so if a really major problem developed I just got a new car. Now they are getting rare and expensive, so I plan on hanging on to this one. All of my cars have been 4 speeds, never an automatic. some had power steering and brakes, the current one was a base model so it doesnt. I had a 72 coupe a few years ago that had the wierd 1.6 Liter OHV, wish I kept that one. but all the others have been 2.3's . What a great engine, you can usually get 175,000 to 200,000 miles out of them, easy to work on and since Ford put it in almost everything its not hard to find parts for. I'm new to the group, so I'd love to chat about pintos, and my experiences. I have never had another car that fit me as well or was as fun to drive and reliable as the pinto, it was my first love.
Chuck:
Welcome, I sent you an email before I saw this post. I got a real kick out of your handle and car, and the pic of Freddie Mercury. Disco lives indeed!
Neat that you have owned so many, certainly they ARE becoming rare. I personally owned a 77 hatch, 79 wagon, and 80 hatch in the past, and always loved them. My "ride" is now an all original 1976 Wagon (Texas car) that I am lovingly restoring, much to my wife's chagrin ???.
Again, welcome, thanks for sharing. It's a blast out here, lots of great people who are Pinto nuts!!
Chris
I will try to post pics soon, it really is a pretty nice car for being 30 years old and unrestored. I'm a tech idiot, so I love the Pinto, but, I'm having trouble getting the hang of digital cameras and cell phones and stuff. still miss 8-track tapes. My car is a desert car so it has all the typical cosmetic issues, bad door weatherstripping (just on the passenger side), fried dash pad and front seats. but paint is pretty good and it runs really good. The tightest Pinto I ever owned
Looking forward to seeing your pictures! On a side note, your profile thumbnail, is that you or Freddy Mercury?
That's freddy mercury. I love Queen and most other 70s music. I'll try to post a pic of myself soon. I tried last night in "put a face with the name", but the only pic I have on the computer is just slightly too big (450 kb)
Thanks for responding!
Long live Queen and the fantastic albums they made!! Their old stuff (pre-1982) was the BOMB.
Chris
Freaking Sweet! I love Queen also! Ever heard of "The Darkenss?"
use photo studio to make the picture small ,with the software in your computer
Thanks, used "paint" to crop the pic and make it smaller, there's a pic of me there, but no pics of the car yet, my brother took the camera to Ruidoso New Mexico to take pictures of a project he's working on, should have pics of my car sometime this coming week.
You could also set up a flickr account (www.flickr.com) like I have. Then the photos can be any size and you post them here by pressing the little picture icon up above and that will give you this:
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Between them you add the address of the picture
{img]www. where ever the picture is .com[/img}
and then you get this:
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Flickr has a free account too!
Good Luck!
Thanks for the advice on pictures! I'll try setting up an account on flickr and take some shots of my car!
I'm ready to try the pictures, lets see
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That should be the front end
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and the passenger side
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and this should be my nifty dash setup
if this works, I'll post some more!
Very, very nice, your car looks great!!
Chris
hey man i have a set of steel rally rims that would look sweet on your pinto they look like the ones on the white bobcat, but the rims are a silver not white!!!
once again i love the french cut front end i must say
I started cleaning it up in the last few days, there's more pictures in "Your Projects" of the interior and stuff.
Chuck
Some updated pics of my car:
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And more:
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Hope you enjoy them!
BEAUTIFUL!!
The buffed white paint looks great and I'm diggin' the bumper guards!
I really wish my doors were as straight as yours. Unfortunately mine are more sunk in at the bottom and I can't quite figure out why.
What mirrors are you using on your car? Are they Ranchero sport?
Is that a dog I see in your car? :D
Dog is my co-pilot! his name is Sue (Johnny Cash, Boy named Sue)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rleFAS_B04
These pics were taken today after I got done putting the bumper guards on (you can see more in Your Projects Finally fou...)
Thanks for the compliments!
Chuck
More pictures.
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Think happy thoughts!
Chuck
Some shots of the interior.
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Well, how does she look?
Chuck, in pic #1 that's not referred to as a kick panel! lol.
The interior is beautiful. You did an excellent job on the dashboard.
Do you want a blue console tray or do you like the black one better? If you or someone else wants it I'll grab it out of the '80 sedan at my friendly neighborhood wrecking yard.
So when are you coming to San Diego County? My dash needs your touch!!! :lol:
Quote from: blupinto on February 02, 2009, 10:05:26 PM
Chuck, in pic #1 that's not referred to as a kick panel! lol.
In picture # 1: I am 6'4 and both doors are closed and that is my
right foot! I can't simply fold up my legs and tuck them under my :showback:
It looks so good in pictures that I just keep scrolling up and down and looking at it. I can't believe this is
my car! :D
Chuck
:lol: :lol:I couldn't resist! It BEGGED to be said!!! :lol: :lol:
BTW, I can't fold my legs under my :showback: either! LOL!
This is an awesome pic!! It would even be better with blue sky in the back ground!! Would really bring out the white in the car. Next time there is blue sky, you need to get another shot like that one!!!!! ;D
I put some of these pics in my gallery so you can see a larger version with more close up detail. I know it's not a show car, but for a 30 year old daily driver, it looks pretty good. I've seen 2000-2003 models that are more beat up than my car! If you go to the gallery, and you don't see the photo there that's here, let me know and I will post it.
Thanks!
Chuck
video of my car on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE17mcwBYY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE17mcwBYY)
Chuck
I just watched your video. Very nice! I was spotting things I had done to my own and remembered how identical our cars are becoming! lol
Gotta love the Bee Gees on the radio when you turn the car on! :D
I just realized...Your car is registered ride number 111. Mine is 110. I guess that makes ours related? lol
Awesome vid, I really need to do one like that of mine soon...Almost embarrassed to since it has little things that I messed up on that make it look ratty upon close inspection.
Another short video, this one's only a minute. My camera doesn't take as good video as the other one I used (my niece's) and there's no sound, so I added a song (doesn't look like you-tube updated yet). A trip to Bernalillo (about 15 miles north of Albuquerque) to pick up a bin full of 60s and 70s car magazines and a few old model cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Xu-hM_yp8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Xu-hM_yp8)
Chuck
For sale? Chuck, say it ain't so! You will be missed here....
Chris
Well, I'm still hangin on and stayin alive. Here are some fresh pics, been working on her for about two weeks now.
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More to add to my project thread too!
:afro: