Hubby and I ran over to pick n pull to check out a supposedly green pinto! We looked through every area to no avail!! So on the way home he called a guy that deals with Ford cars, mostly Mustangs, but he has others too. Asked him if he had any Pinto parts. He said no, but his buddy had a complete car he wanted to off load!! Needless to say, we didn't find any parts on this Pinto that I could use. Instead, we bought the whole car and now it will become a restorer!!! Bad new is, I"m going to use my yellow car for parts now! The brown car is in much better shape then the yellow, and I plan on putting all the interior from the yellow into the brown car! The interior for the yellow car is brown!!! LOL
I want to pull the whole metal dash out of the yellow car! Is that possible? I havn't looked that close yet! The brown cars dash is pretty rough!
Here are some pics of the brown car!
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6018.jpg)
This is the worst damage on the car! Alot better then the yellow car!!
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6019.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6021.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6022.jpg)
Here is the inside. Needs some work, also, look at the grille I know have for the Green Machine!!!! :) The brown car already has a good grille!!! Now I have all 3 cars with good grills!!!!
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6024.jpg)
As you can see, this dash has been gutted, it also has some holes that someone drilled to maybe hold a cb mic or something. That is the reason I want to switch the complete metal dash out of the yellow car! Besides the yellow cars dash is emaculate!!!! Well, expcept for the pad!
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6025.jpg)
All I wanted was to find a Pinto I could find for parts!!! I keep finding good Pintos!! LOL I will take everything I want off the yellow Pinto, put the parts I don't want off of the cars I'm keeping, back on the yellow car. Then I will sell the yellow car as a whole, to my neighbor who wants one to hot rod!!! So it is still going to live on, but in many different colors!!! LOL
Kim, the pinto fanatic!!!!! LOL
Kim ,
This is just silly :amazed: How can you be so damned lucky? I bought my '72 From a Pinto / Mustang II/ Capri Salvage yard in Napa in 1985. The owner brokered the sale as the car came from San Diego.
I never saw that many clean early cars in the whole yard. Later the city and county ran him out of business a few years later. He took his stuff that wasn't wholesaled out for scrap and moved to Sacramento.
Well , at least you'll do the right thing for the Legacy of these cars...
Hey, let's get the Rights to repro the Pinto Stuff from IECO!
Now I have an Imprint of my hand in my forehead :drunk:
Pintosopher
Kim,
How can you be so lucky to find so many in such great shape? Sounds like you have a good plan to save this brown one & get rid of the yellow one that needs more work.
To pull the dash you have to pull the front window. There are about eight phillips-head screws tucked under the windshield gasket that hold the dash on.
I don't know how you are so lucky! You need to start a thread for each of your PIntos....
Yah, I don't know how I am getting so lucky!! Thing is, we were looking for parts, not a whole car!! LOL
Yes, we decided that with the bad roof, huge dent with jagged metal edges of the rear quarter panel, and a bit more rust all together on the yellow car, it would be more feasible to use it as a parts swap car.
I tried putting the grill, that was in the back seat, on my Green Machine, but it didn't fit. It must be for a year that doesn't have the hood pull on top! To bad too, it is a fairly good grill. It is missing the top mounting peices but the rest is all there!
Now if I could only find some other needed parts, instead of a whole car!!!!!! LOL
Quote from: Reed on November 15, 2008, 06:21:28 PM
To pull the dash you have to pull the front window. There are about eight phillips-head screws tucked under the windshield gasket that hold the dash on.
I don't know how you are so lucky! You need to start a thread for each of your PIntos....
Oh, thanks for the tip!!
The only bad thing is, the vin number would go with the dash and I would think that would cause problems!! Usually cars have a hidden vin, and if for some reason they ever tried to check it, they wouldn't match up!! I don't know how hard it would be to swap vin plates?
Quote from: pintogirl link=topic=11074.msg70588#msg70588...I don't know how hard it would be to swap vin plates?
IF someone wanted to do it, swapping out the entire dash is the best way, as the rivets are hard to duplicate.
Not to say that anyone SHOULD swap VIN tags.....
The VIN is stamped on both inner fenders, and it is also on the tag in the drivers door jamb. Yes, there might be more hidden ones.
BTW: Are you thinking of selling the rear bumper guards off the brown car?
Bill
Dang, I wish I could fall into a hand full of Pintos like you! :D
Just curious.....where are you storing all of these cars at??!? :laugh:
Quote from: dave1987 on November 15, 2008, 07:54:32 PM
Dang, I wish I could fall into a hand full of Pintos like you! :D
Just curious.....where are you storing all of these cars at??!? :laugh:
Like this!!!! LOL
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6031.jpg)
What you don't see in the pic, is to the left of the green machine, is a 30ish foot motor home and a Daihatsu Rocky sits in front of it! LOL It appears there is room behind that little white car next to the house, but we need room to drive cars in and out of the 2400sqft garage that is actually in front of the green machine. I am standing in the roll up door way to take the pic!
I told hubby that if he would park his tow truck (not the one in the pic) out on the street, I would have room for 2 more!!!! LOL And if my kid would find an apt., we could get rid of the trailer that is to the right in the pic!! That would clear up a lot of room!!!! LOL
Quote from: 77turbopinto on November 15, 2008, 06:56:49 PM
IF someone wanted to do it, swapping out the entire dash is the best way, as the rivets are hard to duplicate.
Not to say that anyone SHOULD swap VIN tags.....
The VIN is stamped on both inner fenders, and it is also on the tag in the drivers door jamb. Yes, there might be more hidden ones.
BTW: Are you thinking of selling the rear bumper guards off the brown car?
Bill
I agree, swapping the vin tags would be to much trouble. So I have decided to just keep the browns dash intact and do my best to make it look better!!
Actually, I am going to keep the brown's bumper intact too! So I will be keeping the bumper guards. I just bought a set on ebay recently. I haven't recieved them yet! But you may look there for a set or two! If I do decide to get rid of some I will keep you in mind though!
Kim
Sounds like things are in order for the brown car. You going to swap out the rear wheels & steering wheel from the yellow car to the brown car?
Quote from: r4pinto on November 16, 2008, 08:10:17 PM
Sounds like things are in order for the brown car. You going to swap out the rear wheels & steering wheel from the yellow car to the brown car?
Actually I plan on swapping the whole steering column from the yellow one to the brown one. Only bad thing is, the dash will be black, and the column brown. But who knows, maybe that will look good!! LOL It will also get the radio bezel out of the yellow car which is brown too!! LOL
Yes, I will swap wheels with the yellow car. I only have the 2 mags so I think it will look better with all stock wheels!! I will probably swap wheels with the grey car one day. As I want the grey one to be stock!! The brown car will not need to be stock, just want it to be clean!!!
Sounds like you got a plan going. For the radio trim if it is plastic you can use a black plastic paint to paint it to match. You could probably do the same to the steering column or probably just use regular paint.
Quote from: r4pinto on November 16, 2008, 09:10:40 PM
Sounds like you got a plan going. For the radio trim if it is plastic you can use a black plastic paint to paint it to match. You could probably do the same to the steering column or probably just use regular paint.
The bezel is metal, but yah, I thought about painting them black. But I'm not sure, I may go with the brown and black scheme for now and see how it works!!!! I am also going to be pulling all of the brown interior out of the yellow car for the brown car so it it will have brown rear panels and door panels as well. May not look bad black and brown?? :smile: We will see eventually!!!!
Congratulations on the new arrival Pintogirl!
Is the new baby brown or copper? When I saw pix on craigslist (and in real life) of my new arrival I would've sworn her paint was brown. When I wiped a patch of dust off I discovered buried treasure. That made my baby that much more desirable (as if I needed any encouragement!). I'm sorry about your yellow one, though. You gotta do what you gotta do... That is a neat pic of all your babies close together. Is your new one a '72 too?
Quote from: pintogirl on November 15, 2008, 06:35:10 PM
Yah, I don't know how I am getting so lucky!! Thing is, we were looking for parts, not a whole car!! LOL
Yes, we decided that with the bad roof, huge dent with jagged metal edges of the rear quarter panel, and a bit more rust all together on the yellow car, it would be more feasible to use it as a parts swap car.
I tried putting the grill, that was in the back seat, on my Green Machine, but it didn't fit. It must be for a year that doesn't have the hood pull on top! To bad too, it is a fairly good grill. It is missing the top mounting peices but the rest is all there!
Now if I could only find some other needed parts, instead of a whole car!!!!!! LOL
i have a turd brown 1972 i am parting out compleetly. if ur down for making some offers!:) http://picasaweb.google.com/pintoman71/1972Pinto#
as i said i am parting out the car not offering as a whole but parts from it.
Quote from: blupinto on November 16, 2008, 11:02:54 PM
Congratulations on the new arrival Pintogirl!
Is the new baby brown or copper? When I saw pix on craigslist (and in real life) of my new arrival I would've sworn her paint was brown. When I wiped a patch of dust off I discovered buried treasure. That made my baby that much more desirable (as if I needed any encouragement!). I'm sorry about your yellow one, though. You gotta do what you gotta do... That is a neat pic of all your babies close together. Is your new one a '72 too?
You know, I really don't know for sure!! LOL I haven't washed it yet. It looks more on the brown side though!
It is on the back burner for now. But I am now debating on R&Ring the front fender, which is straight, and putting it on my grey car. I put a not so great fender on the grey car and I want that car to be a show car one day. So putting the better fender from the brown car would give me a perfect body on the grey. But, in a way I don't want to really break up the brown car, even though it will need bondo work on the rear fender and also has holes cut in the doors for speakers. So really, it will not be a show car. Decisions decisions!!!!! LOL
Quote from: pintoman71 on November 19, 2008, 04:14:56 PM
as i said i am parting out the car not offering as a whole but parts from it.
Thanks for letting me know, but the things that I know I need will cost a fortune to send through the mail!!!! Also I don't know what all I need yet, because I havn't stipped my donor car yet!! I will keep you in mind though when the time comes! That is if you still have it by then!! LOL Plans are to strip the donor this weekend!
I've followed your story along since you bought your first one and wow!! you've got luck girl!!
I was fortunate enough to find one lonely little Pinto that the salt hadn't eaten away, and here you are stumbling across all these beautiues! Good luck with your projects, I look forward to seeing pics of the progress!
PG