Project Grey Car has begun, and will slowly continue till I have a show quality Pinto!!
I bought the car up near Oregon. Did a 525 (give or take a mile or so) round trip to pick it up! It is really straight except for the driver fender.
Here is a pic of it on my Dad's trailer who went with me the first time to actually look at them and purchase. We actually brought it down to his house in Oak Run, then hubby and I went up the next weekend to bring it and a donor car, back to Sacramento!
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_5912-1.jpg)
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The damaged fender.
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Here is the before pics of the inside,
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And now the after, although I still need to work on the inside. This was just to clean it up for now!!
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Today I R&Red the driver fender and put on the yellow donor fender. I am not to thrilled with the yellow fender. It has some damage to it, but hubby says it will be easier to fix that damage, then it would be to fix the grey fender.
Sorry I forgot to take a shot with the fender off, LOL Here it is back on.
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6047.jpg)
I may still replace the yellow fender if I can find a straight fender before we start the painting process. If not I will have the yellow fender straightened better at a body shop!!
This is where I stop for now. This car will take a bit longer to work on because I want to do things right and actually make a show car out of it. So money will be a major slow down to this car!!! But it will get done one day!!!
Kim
It's looking good Kim. The gray fender might have been easy to fix, might not have. Either way the yellow one looks really good on there.
Best of luck to geting her done.
You've got a little work cut out for you!
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time!
Chuck
Oh my, those floors are going to take some effort. Best wishes and good luck - it's a project worth tackling.
Chris
This isn't much of an update, because I didn't do anything to the car! LOL I bought the car Nov. 8 08. The guy didn't have a pink slip, it was in his name and all but he couldn't find his pink. We filled out one of the pink DMV papers that had several choices of what you were filling it out for including transfer with not title, or duplicate title so on and so forth. It had a spot where the original owner was supposed to have it notorized. We didn't fill that section out because we were in the middle of the boon docks and it was a weekend. Long story short, I procrastinated on taking care of the transfer into my name in fear of problems.
Well, today was D day! I had to take care of this because it was getting further and further from it's registration month, which was Sept.. Hubby and I went to DMV and the lady ran some sort of report and verified the names on the pink paper that we had filled out. Then she said that the original owner had it on a non op and asked me if I wanted to keep it non oped or register it. Non op it please!!! That was that!!
It is officially in my name now!!!!! WOOOO HOOOO!!!!
I just had to share my excitement that the whole transaction went so smoothly!!!! Wipppiee!!!
That's great! Paperwork is good to have in hand. So now all you need is insurance and you can get plates, right?
Chuck :afro:
Woo-Hoo! Good for you Kim!!!
Quote from: discolives78 on January 15, 2009, 06:38:22 PM
That's great! Paperwork is good to have in hand. So now all you need is insurance and you can get plates, right?
Chuck :afro:
Actually it already has it's plates, but yes, all I would need is insurance and I could get the "tags" that go on the plates!!! Because it is a project car, I opped for the non op. LOL It might not see the road for a year or so. It is a "when I get time/money" project!! LOL I have the Green Machine I am able to drive so I want to take my time with the grey pinto!!!
Quote from: blupinto on January 15, 2009, 08:38:21 PM
Woo-Hoo! Good for you Kim!!!
Thanks Becky, and to answer your question from your last email!! I am going to repaint the grey car it's original lime green color. It looks good in grey, but it would be more "correct" in it lime green. That is also why I put the Lime Green in the title, didn't want to confuse people when all of a sudden it is a green car insted of grey!! LOL
Quote from: pintogirl on January 16, 2009, 06:46:26 PM
Actually it already has it's plates, but yes, all I would need is insurance and I could get the "tags" that go on the plates!!! Because it is a project car, I opped for the non op. LOL It might not see the road for a year or so. It is a "when I get time/money" project!! LOL I have the Green Machine I am able to drive so I want to take my time with the grey pinto!!!
Nice project car,Love the early model sedans. If i wasnt working poor, id buy every one i saw.
On the subject of registration i let mine slip for 3 years because i had a brain problem. Apparently it was stupidty. Shoulve non-oped it the first time the reg was due. But noooo i couldnt get my brain in gear. Well it cost me nearly 350+ to get it caught up and current. (Expensive stickers!)That hurt bad, but stupidity can cost you dearly. LOL!
Glad to hear that the paperwork went smoothly, somewhat anyways.
Well as far as time and money go, ive been nearly 6 years in the making and its no where near finished. However i think im finishing the interior this weekend. That part has only been taking 6 months since i thought id put 5 amps (800w RMS) and all 'new' speaker system in it. 6 miles of wireing and 800lbs of amps and wiring connectors later.
Long story short LOL is that they take 3 times longer than you thought and cost twice as much as you budgeted for.
Seriously though, Have FUN with it!
Gongrats on getting it registered in your name. That car is gonna look good in the lime green color. Cool that you are taking your time working on it to do it right.
Coolness, Kim! I love those great early colors!
OMGosh, an update finally on this project!! LOL ;D
After much debating, hubby and I decided to make this Pinto into the hot rod Pinto. Since we had to get all my Pinto's ready for the news shot (details in a different thread), hubby decided to go ahead an put the 8 inch rear end under the car!!!! He did that last night.
Tonight I am going to take the yellow fender back off and put the grey fender that was originally on the car back on for now. One reason is it will look better on tv, and the other is I wasn't really happy with the yellow fender. It does have a ding in it that would be hard to fix, and I really wanted a fender I didn't have to do any bondo work too. So the yellow fender will go on the Shagon Wagon. I want the grey Pinto to be more of a "mint" condition (as far as the body goes) so I will keep an eye out for a straight fender.
I will take pics later tonight, once I get the fender back on!! It looks pretty cool with those fat tires on it! LOL ;D
Pintogirl: Hey love the 71 Pinto....I too remember the lime green, it'll look fantastic once you get her finished :amazed:. Now mind you...the 1971 Pinto I got from Reed in Washington State was in nearly the same shape, and it's looking great now. I have the new paint on it (refer to restoring my 1971 Pinto trunk model by larjohnson, under my project), and will have the headliner on this week. After the headliner is in, then all thhe new interior goes back into it. If I had to guess, between the purchase of seats, the recovering of them, new headliner, carpet and such, I'll have about $1,500.00 in the interior alone. I put about $1,300.00 into the paint. So I'm not going too much overboard. Anyway good luck, your car will be a beauty. Larry :police:
Thanks Larry!! Yah I have been following your project too!! It is looking and sounding real nice!!
This project is a "when we get a chance" project!! LOL So we do stuff to it, when I am not busy playing with the other Pintos! In fact now that I have the wagon, this project is again on the back burner. The reason for this is, I want to do this project with a bit more detail then I am doing the others. So I am taking my time!!
Here are a few pics with the new rear end under it!
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Now it is on the back burner again! LOL So an update may be a while to come!! LOL Although, it is now down off of the truck we had it stored on, so it may come along a bit faster, who knows! LOL ;D
Kim: It looks like a MONSTER Truck...hahaha...gotta love the Pinto. No matter what you do to it, it always comes out looking great!!!!!!! Good luck... Larry :police:
Time for one of these..... :fastcar:
Quote from: 71hotrodpinto on August 04, 2009, 10:02:26 PM
Time for one of these..... :fastcar:
Nah, just keeping the stock 1600 in it!!!!!!! :surprised: :lol:
I'm not sure what he is going to put in it right off hand. I know it will be some type of V8 though! LOL
Well whatever you put in it.... Keep it FORD!!!!!
LOL!
Looking good in process!