An odd thing happened to me today, I was on my way to the bank to deposit my check, sitting at a red light listening to Three Dog Night's "Never been to spain", minding my own business, and I turned my head to catch a lady in a Lexus SUV in the lane to the right of me take a picture of my car with her cell phone! I wonder where the picture is going to pop up. Any others had that happen recently?
Happens to me lots of times when cruisin' the Pinto! Kind of a cool feeling isn't it? ;D Remember, our beloved Pinto's were a huge seller back in the day, so lots of people from all walks of life had one, friend had one, ect. ect. Enjoy it Disco, enjoy it!! 8)
I was cruising down the interstate a couple of years ago.I passed a Mustang conv.then he passed me.So he took off trying to leave me in his dust.So I kept up with him.While we were doing this the passenger turned around in his seat and took several pictures of my Pinto.Then I supprised them by passing them again doing over 80mph.They were in 03 Saleen Mustang.I still had plenty of gas pedal left.
I have had that happen to me as well.
Some people do know a class act when they see it, The Pinto that is, not me!!!
Tercin
8) Yea, I was sitting at a stop light waiting and some annoying guy is yelling Hey! nummerous times. So I turned to see what he hell was going on. This guy in an Escalade says "Do you want to sell that!" I smiled and said NO! ;D. Alot of times I get the thumbs up or what year is that and other times personal history stories. Once in awhile the knowit all, that thinks all Pinto's blew up :lol:.
It's Cool!, DK
Driving 110 miles round trip to work I get a lot of smiles & thumbs-up.
It is also a conversation starter at every fill-up.
They had one, their parents had one, I smoked a lot of dope in one :lol: and why the heck are you driving it in the snow & salt.
Way cool feeling huh?
Bout 8 to 9 years ago when i just had the ol 4banger in it with flowmaster,cam,header,carb etc,I used to drive it all the time. Once i was coming back from the movies in Burbank,Ca. I stop at the light on a double left hand turn lane. I look over just out of habit and there are 2 cute looking girls prob early to mid 20s just checking me (my car?? LOL!) out Didnt think much about it cause my GF (Now wife) was with me at the time. But before the light turned green again i glanced back and they wer still both looking over intently....
Had to be the car LOL!
Yes... my Pinto has been quite popular in the area I live. I really don't think there's another one within 100 miles of mine. When I take it for a spin, I constantly see people taking pix of it on their cell phones. When I go to car shows, a lot of cell phone and digital camera pix are taken. Guess people just know a cool car when they see one. I've actually had several people pull up beside me at stop lights wanting to buy the car. I could probably have sold it 20 times since I got it in May 2008. But I won't, both my Pintos are mine for life.....Larry
No pix were taken, but I had two people say they hadn't seen a Pinto in years: One was a lady walking her cute mini schnauzer by my poor lil' Baby stalled in the neighborhood on her ill-fated short trip yesterday, and the other person was dispatch for AAA when I had to call them for a tow! :lol:
i hafta say i got allot of crap off people when i drove one all though high school even though it was one of the fasts car there. now a days i get allot of that "i my friend parents ant..... had one and its always we beat the crap out of that car and it kept going or we had that thing forever and never gave us any trouble along with many how much and did u know they can explode! but i will have one till the day i die having driven allot of cars i know what seat fits me best and that the ford pinto no other car has ever been so fun to drive and as i hear more and more of that it just make it that much more fun to drive. and as they go up in value it make its that much easier to convince my self it okay to spend 10k on my pinto's i get it back if i were to sell some of them