After reading several posts about sleepers, and how a wagon would be the best for one, do to it's longer wheel base, I did a CL search last night!!! I wanted to see if the guy I had bought the yellow and grey car from, still had his wagon. No luck, didn't see it on CL anymore. BUT, I did find another Pinto trunk model on there!!! It was just above Chico in a small town called Stirling City. The ad said it ran good, drove good, stopped good and turned good. Not exactly in those words lol. It also said it was currently on a non op. The pictures of it didn't look to bad, so I started asking hubby about it. He of course said no way! LOL Well, this morning I started talking to him again about it. Told him that it would be perfect because it runs and drives well, and it's an automatic with a 2.0!!!! I said that I could actually drive this one and not have to wait for him to look at the Green Machine!! Well after a bit of talking he told me to call the guy and make sure it was still available. IT WAS!!!!
We had to call a retired driver to see if he would cover for hubby and had to call the boss to see if she would answer the phone for him. They all agreed and so we were off at about 11.30am!!! We arrived at about 1.20pm. The guy had me start the car up and it started and ran. He said it was cold blooded band ran much better once it warmed up! We let it idle for a while and went about looking for any thing wrong with the body and engine and such. It sat there and ran the whole time, never complaining at all.
First thing I noticed right off the bat, that I didn't like, was they had cut 3 holes in the dash above the glove box. They had a water temp gauge and an oil gauge in to holes and the 3rd was empty, just a hole! I did notice that another wood grain dash plate would cover the holes up so I kinda look passed it, but did mention that I didn't like that they cut holes in it. They also had put some external back up lights on it, with a toggle switch under the dash to make them work. It looks hokey!! Under the hood it is missing the smog stuff, not really a big deal for me as you all know I have the yellow car as a donor, which was a 2.0 automatic too. The interior was pretty much all there, it has the "luxury" package interior!!! Just like the yellow car had!!! So I would have misc. interior pieces for it!!! They also added (atleast I think this is an ad on) door pull handles up on the metal part of the door. I didn't care to much for that either. The passenger door is a replacement door. I can tell because it is black on the inside when all the rest of the car is brown on the inside.
Oh, heck, enough with the talking!! Here are some pics!!
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(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6358.jpg)
It needs a new headliner,
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The original color
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Check it out, it has the fold down rear seat like my Green Machine has!!!!
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And finally, here are the red seats I found for you Becky!!!!! LOL
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Engine,
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The outside
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(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6354.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6352.jpg)
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_6351.jpg)
As you can see the one side is pretty well all white, but the other side has primer. One side has all of the side molding (door ding thingy), the other side doesn't. It is missing some teeth in the grille too!! There wasn't much rust, but it does seem to have a leak somewhere because the floor boards are wet!
The guy wanted $600 firm or trade. Did we buy it for that??? No. We gave him $500.!!!!!! LOL I'm going to DMV Thurs. to transfer it in my name!!!!!!
The only thing I can say that is wrong is, I took it for a test drive and it made a banging noise. We looked at the under neath and it seems that the muffler is getting hit by the driveline!! It is going in the garage tomorrow night to get that fixed. Then I just need to make sure I wont get wet while driving it and I will have a daily driver!!!! Right now I don't care that the floor board it wet, as long as the leak doesn't leak on me!!! LOL Most likely I wont drive it in the rain anyway, but if I get caught in it, I don't want to get a shower!!! LOL
I have to apoligize to Robert, sorry man, I didn't get out to the wrecking yard today!! Something better came up!! ;D I will go out hopefully Thurs. after DMV, weather permitting1!
Also, Becky, I hate to say this but the brown bezel now has a new home in the brown ghost!!! If you want the red one out at the wrecking yard, you get first dibs, if not it will go to Robert!!!
Oh, almost forgot. I am naming this one the brown ghost because it is actually a brown car that has been painted white. It will eventually be brown again, one day way down the road!!!
Wow. Great find! You can never have enough Pintos, can you? :)
Notice the wood grain dash panel in that car, as it is cut around the gauges. That is what I plan on doing with the panel you sent me, but it would fill in between the gauges as well. I'll be able to use my miniature Pinto dash emblem though! :D
I bet you are wishing you kept that pane now, huh? I feel bad now. :(
Quote from: dave1987 on February 01, 2009, 09:00:44 PM
Wow. Great find! You can never have enough Pintos, can you? :)
Notice the wood grain dash panel in that car, as it is cut around the gauges. That is what I plan on doing with the panel you sent me, but it would fill in between the gauges as well. I'll be able to use my miniature Pinto dash emblem though! :D
I bet you are wishing you kept that pane now, huh? I feel bad now. :(
Don't feel bad, I already have one!!! It came from the yellow pinto!
This is it for me and Pintos, I think 4 total is good. LOL Well, some guy told us about 3 more that he found somewhat close by! LOL Have to go check those out!!!! LOL
I'd love to have another pinto, myself. I would want a 73 or earlier though, something with the small bumpers and a shorter profile. I never realized how much taller the 78 was compared to earlier models until I met the driver of an orange 72 runabout last month and we pulled our cars next to each other. Makes the 78 look like the 72's muscle brother. lol
:lol: :lol: :lol: You are killing me!!! Who ever heard of a bronze Pinto with red and saddle interior!?! OMG you are a scream! MY SEATS ARE FINE!!! LOL! Brown is good! LOL!!
Do you have enough trunk models now?! THere's one near here in Escondido you don't have yet! LOL!!! Congratulations on your latest treasure!!! How can you be so lucky!? ;D
When I first spied the title of this thread I thought, "Brown Ghost? But the Baby isn't dead yet!" lol. THen I read on. At best mine is the Bronze Ghost with a ghost of a chance to reclaim her former glory (actually it's not that dramatic!).
After I saw that modern radio in the "new" car I figured the bezel was needed more there than in mine. Except for the headliner the interior doesn't look half bad.
Quote from: blupinto on February 01, 2009, 09:22:24 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol: You are killing me!!! Who ever heard of a bronze Pinto with red and saddle interior!?! OMG you are a scream! MY SEATS ARE FINE!!! LOL! Brown is good! LOL!!
Do you have enough trunk models now?! THere's one near here in Escondido you don't have yet! LOL!!! Congratulations on your latest treasure!!! How can you be so lucky!? ;D
LOL I knew you would get a kick out of those red seats!!!!!! LOL
I'm going to pull the brown one's that I just put in the "pinto in a box" box, LOL, and start gutting them down to the springs. Then I will check to see how much it will cost to have them re upholstered. They smell really bad of cat pee. They had been in that field with the broken windshield for a long time!! A cat's play house!!! LOL For now I will buy seat covers to cover the red ones!! LOL
Well, atleast this one is a 72!!! LOL The rest are all 71's!!! Yah, I read about that one near you. I think you should go get it!!!! ;D
Quote from: blupinto on February 01, 2009, 09:31:25 PM
When I first spied the title of this thread I thought, "Brown Ghost? But the Baby isn't dead yet!" lol. THen I read on. At best mine is the Bronze Ghost with a ghost of a chance to reclaim her former glory (actually it's not that dramatic!).
After I saw that modern radio in the "new" car I figured the bezel was needed more there than in mine. Except for the headliner the interior doesn't look half bad.
The interior isn't to bad. The front floorboard carpet is toast. I can see the insulation. I'm either going to just put a better floor mat over it, or cut the bad stuff out and then put rubber mats down. I'm going to focus on "driving" this pinto!! So I am in no hurry to fix things that can actually be covered up for now. In fact, I'm trying to figure out a way to cover up the headliner padding. I don't want to put a new headliner in it till I get another Pinto drivable. From the looks of it, I will have to pull all the windows out to replace the headliner!! I think I will find some material and sew it into the old headliner. It will look funny, but atleast it will save the padding!!
Pull the windows out!? The Pinto I'm getting the headliner out of doesn't look like it'll involve windows. The Haynes Pinto book sats nothing about headliners so you must know something I don't know ('fess up!)
Eau de Tomcat... who can't recognize that fragrance? lol.
I love that fold-down seat!
Is that a Pinto floor mat on the drivers side?
Quote from: blupinto on February 01, 2009, 09:52:44 PM
Pull the windows out!? The Pinto I'm getting the headliner out of doesn't look like it'll involve windows. The Haynes Pinto book sats nothing about headliners so you must know something I don't know ('fess up!)
Eau de Tomcat... who can't recognize that fragrance? lol.
I love that fold-down seat!
Is that a Pinto floor mat on the drivers side?
No I don't know much about headliners, just looks like it is tucked up under the rubber of the windows. I think you may be able to carefully pull it out, if not you could take a razor knife, and carefully cut the rubber??
I couldn't tell you if it is a Pinto floor mat or not! LOL It is just a big black tore up rubber mat. No markings on it, not sure if they had markings on them or not?? They are pretty much toast too, so I will be getting new mats!!
Pinto floor mats have a funny shape to them, and say "Pinto" on them. I'd like a set myself, but when they are on ebay they range from $80 to $120 for a pair! Too costly for me.
Here are some pix of the ones I've seen on ebay.
WOW!!!! A great Pinto find. I think if I brought another Pinto home, my wife would probably shoot me.... :lol: What's amazing is, the seats I purchased at a local salvage yard for the 1971 Pinto I bought in Washington State, were an exact match to your interior. The Pinto had been stored outside, but all the windows were up and intact. The bonus was the seats had a seat cover put on them both to protect them, and the passenger seat looked nearly new. The driver's seat just had a few tears, nothing major. But alas, they have been given new life for my new Pinto. I do understand what it's like to have seats in the Pinto, which don't go along with the interior. I know someday, you'll take care of that. The upholstery shop I used, recovered my seats with the original Ford Pinto fabric, and it cost me $200.00 each, which included the fabric. I thought this was reasonable, hope you can find someone also. Good Luck, and I'm jealous, I think you got a great buy. Larry :police:
Well I defenitly don't have Pinto floor mats!! LOL
The exhaust pipe was loose so we put the car on the lift and I found out that the seats are most defenitly not Pinto! They drilled holes in the floor board and used big washers to hold the back of the seat down. Now I will have holes to patch once I get the Pinto seats in it!
The red seats look like Ford Tempo or Mercury Topaz seats, don't know what year.