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Shiny is Good! => General Pinto Talk => Topic started by: smallfryefarm on July 30, 2009, 08:42:44 AM

Title: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: smallfryefarm on July 30, 2009, 08:42:44 AM
My daughter wanted a pinto toy so she could put it in the pictures she was having taken of my grand daughter. So i bought this die cast pinto off of ebay. 1/25 scale i believe. in the origial box looks like new. behind the pinto in the box it said something about how the pinto was fords first small car designed for the gas crises. and that their were not very many left today but thanks to places like pinto car club of america, people are still keeping them alive. www.fordpinto.com (http://www.fordpinto.com).  I thought that was kinda neet.
Title: Re: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: phils toys on July 30, 2009, 11:35:39 AM
was it made by motmax?  Green box /fresh as cheries, or black box.  the Fresh as cheries came out first  and were avaiable  in brown, green, orange ,and yellow in the  larger scale, and also in the 1/64 scale  orange, yellow, blue, mint green and  dark green, then a crusin wagon in the 1/87 scale in brown, orange, yellow and green.  there were also kits were you could build the larger one  in primer, and orange and yellow, but i nerer got that one.  the bobcat hatch was also avable in the 1/87 in red, brown, black, and white.
the black box ones are showing up everyonce in a while  but i have not seen any in some time the last place i saw any were at a toys r us.
phil
Title: Re: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: smallfryefarm on July 30, 2009, 11:49:51 AM
Phill it was a motormax 1/24th scale 74 pinto red. Nice model doors, hood open wheels turn and are hooked to the steering wheel.
Title: Re: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: Tercin on July 30, 2009, 07:39:04 PM
That is my car, look at my picture to your left.
I sent photos to Motormax through this site.

Tercin
Title: Re: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: blupinto on July 30, 2009, 09:49:29 PM
They're called Fresh Cherries. Johnny Lightning has/had some out too.
Title: Re: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: Carolina Boy on July 31, 2009, 09:52:13 PM
A little off subject.
Would yall know where I could find some plastic glue together models of our beloved Pintos?
Title: Re: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: phils toys on July 31, 2009, 09:59:05 PM
other than eBay or a toy show they are not curentky made,
Title: Re: Die Cast Pinto
Post by: Tercin on August 01, 2009, 07:37:34 AM
You will pay top dollar for a Pinto model, they don't usually go cheap.

Tercin