Well, I'm putting this story in the "Your Pinto" section because I will not be doing to much of anything to this one! ;D So she isn't a project, just a driver!!
This is the most expensive Pinto I have bought (worth it though) and the closest one to my house that I bought!!
You can read the beginning story on her here... http://www.fordpinto.com/index.php/topic,14899.0.html (http://www.fordpinto.com/index.php/topic,14899.0.html)
My story is this!
Thanks to this great site and following a thread made by Alan (posted above), I started lusting after this Squire. I didn't really have the money to buy the Pinto right off hand. I am trying to save for a Cruise in Oct. So my husband knew a guy that wants my Morris Minor and we tried to get him to buy the squire and we would trade him the wagon for the minor. He didn't go for that. That was yesterday. Today I decided I would just see how much the guy would pay me for the minor. I also talked to Alan about this and he knows this guy too and said he would give him a call! Well, me being as patient as an ant, at about 4.30, I called Alan and told him I would just buy the car and worry about the minor later! I figure if anything I will just put it up for sale if the other guy doesn't come through! Luckily Alan could take Visa, so I was able to buy the Squire that way and will pay the card off once I sell the minor.
As far as the closest car I have ever bought. Alan and his wife were nice enough to deliver the pinto and collect money right in my carport!!! ;D ;D
Here are some of my pics I took. They show the good with the bad! :D
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Her owies!
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I need a dark brown door handle! Can you believe out of the 6 or so sets of door handles I have, I don't have a dark brown one! LOL
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She even came with her original from the dealer key chain!!! :D
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I will have pics of her original paper work when I get back from Knotts!! She came with the actual bill of sale from the dealer!!!
Oh, and her name came from her original owner. I don't know the exact story but I guess Nellie Belle was the name of a jeep in one of the PO's favorite olden days tv show! I will keep the name for now and see if it will stick! If not, she may be getting a new one!! LOL
Congratualtions, Kim! FYI: Nellie Belle was the name of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Jeep on their TV show.
Dwayne :smile:
Congradulations......I saw your wagon at the Portland swapmeet a couple weeks ago. It is a very nice car. Kriby Ford is no longer in business so that key chain is quite the collectors item for us Oregonians.
Quote from: dga57 on April 24, 2010, 01:24:38 AM
Congratualtions, Kim! FYI: Nellie Belle was the name of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Jeep on their TV show.
Dwayne :smile:
thats the one. I couldnt remember the name of the show at Kim's house. The show was a fave of the original owner so the car got the nickname Nellie Belle.
It sort of fits the car I think.
Congrats Kim on giving this beauty a good home. I wish I could have kept it, but I've got 2 mid 60's Suburbans coming home next week and will need the space, time, effort and $ to work on them. It would have been a real shame to put any one of the vehicles outside. Particularly ole Nellie.
At least now I can visit her at her new home :D. I'm glad she went to a true Pinto fan.
Hey Kim,
Congratulations!
You must have beat me by a couple of hours because I had spoken to Alan about it Friday afternoon, and my wife and I had decided to buy it! I tried to call Alan today and got his voicemail.
Oh well, maybe next time. At least it found a good home.
See ya at the show
Joe
Quote from: Pangra74 on April 24, 2010, 04:56:05 PM
Hey Kim,
Congratulations!
You must have beat me by a couple of hours because I had spoken to Alan about it Friday afternoon, and my wife and I had decided to buy it! I tried to call Alan today and got his voicemail.
Oh well, maybe next time. At least it found a good home.
See ya at the show
Joe
Thanks.
He told me someone else was interested in it but said it was still available. So I jumped on it!
I didn't know it was you till today!
Well, wish me luck (well, hubby's boss) tomorrow! The boss is going to take paperwork to Nellie to DMV tomorrow for me! I gave him the pink, an application for transfer (from Alan to me), and a application for registration. I also gave him one of my SHAG E plates to take with him so he can try to assign those plates to Nellie for now! I need to get them on a vehicle ( hopefully I'm not to late). I sold the vehicle they were on about 2 months ago and I am not ready to assign them to Shaggy yet! I figured since I have to get new plates for Nellie, might as well put them on her for now!!
I sure hope all goes well and I can get her tagged so I can start drivng her!!!!!
She did get an inerior bath today!! It was nasty and windy outside so I decided to stay in the garage and detail her insides!! LOL Oh, on that note. Any one have any ideas for getting what appears to be some type of tape markings or something, off of her seats?? I am thinking of using WD40. Think that would be ok on the seats? I tried window cleaner and the vinyl cleaner, but neither took the stuff off!
Tomorrow I plan on running over to the dash cover place to have a cover made for her. That way the sun can't do any more damage to the dash pad!! One day I think I will see about having it repaired. That is if I can find someone that still does it! LOL
Goo Gone. It should work. ;D
Not that I want to send you out into the tempest, but what's Nellie Belle's color code? ;D
Well, everything went smoothly today with the registration process!! I was shocked! LOL I'm still waiting for Bella's (74 Squire) DMV stuff to go through!
Nellie is all registered and insured!!
She is sporting Shaggy's plates for now though!
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Now I just need to wait for the weather to clear up! LOL Don't want to get her wet!! ;D ;D
Yea Kim it looks like you could use my rear bumper. Fred :)
Quote from: Fred Morgan on April 28, 2010, 06:21:02 PM
Yea Kim it looks like you could use my rear bumper. Fred :)
LOL, I told you I wanted a prestine bumper! LOL But, actually the bumper isn't crooked. It is the license plate that is crooked! I need to fix that soon! LOL The bumper has been pushed in, in the middle. Can't tell anything is wrong with it till you look from the side! :D
Helloooo.....color code...? ???
Quote from: blupinto on April 28, 2010, 11:20:12 PM
Helloooo.....color code...? ???
LOL, I forgot. Remind me tomorrow! ;D
Ok I'll try! :lol:
6F ;D
Thank you! ;D Let's see if I can identify it...
AAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!! I can't find it!!!!
I am betting it's Medium Ginger metallic or Ginger Glow with Ginger Deluxe interior. Nellie really glows in the sunlight! And she's so darn shiny! ;D
Actually 6f is listed as Bright Yellow Gold Metallic
Hey- I got the Metallic right! :lol:
Well, hubby had time to work on Nellie today and yesterday!! He replaced the u joints on both ends of the drive line! Hopefully that will take care of my knock I heard once in a while. He checked the brakes and all is well there!!
The other thing I wanted him to do is check the timing. In the process of getting ready to do that he decided to take the cap off the distributor and have a look inside. The points were shot!! That is one of the reasons I could call her the gutless wonder! LOL That and when they got to the timing of it, it was way out of time! They got that in order and I took her for a short test drive. She actually has a little bit of oomph now!! ;D She's no hot rod but I feel like I can at least get out in traffic with out causing a back up! LOL
Tomorrow will be a real test for her! She will have to get up at 2am to take me to work. So I will see if I can get her going with a short warm up period. Before she had to get up to running temp to actually be able to move at a decent speed! Then on the way home she will get to endure the stop and go traffic!!
She still has the carb leaking back into her once she is turned off, but I can deal with that for now. Specially just taking her to work and back. By the time I get off work she will be back to normal and I will just have to give her a pump to set the choke and she will start easily. It is just when I am doing my running around and only have her parked for short periods that she floods out a little. I think I will deal with that problem after we get Bella running! Then at least I can drive her while Nellie is down for a carb rebuild!! :D