Hey Guys, Just thought you might want to know who went to the show on Sunday at Knotts Berry Farm in Southern Cali. Here are the cars that attended!
Car 1
77 Crusing Wagon
Pinto 2
Car 3
72 Sedan, All orig. With Factory A/C
71 Sedan
All Restored, rare folding rear seat sedan model
I lost count....
74 Wagon, all original, one owner 250,000 miles!
78 runabout, dealer ac, auto I-4
77 runabout, a/c, rallye gauge pac, I-4,stick, all original, sunroof!
80 squire, all orig, I-4, stick
80 sedan, Pony model, original int, new paint
80 wagon, all original, factory mags, fully loaded, super clean!
79 wagon, V-6, fully loaded, restored
oops, skipped the Pangra
72 sedan, usual pangra goodies, a beauty
And lastly, the Herd....
Email me if you guys want bigger pictures
pintopower@hotmail.com
Oh, and if any of you are into Capri's (they do have our motors, you know) heres a cool pic of all capri body styles ever produced. Might even be the only time they have ever all been togehter considering the variations of places that they were sold and built. Thought you guys might like it!
Hey PintoPower,
NICE JOB!!!!!!
Great photos!!!! Looks very professional.
Was that show a "Closed" show? Or did you have to ask everyone to close their hoods to take those Great shots??????
From Pintony
Hey Pintony,
Just responding to your question. By the way, Pintopower would be my brother and that plum 78 is mine. Uh, first it was your choice if you wanted your hood up or not. Also, we pretty much knew most of the owners, and those we didn't, we got to know very well. The only one with the hood up most of the time was the Pangra because people kept asking to see it. And well also FrankenPinto since it had no hood :D. The show was fantastic, I had a blast. It was a record number of Pintos at the show this year. We also had many comments about how we should have our own class instead of being in other Fords. Yet the best part of the day for me was the Six Pinto Parade that cruised at about 55 on the freeway to the show. There were so many thumbs up, honks, and "Woohoo"s. What a great day. ;D
Hey Pintony,
Thanks for the comments! That day was an ABSOLUTE blast. I got numbers of 5 people that still have and love thier pintos but they just had no idea that they were not alone. Plus, we also met another guy who owns a pangra, an original gold one. So Next year, we are looking at breaking 20 mark. We are also now in the process of founding the Western U.S. ford pinto owners association. We are hoping that this will make a huge difference in the pinto presence on the west coast at shows. The only thing better than a pinto are their owners!
Photo#3
WOW a 1972 Pinto W/ Factory A/C!!!!!
I thought the A/C option first came in 1973??
WOW that must be rare!!!!! COOL!!!!
Photo#4
I.ve only seen a flip down rear seat on a sedan 1 time. What a cool option!!!!!!
The guy that owned the only other I have seen, donated the car to charity for the tax write off.
Over 20 Years ago.
Photo#7
Is that a crank back moon roof????
Photo#9
I really Like the Bobcat grill on that yellow Pinto!!!!!!
Nice Job guys I hope our Mid-West meet is 1/2 as nice as yours.
How many years have you guys been geting together????
From Pintony
WOW! lots of clean cars there...
Looking good guys.
The 77 with the sun roof is the clear pop out one, not the crank. He paid 1350 for that car and its damn near perfect in every way! The Pinto Owners Assoc. that we are starting has been around about 3 days! Sorry if i made it sound like it been around longer. That show was just the kick in the butt that we needed to organize something. We are also trying to see if some of us can join you at your show! Who is the contact for that?
Actually photo # 3 is a 1971, 42,000 mile one owner car.
Bipper
Very NICE Pinto Bipper!!!!!!
I love the Root Beer color.
Brown Interior?
Kermit has 51000 now When I bouhgt him in Palto alto he had 47000 in summer of 2000.
so 2000+or- of those miles were on the way home.
From Pintony
Excellent turnout! Just Excellent!
Western U.S. ford pinto owners association? Fantastic!
Let me know how I can help you get the word out & if you need some webspace you can have something like http://name.fordpinto.com where 'name' is anything you want free...
This goes for any group that is trying to put a site together about pintos, use fordpinto.com to propel your site & allow me to drive traffic to you.
FordPinto.com is here to expand the Pinto community in any way...
Let me know how I can help,
would the owner of the brown 71 be located in riverside ca? a few blocks from the marriots hotel and convention center? if so i was looking for it during that weekend and i was gonna offer him some money cause i seen it last year at a house. and i wanted to buy it lol let me know if it is located in riverside.
Quote from: Pintopower on April 21, 2005, 11:07:36 PM
Pinto 2
You can see more about this car at http://mysite.verizon.net/res0pv34/
If the link does not work today, I will fix it. Verizon was doing maintenance at the time of this post.
Hey Scott,
Thats a great idea! We wanted to go through this site. How do we go about doing that? Will we need to follow this sites parameters? How much? Feel free to email me the info. I need to talk 2 the board and get their take on this, but i know they will love it! We just posted out name in DRIVE magazine which is distributed in CA, AZ, and NV. Im thinking the Werstern Regional Pinto Owners Association. So far, we have about 10 people that are founding fathers with a collective total of at least 45 pintos. I that doesnt include the people that I met at the show. Any way, looking forward to hear from you.
Alberto
Let me know what you want in the 'name' area & i'll set it up for you ASAP.
I can give you 500MB space, unlimited bandwidth, CGI, Email aliasing for your group (name@fordpinto.com)
No Charge,
Again, FordPinto.com is here to expand the Pinto Community in any way possible. This site is all our site not any individuals, we all work together.
We need to get you involved as a Charter Member & for access to the restricted threads where we plan the future of the Pinto Community at large,
I just thought I would throw in an idea,maybe it's good maybe it's bad you tell me.Why not make Regional areas out of the PCCA and each one could have there own website here at fordpinto.com.Like this one could be the PCCA Western Region,kind of like how NHRA AND IHRA do it.
I just thought if we could do it this way,we could have our main site and then the regional sites and each region could have there own people in charge,it might bring even more people in to the community.Just a idea of mine,don't beat me up too bad OK
Hugh?? What????
The Ford Pintos on this forum are just comming together.
NOW you want to split us up?????
Have you ever heard of the IRL and Cart?????
From Pintony
Haven't seen so many Pintos in one place, other than a new car lot 25 years ago.
Henry
Quote from: Pintony on April 26, 2005, 09:02:07 PM
Hugh?? What????
The Ford Pintos on this forum are just comming together.
NOW you want to split us up?????
Have you ever heard of the IRL and Cart?????
From Pintony
I would agree, Lets keep it together and not break it up into regions. Either that, or everyone needs to move to so cal. Any thoughts? ;D
I'm still all for a southern ca. Pinto night at some fast food joint, car show or something.
I don't think having regional groups is such a bad thing. The Model 'A' Club, the Early Ford Early V8 Club, and the Shelby Owner's Club of America all had regional groups that had functions for the local members and then there would be a national meet every year. The national meet would be in a different locale each year to give everyone a chance to attend, such as east coast, midwest, west coast, etc. Each regional group would plan their own local functions to keep the members active and give them a way to meet, show off their cars, and exchange ideas or help each other. I belonged to both the Early Ford V8 and the Shelby club and there was always something going on. It was great!
Quote from: 71pintok on April 27, 2005, 01:35:05 PM
Haven't seen so many Pintos in one place, other than a new car lot 25 years ago.
     Henry
Hey Henry,
Have not hear from you in a while or this Forum is getting so large It's hard to keep track of each other...
Quote from: Pintony on April 26, 2005, 09:02:07 PM
Hugh?? What????
The Ford Pintos on this forum are just comming together.
NOW you want to split us up?????
Have you ever heard of the IRL and Cart?????
From Pintony
Not the same situation! Regions makes sense to me, local groups can do a better job of arranging their own meets, etc. This board can serve as the national clearinghouse to exchange info between groups. For a good model, look at probetalk.com; many regional groups that all use that board as a central meeting place. They even have an all-California meet every couple of years and several multi-regional meets around the country.
Hey Claudermilk,
Not sure what kinda group you talking about but I say lets stay together.
I guess if you wanted it to be like in High School with the little "Clicks"
I like the BIG group because it lets everyone know what is going on around the country.
Personally I think the Knots berry show was really COOL! It gets other Pinto owners excited about wraping up their projects and to the show.
Hell I would even attend a W/E show in Ca. or anywhere if I had enough advance notice.
I really hate when I hear about a show in the next state or county after it's over. Especially when all I did was sit around all W/E and do nothing because I was un-informed.
Heck I see cars going North and South all the time "I live on Route 66" and wonder where the show WAS!!!!
Now if it is just a matter of regions for a peticular Group and everyone stayes here on this board???
I'm all for it.
From Pintony
My point is regional groups won't necessarily fragment us. My daily driver is another forgotten Ford, the Probe (yes, a crappy name). There is the big 'net presence at probetalk similar to here for Pintos--and it enjoys worldwide membership (for example there's a group in Russia among other unexpected areas). Everyone gets together to trade info while the regional clubs organize the local events. Most of the local clubs use the probetalk board as their 'net presence.; there's a forum set up for each club
I've seen the board over there used numerous times when someone is traveling to get together with the locals. Never would happen without the central clearinghouse of the forum. When someone moves to a new area, they are usually already hooked up with the club before they even arrive.
There are several national events organized through the board--and wouldn't even exist without it--the get impressive turnouts.
So definitely not like HS cliques (part of why I HATED HS), use this forum as our central meeting place. From here local meets can be arranged as well as national ones.