I AM JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY YOU GUYS THINK THAT DERBYING PINTOS IS BAD. I AM 100% FORD AND THE PINTO IS ONE OF FORDS BLACK SHEEP. FORD KNOWS THEY MADE IT, BUT WONT PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE IT ANYMORE BECAUSE OF ITS HISTORY. I DERBY ALL KINDS OF CARS AND IF I HAD A CHANCE TO DERBY A PINTO I WOULD. BUT YOU GUYS SEEM HYPOCRITICAL SINCE YOU WANT ALL THE PARTS FROM OUR STRIPPED OUT CARS.
DDDA 4 EVER!!!!!
i agree.....we find em,strip em and wreck em...but we would save parts if asked nicely....then everyone would be happy....derby drivers arent bad for what they do,it is just a perceived notion that all we do is destroy!
read this post it explains why there was a problem. Its not about what you do.
http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php?topic=3867.msg22464#msg22464
Quote from: will53x on February 01, 2006, 07:58:22 AM
but we would save parts if asked nicely....
ok, I'd like a hood, fenders, floors, quarters and doors. these are hard to find in this part of the country. and even harder now that everyone smashes them up. I've asked nicely, and the local guys destroy all the parts they don't want.
Can't believe this is still going on. Nothing that what these guys do is bad, except coming here with pictures and bragging about how a "super clean" , Pinto was destroyed. A few of us said some things that were wrong and not nice to say the least. Many of us even apologized for saying these things. I for one did and hope that anyone was not overly offended. Bottom line is this, do as you wish with your cars, they're yours and you have this right, but please don't come here and brag about how many or how nice,or what a pile that these cars are. Most here really don't like to hear that. Since majority generally rules, if I were you, I would LET THIS GO, since I do not wish to see anyone banned from this site. Otherwise. please keep listing the parts you do not want or need on here for sale, trade, whatever, and hopefully we can all learn to get along. Thanks to the moderators for "trying" to keep the peace.
The last I checked, people have the right to demo pintos if they own them and want to.
Giving the derby people a hard time about that, or them giving others a hard time, is where the trouble is on this topic (along with any name-calling from either "side"), so will both sides please stop.
I agree, they are great 4-banger demo cars; I have seen them in action.
If (anyone that guts a car for any reason) they wish to junk the parts they remove, give them away, or sell them is up to them. It is nice if they offer them to people that need or want them, but NOT something thay have to do. There is a market for those parts, just look on ebay or the wanted section here; It is not a big-buck market, but it is there.
I always liked that saying: "If you don't have something nice to say..........
We all have our own opinions about this, and this is mine (I hope I was nice enough about it).
Bill
I believe that is what we have all tried to state in this thread.
Quote from: fast34 on February 01, 2006, 03:45:06 PM
I believe that is what we have all tried to state in this thread.
Except for the people who dont like me............... ;D :police:
I have to agree. It seems like you would like to have all of our left over parts but still bad mouth us in every way possible. Sorry but Demolition Derby is a motorsport like anything else and we are free to smash what ever we want. I'm not on here to make trouble; I just want to understand why it's just so bad.
Quote from: GM70 on February 01, 2006, 06:16:33 PM
I have to agree. It seems like you would like to have all of our left over parts but still bad mouth us in every way possible. Sorry but Demolition Derby is a motorsport like anything else and we are free to smash what ever we want. I'm not on here to make trouble; I just want to understand why it's just so bad.
Its like this, say you realy like beer and there is only so much left in the word an I like to use it to wash the mud off my pigs and take pictures and show you my clean pigs and all the empty and broken beer bottles. I guess thats why its so bad. Its not that you like derby, Its we like our pintos with out dents.......... ;D
Quote from: GM70 on February 01, 2006, 06:16:33 PM
....It seems like you would like to have all of our left over parts but still bad mouth us in every way possible....
Who is the "you" that you are you talking about? If you have a problem with someone, contact the admin., and report the post. Making broad statements like that can only make trouble (the think you said you don't want to do), and not solve anything.
Bill
Quote from: turbopinto72 on February 01, 2006, 04:57:48 PM
Except for the people who dont like me............... ;D :police:
Hey buddy...i still like you...does it make you feel any better? :-* ;D
Quote from: 77turbopinto on February 01, 2006, 01:50:22 PM
The last I checked, people have the right to demo pintos if they own them and want to.Â
I always liked that saying: "If you don't have something nice to say..........
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