Pinto Car Club of America

Have to tell you two things that happened recently:
The first one has to do with my neighbor who is dying of cancer.  She was sitting in her lawn chair, in her driveway enjoying the sun, and fully realizing that this is her last spring on this earth.  We live two houses away from her and had just taken our pinto out of winter storage.  Time to drive it around the block a bit (by the way, it started up on the 3rd try after 6 months in the garage!).  As we started to drive down the street, we spotted Jean sitting out front and we turned into her driveway for a short visit.  As we pulled into her driveway, the biggest largest smile you could ever imagine spread across her face.  Here is a woman with a few months to live, and my little Pinto brought her great pleasure and enjoyment on one of her last days.

The second thing that happened occured just today.  We had our pinto out for a spin, and in a parking lot, parked it in a far corner, away from all other cars.  No sooner than we parked it but a BMW pulled up near us and parked as well.  As we got out of our cars, it was not me and my husband who went over to the BMW and ooohed and aaahed; NO!  It was the BMW driver who came over to our humble little powder blue pinto to have a look and chat about Pintos!!

Gotta love these cars!

Those are two of the reasons we love our pintos.

What year is the powder blue one? We have a 77 that color (in the group).

Bill

it's a 1978, with a sunroof.  less than 27,000 original miles.   it's in solid shape.  thanks for asking!

cool car, great story.

I know what happens when people start remembering their Pintos.  When I park next to the home I am remodeling the foot traffic just seems to keep stopping at the Pinto and then the stories come out. 

The parking lot here at work has sprouted 2 Pinto wagons in the past 2 weeks to go with my runabout.  Gas prices anyone?  One of the owners is having a good time learning how simple and inexpensive it is to keep these cars on the road.

The runabout belonged to my Mom and she let me have it about a year before she passed away and I can not help but think that she is very happy to see her little horse prancing down the road.  It had been just sitting in her garage for about 6 or 7 years.