Hello Fellow Pinto Lovers! I am emailing you all to let you know that we will be having a BBQ at Barth Hamiltons home in Azusa, CA. It will September 30th, starting at 1:00 pm. There will be a canyon cruise at 11:00 AM (at 11 exactly! So be there at 10:30 with your tank full if you want to go). The address is
1139 N. Dalton Ave.
Azusa CA 91702
Feel free to bring drinks or desserts. We have plenty of parking so if you have more than one Pinto, you may bring them all! Also, the next day is the All Ford Picnic at La Palma park. It was a blast last year and they even have a Pinto class! Please RSVP as soon as you get a chance. Please call me at 626-221-7681 to RSVP or for more info on the La Palma Park show. Also, no young children as the property is not fenced off. Please pass this email on to any other pinto people that you all know that I may have forgoten in the Cali area or who ever you feel will make the drive. I look forward to seeing you all!
Alberto Massarotto
President - Western Regional Pinto Owners Association
626-221-7681 (Cell)
pintopower@hotmail.com
I would be quite interested in attending the BBQ and most likely the show the next day. I will e-mail you for more information.
Alberto,
Glad to see an organized group of Pinto owners in CA. Do most of those who attend Knott's Berry Farm in April belong to your club? I plan on attending Knott's next spring. Pintony said it was a real nice show.
Dave
srt: I have not received an email from you yet, I hope I didn't delete it!! if I dod just resend with PINTO BBQ in caps! Or just call me!
Original74 : Everyone from the Knotts show that lives near by (about 15 of us ) all show up, not to mention that we all hang out any way, go to the junkyards as a group, buy cars together, etc. Soon we are going to buy one big house and all live together. I figure it will save on gas money. Just kidding...or am I...but seriously, we have a really close group of owners out here and its nice to have them as friends as well. There are also a few guys abour 2 or 3 hours away that we sometimes get to come down here too. I look forward to seeing you out here next year at Fab Fords. You need a place to stay? As us quick before pintony books us all!
I'll try to write you today from work. look for something from up.com
Hey Guys, I will be in Hawaii on that date but would love to attend.
Hey Alberto!
I'm planning on being there with the CW, but not for the canyon cruise...maybe next year with the '74! The '74 has too much work to be done to safely drive the distance this year. Not sure if my wife, Ana, or Matthew will be going. Will let you know as soon as I can.
Brad,
Hawaii's only a little more than a three hour flight. You could come back, attend the BBQ, and be back in Hawaii in about ten hours and you'd barely miss a thing!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Brein, yes, I guess I could, however my wife would leave me and I would be out a garage, so, I think I will take the trip. BTW feel free to come over and steal anything you would like.......... ;D ;D ;)
I'll be there, I'll give you a call this evening or tommorow to get all the details, I can't wait.
pinto_chris: Did you get my email? Give me a call when ever you can so i can tell Barths Wife how many people she will have there or she will kill me.
Guys, here is more info on the LaPalma Park Show:
Oct 1, Sunday, 8AM-3pm, in Anaheim.
The phone number is : 949-675-4234
Oh, and I have gotten like 3 people to rsvp (Thanks Wagonmaster, John and Mario), but I know there will be at leats 20 of you Pinto guys there so either email me with who you are bringing or call. This includes you BIPPER!
Alberto
pintopower@hotmail.com
626-221-7681
Hey Guys! The So Cal Pinto BBQ was a smash! We has 30 owners and 21 c ars! We met about 5 new Pinto guys and were contacted but another 5 that could not make it! If all theh guys we had there last year were there and and all 10 of the new guys (and the rest of my cars, damn it, I dont want to talk about it) we would have had almost 50!!! There guys are coming out of the wood work (we met 2 more yesterday, one with a 76 turbo and one with two 79 v-6 supercharged cars)! We will be having a Christmas Party in December so I'll keep every one posted! I will post pix of the bbq saturday as my sister took pix and shes at away at school. I will post pix of the La Palma Park All Ford Show. It was the nicest venue that I have ever been at! It was a small show (about 180 cars but the pintos were a hit! Only 4 of us were able to make it (I think 16 hours of talking pinto the day before was a little bit tomuch for some). Bob (Bipper) won Best of Class and my sister Francesca (Sirhugh) won Woman Choice! It was so much fun! Here are the pix from that day.
Here is Francesca (Sirhugh) and Hughie (78 pinto hatch, 2.3). Frencesca is holding her "Womans Choice" award that the ladies in the show were able to vote for.
Here I am with my 80 sedan. My 79 wagon is getting a custom radiator so she couldn't make it. One of the guys (Barth) here decided to put those rims on it while I wasn't looking one day. Not bad.
Here is Barth and Bobs (Bipper) Pangra. They got the car color sanded which made it shine and made that engine bay look perfect. Plus, those wheels.....Nice!
Here we have Bob and his beautiful 71 sedan. He is holding his best in class trophy (we were in the pinto/maverick class, there were a couple mavericks there too). All in all, a great day!
Hey everyone, I transfered my camera and have the pix from the BBQ. I was amazed by the amount of Pintos that showed up and all the new faces that came. The early birds who came went on a mini cruise up Azusa Canyon and parked at this lovely lookout point to chat for awhile. We got back to eat some tasty finger food and await all the many Pintos to come. Here are the beauties...
Now back at Barth's house, where plenty o' pinto were awaiting our return. The one in the neighbor's driveway is so pretty. Perfect ivory interior and great redish exterior color.
Here in the driveway, are the visiting Pintos and Barth's little blue one. I didn't bother taking pix of his other fourish pintos that were also there, it would have been a pain ;). The mustard looking one is Mike's, the precious plum one is mine, and the cute little brown one is Keith's. Bob's award winning '71 is in front of mine relaxing in the shade.
Now here's Bob and Barth's Pangra and Mario's brown beauty. As you can see we were running out of places to stick all the Pintos. Now in front of the house we have the pinto I have always only known as Jimmy's Dad's hotwheels sedan. And guy?'s stripy wagon, with one of the many brown sedans/hatches in front. I think in total there were five brown Pintos. Oh the 70s.
Okay here's closer shot of that brown hatchback, if you check closely you can see pinto parts inside. The black wagon is another newbie and belongs to owner Chris who came with friend :D. Across the street are 2 lovely red sedans/hatches. Next is a view going down the street. I just wish I could have gotten an arial shot.
Here are some faces to all these cars... In front of the lovely cruising wagon is owner Brian, my brother and president Alberto, and proprietor of this estate, Barth. At the lookout, we have Mike, Chris, his friend (sorry), Alberto, Bob, Barth, our friend Nicole, and Mike's son Michael. Behind the cameras we have me and Mario.
And here's me with my "Ladie's Choice" award. Who would have thought a plum '78 Pinto hatchback would be eye candy.