Well Monday I picked up a nasty little 60.00 car from the Field.
After looking it over its pretty straight and not much Rust at all. I cleaned it for most of two days Before sticking it in storage.
My Daughter is 15 and in love with this car..so it looks like she has her own project.
So far it's a old abandon stinky rat nest trash car with a fairly straight body and good glass. 2.3L with Power steering, Power brakes, Auto and AC.
The Deluxe interior is trashed, the Motor is in unknown condition, But the brakes Work!
I cleaned under the hood today removing the trash left behind from animals wintering. The Wiring harness is a mess
Rats Ate through the spark plug wires and most of the engine and head light controls.
I was going to use the car for parts but its seems I lost the car to my teenager. Her budget will be tight but the interior should come together quickly(she can sew well).
Fell free to donate to her project since I don't have much time to play with cars till next summer. She's Smart enough to work with the book. But I will watch closely as I can.
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the interior is light blue. and the plastic is coming apart.
Si I have some things to locate for it...But its what she wanted!
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Notice I already put a sticker on her car....he he...
Frank
Kudos to you, raising your daughter right!!
My daughter says, and I quote "I'd rather walk, than drive your Pinto"
So she gets the POS Olds next april when she gets her liscense.
good girl!!!
Right now shes looking for a single hubcap and a paintable gas cap.
I'll take some pics of what she's done on this project.
Frank
Frank , get me a better pic of hub cap i think they are the same as the one i took off mine, and i think i have a crome gas cap if it will work.
Phils toys
took me a while to get her to take this...
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Frank
that is what i have. pm me and we will get them on the way how many do you want i have 7.
cool enough... I'll let her know as soon as she gets home from school...
Frank
Quote from: phils toys on September 17, 2007, 12:43:57 PM
that is what i have. pm me and we will get them on the way how many do you want i have 7.
I need 2 of those same hubcaps for my 76. How much?
Well tonight My Daughter went to the Homecoming football game and I put some cable ends on the car, disconected the Source wire for the wiring harness and turned the motor over a few times...good news is its not locked up. next will be wiring the ignition and see if the motor will fire off,,,,
I figured there had to be a reason of some sort for the car to be left to pasture. It might have been as simple as the car wouldn't pass inspection.
I'm removing all the BS vacuum lines and the air pump when She's not around. I'll take some pics when she get to pulling the plug for inspection.
Frank
Well it seems the motor is going to be replaced....oil trickling out the cam barely, a few lobes are going flat. The lifters are not pumping up.
But it has compression, Gas and spark but wont run....
Looks like I'll either do a rebuild or swap to a EFI from a later modle....
Either way the harness is just a mess.
Poor kid.. I keep telling her it gets worse before it get better....
Frank :nocool:
The positive thing is that she'll have a reliable good-running rig when it's done, rather that just fixing the minimum to get it running, and then piecing it together as things break!
Bob55 :)
Atleast she wants the car though. Looks like a nice find as long as the rust underneath isn't too bad. Good luck to you & your daughter with it. Keep us posted & pix of the progress.
yep...she's been pulling carpet ...the floor on the passinger side is a mess....needs panels front and back....looks as if the heater core floodes that side for quite a while....
But so far I have installed new parts just to make her smile.
Door strikes
head lights and mounting hardware
Battery cables
belts
Fan shroud
a wiring harness...
I'll have some pic's tomorrow
Frank
Quote from: pintoguy76 on September 20, 2007, 02:30:08 AM
I need 2 of those same hubcaps for my 76. How much?
I have a set of 4 $40.00 plus shipping.
Doc.
Any updates or pics of the car?
pm me, a list, i have 3 parts cars. i will donate allot u just pay shipping.
Since Cookieboy finished his 78 I thought I would give a up date on On My Daughters car.
This last weekend she spent a good half of a day cleaning what ever plastic she could get out of the interior. Cleaning it with a small brush simple green and Dawn...and everything she's touched looks nice.
She took here Drivers test today and failed it. But I'm just happy she is focused on the little car.
I got the Dash wiring harness from Tigger, This guy is top notch he sent me a clean clean harness. Since the car was infested with rodents the wiring is toast.
We're looking for almost anything interior and plastic. the interior is going to be black and blue.
we got the car on the concrete pad to do more work...Looks like I'm wielding in the next few weekends to repair the floor boards.
FrankBoss
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Does anyone have a resorable grill for this car?
FrankBoss
www.PintoWorks.com
Well She did it...so got her drivers license.
I will post pics tonight of her car so far....
Watchout Oklahoma
FrankBoss
Congrats to your daughter. She's lucky to be getting a Pinto for her first car, especially one that will be mechanically sound. Looking forward to seeing them pics. If you need any parts for the interior let me know what you need & if I have extra of what you need I'll send it to you. My selection is somewhat small, but mostly duplicates.
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here it sits on the pad waiting for wire brushes and the mig....Its sitting on temp wheels and Tires while the stockers are sand blasted.
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Here the driver side floor board not as bad as the passinger side..
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the Drivers side rear floor looks good,
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The passinger side is just bad news...
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this si the dash after she started to strip it. I found all kinds of stuff in the dash. Knifes , tapes and Tools...
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these plastic peices are total crap...we need to find something to replace them with. she can't even clean them since they are crumbling to the touch.
Were hoping to land a darker blue set or a black set. If we land something in a different color well endup covering them with Velour.
FrankBoss
Congratulations to your daughter!
There is a lot of work to be done to the Pinto, but it will be very well worth it once it really starts to take better shape! She'll be drivin' in style for sure. 8)
well a little shopping list was filled today in hope to get some work done that will make the car look a little better.
a few cans of Rust-oleum Cobalt Blue.
A can of Sandable Primer.
and a couple of small bottles of Klean Strip brand Rust Converter
A package of JB Weld.
We got the Wiring harness for the engine compartment from Tigger. This guy has hooked use up with all the damaged wiring so far and it all looks really nice. Thanks Tigger!
I don't want to use the low back seats with head rest since she's over 6 foot tall I want high back seats to prevent whiplash encase of a accident.
And we're looking for a grill.. if we can find a grill I will need to get someone to cut some sheet metal for the manufacturing of a custom grill for her car.
I will send her to the store tomorrow to land some screws and bolts to replace damaged fasteners.
I will get some Adhesion promoter for the plastic parts from the parts store and I'm hoping to find the Silver leafing pens. I haven't found a source for those yet.
Once something starts going in the car and looks nice It will build Her confidence up since all we have done so far is take things appart and finding damage.
I'll Take pic's.
FrankBoss
Quote from: FCANON on May 09, 2008, 02:29:45 PM
I'm hoping to find the Silver leafing pens. I haven't found a source for those yet.
Only place I could find em' was Ebay
Quote from: FCANON on May 09, 2008, 02:29:45 PM
a few cans of Rust-oleum Cobalt Blue and I will get some Adhesion promoter for the plastic parts from the parts store
I found when using the metallic rust-oleum cobalt blue on the plastic parts... use plasitc primer or adhesion promoter then use grey primer before you use the metallic paint. On the black stuff it made the paint really dark and I had to use a lot more paint. I learned early on (thankfully) and after that I grey primered everything for a much better finish and even color.
Good point Brian.. We only going to paint the radio Bezel leaving the other plastic in its original colors...if any other plastic parts are changed we'll go black..for a black and blue theme....this ( I hope ) will make finding and matching colors simple... I worry about allot of the plastic parts getting scratched and exposing the bottom color.
What colors do use on the grill? I'm leaning to grey since the Car is White and blue.
FrankBoss
Quote from: FCANON on May 09, 2008, 02:29:45 PM
I'm hoping to find the Silver leafing pens. I haven't found a source for those yet.
I found the original ones mentioned, the silver sharpies, at Staples in a 4 pack. They were 6 bucks or somewhere around there.
Quote from: FCANON on May 09, 2008, 05:35:06 PM
What colors do use on the grill? I'm leaning to grey since the Car is White and blue.
mine is painted white to match the car but origional is grey/silver....
I don't want to make it white...I think grey being neutral would look crisp.
I wanted to try the Leafing pens on her car before I tried them on Mine..:))
otherwise I would just use the Sharpy again...I did my 72 with a testers pen many years ago it didn't wear well and looked very dull.
I'm still Looking for some parts like the grill. And interior plastic parts.
FrankBoss
You should be able to find the leafing pens at any craft supply store... in my area Ben Franklin and Michael's both carry them. In fact I just bought a new one at Michael's last week in anticipation of getting started on my Pinto soon. Good luck!
Dwayne :smile:
Looks like it's really coming along. nice cleanup work so far.
is that a trunk model or hatch? i have a 79 trunk with blue interior i will be heading to carlisle if you find out these will fit i will give them to her . paul
its a glass hatch....bummer
So Far I've been teaching her how to paint metalics with rattle cans, what sand papers to use ect.... She painted her ash tray twice so far and it looks good... she's getting it.
Thanks
FrankBoss
Well a weekend of work for my Daughter. I let her cover the car with a Awning to keep her a little cooler (I don't have a Garage to work in)
She has scraped and vacuumed the floors.
She is treating the floors with rust converter then paint on the top side.
We'll look at insulation and under coating when I get to the store.
I started to weld a few holes but it seems I was making popcorn.JK
I ran out of time and wire and gas...so I'll find time to help some more this week.
Well have the Drivers side done this week.
The passinger side is just looking a little worse.
I'll get her to post some pic's.
FrankBoss
well heres a update.
She has Wire Brushed the floors by hand.
I laid some welds over some small hole in the back floor board(drivers side)
Then she coated it with Rust Converter.
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Heres a little look of the drivers side. Its really getting cleaner.
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The passenger side just looks worse I will have to get Busy on this side.
I will need to start in the middle(about where the seat mounts) and work my way to the back. then do the front.
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FrankBoss
The speedo is pulled but it is looking grim
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We need a new one with the 14 pin connection.
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The screws for the shift sector cover were locked up and stripped. But she go it off only breaking one screw.the Cover is a little broken. she HATES the plastic wood grain so either it gets fixxed or replaced with older chrome or a black one.(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a317/fcanon/100_0263.jpg)
FrankBoss
Well after some welding, paint, rust converter, etching printer, Brush on seam sealer and lots of wirer brushing she's got the driver side floor done.
Really clean, I hope the rest of the car is done with this much care.
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She's not done but at lest moving forward.
FrankBoss
Whoa that is a huge difference from before. Its hard to believe its the same floor. :amazed:
thats a major difference, i hope she keeps the car to pass down to her own kids =) .
About the crumbling plastic panels- have you considered brushing the crumbly bits off and then covering the plastic with a fabric or vynil?
Excellent work. you started out with far less than I did. I understand and appreciate the effort on the floor pans, what a difference. Wish I had parts to donate!
I gotta get those dash clusters made so you can get a replacement - nasty. Keep up the good work!
Chris
Winter is almost over and I've been busy.
Since the car sits out side we can't work on it till the weather is more mild.
I have collected a 1993 Mustang 2.3L 8 plug EFI motor, automatic transmission, and wiring harness... from a guy doing a V8 swap.
Later I located a set of 4 lug pony rims form a 89 Mustang (16x6) that look clean on the car.
And Last Sunday I took my Daughter to the salvage yard to look st a few Mustang II's and she really like the seats she found in the Ford Probe so those were pulled,
I took a like new Front spoiler off a early Ford Ranger to mount under the front bumper.
I'll have her post some pic's after her younger Brothers finish dechroming the sides of the car.
Frank Canon
PCCA
Lets see pictues of the pile of parts also Frank........... ;D
Frank, what a smart, dedicated girl you have! I don't know either of you but I'm proud of you both! There's something special about falling in love with a car that needs restoration from the ground up. ;)
Frank, any update on the car?