didn't find any decent pinto parts..but I found one of those toyota mini motorhomes that was wrecked in the front..after some quick measuring it seems the front of a pinto is about the same size as the "yota cab . I'm thinking pinto motor home!! any ideas??
hehe, neat!
cool
Hey Dave,
Now Cookieboy has to go find a photo of one!!! ;D
Quote from: Pintony on February 02, 2008, 08:35:05 AM
Hey Dave,
Now Cookieboy has to go find a photo of one!!! ;D
:P to you Tony!
on a side note... when I moved to Hibbing some 14/15 years ago there was a Pinto wagon here in town that someone had built into a van. They had raised to roof and the back end looked very much like any van would. As I recall it was a very nice looking conversion and I kept thinking... I'm gonna chase the owner down/follow him home and offer to buy it. But alas I had no money for such a purchase so never did anything about it. I used to see it all the time that first 6mo/year but then it disapeared and I haven't seen it since. I had hoped once I started showing off my Pinto's here in the area someone would mention it but no word yet.
I think the Toyota mini-home / Pinto conversion would be really! cool. Even better would be to "beef" up the suspension, drop in a V8 and use it to tow Pinto's to car shows.
Hmmmmm......
Quote from: Pintony on February 02, 2008, 08:35:05 AM
Now Cookieboy has to go find a photo of one!!! ;D
It's all your fault Tony!
:lol:
Quote from: Cookieboy on February 02, 2008, 10:29:07 AM
It's all your fault Tony!
:lol:
Interesting.... I don't know what else to say.
If you wanted to do this, you could simply drop the pinto nose on the 'Yota frame.
Now that is a cool idea ,anyone have a spare front clip layin about? Pinyota sounds like something out of carwars.. ;D
I went out this past weekend to look at it again..there is enough room to put a sb ford in it the bad thing is it is in the corner of a 40+ acre lot and it will probably take months to get it out.. hopefully scrap iron will go up and the guy will start crushing cars to make a path to it . I'm thinking of toypinto or 'cattoy for a name
Looks like a Pintoy House Car to me.
The problem is that the Toyota camper is based on a frame vehicle. The Pinto is unibody. Not saying it can't be done, but not easy, and not without integrity being compromised.
W-a-a-a-y back in the early 70's, when I was a teen racing slot cars, there was a guy who would build the strangest things. Similar to your idea, he took a Ford Galaxy station wagon, cut it just behind the front seats and adapted a pick up truck style camper shell.
He also built a..., well..., he called it a "Transporter." It was basically a rectangle. Wide like a bus, long like a full sized car and low, - so low a short person could easily lean on the roof. Imaging a very low, wide van specifically for hauling Go-Karts. It was powered by a Goliath engine and I think through a VW transaxle. So, know that there are/were others out there of the same spirit. :smile:
Tom
the easy part is mounting a unibody to a framed truck....it it was the other way around it would be difficult. Break out the torch and start fabricating....its good for the sole.
I think the hardest thing would be looking at a pinto front end with big cowboy mirrors on the doors....
Best of Luck
FrankBoss
PS: what did those Toyota MH come with for engines...that could be scary.
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Quote from: Cookieboy on February 02, 2008, 09:14:05 AM
on a side note... when I moved to Hibbing some 14/15 years ago there was a Pinto wagon here in town that someone had built into a van. They had raised to roof and the back end looked very much like any van would. As I recall it was a very nice looking conversion
Frank asked if I could recall what this conversion looked like... since it was 14/15 years ago and memories being such as they are...
was something like or this is what I would do... doors for the back would open like barn doors and I like the look of the first picture posted better myself. I would put window(s) in the front of the raised roof like you see on many campers.
anyhow... this is the best I could do based on old memories...
wow like a Ausie UTE delivery they had in the 1970's.
I dig it.
FrankBoss
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