How many Cruizin' Wagons around today are authentic and how many are wearing the porthole panels out of junked CWs?
I have stripped 4 C-wagons for their pannels. but I have never built another from them.
From Pintony
I have 1 wagon with the panels out of a crusin wagon ;D
Mine still has the original crusin wagon body. Not much else is original. You can see where the stripes are/were under the Macco paint job that was on the car when i bought it.
My orange one is original. It had all the correct parts on it when i got it as well as the original stripes. I have only stripped one true one but have run across 3-4 fakes in the wrecking yards. So I guess I have seen more fakes than original ones.
My 77 and 78 are both original.
a buddy of mine had a early wagon (not sure of the year) ( not sure what year they were introduced) that he popped the side glass and took them to a sheet metal shop and had some panels made to fit. this was back in '72 or '73.
it was painted a bright yellow with a lot of fancy stripes on it. we put a turbo on it too one weekend.
haven't seen the guy in years so i don't know what may have happened to it. it was located in the downey , california area back then
I have an original '78 C-wagon.
Outside of All Ford Nat's I have seen three other C-wagons. I haven't gotten close enough to see if they were original.
By the time the Cruisin Wagons appeared in 1977 Pinto production and popularity were beginning to wane. The new Cruisin Wagon was styled for a youth market and not very many were sold and that is why they are scarce today. Back in the day few were seen on the streets at least in Southern California. Consider yourself lucky to have a nice original.
my cw was originally a station wagon converted. i much rather have the CW =)
Hey dholvrsn:
My '77 was purchased new by me and is an original. I am in the process of restoring it and
will keep it looking stock.
77pintocw
My 77 is a real one.Hope to have it up and running later this year.
My 73 is all original except the carpet. It really needs a paint job though.
Original panels! ;D
My 80 is a converted wagon.It took me 15 yrs to find all the parts but it was worth the wait.
Quote from: gordie on May 12, 2008, 11:33:09 AM
By the time the Cruisin Wagons appeared in 1977 Pinto production and popularity were beginning to wane.
Was this because of the fuel tank controversy or something else?
Kind of funny that Ford would would spend the money on tooling for the Cruisin' Wagon and square headlight facelifts for something that is on the way out.
Question I have had my cw for about three day's did they all have a center console?
as far as I know they did not come with a console from the factory.
Quote from: earthquake on May 19, 2008, 09:54:25 AM
as far as I know they did not come with a console from the factory.
Yes they did, but the factory one only goes back to the shifter.
Bill
Thanks for clearing that up.I had just never seen one.
mine goes back to a compartment.
Ford dropped the Pinto because it had run it's course and sales were slowing down. Ralph Nader did not help things much either. The new Escort was the replacement for the Pinto. Ford did not mind spending lots of money modifying the later Pinto's. Look at the fortune that they spent designing the 1960 Edsel only to discontinue the car a little over a month after it was announced. It was one of the best looking Edsel's too!