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Title: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
Post by: Scott Hamilton on September 04, 2012, 09:33:19 PM
I love driving my Pinto Daily- (I get to do that now since I finished my Green runabout about a year ago)...
I always get several folks with with a thumbs up or other very happy smiles when I ride by, how about you?
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Post by: r4pinto on September 06, 2012, 11:25:03 AM
I have been using my 77 sedan as a daily driver for almost three weeks since it is cheaper on gas than my 08 Grand Prix  >:( . I get many looks and even got a mid to late 90s Monte Carlo to slow down, honk his horn & give me a thumbs up. That car is so sluggish most the time people are giving me the finger when they tailgate me & eventually pass me.
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Post by: Pintosopher on September 06, 2012, 11:48:55 AM
When My 72 racer actualy was licensed for street use, I drove to autocross events. On one return trip from Sacto to Napa, I engaged a  modified Corvette owner in a strategic "cat and mouse" chase thru Sunday afternoon traffic, I won and he made point of coming alongside and gave me the BIG thumbs up! Of course, this was highly illegal and I'm sure shockeda few commuters too! ;)
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Post by: whoever on September 14, 2012, 07:54:41 PM
At least once a week I come out of a store and someone is sitting in their car writing sown their phone number, wanting to buy my car.
Title: Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
Post by: Srt on September 15, 2012, 03:50:21 AM
When My 72 racer actualy was licensed for street use, I drove to autocross events. On one return trip from Sacto to Napa, I engaged a  modified Corvette owner in a strategic "cat and mouse" chase thru Sunday afternoon traffic, I won and he made point of coming alongside and gave me the BIG thumbs up! Of course, this was highly illegal and I'm sure shockeda few commuters too! ;)

 ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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Post by: OTTOGII on September 22, 2012, 12:18:45 PM
My Pinto has gotten a lot of parking lot phone/photo action.  Otto N Austin 
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Post by: sedandelivery on September 22, 2012, 07:29:11 PM
Almost everytime I drive the car people ask me about it and talk to me about how they had one and ran it for 100,000 miles etc. I talked to a guy who lives in my town with a '67 Mustang and he started talking about my car as he had seen it around. ( I had my big truck at the time).  Pintos are amazing conversation items. BTW Matt, a VW bus is much slower up a hill than our Pintos!
 (The old air cooled ones)
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Post by: blupinto on September 22, 2012, 10:41:58 PM
I had Ruby parked for the Cruisin' Grand car thing in Escondido and-I swear- I saw a couple driving a mid-'70s 'Vette rubberneck my Pinto! Sweet!  ;D

Title: Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
Post by: Srt on September 23, 2012, 03:10:23 AM
When My 72 racer actualy was licensed for street use, I drove to autocross events. On one return trip from Sacto to Napa, I engaged a  modified Corvette owner in a strategic "cat and mouse" chase thru Sunday afternoon traffic, I won and he made point of coming alongside and gave me the BIG thumbs up! Of course, this was highly illegal and I'm sure shockeda few commuters too! ;)

i put a new head on mine one morning and wasout for a 'test' drive on the 60 freeway in the la area. stopped at a Denny's for breakfast.
 
the onramp to the freeway was a bit over 1/4 mile long; a sweeper to the right as it merged. i was going about 105 when i merged and as it turned out, the only rubber necker that noticed was a CHP guy that i finally noticed about another mile down the road!
 
he was a pinto fan.  had one at home and couldn't have been more enthusiastic about talking to me about how dam fast i had it going.  (he said he was at 110 and accellerating)
 
moral of the story? run fast on the track ond NOT on the street.  by the way. he didn't write me up!
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Post by: DreamBean on September 23, 2012, 12:48:38 PM
At least 2 a day as I drive my 76 trunk type as a daily driver. The previous owner did a rattle can black paint job with 2 red stripes. So SHINEY IT IS NOT. I have had people stop dead in the middle of an intersection to yell "A PINTO' while giving me a thumbs up.
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Post by: blupinto on September 29, 2012, 01:20:40 AM
I get that, too! As for your '76 not being shiny... Ruby isn't the shiniest jewel in the box, either,... but she is priceless to me anyway!  ;D
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Post by: SeanP on October 16, 2013, 12:11:05 PM
I successfully drove my 78 Pinto from Dallas to Ocean Springs, MS and back for Cruisin the Coast 2013.  Almost every place I stopped at had someone that would talk to me about the Pinto they used to have or were amazed that I had one still running.  Even with all the nice classic hot rods someone would yell out "hey! A Pinto!"  I lost count of how many times someone took a picture of me.  I wonder how many Facebook pages I'm on.  My dad suggested that we put a sign on the back that says "Tell us your Pinto story".  We even have a friend to video it so look for us next year on YouTube.
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Post by: dianne on February 22, 2014, 10:40:18 AM
I had one accident so far. With the halos on the front I think it draws more attention. Someone in a truck almost hit another car looking at the Pinto wagon LOL
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Post by: amc49 on March 11, 2014, 02:03:51 AM
A couple of years back a guy came racing around me on the freeway in a baby blue mid '70s Pinto wagon, it looked in pretty good shape. I was the rubber necker there and just as he passed and got up a ways he popped a tire.......... .............. ...LOL, at least for a fractional second........ ......in the next, the heavy wirewheel looking hubcap came loose (uh oh!) and vaulted high in the air where the wind caught it and I spent the rest of the time watching it fall towards me while taking evasive action. Man that cover went at least fifty feet up. Looking in traffic behind me swerving all over the same way I saw the cover crash down on empty space thankfully. Needless to say I thought more about the driver than the car after that, as is why the ?$!(!!? did you !?@%!!?.............. ....I gave a seconds' thought to going back and offering to buy the now stranded car, maybe he was disgusted with it, you never know. But the almost getting sashed by the wheel cover did for me and I could only think 'you idiot' all the way home.
Title: Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
Post by: 74 PintoWagon on March 11, 2014, 07:49:41 AM
I get looks/thumbs up on the road all the time and comments in a parking lot almost every time..
Title: Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
Post by: slooldracer on April 02, 2014, 09:12:04 AM
I roadrace a 2000 CC Pinto. At every race, both other competitors and fans flock to the car. The never saw a roadracing Pinto. All think it is very cool.
Title: Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
Post by: Scott Hamilton on April 02, 2014, 12:21:06 PM
Road Race a Pinto....  Need pictures!!
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Post by: mrskydog on April 02, 2014, 12:30:53 PM
Ya lots of looks, people asking what is it, or saying man there used to be a ton of these on the road. Its a Vega, Monza, Maverick, colt, gremblin,pacer,oh ya Pinto....Cool!   8)
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Post by: FracMonkey on April 16, 2014, 09:59:20 PM
I get more looks than the high dollar exotic euro cars in the area.  Biggest joy i get is seeing people smile when they see it.  If only in passing, they smiled once that day. 

FracMonkey

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Post by: A Alves on April 22, 2014, 08:02:06 AM
I bought this wagon last year as a daily driver but soon realized it was something special. As my third wagon my wife who hates it doesn't understand why so many people thumbs up or walk up and ask me about it. I've had dozens of pics taken of it. Some have said it was the nicest looking VEGA they've seen. UGH!!!
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Post by: 65ShelbyClone on May 07, 2014, 10:23:28 AM
I took mine out on Sunday for its first >5mi shakedown drive and I caught several other drivers rubbernecking punctuated by a thumbs-up from a guy in a very nice '64 Galaxie.  8)

My '68 Mustang is loud and ugly and it doesn't get that many looks.
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Post by: CanadianBatman on May 07, 2014, 11:14:54 AM
I have two, my trunk model '79 got at least 2 a week just bombing around town. Lots of primer and a jacked stance in the back end. Plus it is pretty loud. But the second I put my '79 pinchero truck conversion on the road it's been 3-4 a day like clockwork. People think it's a dodge rampage or a Datsun, even had one guy ask if it was a left hand conversion of an Australian RHD Ute!

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Title: Re: This one is for Daily Pinto drivers- How many rubber neckers?
Post by: pintoautocrosser on June 13, 2014, 02:13:01 PM
I also have an ex road race car that I drive on the street.  Tons of looks and thumbs up even from the younger crowd. The cops no longer pull me over thinking I don't have insurance as well.   Boy times have changed.  But even at that, no ladies will ride around in it.  Maybe I need to lower my standards.
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Post by: pinto_one on November 05, 2014, 09:24:26 AM
Every time I take out my pinto on good sunny days from the (temp controlled ) man cave, I always have people look and say they had one or two at one time and others reply that they have not seen one in years,  but glad to see it being taken care of ,
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Post by: 65ShelbyClone on November 05, 2014, 11:03:11 AM
I took mine to the gas station about a week ago for the first time since the turbo swap (and since my last post six months ago) and had two people stop to talk to me about it.  ;)
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Post by: 76hotrodpinto on November 05, 2014, 10:09:38 PM
I get a lot of people looking at the pinto, but I also get people looking around for "what is making that rumble?" It can take a second before they realize, yeah, it's that pinto. I also tend to draw attention at the gas station... fuel cell. It prompts all the classic exploding tank jokes. Yeah, hahaha. Just try to  catch this bumper, let alone hit it.
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Post by: dianne on January 24, 2015, 05:00:26 PM
This is old, but with a bright yellow Pinto, it should be pretty funny to see how many looks it will get!
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Post by: entropy on September 09, 2015, 06:15:26 AM
Mine definitely gets a lot of thumbs up and waves.  It also gets a lot of import guys staring intently at their gauges when I rumble up next to them at a light.  Veeeeeery focused on those gauges for some reason.  Won't break eye contact with them.  Can't imagine why..... ;D
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Post by: blupinto on September 12, 2015, 06:14:55 PM
On my way home the other day someone in a late-model Ford Fsomething was caught taking pictures of my ragged little Moxie BluBelle as we merged onto the freeway in Carlsbad (California). lol At the Costco in Carlsbad a few weeks ago a guy in a big black GM SUV asked me if I wanted to sell Moxie. I said no... then he asked me what she was worth if I wanted to sell her. I told him I put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into that car, so she's priceless... then told him to contact Pinto Barn. I hope he does. He said my ragged old Pinto is a classic.  :D
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Post by: 74 PintoWagon on September 12, 2015, 10:51:18 PM
Wife's been driving the Pinto while I work on her Falcon, and she tells me almost every day she gets compliments or thumbs up and offers to buy it...
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Post by: dga57 on September 13, 2015, 02:55:35 AM
What did she expect?  It's orange!   ;)
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Post by: dianne on September 13, 2015, 06:59:53 AM
What did she expect?  It's orange!   ;)

And it's a wagon, a two door cool looking wagon!

Imagine that in yellow :D
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Post by: 74 PintoWagon on September 13, 2015, 07:51:39 AM
What did she expect?  It's orange!   ;)
That could have something to do with it.. :D
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Post by: 74 PintoWagon on September 13, 2015, 07:54:19 AM
And it's a wagon, a two door cool looking wagon!

Imagine that in yellow :D

Hmmmm, I don't know about that. :D
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Post by: dianne on September 13, 2015, 09:24:37 AM
Hmmmm, I don't know about that. :D

LOL
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Post by: 76hotrodpinto on September 25, 2015, 10:01:43 AM
I saw another pinto on the road this week. It's the first one I've seen rolling since I got my 76. It was a peach-ish colored wagon, I think it had small bumpers. Was it anyone on the board?
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Post by: robertwwithee on March 17, 2016, 01:29:57 PM
Took my pink pinto out yesterday and got more than a handful of thumbs up.  Even more than what wife's Nova gets.  Both 72 cars. 

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Post by: LongTimeFordMan on April 17, 2017, 04:25:24 PM
I usually get  3-5 thumbs up a week, about the same number of folks making photos and usually 2-3 notes on my windshield a month.

About 3-5 folks telling me stories of pintos tbey or their family or friends have owned per week.

Won 5 trophies at local car shows...
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Post by: JoeBob on April 21, 2017, 08:29:47 PM
I get the thumbs up all the time. Last week at a major intersection, I stopped for a red light. The driver next to me got out of his can and started taking photos. I smiled but I don't think I was the subject of the picture.
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Post by: warhead2 on April 26, 2017, 08:25:33 PM
2 story's. When i finally able to move my project  77 cruising wagon to my friends house. A Mexican guy walking by stopped  and said Vega? After i told him what it was he said cool car.
Then few months later at my friends house. He had just bought a 89 full size blazer and had another friend over to show him and all his friend would talk about was how cool my Pinto was LOL.

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Post by: C. M. Wolf on May 11, 2017, 09:03:59 PM
I do have a concern that when I finally do finish this current Pinto Project, someone's going to try & steal it,(or worse, one of the resident hillbillies in my area will hit it. I WILL insure it high enough to make 'em cry if they do!!. lol

I've barely begun to work on this Pinto restoring/rebuilding it & I get lots of "What kind of car is that?" & "Nice Pinto, I had once.."

I do wish this site would get rid of any notion of "Demo-derby", I hate the idea of people wrecking perfectly good cars that at least could be used for parts just to see things "Destroyed"!

Michael
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Post by: 1972 Wagon on August 28, 2017, 08:51:31 PM
We had a meeting in town, which is about 10 miles away, and drove the Pinto to give it some exercise. After our meeting, we went to Shell to fill-up before the post-Hurricane Harvey gas prices go into effect. The guy at the adjoining pump talked to us about the brown Pinto that he owned years ago. Then we went to Winn-Dixie. It took us 20 minutes to get from the parking lot into the store. One couple was asking us all about the wagon because "They remembered when...."  Then a man who works for Allstate Insurance came over. He had recently bought a non-running 1971 1.6L sedan. Oddly enough, like mine, it is green. He wants to work on the car with his 16 year old son. His plans are to do a turbo swap. I encouraged him to join the site. The Power of the Pinto to unite perfect strangers!
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Post by: pinto_one on August 30, 2017, 09:02:58 AM
Now the new rule is when you take your Pinto out for a short drive always add a hour or more to the trip , the reason is when you do stop you have tons of people asking questions about the car , like is it for sale , I had one years ago , I learned to drive in one , been years since I seen one ,  and the funny thing is my wife always asked me why I am gone for so long when I do take  out the Pinto ,  That stopped a few months ago when her car had to go to the shop for warranty and had to use it because I was out of town with my truck and did not want to take the electric car I have , yep for a few days she got thumbs up and asked all kind of questions she did not know , and when I got home a pile of phone numbers on the table from people that wanted it , so then told her rule # 2 , it not for sale , and she does not ask me any longer why it takes me a long time to drive now  ;D
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Post by: sedandelivery on September 02, 2017, 06:35:39 PM
Drive my Bobcat every week.
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Post by: dick1172762 on September 08, 2017, 06:07:28 PM
Drive my Bobcat every week.
   That's what there for! Right? Only my race cars were only driven on Sat & Sun.
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Post by: dick1172762 on September 11, 2017, 12:08:15 PM
Of all the race cars I've owned thru out the years, my Pintos were a magnet for story's and pictures. Of all the racing that I did I only saw 3 or 4 Pintos till I went to Summit Point in WV. There they had a class called GT-Pinto. The week end I was there, there were 27 Pinto's on the track for their race. Every thing from run of the mill to show cars. All were fast. The one that won was clocked at 142 mph. This was in 1995. Class is gone now but I see some of the cars for sale from time to time. They would be a very good buy if you wanted to go fast.
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Post by: Nytshaed on May 31, 2018, 02:39:33 PM
I just bought my first Pinto three days ago, and on the way home, we got two thumbs up and a lot of distracted people checking it out.  Very cool.

Nyt
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Post by: 65ShelbyClone on June 10, 2018, 12:55:40 AM
Last weekend I took the Pinto out. Someone asked me "what car is that?"
Me: "It's a '72 Pinto"
"Wow, I don't think I've ever seen one. What year is it?"
( ::) )  Me: It's a '72.
"That's cool. And it's GREEN!
Me: It sure is.
To be fair, this person was obviously too young to recognize a Pinto and had probably only ever heard of them in horror stories legend. That's also the first time I've received a comment from someone who didn't know what a Pinto was. Why do I feel old all of a sudden?
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Post by: Lonny Candel on June 16, 2018, 06:56:49 PM
I had a comment from a young Soldier who didn't know what a Pinto was a couple of years ago. But the fact that it was a little blue 76 Chevette that I used to own. He said "is that a Pinto?". I said "nope, it's a Chevette".  Ironically, I traded it, and that guy sold it to another Soldier. I see it driven every now and then by him.
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Post by: wrastu on May 23, 2019, 06:01:22 PM
I get alot of guys taking pictures of my butt (rear end) at stop lights, can see the phone above the steering wheel with them taking pictures.

(https://i.imgur.com/tnycnth.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/1FwOuTo.jpg)

And I get so many "It will look good when you get it painted" my reply is usually "What? That's original paint!"

And I never knew everybody who used to have one had a 351, 429, or 460 when they find out mine is a 302.

Judging by the number of "former" V8 Pinto owners who had them there wasn't many 4cyl or V6 owners at all.
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Post by: davidpinto on January 10, 2021, 06:33:11 PM
i get coments everywhere i stop,especially when i pop the hood.i average about 25 smiles per gallon...
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Post by: Z Factor Pinto on February 17, 2021, 11:14:13 AM
I was stopped twice by Police Officers who couldn't believe I would drive and exploding car. I had the Sedan, so I had to educate them on the myth of the exploding Runabouts and why my sedan wasn't part of that story.
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Post by: Dtmix on June 15, 2022, 07:51:25 PM
Hey Z factor! It was awesome to see you at Carlisle! Your car is coming along great!

Happy Motoring!
Dan