Confession: I have been keeping an eye out for “the right” Pinto for a couple of years now. You know, that barn find ex-race car that just needs a carb rebuild. I don’t even know what the use case would be, it’s just an idea that has been bouncing around in my head since I watched the video below.
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Or maybe it was this series:
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Love those cars.
There is one issue here; those of us running 1200cc engines will kill for one of those 2300cc big blocks. Just sayin.
Had a ’74 wagon. Notched the cam gear, re-jetted and fiddled with the distributor. Shocked a few boy racers. Put 300K on it and rebuilt the head twice. Loved that little scooter!
If I could find a mid to late 70s notchback Pinto that hadn’t been chopped up and wasn’t rusted out, I’d buy it.Â
Everything around here is tubbed for drags, chopped up for dirt track, or rusted into the ground.Â
I should never have sold mine.Â
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Yep, that’s the key: finding a decent Pinto to do a build on. Always looking out for the next project 🙂
My first new car after starting my job at IBM Corp.. Got a brand new 71 Forest green metallic pinto trunk back.. Great little car. The standard floor shifter was fun. Didn’t have it all that long. So!d it to my sister in law and picked up a year old 70 mgb roadster. Couple of guys at my work also had pintos, used to haul ass on the interstate to work doing 90 and 100 mph. Cool cars. Ford did a great jobÂ