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June 8, 2008
Fords At Carlisle: Pinto Party!
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I met a number of the Pinto owners at last year’s All-Ford Nationals, and they’re a good-natured bunch. And the awesome thing about their cars is that no two are the same. They’re divided into stock and modified classes, but within these distinctions, anything goes. The woodgrain wagon isn’t even a Pinto, it’s a Bobcat, Mercury’s equivalent model. The powder-blue ‘77 has a Mustang’s 302 and a Shaker hoodscoop. A handful of the cars are running the boosted T-Bird turbo coupe version of the Pinto’s 2.3L four-cylinder. One of these was Connie’s lovely orange Pinto, which also has a color-matched powder-coated valve cover and orange plaid seats that were re-covered using a roll of the original NOS fabric. Check out the whole Pinto gallery after the jump!
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Rear Ended
Jun 16, 2008 at 2:38 am
All I can say is “Pintos make people happy”
NoForKin
Jun 14, 2008 at 11:15 am
those are some bad ass pintos
phils toys
Jun 14, 2008 at 3:46 am
The Bobcat is a 76 and it is a pleasure to be part of the pinto group i also have a 76 bobcat hatch back i am trying to get back together.
ADaughen
Jun 13, 2008 at 9:24 pm
The Olive Green ‘72 has an all original ~9600 miles on it. It is simply amazing inside and out.
Hopefully my ‘78 CW will be next to them at the show next year.
Adam
PCCA registered member #368
7urtle
Jun 9, 2008 at 5:53 am
id get pinto
darryl
Jun 9, 2008 at 12:11 am
i had 2 of these pintos in the past!
wished they were more of them still around!
they are good on gas!
Stewart
Jun 8, 2008 at 3:43 am
I learned to drive in my mom’s 1974 Pinto Squire Wagon.
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Yellow with wood paneling!
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I remember my parents buying that car brand new for $3725.00 in ‘74.
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After all the bad press about Pinto’s exploding in rear end collisions, there was a guy in our town who had a cool plate on his Pinto.
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It read: “I GO BOOM”.