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[steveracer]

Show off your Pinto models HERE!

 

Found this one in one of my boxes, built some years ago.

 

Edited December 11, 2024 by steveracer

[Tom99]

Here is my. 1977 Pinto

[Stef]

Love me some Pintos; you cats make me want to build a fleet of them!

[Brudda]

6 hours ago, Tom99 said:

Here is my. 1977 Pinto

Cool little pinto. In 1985 I needed a car for work. I had a friend that works in the post office. They had over 100 pintos they were auctioning off. All white with a 2.3 and automatic. Service records were on the front seat. It had 35,000 miles and I bought it for $800. Had that car for over 12 years. Put over 100,000 miles and she was still running strong. I could leave the keys in her as no one would steal her. I donated that car to a couple in church one day. They had it for at least 5 years. I really liked that car. I had to buy the amt kit. It’s a 77 but it’s close enough to my 80. I remember putting away $300 a month for 12 years like a car payment. Then I had enough to buy a car cash. Never had a car payment since. 

[thatz4u]

Here's 2 of my Pintos, my kind of different...

[SpeedShift]

1 hour ago, Brudda said:

Cool little pinto. In 1985 I needed a car for work. I had a friend that works in the post office. They had over 100 pintos they were auctioning off. All white with a 2.3 and automatic. Service records were on the front seat. It had 35,000 miles and I bought it for $800. Had that car for over 12 years. Put over 100,000 miles and she was still running strong. I could leave the keys in her as no one would steal her. I donated that car to a couple in church one day. They had it for at least 5 years. I really liked that car. I had to buy the amt kit. It’s a 77 but it’s close enough to my 80. I remember putting away $300 a month for 12 years like a car payment. Then I had enough to buy a car cash. Never had a car payment since. 

I graduated from VaTech in 1976 and had enough money left to get a car to look for work.

Got a new stripped down 76 Pinto ...no AC or radio, I put in a cassette player.

Drove it for seven years until 1983...I had two timing belt replacements and the Ford campaign to put the rubber dam barrier on the "dangerous" gas tank.

I put 230,000 miles on it until I bought an RX-7

 

Edited November 29, 2024 by SpeedShift

[THarrison351]

Built this a couple of years ago.

[Tom99]

here is my 1971 Pinto, painted to replicate my 1973 Pinto.

 

[satterwhite78]

Awesome

Edited November 30, 2024 by satterwhite78
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[TarheelRick]

Here is my WIP 1980 Pinto.  I do have the latest Pinto release kit and the 79/80 Pony Express kit, so I can do a front clip swap to make a model of this one. Right now, I am attempting to swap steering wheels for a Mustang II GT wheel I had in one of my parts cars, installing a radio/CD player, and getting the heating system reinstalled.  It is a bit cold around here lately, right now it is 35 F with a 33 F wind chill. It got down to 27 F last night.

 

[StanGlover]

Here’s the two Pintos I’ve built. Have a couple more in the stash I’ll get to eventually! 
 

[robdebie]

I built the MPC 1977/1978 Pinto Wagon, as the the Illinois nazi's car in the 1980 movie 'The Blues Brothers'. It started as a glue bomb. I don't consider it 100% done, MPC 'forgot' the chrome trime around the side and rear windows, I hope to add that one nice day.

I made a fictitious shop display for it, that was shown along with 32 more fictitious shop displays at the IPMS-NL show ESM, see here: https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models/shopdisplays.htm

Rob

[slusher]

Great looking pintos!

[Chinacar]

14 hours ago, robdebie said:

I built the MPC 1977/1978 Pinto Wagon, as the the Illinois nazi's car in the 1980 movie 'The Blues Brothers'. It started as a glue bomb. I don't consider it 100% done, MPC 'forgot' the chrome trime around the side and rear windows, I hope to add that one nice day.

I made a fictitious shop display for it, that was shown along with 32 more fictitious shop displays at the IPMS-NL show ESM, see here: https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models/shopdisplays.htm

Rob

What a great idea for all of the builds you show. Very period correct, great graphic design. Thank you!

[Mike 1017]

This was built about 15 years ago. I don't know if anyone remembers JIMINOHIO. He Had the best prices and lowest shipping. One of the kits I had ordered the steering wheel missing. He told me to pick another kit for free. Who does this now?

Mike

[thatz4u]

I built this Pinto in 2018, to honor my late friend John Lingenfelter...

[robdebie]

On 12/1/2024 at 8:00 AM, Chinacar said:

What a great idea for all of the builds you show. Very period correct, great graphic design. Thank you!

Thanks for the compliments! Here's one more with a car model. But not a Pinto 🙂

Rob

[Sledsel]

Great Pintos guys... I have 2 in the works so I better get busy....

 

[nickfzr61]

Cool builds all but you guys all left out the most important detail. 
A bullseye on the rearend.