Someone please tell me I don't need this car...

[FElony]

On the endangered species list.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/1972-ford-pinto-factory-air/6601398246.html

[turbohunter]

LOL
Two words
Gapp Rousch

And I won’t be posting a pic of it

[machoneman]

On the endangered species list.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/1972-ford-pinto-factory-air/6601398246.html

Hah! Only a real dummy would buy that car!!!

LOL! It's a steal for a chrome bumpered Pinto.

[FElony]

LOL
Two words
Gapp Roush

I feel a 9000 rpm 289 behind my rusted zipper.

"...the rest of the interior is baked." Exactly what they said last time I went in for neuroimaging.

And I won’t be posting a pic of it

I think the the beefsteaks that pounded me this morning were the same guys Jay sent out last time. I kinda blacked out so I'm not sure. Boy, this posting business is rough.

[FElony]

On the endangered species list.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/1972-ford-pinto-factory-air/6601398246.html

Hah! Only a real dummy would buy that car!!!

Exactly why I'm interested in it.

LOL! It's a steal for a chrome bumpered Pinto.

Think I can flip it on eBay?

[Heo]

Admit it you know you neeeeeed it you need it real bad

[machoneman]

Think I can flip it on eBay?
[/quote]

Nawh! Make it look like G&R's Cleveland engined Pro car or Glidden's or Dyno's. Trick paint, biggs and littles, a modern 460 CID Ford Racing Winsor short, a 'C' piston swap, with big intake 230-240 cc ports ala' the great flowing Aussie 'C' style heads, 9" rear, 5-speed tranny and more!

Watch this vid and you'll do it!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRb2LuWXzWY

Hey, spend some cash, eh? Can't take it with you now can you?  LOL!

[plovett]

I was thinking a 7000 rpm solid lifter 289 or 302 with a T5 and 4.11 gears.  Call it the "Photon".  Or maybe "Pintophetamine"?

JMO,

paulie

[TomP]

I had a 72 Runabout like that. Solid lifter 289 and Toploader (this was a couple years before T5's came out) so only 3.55 gears. No air... actually no heater. The interior was just fiberglass buckets and a 6 point .090" wall roll bar. Weighed 2300lbs with me in it and would easily lay waste to all the fast cars but I never ran it at the street races afraid of losing my license which i needed for work. I ran it all the time in private on various roads. I suspect it ran low 11's or high 10's but there was no local strip back then.

[Barry_R]

Really, really like that thing.
Took my driver test in a 72 4 speed Pinto.
Wonder if an aluminum 482 would fit...

[FElony]

I had a 72 Runabout like that. Solid lifter 289 and Toploader (this was a couple years before T5's came out) so only 3.55 gears. No air... actually no heater. The interior was just fiberglass buckets and a 6 point .090" wall roll bar. Weighed 2300lbs with me in it and would easily lay waste to all the fast cars but I never ran it at the street races afraid of losing my license which i needed for work. I ran it all the time in private on various roads. I suspect it ran low 11's or high 10's but there was no local strip back then.

Bitchin'! I was just now thinking about this guy I knew here in AZ in the 90's with an early Pinto 302 swap. I think it was a tight fit; he had to diddle with the radiator location or put the fan up front or both. At some point he picked up a much cleaner '76-ish Pinto and had a much easier time of relocating that 302.

Of course, I had completely forgotten the '74 Mustang II that is languishing in the back of my old house. A little bigger and heavier than the Pinto, but I think an easier project that I'll never do. All I lack is a rear sump pan. Will a Cleveland fit in? Who knows. Dyno Don?

So many tribute cars in the making. So little motivation.

[FElony]

Really, really like that thing.
Took my driver test in a 72 4 speed Pinto.
Wonder if an aluminum 482 would fit...

I wonder if there are any weirdo Pinto fanatics that would consider it heresy to hack up a factory 4-speed A/C '72? I mean, I understand that kind of thing, really. If I buy it, what do you have to trade?

[FElony]

Really, really like that thing.
Took my driver test in a 72 4 speed Pinto.
Wonder if an aluminum 482 would fit...

I wonder if there are any weirdo Pinto fanatics that would consider it heresy to hack up a factory 4-speed A/C '72? I mean, I understand that kind of thing, really. If I buy it, what do you have to trade?

Allow me to answer my own question. http://www.fordpinto.com/general-help/71-73-pinto-2-0-engine/    A Pinto forum. Sure. Naturally.

[FElony]

So to amp myself up to score this car, I did what most guys in this forum would do. That's right, I did vocal recreations of a 10,000 rpm small block running through the gears whilst in the shower. Great acoustics! My delivery was so fierce and awesome that the cat came running in with the First Aid kit clamped in his little jaws.

However, a V8 swap for that car seems to require parts not easy to find any more. Plus, I don't know anyone that can tub it. So I talked myself out of it. Still for sale, so I step aside to let you foaming mongrels fight over it. Am I not kind?

[TomP]

I won't ask what you were shifting. 


The rad is no issue nowadays. In 1980 I used a Monza rad with the inlets moved. 65 289 water pump and moved the rad ahead of the support. Nowadays i'd use the short Explorer timing cover and water pump and a narrow aluminum rad.
 I had the Herbert and Meek headers that sweep up and forward and dump ahead of the crossmember. No cutting but underhood heat buildup was a problem. It was my daily driver and only car for a couple years. Rain, snow, whatever. Got very good mileage with first a C90X cam and Cobra Intake then with a Crane solid and Torker. It had domed Jahns pistons making 12 to 1 compression and the heads were ported but still used the 1.78 valves on the first engine. I got away with 94 octane gas because it was never under much load. The tires would spin before bogging.

That was a fun car but having $22,000 dollars (in early 80's bucks, like a million now!) "invested" made it impossible to sell when everyone else's  $1000 V8 Pinto for sale was a $300 car with a $200 mid 70's smog 302. It meant having to pass on a 66 427 Fairlane and a 70 GT500 that came with a 428CJ still in it running and a complete 427 SOHC that he discovered won't fit.