My late father, who passed away in 1976, owned a 1974 Brown Ford Pinto. I was only 5 at the time. Some of my best memories of my father was when he would take me on short drives in the countryside in his Pinto. Of all the cars, I knew him to have, nothing compared to the unique, comforting, and exhilarating sound of that Ford Pinto engine! A former WWII Lockheed P-38 pilot, he told me that there was a connection to him and that Pinto just as there was a connection between his P-38 and him during the war. He loved that car…and so did I! Especially on Saturday mornings when we would go to the city and county parks together. Those wonderful memories are now 50 years old!! When I ran across this video by accident, I was stunned!! I immediately recognized the dashboard and when I heard that engine, all those wonderful memories came flooding back and it brought tears to my eyes. Even better was that the view of this video was from the back seat - often where I sat as a young boy. So the view was perfect!! The icing on this cake was that the guy driving this car drove almost exactly how my father did and through beautiful countryside just as my father did half a century ago. This video is literally right out of the deep reaches of my mind’s memory!! I am so grateful for this video and have saved it to my favorites videos. God bless you for posting this. You made me feel close to my father once again.
it was beautiful to read your story! I want to buy his Ford Pinto from a man, but ithe is reluctant to sell it to me, due to the large number of memories he has with his, but the car is slowly becoming In scrap
@@tenderpawsm473 You’re certainly right about that. But back then, I don’t think anyone really cared about that risk. Lol… (It was a different world then…)
@@SubaruAscentFan8923 They had this issue from 1971-1973. It takes at least one google search to find this out. I have a '74 Pinto. Its not just gonna randomly explode. And hey, if you have a 1971-1973, the fix is just $11. This guy's model is a 1974. Please do research before you comment stuff like this.
Brings back memories! I had a 74 Pinto that I bought late 77 or early 78. I loved that little piece of crap! I drove it until early or mid 83 making it the longest owned vehicle I ever had until 2005 when I bought a 2005 F150 that I kept until 2017 before trading for a new F150. The Pinto was traded for a little Dodge D50 truck in 83 and that was traded for an 86.5 Nissan Hard Body truck in 86. After that I bought a new vehicle every 1.5 to 2.5 years until 2005 when I bought that new F150... and just kept it forever, well 12 years anyway. So other than that 2005 F150, I owned that Pinto longer than any other vehicle! Thanks for posting this, that was a real trip down memory lane for me!
i miss riding my 1979 ford pinto. I had a 1975 bobcat in my back yard and someone saw it and bought it off me and came back a couple of years later and bought my 79 because I wasn't using it. I wish I never sold ether one.
I loved that starter noise in the beginning. I love Fords, Memories in my 77Vougar. Constant maintenance, but fun to run. Looks like mountains in PA too.
I had a 1972 Pinto hatchback that had an interior the same color as this one. It was my dads and it got handed down to me as a teenager. I put some serious miles on that little 4 cylinder engine. I loved the manual transmission too. I had some good times in that car.
my 1st car was a pinto...same shade of blue too. 2300cc 4sp manual. Drove the wheels off of that car. Learned to do brakes, set points, change a timing belt and swap out a master cylinder. Great times.
First, that perfect simple dash of my first gross-green car!! Then thinking, "it's not gonna idle until you move it." don't know why but that's what mine always did. Also: ash tray full of pennies, storage box full of cassettes, drum rolling the horn as fast as I could, best manual I've ever driven - cornering like it was on rails... man, I miss that car!
My first car. I learned to ‘drive a stick’ with it. I loved my 74 “pimento”. Orange with white trim and vinyl top, 4 speed manual. She took me everywhere. The original owner sold it because the steering was “too hard” for her. Took a beating yet kept running, bless her little heart.
The Pinto's engine lives on in the Ford Ranger 2.3 L 4 cylinder. I have a 5 speed 2003 Short Bed Ranger and that thing moves along. I can only imagine having what a Pinto would do
I had a 1974 ford pinto ,it was 5 speed,green and ran very well. It was in very great shape “WAS “It was around 1985 I was 20 I had put new mud/snow tires on rear,being stick shift it would handle very well in these conditions.But one night I didn’t negotiate a curve and flipped the car end to end landing upside down.After we climbed out, stood up,the wheels were still rolling. I told my friend let’s turn it over and get out of here ,which was impossible.True story I still have a scar on my forehead from that. I drive a Honda fit now.thnx
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My mom told me that she had a Pinto once. She absolutely loved it, at least until someone pulled out of a McDonald’s right in front of her. Relocated the right front fender right next to the left front. Thankfully she wasn’t badly hurt and she had my dad, who was a friend of her’s at the time, was nearby to help her out.
I have a 1974 Pinto station wagon with a 5.0 in it, I built it over 30 years ago and hope to restore it over the next few years. I doubt I will ever part with it.
Owned a '74 Pinto when I was 18, and later, six first-gen RX7s - one of which was the same shade of red as the one parked in the garage in front of this Pinto.
My Sister had a 74 Pinto that I had a chance to drive. It was a good car that Ford sold over 3 million of. You could get it stripped or fairly loaded. There was even a nice station wagon version. Make sure you have the gas tank recall installed.
My sister's had a 1980 Pinto wagon, yellow with black interior. I was the reverse when the transmission didn't work in reverse. They bought it used, and called it Bumblebee. This was before Transformers.
My first car was a '73 Pinto that I originally thought was silver. My dad parked it own front of the house and I said who's here? Who's car is that? He said its yours if you want it. To a high school kid with very little money, it was perfect. It was $100. Turned out it was green, but it was so oxidized it looked more like silver. :) After I got the oxidation off, I wish I had left it alone because I didnt like the green, but I just couldn't leave it alone. I put some western mag wheels on it with the ole white letter tires and aftermarket radio so it was cool(er) 🙄Then my 2nd car was a '74 Pinto with the bigger bumpers. That one was brown metallic with a white vinyl top and I transferred the wheels and radio to that one. I drove everywhere in those Pintos! Great memories. A few years later I got a gold '79 RX-7. Everyones first car should be a Pinto. It builds character.😅
I had a 1974 Bobcat. A couple of comments. First, you only need to touch the clutch to shift. Second, regardless of the Rack and Pinion Steering it was manual. So get you fingers out of the spokes, unless you want to have them broken off. Past that I loved to see the little car going again. Brings back lots of memories, my car took us on so many adventures, with reliably and great fuel economy.
Oh my goodness I never comment but this time I had to I watched the whole video 3 times this was my first car and your video brought back a million memories THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH i remembered things i hadn’t thought about since I was a teenager thank you again and best regards
That was a nice drive. Took me back to 1977 when I bought my first car, a 1974 Pinto for $1100. I was going to buy a buddy's nice Ford Courier with a shell for $3k but my dad advised me to go cheap for the first car since I may have fender benders and other stupid stuff happen. Boy was he was right.
Wow, I think my Dad bought his 79' for around 3K. I would mind having a Pinto granted I found one in good condition which is would be quite the challenge.
My dad bought a new 77 Pinto sedan 4 speed when I was in 7th grade. It was a decent car but he traded it in the following year for a new Fairmont Futura coupe, 6 cylinder automatic. The Pinto was under a recall involving the Lima sohc 4 cylinder, and all the Ford dealers were backed up addressing it.
My high school graduation present was a rei d ‘74 Pinto wagon. It lasted me through college and beyond until it was attacked by a beer truck that ran a stop sign. It had about 160,000 miles on it. I then bought a new white ‘80 Pinto wagon. It went above 150,000 miles before I traded it for a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass. HUGE mistake. I gave up my favorite car for a totally unreliable lemon.
That Lima Four was or became a good engine by the time Ford replaced the Mazda-built Courier with the Ranger. I had an 86, and my favorite, a 97 both with that engine and 5 speed. I want another 97! I never should have let that truck go!
I had a blue 74 Pinto hatchback. It was actually pretty good. I didn’t like it because it was so slow accelerating. But I could hit 90-95 mph. Had the 2.3 4cyl with auto trans.
Look at the blue, cars today have no color. Its all monotone grey, white, black, silver. They weren't afraid of color in the 60's-70's. Red, blue, green, any type of color was available, even bland blacks and whites. Even in the 90's you could still get some color, but today its blah. Nice and smooth, btw.
Hah! I thought you were in Virginia or Pennsylvania with the gorgeous country side!. Great video. My friends family had all sorts of Pintos. They did not explode. Of course they were rear ended either.
In 1974, Pintos were only available with four cylinder engines. It wasn’t until 1975 that the 2.8l V6 became an option. The Pinto never had an available I6.
I'd be scared to ride in that car. It struggled to get going, and if it ever STALLED somewhere (maybe past one of those curves), and the driver behind didn't see what was ahead, well you know what happens in rear end crashes in Pintos. This is kind of a shame, because it seems like it otherwise rides nicely. Still, I would be more comfortable in a vehicle that isn't SO unsafe.
That is a nice car I had one I'd take out the standard and put Automatic in it my pinto was automatic yeah it was a red Ford pinto old fake paneling old wood
Ford never produced an injected Pinto. All Pintos were carbureted from the factory. At the time the Pinto was produced (1971-1980), the use of fuel injection was limited to only a few high end cars. Everything else was carbureted.
@@Joshg1984 they can it's just the people don't know how to drive them they go up to 35 and up in one second by giving too much gas rpms be like 3000-5000rpms, when you post to drive them vehicles at 1500-2200 rpms on the roads it takes time to give up to speed but car will last longer tho. Also maintenance/tuneups is important, and i see why dumb people buy suvs and leave their cars running while in park in a parking lot thinking their shit is gonna last forever. The more you run the motor while sitting the less the life it'll have
Cars back then we’re tinker toys I’m telling you LOL but I’d be a bit afraid to drive a Ford Pinto because of the explosive gas tank in the back they could easily burst after being. Hit At 10 miles an hour
