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My dad bought me a 64 wildcat for $50 and we went to the junkyard and pulled a 25 cent starter brush and got it going, but I was like 13 and he sold it.

My first car after a few motorcycles was a 68 AMX, my dad never got why I was replacing parts on it that didnt need it. ( intake,headers,carb, dist, etc)

My dad bought me a 64 wildcat for $50 and we went to the junkyard and pulled a 25 cent starter brush and got it going, but I was like 13 and he sold it. My first car after a few motorcycles was a 68 AMX, my dad never got why I was replacing parts on it that didnt need it. ( intake,headers,carb, dist, etc)

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A lime green 1971 Ford Pinto w/ 2.0L and a 4 speed manual, 64,000 miles for $600 in 1977. 1945lbs as I remember, I think 100 or 120 HP. I beat the crap out of that car! It would smoke 1st, 25ft of rubber in 2nd, about a 5ft patch in 3rd and a chirp in 4th. Top speed around 107MPH. 20mpg with your foot in it. Very impressive for what it was.

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Man my family had a few pintos. drove one to florida and back when I was 17. I dont care what anyone says about them they were good cars.

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I was really hard on the driveline. I broke 3 transmissions in about 70k miles. Fortunately, they were cheap and fairly plentiful in the junk yard ... and light enough to install in the backyard without a trans Jack. I used to break the shifter out of the shifter cup and bash my knuckles on the dash on a hard 2nd-3rd shift, I broke the metal shaft and had to use vice grips as the shifter handle for a while. LOTS of stories in that car. Lost a carb filter housing screw down the carb one time, it got stuck in the intake valve. We pulled the head, removed the screw from the valve, threw it all back together with the old gasket and it still ran great! The Pinto/Bobcat got a bad rap but they sold a lot of them. Rust eventually killed mine.

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I still have my 1973 Pinto window sticker. $2300.00 and 100 miles on it.

I abused it, but it was reliable.

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Me and three friends once got stopped by a cop who said I was trying to outrun him, I was like "In a pinto?" We just didnt know he was behind us cause we were fucked up, ahhh the good old days. No penaltys.