1971 Road Race Pinto....1.6L 4 speed

Picked this up today from my buddy, Sir Loin of Beef...aka Larry....I am going to SCCA race it some next year, just for $hits and giggles....Runs and drives fine....New Rubber, I am going to do some upgrades....but just a fun little car.....

That thing has a better body on it than the one I had 25 years ago had. Nice score John.

Its a Arizona car......rust free....no back seat...

4 banger C3?

Never mind. I see the 4 speed now

The one I had ran slots on all 4 corners with a flamed paint job. It was a cool car. I crashed it into the back of a 2 ton Country Squire Wagon. There was nothing left of it.

That would be a blast to take to the track! Good fine...very clean.

Later,

Lee

She is tucked away under the 69, will drag it out closer to spring do some work and race it!!!

Extremely
Low
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ELB Racing

That is awesome

Had fun at Thornhill.....Been starting the upgrades.....

Looks better with the wheels.

i like it

8" rear end installed.....2.3 Turbo Coupe Motor & T5 now getting readied to be installed...

That is gona be one cool little ride.

After watching Street Outlaws while being stuck inside the house due to snow, I started doing a search with pinto and ls engine.

Looks like its coming along good.

Took to Cornfield, must of you know our buddy Mike Wagner, I have always had him do this and that...took him the Pinto, a Mock-Up Block, bellhousing and the T5....and my Jegs Roll Bar......Sunday.....took him a few hours and she was done!!! Right now I just didn't have the spare time to do it...so I picked it up ready for me to install the Tubro Coupe Motor/Trans and get this pissed off Pony back on the road....

Picked up a Pro 5.0 Shifter at the all Ford, looks killer.....

That's definitely old school. I had one in my '69 Dodge RT back in the 70's.

Looks good! Nice to see this moving right along! Any idea when you plan/hope to have it done?

Later,

Lee

Back when the Pinto first came out a buddy's brother bought a new 1.6/4spd, and immediately went to town on it...turbo...head ported, polished, and milled...lowered with performance shocks and sway bars...aluminum slots with Pirellis.   It was no slouch, and I'm betting that turbo 2.3/5spd is a blast.

Have a Cobra OMC motor, that I am going to drop in, just to be driving it again....the 1.6L had 58HP and this 2.3L has 120, so, not the 230+ the turbo will have, but will open up a spot in the shop.....and will give me time to get others done to the point of driving....

I had always wanted to put one of the Capri V6s in a Pinto...now this thread has me wondering of the possibilities of one of the Ford turbo 3.8 V6s.

Sigh...so many car projects I'd love to tackle that I'll never be able to...so many I could have done over the 20+ years I put work above everything.

Never too late.

had a 2.8L V6 Wagon....it sucked...rebuilt from ground up, those V6, rattled, made lots of noise, no power and sucked gas like a V8....if this was a 4cly, 4 speed...I would still be driving it today......

Reb Stew wrote:Never too late.

I soooooooo wish that were true.

With my mobility limitations there is not much I can do on most cars.

I have a Cougar that I got a little over a year and a half ago. I was only able to drive it a couple times before my limitations made handicap adaptations necessary. Back in the day, before my limitations, the work necessary would have taken a few days at the most. The work is still not done. I just can't get down and into the positions necessary to do the work.

The accessibility of the mechanical components during and after the build, and the size and weight of the body and frame, are the things that make my T-bucket based project viable for me. Except for final assembly, most of the work will be done with the frame on heavy duty saw horses, and me in a wheelchair.

Even with that, the project is a race with my diminishing abilities...right now the diminishing abilities are winning. But I can't think of any other design vehicle that would have the accessibility necessary to even get me in the race.