IMSA Ford Pinto built by Car and Driver in 1974.

[EJ25RUN]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/pinto1.jpg
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Autoblog...

Time was, automotive magazines used to do stuff that was awesome. This IMSA Pinto is evidence of that. Car and Driver built this car in 1974 to illustrate that racing on a big scale for a modest budget was possible. The car grabbed the pole position in half the races it entered that season and won outright at its second race at Charlotte. Surely more powerful than the emissions- and oil-crisis choked street Pintos of the day, this race car is better suited to road courses than hugging the wall at Talladega, but it's likely loads of fun either way.

The car had been sold off by Car and Driver back in 1974, and was subsequently restored by Don Sherman, now of Automobile Magazine, but a C/D alum, in 2005. Sherman had his nostalgic fun with the car before selling it to Fox Motorsports. Fox has added some more beans to the Pinto's powerplant, and now has it up for sale on eBay Motors. You've got seven days to scrape some dough together and go vintage racing in the car that started Pat Bedard's respectable – if short – racing career.

[Elbow]

Waits for clueless "tuners" to bash the Pinto.

[DVSRX-7]

Nice..


Project Car Mag does this type of work on tuners now :D

[btstone]

Waits for clueless "tuners" to bash the Pinto.


nahhhh, its way too much fun and easier to bash the guys that try to race ragged out old bmws and call that shit fast:idb:

[SEAN]

hope they took the exploding fuel tank out of the back of the trunk...that was the demise of the Pinto...

[Elbow]

hope they took the exploding fuel tank out of the back of the trunk...that was the demise of the Pinto...

The motors are the best.

[Elbow]

nahhhh, its way too much fun and easier to bash the guys that try to race ragged out old bmws and call that shit fast:idb:

Haha oh did you try to race me or something? Fag.

[cpearson]

This is awesome! +4

[Elbow]

I ran to eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-Pinto-1972-Car-Driver-IMSA-Pinto-Race-Car_W0QQitemZ150415013910QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Car s_Trucks?hash=item23056ef816

[deutshwise]

Waits for clueless "tuners" to bash the Pinto.
pintos are worthless, ugly, pieces of shit. lol
but on a serious note to the op. nice find.

[JITB]

you know there are still cars today that use blocks that came form the pinto!

[deutshwise]

..

[Machado]

i wonder what it will go for.

[EJ25RUN]

I actually find the Pinto to be a rader lame car. (Overall, not the C&D one)

My early 70's Ford low displacement champ is the Maverick.

http://www.maverickman.com/bluemaverick2005.jpg

[Elbow]

you know there are still cars today that use blocks that came form the pinto!

They still produce the Pinto blocks.

TONS of race cars still use these motors world wide. They are bullet proof beasts.

I don't care for the Pinto usually, the car itself is ugly, boring, and just blah, but the motor is God. I'd take this race one though.

[bloodline]

damn..thats kool..you definatly dont see stuff like that everyday..i would rock that thing murdered out

[WalkS]

Pretty darn neat! I love stuff out of the ordinary...haha