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Mercury version of the Pinto
yoshmyster
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Last Friday I was beeboping around and I saw this pristine baby blue thing on the road. I saw Mercury on the hood but it looked like a hatchback Pinto. What did I see?
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Mercury BOBCAT. My younger brother had one.
Bobcat. From looking it must've been the tail end production from the front end I saw. Crazy someone out there must keep this car in the garage. I wonder what the concourse grade pricing for this is? Sticker price of 1980?
My first wife bought one in 1975. It has a V-6 in it. That thing would fly!
I will guess it has value but not a lot compartive to a popular model maybe to some one who had one or ther parents and wants to relive the past
But i may be suprized .
its still Amazing to me even after years of every one and the neighbor seking out rate cars what is parked in people's garages
Could’ve been produced to sell in Canada. I remember Canadian Ford trucks had Mercury as the main label.
And if memory serves, dodge trucks were called Fargo’s.
jimdeere - A Bobcat with a V6 in a light Pinto body would be something. Like a V8 Gremlin (still want of those). Looks like 1976 was the year to get with the V6 2.8L with 103 horses and 149 torque.
Ditch-Runner - All I know is this owner must love this to keep it so pretty. Also seen it in that condition and on the road was the shocker. The last shocker I saw was a VW diesel truck at my local Walmart. The silly thing was tiny. Basically a Rabbit with a truck bed.
It was this color.
I had forgot about them, but yeah, I remember them now. I never heard of the v6 version though.
I remember the commercial well.
It was a big deal to get the Pinto/Bobcat high back bucket seats and put them in the early 65-68 Mustangs we drove in the 70's... good times....
Unfortunately, the Pinto was a bomb on wheels. A friend & her mother were incinerated when their Pinto was rear ended.
"The Pinto, a subcompact car made by Ford Motor Company, became infamous in the 1970s for bursting into flames if its gas tank was ruptured in a collision. The lawsuits brought by injured people and their survivors uncovered how the company rushed the Pinto through production and onto the market."
"An official total of 27 deaths was tied to the vehicle, though some estimates are far higher. Of course, even at the conservative end of the spectrum, 27 preventable fatalities caused by a car with a propensity to explode and burn is still 27 too many."
Back around 1978- 79 or so
A friend had one of the custom pinto station wagons fancy paint little Port hole windows in the back decked out from the factory like they use to do
I know lipstick on a pig but different times
I had just built a 440 for his charger a year before and did a lot of auto work for him and many other friends
Any way the pinto had a blown engine , glen was not so much or treating cars with any care. any way he ask me to put a v6 in it
Will I guess I can ? I never tried before
A local junkyard had a crashed v6 mustang ll
We Took all the parts and engine I was suprized it was basic just a bolt in swap using all the hardware and parts from the mustang .
Big improvement over the 4 cylinder I don't remember what become or it .
At that time I did all the side work for free or dirt cheap I just liked working on cars .
There is a used car dealer locally that comes up with old,strange cars. He had a Chevette that must have been the cheapest model made.Almost zero accesories,rubber floor mat,cardboard door panels, no radio but it had been stored inside and was like brand new with about 200 miles on it. I always wondered what it sold for and who would buy it.
I can remember people stuffing small block Fords in Pintos and beefing up the suspension, they were scorchers.