1978 Ford

Pony Coupe

6 - Cyl.

Automatic

Gasoline

This is my 1978 Ford Pinto Pony edition. It has bounced around the family for almost 3 decades. Was a daily driver at first, then later in years turned into a drag racing car. This has been about 2/3'rds of its life until recently. Drag racing was getting expensive for me and was loosing is appeal. So I decided to turn it back into a daily driver. First the factory L4 engine and automatic transmission was removed and a 1974 Ford Racing Cobra engine with a C4 automatic transmission was installed for the drag strip. Recently I removed all the roll cage tubing, put back in most of the interior pieces and had the engine and transmission pulled and found a L6 with matching C4 transmission to put in its place. As of 5/17/2011 the Pinto was now my daily driver. The monster V8 and set-up is still in my garage taking up space and have it for sale on here as well. The problems I had since 5/17/11 are: Transmission front seal is cracked and drips a small mount of fluid while running. So far it doesn't drip while parked that Ive noticed. That's it. But this morning 5/26/11 I went to go start it to go run some errands and it'll have a rough idle for a few seconds then shut off. Not sure why. I check the head gasket and its not busted, spark plugs are good, not sure about the wires though. I thinking it may be the Carburetor may need a good cleaning but I haven't checked. The money I sank into this car I could have bought a brand new one. Yet you shouldn't cry over spilled milk. I don't have the attention span for it any more and dont feel like spending any more money on it. Im going to take my brothers advice and by a motorcycle like him. Though the V8 that was pulled is for separately on here, if you hit the Buy-It-Now option I'll give you the V8 with the car And yes the car from factory had A/C but those parts word gone with the original engine. I made sure this L6 had the set up for it, had the extra pulley and bracket hole to mount the compressor. But I have zero A/C parts as of now. Pictures: http://postimage.org/image/22qp161s4/ http://postimage.org/image/22qtzs39g/ http://postimage.org/image/22qxaus90/ http://postimage.org/image/22qyye4qs/ http://postimage.org/image/22r0lxh8k/ http://postimage.org/image/22r29gtqc/ http://postimage.org/image/22r3x0684/ I can see about driving the Pinto to meet you some where, but with the idle issue I strongly urge you bring something to haul it away. Plus if you do the Buy-It-Now and get the additional drive train set up, youll have to haul that away as well, wont fit in the trunk! Ha ha! I accept Cash in Person or Pay Pal. Full Payment and pick up sue within 3 calendar days of auction ending. The price paid for on Ebay is the amount of cash I will accept if paying in person, no less no excuses. This a binding legal contract. Privately for sale, I am not a dealer so the only sales tax you'll have to pay are the ones when you if you re-register it. Drive Train Ebay Item Number 230626859568, incase you didnt want to play detective and click on my other items for sale link. Thanks for looking! On May-29-11 at 11:50:36 PDT, seller added the following information: I lowered the Buy-It-Now price and Reserve for I went ahead and bought the motorcycle. Now I really want these gone come and get'em! On Jun-01-11 at 14:27:08 PDT, seller added the following information: lowered prices again, I want room in my garage to play work on my bike! ordered new fairings for it and when they come in Id like to have the room to replace them!