Some Pintos, Fiats & Toyotas in Santa Clara, CA

[pintopower]

Hello all! New here and new to Santa Clara (CA). I am a mechanical & manufacturing engineer from Los Angeles. I love cars. No seriously, I mean when I was 5, I loved toy cars. When I was 10 it was RC Cars, then full size cars and now here we are. Oddly, I do not work with cars as my profession, cars are my hobby and that is where it will stay. I have restored every car I own. I do my own paint, body, interior, engine building, transmissions and I have even redesigned all the A/C systems in all of my cars that came with A/C.

I own 6 Ford Pintos, 4 Fiats, one Vespa and the reason I am here, two Toyotas. Here are some shots of my cars:
1976 Mercury Bobcat (Almost Done)

1977 Ford Pinto Wagon

1980 Ford Pinto Cruising Wagon (Decals not on yet)

1974 Ford Pangra Wagon (Turbo with A/C, 1 of 39, 1 of 2 wagons & the only 74 ever built)

1979 Ford Pinto Wagon

1980 Ford Pinto Sedan

1984 Fiat Ritmo Cabrio - Grey market import, 1 of 2 in the USA

1980 Fiat Strada - US Spec car with Euro Bumpers

1975 Fiat 124S

1979 Fiat 131 - Now with Fuel injection, turbo and A/C. Paint to come


And now the REASON why I joined this forum:

1991 Toyota Tercel. Owned by my Mom since new:


1980 Toyota Truck 3/4 ton. Bought new by my dad in 1980. 550K miles on it. Going to restore after the house is done.



Oh and my sister and I restored her nissan too, think you might like it:

She, of course, also has a Pinto (its a sickness really)


Come to think of it, so does my Fiance:


Thats how I role people! Glad to join up and looking forward to meet some people as sick as I.

my Flicker account: www.flickr.com/photos/26161002@N03/collections/72157607367687326/