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eBay Find of the Day: C/D Pinto Project Race Car

by Dan Roth (RSS feed) on Feb 19th, 2010 at 7:01PM

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... Read More

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