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(45,850 posts)hit me on thee butt and I'll explode in your face Pinto?
easychoice
(1,043 posts)I saw a guy get out of one and the drivers door fell off right onto the street and I saw one get rear ended and the front fenders fell off.No kidding.My lawyer buddy was a multimillionaire by the age of 33.Some other people didn't fare as well though.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)YIKES!
antiquie
(4,299 posts)between the Pinto and Corvair?
I await enlightenment.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)The second had the engine in back.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)mockmonkey
(2,822 posts)Hangingon
(3,071 posts)and says "I want a gas cap for a Yugo." The counterman responds, "Sounds like a fair trade."
mockmonkey
(2,822 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)mockmonkey
(2,822 posts)hunter
(38,320 posts)Stock, without the fancy wheels, nothing.
My grandma was a hoarder and filled it up with trash, as much trash as it could hold and still be drivable.
When the police and paramedics took my grandma away to the nursing home (as a danger to herself and others) my mom removed the trash and sold it to one of grandma's Mexican neighbors.
I hope he had fun with it.
bluesbassman
(19,376 posts)"Sit down, shut up, and hang the fuck on!" Was written on an engraved plaque on the dashboard. It was serious.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)progressoid
(49,992 posts)Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)That's all I'm gonna share right now.
Kaleva
(36,315 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)From documentary footage:
handmade34
(22,756 posts)luckily I took it to Houston, TX (from Michigan) shortly after I bought it and ended up in a 7 car pile-up; with it totaled (me not hurt)... ins paid for it and I certainly didn't buy another...
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)A Pinto Wagon in sort of school bus yellow/orange. Ran just fine for me.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I remember my dad traded the automatic trans for a manual with someone he knew to get a few more MPG
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Personally experience with the bad history of this one.
No details as I have been chastised before about ruining the good vibe of DU.
Rhiannon12866
(205,561 posts)He thought it was too small. So she got a 1971 Plymouth Duster instead, which I inherited 10 years later when I learned to drive.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)called the Swiffer!
Rhiannon12866
(205,561 posts)I loved the one for the Duster, though my mother had had the fender replaced, so it was gone by the time I inherited the car...
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)first car I ever started. She would "let" me go out in the morning and start it to get the heater going so it would be warm when she came out to take me to school.
The cold didn't even bother me because I thought I was hot shit. Big man! Startin' the car!
My faithful service paid off too because a few years later she let me take my driver's test in my step-father's 71 Firebird Formula 400. He was out of town on business or it never woulda' happened...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,757 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)malthaussen
(17,205 posts)Came in the lovely color of "You're-in Yellow," which was similar to your pic but paler and more washed out looking.
Just about every American car made in that period had serious suckage issues of one kind or another. The Pinto gets a bad rap for 1) being a Ford, and 2) blowing up once in awhile. But hey, what's so bad about perishing in a ball of fiery death? At least it would make cool video.
-- Mal
kwassa
(23,340 posts)The Vega.
Archae
(46,337 posts)And I loved that car!
It was so easy to do any work under the hood.
Mopar151
(9,990 posts)Decent drivetrain, best chassis of the domestic subcompacts. 40 years later, they are still the stalwarts of many "little guy" racing classes. Their (Kent & Cologne) engines are the spec powerplants for SCCA Formula Ford, Formula Continental, and Sports2000. The front suspensions are under thousands of street rods.
The stuff "everybody knows" about Pintos was fixed with a recall, and was never true of the station wagons. If the filler neck retaining screws are a Torx head design, the recall has been done.
In the northeast, "Pinto" evokes one of these:
Brigid
(17,621 posts)The good old days!
Taverner
(55,476 posts)And I drove this death machine around, where you had to anticipate a stop, and pump the brakes
You also had to blow the carb every so often
Good times
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the engine`s pistons seized somewhere around 5 thousand miles. he took the engine apart and did a complete engineering inspection of the pistons and the block. 20 some pages later he proved why the pistons were faulty and the engineering faults that led to the problem. he never did hear back from ford.
Mopar151
(9,990 posts)Had crappy pistons, esp. early ones. So did some Windsor v-8's - I've broken pistons in both. It wasn't all the piston's fault.....in my case. My 2000 Cologne engine was an anvil, and the 2.3 Lima in the Mustang ran beautifully.