hit me on thee butt and I'll explode in your face Pinto?

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.

YIKES!

between the Pinto and Corvair?
I await enlightenment.

The second had the engine in back.

and says "I want a gas cap for a Yugo." The counterman responds, "Sounds like a fair trade."

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.

"Sit down, shut up, and hang the fuck on!" Was written on an engraved plaque on the dashboard. It was serious.

That's all I'm gonna share right now.

From documentary footage:

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...

A Pinto Wagon in sort of school bus yellow/orange. Ran just fine for me.

I remember my dad traded the automatic trans for a manual with someone he knew to get a few more MPG

Personally experience with the bad history of this one.

No details as I have been chastised before about ruining the good vibe of DU.

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.

called the Swiffer!

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...

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...

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

The Vega.

And I loved that car!

It was so easy to do any work under the hood.

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:

The good old days!

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

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.

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.