Return of the Pinto?

[racsan]

my mom had a pinto wagon for about 3 weeks, shes a small woman and couldn’t handle the lack of power steering. Whats odd is that this pinto was a automatic. Who orders a car with a automatic but wants manual steering?

 

[Dirtman]

They wanted to keep the pinto as light and cheap as humanly possible. It was trying to compete with the japanese so if it didn't absolutely need it, it didn't get it... that being said, the pinto steering system was actually pretty revolutionary at the time. People still use pinto manual rack systems in race cars.

 

[sheep herder]

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Hmmmm.... ?

Want!

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Fun fact: More people have been killed in Teslas than Pintos... and there were WAAAAAAAAAY more pintos made than Teslas. So ummm...

I believe more people were also killed in BII rollovers then in pintos too...

 

[1987ranger12394]

I believe more people were also killed in BII rollovers then in pintos too...

Those are all false reports by chevy blazer owners

 

[19Walt93]

I had 3 Pintos that gave me no problems and I sold all 3 for a profit. I drove a wrecker for 10 years and never towed a burnt car, TV and the movies not withstanding, car fires are rare. If you drove any other early to mid 70's small car you'd see why Pintos sold so well.

 

[1987ranger12394]

Chevy suv caught fire next to my house 4 months ago rear end collision

 

[Ranger850]

My dad had a pinto when i was young.

He rearended another pinto.

Neither exploded.

That was kind of an anticlimactic story.

They cancelled each other out.

 

[Ranger850]

car fires are rare.

Not in Tallahassee. I see them all the time. Most recently saw a cream colored Escalade that had been burnt, on my daily route to the Post Office. Did see a red ranger actually on fire once, fire department was hosing it down while this farmer type was standing there with his hands on his head. That was a while back and not in town.

 

[4.0blue98]

Had a 77 Pinto... We bought it brand new for less than 3k. Had a 2.3l and manual everything. No radio, carpet was a mat. thing was a beast.

 

[Jim Oaks]

TV and the movies not withstanding, car fires are rare.

I've seen a lot of car fires. Most are from electrical issues, being driven while they're over heating, and faulty fuel systems. A couple of weeks ago I saw a Corvette on the side of the road in flames, and a few months before that it was a Tahoe.

Of all the crashes I've investigated, I only remember one resulting in a fire. It was a slow moving car rear ended on the interstate by a semi.

Speaking of movies, I've never seen a car blow up when it was on fire. It just burns.

 

[4.0blue98]

Lots of carbecues in my area. I'd say one or two a week.

 

[Plum Ranger XLT]

My dad would absolutely love it IF the Pinto ever came back. He owned four of them and my brother had three of them and I had one when my brother sold me one of his.

 

[19Walt93]

If your area has a lot of car fires I'd be interested in where they all were serviced. I worked at a service station for 3 years and a Ford dealer for 42 years, the only car I saw burn in that time was a mid 80's LTD that had just driven from the independent garage who'd been "fixing" it for a week. It was running so rich the cat overheated and caught the carpet on fire. The was a recall once on Ford ignition switches that could arc and cause a fire, we changed hundreds of them and never saw one that looked like it had gotten hot. Teslas seem to spontaneously combust but that gets downplayed by the media, almost like Toyota recalls: Tacomas and Tundras have frame replacement recalls that have never been covered by the national news and the company blamed their unintended acceleration on their customers being too dumb to pull the floor mats out from under the gas pedal.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Ive personally had two vehicles go up in flames...

A 79 F150 and a 74 Camaro