Pinto's...One HOT car
| 2 years ago :: Feb 02, 2008 - 9:38AM #1 | |
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I was just sitting here remembering the blue early-70s Pinto wagon that in a moment of weakness my father purchased new back when I was a child.Ahhh, the memories of being crammed in the back of that blue bubble-car for long trips to my grandparents and many destinations in-between.Lucky for me, and not so lucky for my father, like many of the early-70s Pintos, his erupted into a ball of flame while idling in our driveway one fine summer day. Ok, erupted may be a pit of a stretch, but the motor did catch fire less than a year after dear-ol-dad drove it off of the dealer's lot.While I was fairly young at the time, too young to remember clearly, wasn't this a fairly common event for these cars?
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| 2 years ago :: Feb 07, 2008 - 9:24AM #2 | |
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Well, apparently you could die a fiery death in a '73 Pinto, but I don't know how often that actually happened. I almost died a couple times in mine, but that was because one time the driver's seat fell through the rusted-out floorboards going over some rairoad tracks, and another time the temperamental driver's side door swung open on its own as I was rounding a corner near my house. I almost did a face plant right on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Maple Street. I sill wonder how I would have explained that to my dad. "Gee Dad, I don't know what happened. I was driving along, and just fell out of the car." I remember it like yesterday -- the neighbors had a St. Bernard tied up in their driveway, and he must have been amused by the whole thing.But my car never went up in flames! I'm very proud of that fact.
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| 2 years ago :: Feb 08, 2008 - 4:36PM #3 | |
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I've heard of a few of them catching on fire. But I think that the biggest danger that most people faced when owning these cars...was that someone might see them behind the wheel!Actually, I kind of liked the curvy look of the pinot. However, I believe that the Pacer took the look a little farther and really had a nicer looking car.
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