“Had a 71 and a 72. Both were practical and good looking cars. Had the gas tank recall performed on them.
Terrible in the snow.”
Yep, had a ‘73. First year of the fat bumpers I think. Terrible in the snow. Good little car though.
My sister had a ‘73 back in the day.
She drove around L.A. in that stripped-down car. No power steering or air conditioning in her little blue Pinto.
It didn’t climb hills too well, either. I remember being a passenger in that Pinto while my sister tried to drive up a hilly street in the San Fernando Valley. The car wasn’t going very fast. Other cars passed us. The passenger in one of the cars, a bitchy looking woman, gave us a dirty look as her vehicle passed us.
Once, my sister left the Pinto parked on the driveway in front of our parent’s house in Santa Barbara for three or four days while we all drove another vehicle to Lake Tahoe and the California Gold Country. It was early summer, and when we got back, there was a crack down the middle of the Pinto’s dashboard that resembled the San Andreas fault.
From that day up to and including the present, my sister has always used sunshades on every vehicle she ever owned.