Ah the Ford Pinto. My mother had a powder blue Ford Pinto wagon. We were one of the lucky ones, no exploding. Friends down the street were not so lucky, theirs exploded into a ball of flames on the Ford lot at the exact moment they were trying to negotiate a trade in.
“Friends down the street were not so lucky, theirs exploded into a ball of flames on the Ford lot at the exact moment they were trying to negotiate a trade in.”
I think you are confused.
A really big piece of journalistic fraud, now mostly forgotten, was the “exploding Ford Pinto” reportage of the 1970s which, before it was exposed as fraud, spawned journalistic attacks on other car companies ( http://www.fordpinto.com/index.php?page=228 ). Man, they all climbed aboard! NBC, CBS, and ABC. Dateline. 60 Minutes. 20/20–all the major nooze shows were accusing auto manufacturers of selling cars they knew to be death-traps.
And they had exploding car video to prove it. Exploding car video obtained by installing incendiary devices in cars and blowing them up on purpose, sabotaging brakes, drilling holes in the transmission–all sorts of little journalistic tricks designed to get the kind of video the noozies wanted.Even the National Highway Traffic Safety Board chided the alleged journalists for basing their reports on, at best, “abnormal test conditions and unrealistic maneuvers.” And that was when they weren’t hiding rockets in the trunk.
https://leeduigon.com/2016/12/09/vintage-fake-news-the-ford-pinto-scandal/
My. I’m got my dad wrapped up in a Pinto fixer upper.
It’s a manual and my mom has had a knee replacement so that car may never be driven.