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It's just that they've gotten so much bad press that it's hard to regard them objectively.

Pinto's were excellent cars for the money. I know several people who got one new for right at 2 grand while they were in high school,and were still driving them 10 years and almost 200,000 miles later. They really didn't explode at the rate most people think. This was just a clever lawyer running the settlement bidding up by using the press to back Ford into a corner.

Yeah, they were good cars, and the the 6-cylinder models were even kind of zippy. If you can clear your mind of all the negative press and slander that these poor cars have been heaped with through the years, you must admit that they look good, too.

If the public's perception of bell-bottom pants (another much-ridiculed product of the 70's) has reversed itself, then I think we may yet see a wave of Pinto nostalgia sweep the land. Or maybe not. Either way I agree that Pintos are all right little cars.