[cicero2k]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It wasn’t the gas tank, it was the filler neck, which was made with a rigid tube to save a couple of bucks. What did them in was a smoking gun memo in which a cost benefit analysis showed that liability lawsuits would cost less than a flexible tube. Juries changed that calculus.

The monster lawsuit resulted when two young women in a pinto pulled onto an interstate and into the path of a dump truck. Fire and lawsuits ensued.

[headstamp 2]

“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.

[Yardstick]

The early ones with the thin chrome bumpers are neat looking little cars.

[left that other site]

Back in the 70’s i had a choice. Which of my two vehicles would i take to work in the snow. The Pinto? Or the Honda CB350?

I usually took the Honda and let hubby have the Pinto.