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1 posted on 03/29/2018 11:36:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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the vehicle pulled to the left and forced him to hit a K-rail

The problem is worse than I thought -- it's not just SUVs killing people. Now even the Pintos are out to get us!

2 posted on 03/29/2018 11:39:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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Good thing he wasn’t rear-ended...


3 posted on 03/29/2018 11:40:38 AM PDT by VastRWCon (LARGE PRINT GIVE IT, small print take it away.)
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A 75 year old drag racer?

Well, if you got to go, go doing something you enjoy.

RIP.


5 posted on 03/29/2018 11:41:09 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I actually owned a Ford Pinto with Firestone 500 radial tires. I remember hearing a comedian one day tell the audience that he owned a Ford Pinto with Firestone 500 radial tires, and everyone laughed. Heh. I lived on the cutting edge between humor and daring (with a little poverty thrown in).


6 posted on 03/29/2018 11:41:11 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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Did the Pinto explode into a ball of flame? (they have a history)


7 posted on 03/29/2018 11:41:23 AM PDT by circlecity
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My first automobile was a 1974 Pinto, basic, $2400 brand new off the showroom floor.....................


9 posted on 03/29/2018 11:43:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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Years ago, I was a passenger in a friend's 1976 Pinto. We were at a stop sign and we were rear ended by a truck doing about 15 miles an hour.

The car didn't blow up.

11 posted on 03/29/2018 11:47:19 AM PDT by FreeReign
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It’s a bummer. But these Pinto fans are hardcore; and he died doing what he loved.


13 posted on 03/29/2018 11:48:01 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ( Parkland is the most massive failure in law enforcement since 9/11)
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more than 100 mph, “

I’m assuming the Pinto wasn’t stock.


15 posted on 03/29/2018 11:52:22 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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17 posted on 03/29/2018 11:53:28 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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The Pinto, the car everyone hated and everyone bought.


22 posted on 03/29/2018 12:01:30 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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23 posted on 03/29/2018 12:01:55 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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I am going to guess that he died doing something that he loved to do. And that is not such a bad way to go out ... IMO


26 posted on 03/29/2018 12:02:47 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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If someone told me as a young man that I would die in a Ford Pinto, I would consider myself lucky to do so in 2018!


31 posted on 03/29/2018 12:14:21 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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It was one of the early, early experimental self-driving cars that decided it wanted to turn left.

32 posted on 03/29/2018 12:15:50 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,Hollywood,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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I didn’t know a Pinto could exceed 75 mph!!


36 posted on 03/29/2018 12:23:06 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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A Pinto,
At more than 100 mph?
Didn’t think that could happen unless ya threw it out the back of a C-130.


44 posted on 03/29/2018 12:40:48 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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A Pinto won’t GO 100 mph ... unless it’s in freefall.


55 posted on 03/29/2018 12:54:18 PM PDT by IronJack (A)
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My sister, who was a well known danger to cars, was allowed by her stupid hippie boyfriend to drive his 1971 Ford Pinto across a causeway when she was 14, and she promptly went off the road and flipped his car over. I think he was way too old to be driving around with a 14 year old girl, but he proved his stupidity by letting her drive.


66 posted on 03/29/2018 1:14:21 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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Unsafe at any speed. Must be a riot at 100 MPH.


68 posted on 03/29/2018 1:17:23 PM PDT by McGruff (The Swamp is not just full of only democrats)
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