Introducing the all new 1976 Ford Pinto Explodabout.
I carpooled with a guy who drove one back in the late 70’s
Kinda scary.
Better was about a 2 minute short that I saw in the early ‘80s of a guy in a pickup truck who sees a car stopped on the road in the distance. He applies the brakes, softly, and then notices that it is a Pinto. He then goes wide-eyed, jams on the brakes and down-shifts. The scene goes back and forth between showing the truck closing the distance to the Pinto and the guy’s horrified face. Naturally, he dings the Pinto at about 0.01 MPH...and the scene cuts away to a nuclear blast from some test.
I’ll be damned if I can find that clip anywhere on the web...I’m sure it is there, I just cannot find it.
Excellent!
There it is!
The best part is that little *ping* sound right before the explosion.