I did not write “for sale to the general public” nor “for the U.S. market.”
JDSteel wrote:
I had a ‘78 Pinto Wagon.Great car, carried a lot of musical gear and guitars for me. I went to college in the snow belt (by Erie PA) and had 4 studded snow tires. It was front wheel drive 5 on the floor. It would go anywhere.
We are talking about what car JDSteel had in college. Not what some one-off prototype shop may have cooked up.
If not to offer a possible explanation as to why JDSteel could have had a FWD Pinto Wagon, what was the point of your post?