Posted on 02/23/2023 11:22:59 AM PST by Drew68
Teddy, in Hell, gritting teeth, “Damned, if I had been driving a Pinto instead of an Oldsmobile, I would have become president.”
And at Martha’s Vineyard.
Yes, American cars went downhill at that time. It was much tougher to make them go uphill.
Probably tore off during the recovery. On a job like this, you just put J hooks wherever they’ll hook, and start the winch.
If he had been in a Vega the oil slick would have given him away.
The Pinto was in production for almost 10 years, it outlasted the Vega and the Gremlin.
Two boys fishing off the bridge saw the car and called the police. He should have gotten a sea-green car, for camouflage.
Do you remember a few years back someone posted about this same kind of story, I think in FL and the site ended up being a pond in one of those newer neighborhood developments? I actually may have seen a FORENSIC Files about it too. There was a road along one side of this neighborhood pond. You could sort of see the submerged car in the satellite views.
I’m surprised anyone could even get a glimpse of that car in that water.
That’s a better explanation than the car was in the past raided for parts by some local shop.
Chappaquiddick, actually. A smaller adjacent island.
Ode to Billy Joe... the sequel
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It looks like from the windshield; the care was upside down at one point.
Watch the video. During a trial, it turned out that Ford had commented on a proposed DOT regulation requiring flexible filler tubes for automobile gas tanks that the cost (about $10 per car in 1970) could not be justified by the benefit to society of the very small number of lives saved. It was not that a life was not worth $10, it was that a life was not worth several million dollars, but juries do not think like that, and it was open season on Ford, and the Pinto for several years thereafter.
“I drove a 74 Pinto in 1976..................”
You really shouldn’t brag about growing up in a rich family.
I was a lowly E2 in the Marines!................
I remember that one well. I was able to see the car in Google Earth. Spooky.
“The 1974 Ford Pinto pulled from the water”
Check for a snapped off door handle on the inside.
I bet he tried to get out, but the door handle broke off.
For those that remember.
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