[painter]

the unpleasant legacy of Pintos past, so to speak

I didn't think the pinto was all that bad of a car.Put a Boss 302 or a 300 horse 289 in it and you had a street beast!

Actually the 1971/72 pintos where pretty good cars. What killed the Pinto was $.35 a gallon gas. Why buy a little car when you could buy a Mustang or a LTD.

[XR7]

What killed the Pinto was $.35 a gallon gas >friends mocking and making fun of you when they saw the "new car" you bought<.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The Pinto wagon with a stick was actually a great little car.

I won’t say the same for the other model.

[Chickensoup]

What killed the Pinto was $.35 a gallon gas.

What killed the Pinto was that little problem they had when blowing up with rear impact crashes.

[TalBlack]

“Put a Boss 302 or a 300 horse 289 in it and you had a street beast!”

You’re not a guy named Chris from Oakdale LI, are you” Back in about ‘75 a guy I went to school with did exactly that: Put a WORKED 302 into a Pinto. He left the original rear in until it blew(lasted about a month). He welded the nose together to form one unit that hinged at the front under the bumper. Did it all in his garage at home in a matter of weeks at the age of 19. I don’t know what became of him but if he didn’t get into custom car fabricating he damn well missed his calling