[CDRODA396]

Very nice, although I agree with Savedbygrace, a little applied marketing involving a 427 or 429 would have changed things!

 

[Djstorm100]

Lol...
Get it?[emoji38] [emoji13] [emoji38] [emoji13] [emoji38] [emoji13]
I keed, I keed!!!

LMAO...I'm gonna have to send this to a few people at work.

 

[612]

I'm 51. I had a 1980.
"hot rodded" it the best I could with the money I had in about 1985.
I was getting about 150hp out of it. 4bl 0ffinhauser manifold with a 390 holley.

 

[Sneakymedic]

There is a brown one with a window sitting in a scrap yard here in State Road, in not bad of a shape from what I can see. If anyone wants a Pinto Project….Ill give the location up. LOL

 

[Butter]

Lol...
Get it?

No. Why would you not use a Phillips to screw that thing?

 

[JamesLFlowers]

Very nice, although I agree with Savedbygrace, a little applied marketing involving a 427 or 429 would have changed things!

Chevy had the right idea with the Vega. Designed for an easy swapout to a 350.

 

[Dan]

Fart Cart.

 

[Don]

I've still got the '73 street car. Had it painted in NART colors, white with blue stripes, which was always good for a laugh until the guys in the "hot" cars realized they weren't running away from me. Hedman Super Mini-Hustler headers and an Offy intake with the stock Holley/Weber. Car was super reliable.

The race car had a Racer Walsh Stage 2 cam with the Hedman headers and a 500 Holley progressive 2 barrel carb. Car won the E Prepared championship autocrossing in Virginia one year. And we ran several hill climbs with it.

 

[Don]

I really like to have the wagon with the port hole window

There was a Pinto Ranchero running around here for awhile and the guy swore that it was "factory". It looked good enough it could have been factory.

 

[Ammoholic]

I really like to have the wagon with the port hole window

 

[fieldgrade]

 

[Don]

Like I said, if you get hit in the rear you ain't going fast enough.

 

[Pack72]

We used to call them "Chariots of Fire" in high school.

"Pinto inferno (burn, baby, burn)"

 

[Savedbygrace]

What is amazing is the reputation the Pinto developed compared to the actually small number of incidents.

We own a 2004 Jeep Liberty that had a recall because of the same concerns involving a rear end collision. Their "fix" is to install a class IV receiver hitch free of charge.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...xplosions-still-raising-safety-concerns/&usg=AFQjCNHMpZ6CU25_z8kpVjBsfI5qhNlUFg

 

[Edgeman]

Chevy had the right idea with the Vega. Designed for an easy swapout to a 350.

Former owner of GM's first diesel automobile, a 1974 Vega GT!

"Fill it up, and check the gas."

 

[Oneofsix]

I had a '74, iirc the fix Ford had was installing a Styrofoam liner around the tank.
I wrecked it, of course. Smacked into a bridge ass-backwards on a cold Ohio night, after spinning out. Hit the iron bridge support directly on the bumper mount. Wasn't my time yet.

 

[jb2sea]

Gives new meaning to the tern 'Hot Rod'.

 

[jrgreen]

I had the 79' wagon, Loved that car, entertained in the back more than a few times.

 

[trcubed]

I'm 51. I had a 1980.
"hot rodded" it the best I could with the money I had in about 1985.
I was getting about 150hp out of it. 4bl 0ffinhauser manifold with a 390 holley.

My first car was an orange '74 hatchback with a white vinyl top. My parents paid $2,400 for it brand new. It too had a Holley 390cfm 4bbl, Offy intake, Isky cam, Hedman header, and a set of ladder bars. I never did any HP testing or calcs, but it would outrun most late 70s/early 80s V8s. Would do 85mph in the quarter mile with header uncapped.

I rodded that thing so hard that I broke the shifter off in my hand. Literally drove it home with a set of Vice Grips clamped to the stub of shaft that was sticking out of the transmission.

 

[Goofyfoot2001]

They recalled my 2006 Jeep Liberty for this very rear end collision fire issue. The fix, which was great, was to install the tow package for free They did this 2 years ago in 2013. winning!