9 thoughts on “It’s time once again to post The Silicon Graybeard’s favorite Pinto post.”
If you’re going backwards…yeah.
You must be a youngin Rich
Nope… I’m an old’un for sure LOL
I was born in the year of Sputnik,
Oh, wait…. flames….Ford Pinto….coming from the back…
ok I got it ROFL LOL LOL
Way back in highschool (1990ish) I took drivers ed. We had a written exam one day that was meant to ready us for the state written test (done with overhead projected transparencies for visual aids) and there as an aerial view of a four way intersection to accompany the question “who has the right away?” I piped up from the back of the darkened classroom “the Pinto, because nobody wants to rear end it”. The teacher actually laughed, most of the other students apparently missed the joke.
One my college friends had an old Pinto. He loved it because he could, if he had to, drive it like a complete asshole because he knew that everyone would be actively avoiding him like the plague.
Nice strategy. I guess that’s what one would call “offensive driving”.
Somewhen out there, I’ve seen a few prostreet Pinto’s.
You figure they had the Mustang II (ugh) front and and once you gave it a tube frame and tubs & a bigger is better motor, they usually ended up being wheelie cars. And ya figure w the fuel cell, wheelie bars, actual harness n full cage, a shitton safer than the stock Ford Motor n BBQ.
I may have said that was my favorite Pinto post, but I don’t remember exactly. But I remember my ’72 Pinto. Four on the floor and the 2000 CC four cylinder. Had a lot of fun in and with that car.
If you’re going backwards…yeah.
You must be a youngin Rich
Nope… I’m an old’un for sure LOL
I was born in the year of Sputnik,
Oh, wait…. flames….Ford Pinto….coming from the back…
ok I got it ROFL LOL LOL
Way back in highschool (1990ish) I took drivers ed. We had a written exam one day that was meant to ready us for the state written test (done with overhead projected transparencies for visual aids) and there as an aerial view of a four way intersection to accompany the question “who has the right away?” I piped up from the back of the darkened classroom “the Pinto, because nobody wants to rear end it”. The teacher actually laughed, most of the other students apparently missed the joke.
One my college friends had an old Pinto. He loved it because he could, if he had to, drive it like a complete asshole because he knew that everyone would be actively avoiding him like the plague.
Nice strategy. I guess that’s what one would call “offensive driving”.
Somewhen out there, I’ve seen a few prostreet Pinto’s.
You figure they had the Mustang II (ugh) front and and once you gave it a tube frame and tubs & a bigger is better motor, they usually ended up being wheelie cars. And ya figure w the fuel cell, wheelie bars, actual harness n full cage, a shitton safer than the stock Ford Motor n BBQ.
I may have said that was my favorite Pinto post, but I don’t remember exactly. But I remember my ’72 Pinto. Four on the floor and the 2000 CC four cylinder. Had a lot of fun in and with that car.
Glad you survived Sig