Current Classifieds

hubcaps

Date: 05/13/2021 05:33 pm
Wanted: automatic transmission shifter
Date: 07/21/2017 11:49 am
windshield
Date: 04/14/2018 08:53 pm
72 pinto drag car

Date: 07/08/2017 08:25 pm
77 pinto
Date: 08/22/2017 06:31 pm
1974 Pinto Passenger side door glass and door parts

Date: 02/18/2017 05:55 pm
Looking for a few parts - TIA
Date: 02/19/2023 12:18 pm
71-73 sway bar
Date: 06/12/2021 10:12 am
71-73 Hood
Date: 12/07/2018 06:22 pm
1973 Pinto Runabout

Date: 03/25/2019 09:02 pm
pinto parts for sale
Date: 07/25/2018 04:51 pm
'78 Pinto Windshield Trim
Date: 05/09/2017 10:46 am

Author Topic: Pintos Still in the News  (Read 2135 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline 71HANTO

  • Pinto Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 507
  • FeedBack: +108/-0
  • Gender: Male
    • Older site

  • Total Badges: 6
    Badges: (View All)
    Topic Starter Signature Poll Voter Windows User Webmaster Fifth year Anniversary
Pintos Still in the News
« on: October 26, 2011, 04:38:17 PM »
"Life is a series of close ones...'til the last one"...cfpjr

Offline Cookieboystoys

  • Eater of Cookies
  • PCCA Management Board
  • Pinto Master
  • ******
  • Posts: 2253
  • FeedBack: +59/-1
  • Gender: Male
  • It's All About The Pinto's! Baby!
    • Cookieboy's Toys on Facebook

  • Total Badges: 9
    Badges: (View All)
    Tenth year Anniversary Signature Topic Starter Poll Voter Photographer Windows User 1000 Posts Webmaster Fifth year Anniversary
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2011, 04:47:31 PM »
Hey Hanto... this was posted last year, 1st comment on it was Oct 24th, 2010 = old news
It's all about the Pintos! Baby!

Offline 71HANTO

  • Pinto Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 507
  • FeedBack: +108/-0
  • Gender: Male
    • Older site

  • Total Badges: 6
    Badges: (View All)
    Topic Starter Signature Poll Voter Windows User Webmaster Fifth year Anniversary
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2011, 07:24:40 PM »
Hey Hanto... this was posted last year, 1st comment on it was Oct 24th, 2010 = old news :o )

Exactly my point...same re-hash of the same old story of mis-information. This was/is on the MSN main page TODAY.
 
71HANTO
"Life is a series of close ones...'til the last one"...cfpjr

Offline Cookieboystoys

  • Eater of Cookies
  • PCCA Management Board
  • Pinto Master
  • ******
  • Posts: 2253
  • FeedBack: +59/-1
  • Gender: Male
  • It's All About The Pinto's! Baby!
    • Cookieboy's Toys on Facebook

  • Total Badges: 9
    Badges: (View All)
    Tenth year Anniversary Signature Topic Starter Poll Voter Photographer Windows User 1000 Posts Webmaster Fifth year Anniversary
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2011, 07:52:36 PM »
yep, to true... unfortunatly the internet is full of misleading and incorrect info on a wide range of subjects and our poor liitle Pintos will never be seen or recognized for what they were - an automotive sucess story - and only remembered as the the BBQ that seats 4

I did however notice that this year and with all the press online that the Pinto Stampede received a google search for Ford Pinto did have a lot of articals that mentioned the myth of the Ford Pinto and a little bit more positive stuff about the Pinto was in the 1st few search result pages
It's all about the Pintos! Baby!

Offline sedandelivery

  • Pinto Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 460
  • FeedBack: +30/-0
  • Gender: Male
  • Another Pinto Driver

  • Total Badges: 5
    Badges: (View All)
    Tenth year Anniversary Topic Starter Poll Voter Fifth year Anniversary Windows User
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2011, 07:39:52 AM »
What do you expect, they still blast the Edsel, and they have not made one in 50+ years!

Offline D.R.Ball

  • Pinto Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 558
  • FeedBack: +36/-2
  • Gender: Male

  • Total Badges: 5
    Badges: (View All)
    Topic Starter Tenth year Anniversary Poll Voter Windows User Fifth year Anniversary
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2011, 06:07:04 PM »
At least they wrote, with government required repairs....IE recall kit ....Still how many Pintos have you seen in the wreaking yard that have been in a fire.
None.  How many new cars with a EFI system that did not shut off the fuel after a wreak, too many to count.....And yet OUR cars are still blamed for this.....

Offline Cookieboystoys

  • Eater of Cookies
  • PCCA Management Board
  • Pinto Master
  • ******
  • Posts: 2253
  • FeedBack: +59/-1
  • Gender: Male
  • It's All About The Pinto's! Baby!
    • Cookieboy's Toys on Facebook

  • Total Badges: 9
    Badges: (View All)
    Tenth year Anniversary Signature Topic Starter Poll Voter Photographer Windows User 1000 Posts Webmaster Fifth year Anniversary
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2011, 06:27:57 PM »
At least they wrote, with government required repairs....IE recall kit ....

most Pinto People don't even get the facts correct... The government was asked to take a look at the #'s and force a recall and when they looked at the #'s they concluded there was no reason to force Ford to recall the Pinto. Ford issued the recall only after the law suits started because of public opinion, they simply didn't want to look the bad guys and it was done only for PR reasons.
It's all about the Pintos! Baby!

Offline Starliner

  • Pinto Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 409
  • FeedBack: +16/-0
  • Gender: Male

  • Total Badges: 5
    Badges: (View All)
    Topic Starter Signature Tenth year Anniversary Poll Voter Fifth year Anniversary
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2011, 07:19:26 PM »
  “The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is often difficult to verify their authenticity.” —Abraham Lincoln     
1973 Pinto 1600 - Sold!  
1979 Pinto 2300 - Sold!
1984 Audi 5000 Avant - 60,000 original miles
1987 Audi 5000 S Quattro - The snowmobile
1973 Volvo 1800 ES wagon -  my project car
1976 Mustang II - Wifey's new toy

Offline Srt

  • Original Pangra Master Builder
  • PCCA VIP
  • Pinto Master
  • ***
  • Posts: 1339
  • FeedBack: +100/-0
  • Gender: Male

  • Total Badges: 10
    Badges: (View All)
    Topic Starter Signature Tenth year Anniversary Poll Voter Linux User Mobile User Windows User 1000 Posts Fifth year Anniversary Photographer
Re: Pintos Still in the News
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2011, 03:43:29 AM »
At least they wrote, with government required repairs....IE recall kit ....Still how many Pintos have you seen in the wreaking yard that have been in a fire.
None.  How many new cars with a EFI system that did not shut off the fuel after a wreak, too many to count.....And yet OUR cars are still blamed for this.....

I took a brand new 1973 Pinto through an intersection on a green light and drove through a 1972 Vega from it's right front headlight all the way to its left windshield pillar.
 
After I was finished with that little problem the Pinto (with me along as a passenger) carried itself along into a traffic signal pole with what remained of its front end and then spun to the left and took out a traffic signal control box with the right rear quarter of the car.
 
I took a look at the car in the wrecking yard after I was released from the hospital and found that there was not a single body panel on the car that was not dented or buckled.  There was not any glass on the car that was not shattered.  All 5 tires were flat!
 
And not a single drop of fuel had leaked. No drips. No flames. No fiery death! No nothin.  The wrecker said he had to drain about 10 gallons of fuel before sending it to the 'cubing' machine.
 
 
the only substitute for cubic inches is BOOST!!!