I just received my August 2009 Hemmings Classic Car (#59) and on page 28 is an article entitled "Squire Simplicity" and features a 1977 Ford Pinto Squire wagon owned by Ken Zander and Tim Taylor of San Jose, California. It's a beautiful little car and a pretty impressive article. Are these folks part of the site? Get out and get a copy of this one, you'll enjoy it.
will get that tonight if im Fortunate
I got mine last night and enjoyed it. I like the Olds wagon test in that issue, also!
I do have to agree with the Pinto's "poor handling" and "poor road feel, power or manual" comments made by the author though. My sedan handles great, but maybe thats due to newer rubber bushings and a front sway bar and less weight...
Manual steering gives very good road feel on my car, but not sure about how the power feels like...
It is nice to see an unmolested surviving Pinto such as that one...
Quote from: FlyerPinto on June 18, 2009, 09:42:28 PM
I just received my August 2009 Hemmings Classic Car (#59) and on page 28 is an article entitled "Squire Simplicity" and features a 1977 Ford Pinto Squire wagon owned by Ken Zander and Tim Taylor of San Jose, California.
I just bought a 1978 Squire wagon, and the seller gave me his copy of this Hemmings along with it. I think the article is really funny, in that the writer is not kind at all to the mechanics of the Pinto wagon, yet still admires Ford's run at the small car market during this era.
I am loving my 78, and can't wait to get it back to new... some rust and small mechanical issues, but only 56K miles (well documented), so this could be the one to fully restore. A sure sign I am getting old, since "cool" has become a 78 wood-sided Pinto wagon! :amazed:
Quote from: 78squire on July 08, 2009, 08:40:50 PM
I just bought a 1978 Squire wagon, and the seller gave me his copy of this Hemmings along with it. I think the article is really funny, in that the writer is not kind at all to the mechanics of the Pinto wagon, yet still admires Ford's run at the small car market during this era.
I am loving my 78, and can't wait to get it back to new... some rust and small mechanical issues, but only 56K miles (well documented), so this could be the one to fully restore. A sure sign I am getting old, since "cool" has become a 78 wood-sided Pinto wagon! :amazed:
I love my red 78 Squire wagon and I am only 40 LOL!!! I guess green was the more popular color for the squires because everyone that I have talked to, had a green one. The leader of our car club gave me the Hemmings as soon as he got it a couple of weeks ago and I enjoyed all of the articles on the wagons
I also read the article. It's really hard to report on an older car when used to driving cars of a much later vintage. I don't remember when I had my 73 Pinto squire any of the harshness or lack of power with my 2.0 version. I really gag at the color of that wagon but it sure is in well preserved condition.
Jeff Koch is a very good writer IMO. I do think that the Vega's of the day handled much better but they sure couldn't last 30+ years. I think Ford of the day had much better interiors than GM or MOPAR.