I just got my May issue of Hemmings Classic Car magazine. The cover feature was on '70s collectable cars, and which ones will be worth collecting. Guess which car didn't make their cut? The Gremlin? Nope, it was the cover car. The Inferior Chevy Inferior Chevy Vega? No, it was the first car listed. Also included were the GM H- bodies(Monza,Starfire etc.), the International Scout, the Chevy Impala, AMC Matador!, Chrysler 300H, Jeep Cherokee!! You get the drift. The Pinto was left off the list. They did include the Mustang II, but did not give credit to it's roots. So my question is this. Are we Pinto enthusiasts being slighted by a respected classic car magazine? Or are we to feel smug in our knowledge that the Pinto is still "our" secret?
SHHHHHHHH!
You will drive up the cost for parts.
Feel smug, pintos rule.
Bill
Yes it will drive prices up. and Re-POP parts makers will take notice and make us some NEW parts.
From Pintony
Of all of the cars listed, how many fords were on there? You said there was a mustang II, but what about the maverick/comet?
Its just the typical "ford is junk" mentality that 90% of those publications have. The only time ford is not junk is if it has a chebby small block in it.
Sadly, its not just the publications either....look at the NHRA or Nascar....same thing there.
Chevy didin't sell anywhere near as many vegas as ford did pintos, the engines in vegas were crap on the assembly line, the bodies were compressed rust to begin with, but they place on that list while the pinto doesnt.......no bias there at all. ::)
Thats ok though, cause within the next couple of years they'll be able to get a toyota small block or a toyota camaro. (toyota is in the lead to buy out GM). I hate to see that happen to an american manufacturer, but maybe it will shut these guys up for a change.
-Harry
sad to say i was one of the many who thought fords were junk, then i bought one and all cars sense except 1 have been fords that was about 12 years ago. my brother who is a die hard Chevy fan now has bought ford for his last 2 cars and recommends them to our family members when they are looking. some people just take longer to see the light. :amazed:
What? Toyota wants to buy GM? I thought I had heard it all, I guess if we have to build military vehicles for some sort of national defense we will have to convert our foreign owned auto plants. That won't be like it was in WWII. I guess that is the price of globalization.
Tercin
Oh yes, they included the Maverick, but that was the only other ford besides the Mustang II to even make the list! Here is what the intro says at the end " We admit upfront that GM took the lion's share of the list, but GM also took the lion's share of sales in those years." Hmmmm....sure. but there were still more Pinto's sold than Veggies, and I don't care what anybody says, I don't think that the 77-81 Chevrolet Impala/Caprice sport coupe even qualifies to run the ranks with the Mustang II and/or the Maverick. The people that write these magazines are a bunch of bearded-wonder yuppies that know nothing else about cars except to write about what all the other bearded-wonder yuppies write about and what they think is popular. Just like when you watch Nascar and say, Mark Martin is in the lead, but all you hear about and all they show on the T.V. screen is Dale Earndhart Jr., who is back in like 30th or close to that anyway. Got to get a little Dale in there, or nobody will watch, hurry up and get some Dale in there, the entire state of HickVille is going to turn there T.V. off. ( any earndart fans out there don't start to get nasty with me, but I'm a die Hard Rusty Wallace fan... ;D :D ;) :)) Any way, I think that I will write a letter to this magazine and give them my two-cents worth.......
anybody care to join?
Oh, and did you hear, toyota is already in the Nascar Truck series, but they are soon to be in the Cup series, and most unduvitably in the Busch series too....Ugg. If they buy out GM, that will be a real turing point in America, The End of the Big3. But then again it all goes back to the bearded-wonder yuppies.....our economy is at stake with them...... you can recognize them by there Honda's and Toyota's and the like of the disposable cars driving around with the "Support Our Troops" magnetic ribbons on the back of their cars.....