I owned a pinto once. I bought it for $500 as a temporary car until I could settle finances and buy a real car. I expected to get six months out of it. I got 18.
I never got lost in the car. I could always follow the oil slick back to where I started. I never locked the car. Anyone who would steal it would get off on an insanity charge, that is IF they could get it started. The starter motor was a bolt short and it frequently fell out and landed on a cross bar, I was very good at having the car pushed and then popping the clutch.
There were mushrooms growing out of the carpet on the passenger side.
The gearshift lever broke off and I had a stub. I took the rubber boot off and had a bottomless ashtray.
The first car my wife and I owned was a ‘71 Pinto that we bought from a friend in ’76 for $130. It made it across country twice, did a winter in Vermont and then, towards the end of its third cross-country trip, it’s alternator fell off in the Mojave desert. We sold it to the garage we were towed to for $25. Six months later, we got a letter from the Santa Ana police dept. telling us to come get our car. As far as I know, it never got rear-ended and exploded.
I’m almost 99% sure this is a rerun from over 20 years ago. It may be some serious Deja Vu, but I think this is one I cut out of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in the late 90’s and tacked onto my door because I thought it was so funny.
Here's Waldo almost 3 years ago
Looks like someone hit the Pinto with a broomstick.
Zykoic almost 3 years ago
Pinto is on fire. That was a feature back then.
Sir Ruddy Blighter, Jr. almost 3 years ago
Wow, what a running gag that “exploding Pinto” was back in the day… it even made it into that movie… “Top Secret!”, I think
in-dubio-pro-rainbow almost 3 years ago
And that’s why they called that kind of vehicle a CARavel, folks!
in-dubio-pro-rainbow almost 3 years ago
And later on he had a famous 4th ship: the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
I learned to drive stick shift in a Pinto. :) It did not explode.
Troglodyte almost 3 years ago
Verily it has been said that FIAT stands for “Fix It Again, Tony”…thought that might be difficult with this Pinto! :D
cdward almost 3 years ago
Used to own a Pinto, but it was the from post-exploding era.
ArtyD2 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Sailors did a lot of rear ending on those long trips.
potfarmer almost 3 years ago
Showing your age, John
dflak almost 3 years ago
I owned a pinto once. I bought it for $500 as a temporary car until I could settle finances and buy a real car. I expected to get six months out of it. I got 18.
I never got lost in the car. I could always follow the oil slick back to where I started. I never locked the car. Anyone who would steal it would get off on an insanity charge, that is IF they could get it started. The starter motor was a bolt short and it frequently fell out and landed on a cross bar, I was very good at having the car pushed and then popping the clutch.
There were mushrooms growing out of the carpet on the passenger side.
The gearshift lever broke off and I had a stub. I took the rubber boot off and had a bottomless ashtray.
It was still worth about $100 as scrap.
thebashfulone almost 3 years ago
Pintos came off the factory floor with a bumper sticker already attached: “I Brake for Tailgaters”.
Lee26 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I had two Pintos back in the 70s. Loved those cars. Paid less than $500 for both. They never caught fire. Urban myth.
WCraft Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Might’ve been worse – could’ve been represented by the pinto beans. …
John Leonard Premium Member almost 3 years ago
The first car my wife and I owned was a ‘71 Pinto that we bought from a friend in ’76 for $130. It made it across country twice, did a winter in Vermont and then, towards the end of its third cross-country trip, it’s alternator fell off in the Mojave desert. We sold it to the garage we were towed to for $25. Six months later, we got a letter from the Santa Ana police dept. telling us to come get our car. As far as I know, it never got rear-ended and exploded.
rclarksworld almost 3 years ago
I’m almost 99% sure this is a rerun from over 20 years ago. It may be some serious Deja Vu, but I think this is one I cut out of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in the late 90’s and tacked onto my door because I thought it was so funny.
Zebrastripes almost 3 years ago
LOL! Good one!
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 3 years ago
Factory ordered river disaster..Ford.
the humorist formerly known as Hotshot1984 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Wow, that car is on fire!
Literally!
Ira Warshaw Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I LOVE that the Pinto is on fire! I hope everyone got out safely!
The Sinistral Bassist Premium Member almost 3 years ago
This is perfect. Big laugh today
SFpagan almost 3 years ago
The Santa Maria was gone long before the Pinta
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Film at 11:00.
It gets out of hair and makeup at 10:30.
Try not to set it off before we film it.
pdhill2 almost 3 years ago
Nope. I had one that caught on fire.
john eastman almost 3 years ago
sort of been done (Green Grass, Running water. Thomas King. “the Nissan, The Pinto and the Karmann Ghia.”)
LeftCoastBoomer Premium Member almost 3 years ago
This is yet another great, laugh-out-loud, funny!