Strange Brew by John Deering for January 19, 2022

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    Here's Waldo  almost 3 years ago

    Looks like someone hit the Pinto with a broomstick.

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    Zykoic  almost 3 years ago

    Pinto is on fire. That was a feature back then.

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    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

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    in-dubio-pro-rainbow  almost 3 years ago

    And that’s why they called that kind of vehicle a CARavel, folks!

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    in-dubio-pro-rainbow  almost 3 years ago

    And later on he had a famous 4th ship: the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”

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    GiantShetlandPony  almost 3 years ago

    I learned to drive stick shift in a Pinto. :) It did not explode.

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    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

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    cdward  almost 3 years ago

    Used to own a Pinto, but it was the from post-exploding era.

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    ArtyD2 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Sailors did a lot of rear ending on those long trips.

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    potfarmer  almost 3 years ago

    Showing your age, John

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    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.

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    thebashfulone  almost 3 years ago

    Pintos came off the factory floor with a bumper sticker already attached: “I Brake for Tailgaters”.

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    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.

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Might’ve been worse – could’ve been represented by the pinto beans. …

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    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.

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    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.

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    Zebrastripes  almost 3 years ago

    LOL! Good one!

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  almost 3 years ago

    Factory ordered river disaster..Ford.

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    the humorist formerly known as Hotshot1984 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Wow, that car is on fire!

    Literally!

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    Ira Warshaw Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I LOVE that the Pinto is on fire! I hope everyone got out safely!

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    The Sinistral Bassist Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    This is perfect. Big laugh today

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    SFpagan  almost 3 years ago

    The Santa Maria was gone long before the Pinta

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    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.

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    pdhill2  almost 3 years ago

    Nope. I had one that caught on fire.

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    john eastman  almost 3 years ago

    sort of been done (Green Grass, Running water. Thomas King. “the Nissan, The Pinto and the Karmann Ghia.”)

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    LeftCoastBoomer Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    This is yet another great, laugh-out-loud, funny!

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