Reply #3: Neat link, thanks StClone! [View All]

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Very interesting...familiar with a few of these!

From the article:
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1971 Ford Pinto
Scary for: Firefighters and plastic surgeons

What could possibly be scarier than a car endorsed by both the Shriners' Burn Ward Fundraising Division and the League of Asbestos-Clothing Manufacturers? These cars had an unfortunate tendency to explode when hit from behind, since that's where the gas tank was located. Ford did eventually fix the problem, but the damage was done, so to speak. Being anywhere near a Pinto still gives us visions of Robert Duvall calling in airstrikes in "Apocalypse Now."
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Funny seeing this...a '71 Pinto was the first car I owned. Butterscotch-pudding color, and nothing but trouble for the year until it died. The gas-tank issue was well-known to me, and even at 17 yrs old it was sobering. :scared:

Still...(sigh) there's something about the first....