Why do we have a Ford Pinto banner at the top of the page?

[Mr Deagle]

it's up because I found it in the archives and I made James put it up. Deal with it. it makes me laugh.

why dont you make it link to bmw or something other than.....found on road dead

[BimmerToad]

or put up a banner for BluntTek Enterprises

[StereoInstaller1]

FORD = Fucker Only Runs Downhill

[PiercedE30]

I vote for a blunt tech banner

[Massive Lee]

He, he. It is true that the connection between a Ford Pinto and a BMW forum is kinda akward, but there is worth. There's a local car forum (www.montrealracing.com) that catters mostly to illeterate ricers and underschooled deadbeats that has as a major sponsor a books vendor. Stuff like Mary Higgins Clark and Daniel Steele. The kinda of business that sells 5 books for $1. Damn, why spending money on a forum where people do not even know how to read?

Looking at Ford's Pinto reminds us how good our BMWs are...

[Hick]

Message From My Dad:

Pinto ! Owned one -- a '73 wagon -- and bought my first BMW -- '77 320 -- as my next car, my only brand thereafter. So, Pinto experience = BMW life long partnership.

Pinto positive features: my wagon never got stuck in the snow, motor would make HP with little effort. Add header = better mileage, more flexibility. You could even chip the car, Lays, Ruffles, Pringle, on dashboard; this was before computers!

Pinto dark side: (bursting into flames isn't exactly dark) Cam would wear out at 40K, gearbox first-gear weak until '74 (transmission was a Getrag which is used in some other type of car from Germany, so I've heard); rust -- mine never did because of undercoating.

Overall, my wife drove the car most of the time 'cause I road my R90S.

[browntown]

I saw a piece on TV, that the designers originally spec'd a inner fuel bladder within the tank of the pinto, but it was left off the production model. The bladder supposedly would of prevented the fires.

This article (http://www.fordpinto.com/blowup.htm)reminds me of fight club:
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

[LINUS]

I saw a piece on TV, that the designers originally spec'd a inner fuel bladder within the tank of the pinto, but it was left off the production model. The bladder supposedly would of prevented the fires.

This article (http://www.fordpinto.com/blowup.htm)reminds me of fight club:
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

^^^^
Now that's a lot of fancy math, all I care is that I get clean food.

[DarkWing6]

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Sad but true. Ford basically put a price on life and found that families of dead people are cheaper to please than a recall in this case.

[Massive Lee]

As cool as the PINTO used to be, wasn't it the car that also had the shattering rear hatch window? I was a teenager in those days and kinda remember a few older friends who swore at those shatering rear windows.

[Jscotty]

I had a 1980 model that I bought from the original owner. It had a standard back window with a trunk lid although my buddy who had an earlier model had the all-glass hatch. I would always think in the back of my mind that one day he was going to slam it too hard.

Anyhow, that was one of my most favorite cars. I could let it run hot, I could let it run with no oil.. and it would not stop running. It never got stuck in the snow even though I dented one of my Cragars on the iron edge of a storm drain curb.

[rThor432]

Sounds like my life not complete without having owned one..

[JasonC]

Maybe people would feel safer in a pinto station wagon.

[benDASHDASH]

this banner ad offends me, please take it down

[backtrail69]

It would..