1976 Ford Pinto found in D:PL!!!

[Canadian dude]

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9130/hehe3ea.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
If you look to the very LEFT of this screen, you'll see a green ford pinto look-a-like. Ram it to hard in the rear andhttp://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/contrib/edoom/split_spawn.gif Here's the Real Thing http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7079/realthing5yo.jpg (http://imageshack.us) (iv proof)

[xtsubarublazin]

Host that so we can see it larger :)

[carlover325]

Here is the big version:

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8738/pintoscreen6of.jpg

If it is a Pinto look-alike, I will be so happy.

[frick3nchick3n]

L O fricken L

i hope it'll burst into flames if you ram it....

[Canadian dude]

Originally posted by carlover325
Here is the big version:

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8738/pintoscreen6of.jpg

If it is a Pinto look-alike, I will be so happy.
HELL YA!!! http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/cwm/lurk.gif

[fastdriver]

um.. i dont get how a ford pinto can catch on fire when u rear end it.:weird:

[frick3nchick3n]

they just do

[xtsubarublazin]

Originally posted by fastdriver
um.. i dont get how a ford pinto can catch on fire when u rear end it.:weird:

Ford made a critical error when designing the Ford Pinto. For more interior space, they moved the gas tank farther back into the car, right in front of the rear bumper. Ramming the vehicle from behind hard enough will burst the gas tank and any open flame or spark (like those in a vehicle) will ignite the gasoline.

Ford Pinto and its Infamous Journey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Safety_problems)

[#1theman]

Wow so thats why. Weird.

[fastdriver]

thanks a lot for the info:)

[xtsubarublazin]

Originally posted by fastdriver
thanks a lot for the info:)

Not a problem :)

[carlover325]

Found at stayfreemagazine.org (http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/23/ford_pinto.html)

The Ford Pinto, one of the best-selling cars of the 1970s, had a defective gas tank with an unfortunate tendency to burst into flames in rear-end collisions. Instead of fixing the Pinto, Ford lobbied against federal regulation affecting fuel tank safety. As part of the lobbying effort, the company prepared a cost-benefit analysis. According to Ford's engineers, it would cost $11* per car, or $137 million per year for the industry as a whole, to meet the rollover standard, while avoiding an estimated 180 deaths per year, along with an equal number of serious burn injuries and a few thousand wrecked cars.

Ford's cost-benefit analysis valued those lives at a mere $200,000 apiece. That number was calculated by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration at the request of the auto industry, mainly on the basis of lost wages, plus medical and legal costs and a small amount for pain and suffering. At $200,000 per head, 180 deaths are "worth" $36 million, not nearly enough to "justify" a $137 million expenditure. As Ford saw it, spending an extra $11 per car to fix the gas tank just wasn't worth it.

Despite Ford's lobbying, the gas-tank safety regulation was adopted. Ford responded by immediately, and inexpensively, making the 1977 Pinto safer. But the damage to the company's image had been done. The public realized that Ford had knowingly produced a dangerous car, leading to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of preventable deaths. Ford finally discontinued the model in 1980.
--adapted from Priceless

I know, it's all useless info, but it explains certain things.

[matt__jon]

****in bastards is all i have to say about that. I knew the car was dangerous, but after reading that, Ford is a bunch of ****ing retards

[wardy91]

Originally posted by matt__jon
****in bastards is all i have to say about that. I knew the car was dangerous, but after reading that, Ford is a bunch of ****ing retards

Remember this is back in the seventies, Ford's cars now are very reliable and safe, although, they arent volvos....

[matt__jon]

Hopefully

Anyway I hope with the car modding we can make the Pinto/Pacer like the Merthmobile from Waynes World. I'd put nitro on that thing.