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Mickey Richaud

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Hey - my 1971 Pinto had a 1600cc engine, and could do over 80 mph.

downhill
 
In reverse? :unsure:
 
I saw that car (or one painted very similarly) in Sonoma County a few weeks ago on my way to work. I can’t help but laugh about it every time I think about it, then it shows up here! Funny thing!
 
My dad bought a new one for one of my sisters, and she kept it for a year and traded it in on a new Maveric. Which she had for many years. I was glad she got rid of the Pinto after the gas tank episodes came out! :rolleyes2:
 
The mother of one of my best friends had one. (actually a few people I knew) This one however was bright red, purchased new and probably was the most besic car I ever saw. It had literally no options. Even in those days of basic cars (VW Beetle etc) it stood out and I always kind of marvelled at it.
 
A college classmate had a Pinto station wagon. One of the cars I learned to drive a stick on.
 
BobHaskell said:
A college classmate had a Pinto station wagon. One of the cars I learned to drive a stick on.
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Growing up we had two notable cars in town (Small town Ontario) - a Vega with a 350 in it and a Pinto with a 302. I was told the Pinto was the harder shifting of the two as there really wasn't room in the transmission hump and both kept their original gas tanks so would go through 2 or 3 tankfuls in an evening of cruising.
 
I went to high school with a girl who had a Pinto wagon with weird fish eye port hole windows. Poor girl.
 
waltesefalcon said:
I went to high school with a girl who had a Pinto wagon with weird fish eye port hole windows. Poor girl.
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O come on - I'd still have one. (Car that is, I've already got the girl - just not that girl)
 
waltesefalcon said:
I went to high school with a girl who had a Pinto wagon with weird fish eye port hole windows. Poor girl.
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I think Ford referred to those Pintos & Full-Sized Vans as “Shaggin’ Wagons”.

As I recall, they were typically bright colors with bold, full-length accent stripes!

The ‘70s…. What a time to be growing up!

Rocky
 
From back in the day when "If it doesn't go fast,put stripes on it
& make it look like it does".
 
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