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Feb-20-2019 06:17 PM
Rustofer wrote:otrfun wrote:SidecarFlip wrote:Yeah, I remember seein' a few mods like yours. That's an insane amount of engine for a small car with such a short wheelbase!
Had a Pinto when I was a kid. It never blew up but it did beat (blew) the pants off a lot of cars on the street and at the track.
Tubbed it and dropped in a 350 Turbocharged small block with a 400 high stall box with a 9" Ford rear out back on ladder bars.
High 11's at the track with wrinkle wall MT's if you could keep it straight and off the wheelie bars.
Great high school car. Wish I had it today. What a hoot.
Not to mention likely overweight on the front axle!
Feb-20-2019 10:57 AM
Feb-20-2019 10:20 AM
AnEv942 wrote:
Or jeeps...gas tank was under the seat and you sat on it. Early ones you lifted cushion to fill..
Feb-20-2019 09:26 AM
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Feb-20-2019 08:35 AM
SageCrispin wrote:Used to drive a 70 Chevy C10 back-in-the-day. I vividly remember hearing that fuel sloshing around in that gas tank mounted just behind the seat as I braked and drove around corners. Even then, before safety and seat belts were a common mind-set, we always thought that's got to be the most stupid, dangerous place to put a gas tank. What were those GM engineers thinking--lol!
. . . There was a time when all our Chev trucks had the gas tanks part of the cab. After a while it was decided that it wasn't a good idea for people to be leaning back against the gas tank as they went down the road. And it was a GAS tank-there were no diesel pickups then . . .
Feb-20-2019 07:58 AM
Feb-20-2019 07:05 AM
SidecarFlip wrote:otrfun wrote:Lantley wrote:Exploding rear-mounted gas tanks (when rear-ended). It was big news back in the early 70's. If I remember correctly, the fix action was placing some extra sheet metal between the gas tank and the muffler. The muffler was mounted parallel with the side of the gas tank and was only an inch or two away.
.....What is the Pinto notorious for? . . .
Had a Pinto when I was a kid. It never blew up but it did beat (blew) the pants off a lot of cars on the street and at the track.
Tubbed it and dropped in a 350 Turbocharged small block with a 400 high stall box with a 9" Ford rear out back on ladder bars.
High 11's at the track with wrinkle wall MT's if you could keep it straight and off the wheelie bars.
Great high school car. Wish I had it today. What a hoot.
Feb-20-2019 06:15 AM
mkirsch wrote:
This is caused by people watching too many old episodes of "CHiPS" on MeTV. If you believe what you see on that show, ANY car explodes into a ball of flames from even the slightest tap.
Feb-20-2019 05:48 AM
Feb-19-2019 03:44 PM
Rustofer wrote:otrfun wrote:SidecarFlip wrote:Yeah, I remember seein' a few mods like yours. That's an insane amount of engine for a small car with such a short wheelbase!
Had a Pinto when I was a kid. It never blew up but it did beat (blew) the pants off a lot of cars on the street and at the track.
Tubbed it and dropped in a 350 Turbocharged small block with a 400 high stall box with a 9" Ford rear out back on ladder bars.
High 11's at the track with wrinkle wall MT's if you could keep it straight and off the wheelie bars.
Great high school car. Wish I had it today. What a hoot.
Not to mention likely overweight on the front axle!
Feb-18-2019 03:56 PM
otrfun wrote:SidecarFlip wrote:Yeah, I remember seein' a few mods like yours. That's an insane amount of engine for a small car with such a short wheelbase!
Had a Pinto when I was a kid. It never blew up but it did beat (blew) the pants off a lot of cars on the street and at the track.
Tubbed it and dropped in a 350 Turbocharged small block with a 400 high stall box with a 9" Ford rear out back on ladder bars.
High 11's at the track with wrinkle wall MT's if you could keep it straight and off the wheelie bars.
Great high school car. Wish I had it today. What a hoot.
Feb-18-2019 01:55 PM
SidecarFlip wrote:Yeah, I remember seein' a few mods like yours. That's an insane amount of engine for a small car with such a short wheelbase!
Had a Pinto when I was a kid. It never blew up but it did beat (blew) the pants off a lot of cars on the street and at the track.
Tubbed it and dropped in a 350 Turbocharged small block with a 400 high stall box with a 9" Ford rear out back on ladder bars.
High 11's at the track with wrinkle wall MT's if you could keep it straight and off the wheelie bars.
Great high school car. Wish I had it today. What a hoot.
Feb-18-2019 12:55 PM
burningman wrote:I owned two Pintos back in the day. I remember things a little differently. Buy, hey, it was . . . a loooonng time ago--lol!otrfun wrote:The Pinto was notorious for being the victim of an over-sensationalized story, in an era when fact-checking was a lot more difficult.Lantley wrote:Exploding rear-mounted gas tanks (when rear-ended). It was big news back in the early 70's. If I remember correctly, the fix action was placing some extra sheet metal between the gas tank and the muffler. The muffler was mounted parallel with the side of the gas tank and was only an inch or two away.
.....What is the Pinto notorious for? . . .
That’s evidenced by the fact that none of you actually know what the Pinto was notorious for. Everyone just heard “Pintos blow up!” and believed it.
It was all about hitting the car so hard that the gas tank was crushed against the rear differential, and getting a hole punched by one of the bolts.
Since then, attempts to recreate the scenario have all failed.
Hit any car that hard and anything might get smashed against anything . . .