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We had a Japanese car once...
then dad got a job, the weekly paychecks started rolling in...can't
quite remember what happened to the ****box Jap car... I think we may have scrapped it... (laughter...) |
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We had a Japanese car once...
drive a foreign ****box wrote: then dad got a job, the weekly paychecks started rolling in... and he bought a Ford Pinto. |
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Corvettes and Vipers aren't ****ty-you're cheap
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We had a Japanese car once...
ps- nope, he bought a 1988 GM sedan brand new- and they still have it
and it's running like a top, today |
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We had a Japanese car once...
On 9 Nov 2005 15:46:34 -0800, "Brain-washed Americans Drive ****ty
Cars." wrote: drive a foreign ****box wrote: then dad got a job, the weekly paychecks started rolling in... and he bought a Ford Pinto. snip Actually, and don't laugh, the Pinto, in the 2000cc and 2300cc, circa '72 to '75, was a pretty tough little ugly car. I know one gal that used to own a dental lab (before the mexicans invaded and ruined the business) that used a fleet of Pintos with 2000cc engines in them as delivery cars. She got over 300K on them on the original engines with normal maintenance before they were retired. That $2 steel skid placed on the rear end pumpkin eliminated the infamous "exploding gas tank" problem. Pintos also saw service in Pacific Telephone's staff fleet, and lasted longer than the Japanese cars that replaced them, the Mitsubishi built Plymouth Arrows. Mitsubishis have never been good, reliable cars...ever. Biggest problem: engine failure. Chrysler learned this the hard way when they started using Mitsubishi 2.5L 4s to replace its domestic built 2.2L 4s in the K car era. Due to warranty claims, Iacocca ordered that the 2.2 be retained and enlarged, while the Mistubishi 2.5 disappeared. Problem with the Pinto was it really didnt' do anything well, except run forever...bad space utilization, not-so-great economy, lousy handling for a small car, so-so ride, mediocre seating. She used to average around 26 MPG in delivery service on the Pintos, while a 200 cu. in. '70 Maverick got about the same and did things a bit better all around. Part of the problem was Ford's hosed up smog system, using air injector pumps designed for big V8s, unsophisticated Holley 2300 carburetors and dual diaphragm distributor vacuum advance units that would always leak. After around 1980, parts support for smog equipment for Pintos became non-existant, so most of them went to the scrapper during the '80s when they couldn't pass smog. The BAD car in that era was the Chevy Vega...quite possibly the worst US car ever made, period. Most barely lasted three or four years before being scrapped. The Chevette ("Shove-ette") that replaced it was a bit more reliable, but even more cheesy and crappy, which became a GM trademark in the '80s. dB |
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We had a Japanese car once...
Bob- Pintos were a major ****box- Americans could not make a good small
car in the 1970's, about the best small car they ever made was the Chevy Corvair- and that had issues. Americans, i.e. GM, make great small cars today- about the best is the Saturn- I ran 2 of them over 200,000 miles each, both 1991 models. I still would not buy a Chrysler or Ford car or truck- because GM is just so much better built. The Jap cars are for the uninformed. German cars are pretty good, but too complex, and cost thousands to maintain and repair. They aren't made for USA road conditions. A thermostat for a German car costs about $75 |
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