10 Cars That Sank Detroit
The Club for Growth (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Can you say, "Ford Pinto" ? HT: Mark Perry
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Palin Woos Crowd at Columbus Day Rally
The Satirical Political Report (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
“AND SO WHEN I LOOKED OUT MY WINDOW, AND SAW COLUMBUS COMING TO THE SHORES OF ALASKA, ALONG WITH NINO SCALIA, A FORD PINTO, AND SANTA CLAUS, IT JUST REAFFIRMED MY FAITH IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS.”
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Eli's stunt knees
this blog is full of crap (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
If you're wondering where turftoy David Carr wound up, he's acting as Eli Manning's stunt knees in New York. Yeah, Matt Schaub sucks. Once a backup, always a backup. And Sage is rustier than a Ford Pinto on anything but concrete blocks. But it could be worse. Especially for the grass.
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1970 Pinto Commercial "Introducing the Pinto"
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
1970 Pinto Commercial "Introducing the Pinto" - probably the first Ford Pinto commercial.
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Coffee Anyone? The Cost of Stuff in Italy
http://wanderingitaly.com/blog/rss/ (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
People are always asking about the price of things in Italy. They want to know if they can really get a late model Ferrari in Italy for the price of a spiffy, like-new 1976 Ford Pinto, like the neighbor told them they could. So I occasionally put out these bulletins…
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VIDEO: Electric Pinto only explodes off the starting line
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Ford , USA Back in the day, the Ford Pinto was most famous for the occasional gas tank explosion when involved in a rear-end collision. When you design a car with that kind of feature engineering flaw and then combine it with doors that jam shut in the same type of crash, people are going to talk. Nowadays, there's a Pinto in Alaska with fire-orange paint developing a reputation...
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Rockies lose opener at Detroit
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
The Rockies rolled into the Motor City with all the gusto of a '76 Chevy Chevette. In a 7-1 loss to the Tigers Friday night at Comerica Park, they showed all the horsepower of a '75 Ford Pinto.
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Investors, Issuers Howl Over Plans to Change Asset Backed Securities Ratings (No Sympathy Here)
naked capitalism (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Do you remember the Ford Pinto ? The 1970s car had a nasty tendency to explode into flames in rear end collisions. But the piece de resistance was when litigation exposed a Ford internal memo that showed the company was not only aware of the problem, but had run the math and concluded reinforcing the car would be more costly than compensating victims. Similar logic is at work in the protests coming...
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What’s The Most Disgusting Car You’ve Ever Driven In? [Question Of The Day]
Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
There’s a great song by The Coup wherein the protagonist, in true Jalopnik style, jumps from one cheap vehicle to another including a 1988 Cadillac Seville, 1981 Datsun and 1976 Ford Pinto. The lyrics include this great exchange: Got my rearview attached with some duct tape/ Keep yo’ knee right there! I’m tryinta keep that glove [...]
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What's The Most Disgusting Car You've Ever Driven In? [Question Of The Day]
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
There's a great song by The Coup wherein the protagonist, in true Jalopnik style, jumps from one cheap vehicle to another including a 1988 Cadillac Seville, 1981 Datsun and 1976 Ford Pinto. The lyrics include this great exchange: Got my rearview attached with some duct tape/ Keep yo' knee right there! I'm tryinta keep that glove compartment closed playa/ The seatbelt don't work just tie it round your...
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Electric Dragster: 1978 Ford Pinto Sedan “Crazyhorse - el Pinto Loco”
cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
In, France: First All Electric Light Aircraft Flight, I wrote: You won’t see a plug-in Boeing 747 anytime soon. But this reminds me of the freaks who wanted electric cars so badly (over the last couple of decades) that they couldn’t help themselves. So, at great expense, they converted conventional cars to run on electric power, [...]
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Save the SUV
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times may have forgotten the Ford Pinto.
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'Disco, the Brady Bunch, the bumbling portrait of Gerald Ford on Saturday Night Live, the exploding Ford Pinto, Jimmy Carter's "killer rabbit" '
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
From: Why It's Time to Rethink the 70s by Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer Another reason for the scholarly bias against the 1970s concerns the peculiar focus of political historians. Scholars still tend to focus on presidents, their top advisers, and the exercise of executive power. As a result, the 1960s--a period that features the Camelot of John F. Kennedy and the tragedy of Lyndon Johnson--or...
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Leonard Goldstein, 76; retired judge handled major cases in O.C.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
He presided over the 1970s Ford Pinto product liability suit that resulted in the then-record jury award of nearly $128.5 million. Leonard Goldstein, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge who presided over the 1970s Ford Pinto product liability case that resulted in a then-record jury award of nearly $128.5 million in damages, and who later oversaw civil cases related to the UCI Medical Center...
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VIDEO: Matthew Fox in Mens Health Magazine
Approaching Lost (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
A video of Matthew Fox shot for Men’s Health. Matthew talks about growing up in Wyoming and having the freedom to move around as a teenager and not really on his parents for a vehicle. “It was a big deal. My grandfather game a used, really used, Ford Pinto station wagon. [...]
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