A 1980 Ford Pinto Squire modified for racing and then made street-legal again is selling next week in Glendale, Arizona.
Ford brought back the Maverick nameplate, and it's never let the Mustang lapse, but you know we're never going to see a reborn Pinto. Infamously overshadowed by its reputation for ruptured gas tanks ...
Then, on May 28, 1972, Lilly Gray was driving her six-month-old Pinto down a stretch of California’s Interstate 15 when the engine stumbled and stalled. A 1962 Ford Galaxie braked hard and rear-ended ...
Born in London, England, and now a naturalized American citizen, Bob Winkelmann has relied on his European road racing experience to develop the Stage 5 2-liter Pinto engine. Bob has been racing here ...
If you stepped into a Ford dealership in 1973 to get a more economical driving companion, the Pinto was the first model the salespeople offered to you. It was a popular choice across the United States ...
Today, the Ford Pinto is widely mocked as one of Ford’s biggest missteps and, by extension, a symbol of what went wrong in parts of the U.S. auto industry in the 1970s. What gets lost in that ...