Both new crate engines are fitted with a 3.0-liter supercharger for ridiculous amounts of power January 31, 2025 at 09:20 MOTORSPORTS Ford Shows Mustang Mach-E NASCAR Prototype And Teases Electric Pikes Peak Racer In reality, the wild racecars have little in common with the production-spec...
Though wheelbase and engines were unchanged from the 1946-48 models, the '49 was three inches lower, fractionally shorter, and usefully lighter. Even better, it had a modern ladder-type frame with Dearborn's first fully independent front suspension (via coil springs and upper and lower A-arms...
The Ford SOHC Pinto And Sierra Cosworth DOHC Engines High Peformance ManualDes Hammill
The Ford Pinto is a subcompact automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company for the 1971–1980 model years. The car's name derives from the Pinto horse. Initially offered as a two-door sedan, Ford offered "Runabout" hatchback and wagon models t
s importance is hard to overestimate. Debuting at the height of consumer interest in subcompacts, the Escort’s tasks in North America were to simultaneously replace the aging Pinto, and to demonstrate that Ford could make money on subcompacts (which the Pinto never did...
Probably a full sized wagon would be about right (aside from the fuel economy, but remember engines have improved in that respect since those cars were offered decades ago). I did buy my last car new, but confess that my prior cars were boug...
The interior is truly where the time capsule name fits and if there’s a better color for a Pinto other than lime green or orange, I don’t know what that would be. This one has Ford’s Cruise-o-Matic three-speed automatic and it’s a sedan with a trunk so, of course,the trunk...
I never drove a 1.6 Capri, but I did drive the Pinto with that engine. A wheezy little thing. The 2 liter engines woke up both cars. 8 Reply Doug Buntz Mar 12, 2024 at 8:30pm As ZZ Top song goes ” I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole”. 2 Reply Yblocker Mar...
Ford had been "USA-1" for 1934-37, then bowed to Chevy by about 55,000 for recession-year '38 (410,200 to 465,000-plus). Some dealers had been disappointed in Edsel Ford's new Mercury, feeling a six-cylinder Ford would have been a better idea (which was, in fact, the original...