This 1974 Ford Pinto has a couple of interesting stories connected to it or actually three if you consider a 48-year-old car with 4,780 original miles on it interesting. Ok, there are probably at least four interesting facts about this car or maybe more. The seller has it listedhere on...
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
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 di...
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 bou...
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...