Grandmother arrested after blocking pipeline construction in Ford Pinto

[thackney]

Next iteration, I was selected to teach a college friend to drive like a bootlegger (Group Project), and got a little too much air with his Vega and bottomed it hard on the landing. That's the time I cracked the oil pan. I ended up shelling out a bunch of precious beer money to get that welded.

I had a similar experience in an '81 doge omni hatchback.  Oil pan survived but the water pump didn't.

[Wingnut]

Remember when a dead battery meant nothing as long as you had a few friends to give you a running push?

Or if you didn't have any friends...parking it facing down a hill.

[roamer_1]

I drove that puppy like a rented mule. (It was my brother's and he'd have killed me If he knew some of the shenanigans I did with that car,

I built several of them in my time... None for me. One of my buddies was pretty hot for em, and because I had done the work before, and helped maintain his, I wound up doing a handful more.

I was always fixin to build one for me, but never got it done. I pretty well stayed in Chevelles and El Caminos... El Caminos particularly. Probably best. I am a big dude, and I don't fit in a Vega.

[Smokin Joe]

I built several of them in my time... None for me. One of my buddies was pretty hot for em, and because I had done the work before, and helped maintain his, I wound up doing a handful more.

I was always fixin to build one for me, but never got it done. I pretty well stayed in Chevelles and El Caminos... El Caminos particularly. Probably best. I am a big dude, and I don't fit in a Vega.

I'm only 6-1, but it was a snug fit. Helped keep me in the seat during some of the stuff I pulled...

[mountaineer]

My brother, sister and my sister's friend once headed out on Christmas Eve in our family's infamous "grabber lime" 1971 Pinto to get a Christmas tree. Not to buy one, necessarily: They snatched one off a closed tree lot, stuffed it in the back of the Pinto, and hightailed it out of there. Good times!

[roamer_1]

I'm only 6-1, but it was a snug fit. Helped keep me in the seat during some of the stuff I pulled...

Well, I am a bit taller than you... and my head was on the lid... but more than that, my swampers hit all the pedals at once, and I had to keep the window down for a place for my shoulder to go.... 

[Smokin Joe]

Well, I am a bit taller than you... and my head was on the lid... but more than that, my swampers hit all the pedals at once, and I had to keep the window down for a place for my shoulder to go.... 

Geez. Sounds like me trying on a mini-cooper once (early '70s). Thank Heaven it had a sunroof. I almost took it for a drive, but I realized that if I had to stop suddenly, either my mouth or the bridge of my nose would hit the edge of the sunroof, and I like chewing food and being able to breathe....