$33000 Ford Pinto.

[DocWard]

1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

The V8 Gremlins were fast too!!  You could bolt in a 401" AMC engine where the 304" was and have a rocket ship!!

 

A guy with a purple Gremlin X with a built 304 once embarrassed me in my 70 Mustang. It was shockingly fast.

[Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795]

I had a '72 Pinto wagon, butterscotch color with fake woodie sides. the wife learned how to drive stick on that one. Later we had a '79 Bobcat with the glass hatchback. They had to repaint it at their cost as the factory paint bubbled and actually came off when hit with an air gun in the body shop

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

57 minutes ago, Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 said:

I had a '72 Pinto wagon, butterscotch color with fake woodie sides. the wife learned how to drive stick on that one. Later we had a '79 Bobcat with the glass hatchback. They had to repaint it at their cost as the factory paint bubbled and actually came off when hit with an air gun in the body shop

Ah yes, back in the days when auto companies' management, supply chain and the UAW did their "best" work. Little wonder customers left in droves to buy imports. It was a hard lesson, but fortunately Detroit is doing a far better job since then.