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From: Mike Hunter on 9 Jul 2010 19:13 If he got inside, tell the police to look for a very slim guy, WBMA ;) "M. Balmer" <boogerpicker(a)wazoo.net> wrote in message news:i182m5$625$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >I still worry about someone braking the glass in my porthole Pinto. >
From: Mike Hunter on 9 Jul 2010 19:40 Ford fixed the Pinto by 1976 but the bad publicity doomed the Pinto in 1980 the last model year. The fix was a shield behind the pumpkin and a 4" longer filler tube. I still own my first, of three Pintos, that currently has 301,000 miles on the original drive train. Ford test crashed Dodge vans into the rear ends of Pintos, until they duplicated the crash damage. The van was doing 47 MPH in a 35 MPH zone and the Pinto was doing 21 MPH. To defend the Pinto in the Indiana Court case, Ford crashed Dodge vans into other cars of the day, at those speeds. In the case of the small Chevy, Toyota and Datsun cars, the damage was far greater, in the Datsun crash the van ran all the way into the front set area. Even the midsize cars of several brands, had greater damage than the Pinto. Ford proved the Pinto exceeded the rear crash standards of that time and was exonerated by the court. The case was actually against the Fore Executives not the Corporation. "The improvements to the 1977 and subsequent model-year Pintos and the recall of the earlier ones should have solved Ford's Pinto fuel system problems. In September 1978, however, an Indiana grand jury indicted Ford on three felony counts of reckless homicide. This indictment was related to an accident in which, after a van rear-ended a Pinto in an allegedly low-speed collision, three young women burned to death. In contrast to the previous Pinto cases, this one was a criminal trial, not a civil suit. Ford was found not guilty on all the charges because the corporation's lawyers persuaded the jury that the crash was not, in fact, a low-speed one, and hence the deaths did not result from Ford's having kept a lethal vehicle in production in spite of an obvious fatal flaw. Ford stopped producing the Pinto after 1980, having sold about 3 million of the vehicles." "DDDudley" <noway(a)nohow.nowhere> wrote in message news:4c37976b$0$14546$ec3e2dad(a)news.usenetmonster.com... > M. Balmer, wrote the following at or about 7/9/2010 4:00 PM: >> I still worry about someone braking the glass in my porthole Pinto. > > I would too, especially if it's one of those with the exploding gas tank > option.<g> >
From: someone on 9 Jul 2010 23:43
In article <4c37976b$0$14546$ec3e2dad(a)news.usenetmonster.com>, DDDudley <noway(a)nohow.nowhere> wrote: >M. Balmer, wrote the following at or about 7/9/2010 4:00 PM: >> I still worry about someone braking the glass in my porthole Pinto. > >I would too, especially if it's one of those with the exploding gas tank >option.<g> > burning airlines give you so much more. |