[unluky]

Originally Posted by ShopVac

My learning was on an 84 chevy chevette.

Thought this was funny...

My buddy had a 74 Plymouth Satellite that he badgered his father into buying him when he was 15 and he could work it off. Well the DAY he got his driver license, he came home and got it finally and on his joyous drive out to the blacktop (lived on about a mile of gravel) his heavy foot got the better of him and he wrapped it around a tree. Literally a 1/2 mile from his house hours after getting his license. To say his dad was pissed is an understatement.

So a few weeks later his dad came home dragging a BRIGHT ORANGE used Pinto. He told my buddy "drive it or ride the bus - I don't give a shit which - your rides are over". He hated it - I mean HATED it. One night we were drinking and he was cussing it and he got up and dug the brick out of the back that he used as a E brake - started the car and tossed the brick on the accelerator. He swore us all as witnesses that he was driving normal and it just blew.

Except he didn't tell the Pinto. 5 mins.....10 mins.....15 mins.....20 mins......it just kept screaming away. It was very hard to listen to or even sit near it, but it just kept going.

He gave up before it did and then he drove it another year till he saved up enough to buy another car. I will never forget that sound as long as I live.

[TKDbilly]

Originally Posted by KRS_SN

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[Efthreeoh]

Originally Posted by flybigjet

A 1971.5 Ford Pinto was the first new car my father ever bought. Bright red, black interior with a black vinyl top-- it still had the hatch, but with half-glass instead of the later full-glass.

He drove it for DECADES-- even took it to Japan for five years on a military assignment. It pretty much drove terribly until we finally figured out that Ford had half-arsed the smog controls to be able to sell it in CA. We pulled all of that junk off and put in a new carburator-- it was like a completely different car after that.

It was also the car that I learned how to drive a MT with. My dad took me to the local (empty) community college parking lot on a weekend, demonstrated how to work the gears, got out and went over to a bench with a paper and said "Come back and pick me up when you figure it out."

A few months later, I got to learn how to change a clutch as well.

He did get rear-ended on the way home from work in the mid-80's (before the gas tank shield recall). You'd have thought he would have gone up like a buddhist monk, but he just had a backyard mechanic straighten out where he got crumpled, repainted it and pressed on.

I drove that car all the way through college, and that's what taught me to be a mechanic. Dad would help pay for parts, but not labor. If I didn't want to walk, I had to learn how to fix it. That baby 4-banger was about as simple of an engine as you could get without using hamsters, so it was a good car for a (pre-internet) kid to learn on.

All in all, dad really got his money's worth out of it-- it had its flaws, but it did our family well for almost 20 years.

R.

2.0L or the Kent 1.6?

[flybigjet]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

2.0L or the Kent 1.6?

My dad was NOT wealthy and wouldn't have ever paid for an upgraded motor-- IIRC, it was the Kent 1.6. I think that was the one with pair of field mice instead of a brace of hamsters? It could barely get out of its way, and you *really* had to row that old four-speed MT to get it up a hill. It made a fair bit of sound, but not much in the way of thrust. I'm pretty sure I lost a race to a Huffy once on the way to school.

R.

[Murf993]

Originally Posted by flybigjet

My dad was NOT wealthy and wouldn't have ever paid for an upgraded motor-- IIRC, it was the Kent 1.6. I think that was the one with pair of field mice instead of a brace of hamsters? It could barely get out of its way, and you *really* had to row that old four-speed MT to get it up a hill. It made a fair bit of sound, but not much in the way of thrust. I'm pretty sure I lost a race to a Huffy once on the way to school.

R.

The first new car my dad bought was a Pinto, it was that Cheddar cheese colour. He eventually painted it red which was much better. I was working on that car for him as he wasn't mechanical at all. I only drove it a few times because he traded it about the time I was learning to drive. I did learn to do repairs on it though.

[Maynard]

My friend's brother had a Vega with a SB Chevy in it - talk about a death trap. First car I ever saw do a true wheel stand though.

[TKDbilly]

We return this thread to the regularly scheduled, dumb LOL images...

[rwheels]

[Lady Jane]

Good morning peeps...

[Efthreeoh]

Originally Posted by flybigjet

My dad was NOT wealthy and wouldn't have ever paid for an upgraded motor-- IIRC, it was the Kent 1.6. I think that was the one with pair of field mice instead of a brace of hamsters? It could barely get out of its way, and you *really* had to row that old four-speed MT to get it up a hill. It made a fair bit of sound, but not much in the way of thrust. I'm pretty sure I lost a race to a Huffy once on the way to school.

R.

I had four Pinto's over my early driving career. One had the Kent. Completely different car than the 2.0 L "Pinto" motor. Dog fricking slow was the 1.6L Kent.

[rwheels]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Good morning peeps...

Nice errr, necklace. Yeah, that's what I noticed.

[kscarrol]

Originally Posted by rwheels

Nice errr, necklace. Yeah, that's what I noticed.

Necklace? Clearly you lack the eye to notice a very concerning mole…. I think Dr. kscarrol needs to conduct a thorough physical exam.

[TheWatchGuy]

[Uber Commuter]

Originally Posted by TKDbilly

We return this thread to the regularly scheduled, dumb LOL images...

To be fair, those new warnings are there due to the actions of previous generations as well...

[Lady Jane]

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Horsepower

[Esteban]

A peek under the hood. (An old pic)

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