(Editor’s note: As we continue to creep towards New Year’s Day, it is fun to look back over 2014 and see the blog items that really got people’s attention. This was one of them, a pinto so clapped out and jacked up that even we wouldn’t drive it and that is really saying something. See for yourself) Everybody has Ford Pinto jokes that involve “ka-boom” somewhere in the punchline. But this particular Pinto wagon just might take the cake for being the most unsafe of them all. In 2012 a Minnesota State Trooper pulled the car over, preparing to cite the driver for unsafe equipment. After seeing what he was up against, I don’t doubt for a second that the entire ticket book was used. The car was impounded after it was determined that the driver had no license.
This thing is horrifying. The floors are freaking gone. Not just a little either. The body looks like it’s ready to fall off of the floorpan onto the ground. The thing is about as nasty and disgusting as it gets, and then you see it:
Yep. A tire over the missing floor, holding a gas can, with a fuel pump screwed into the door, routed out of the window straight to the engine. Doesn’t get much better than that, does it? The worst part is that what little of the passenger floor remains is seconds away from calling it a day and falling off. How it’s supporting the weight of the tire and the gas can is beyond us. I sincerely hope that Minnesota permanently yanks this dude’s license, because this is one complete C.F. that even Freiburger and Finnegan wouldn’t touch.
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Wow – I think the old style fuel pump is older than the car. For a little fairness, I also think that’s a boat type fuel can. We had one in our J-10 that we plowed snow with at the shop. It was in the bed, though!
WHAT is holding this car together?!? I’d love to get it on a lift and see what’s left underneath! LOL
That thing might not go up with the lift. I don’t even wanna walk beside it, much less be under it!
If you put on a lift, would you be willing to risk your life to walk under it?
ready for CoPart–LOL
eh, I have driven worse.
the only thing I see wrong with that car is there is no radio,,lol
“Officer if i patch up the floor how am i going to stop it”
New fuel line out the window is just showing off since firewall and floor hole are available.
That boat tank put in the rear seat area with a cover{usually a floor mat} and held down with a seat belt passes tech for demo derbys here in Missouri.
Boat tank required.
hell I’d drive it
the only thing I see wrong with that car is there is no radio,,lol
Just about the time you think that Pintos couldn’t get any worse….. This almost makes a Yugo look good.