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Brian Rhodes
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Posted: 29 April 2024 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
I would probably say 2. I mean, Mater as a spy? It just doesn't work. 


Oh, wait....
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John Byrne

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Posted: 30 April 2024 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Speaking of the Pinto, during my last years in Calgary, I drove a Bobcat. Basically a Pinto with a nose job. Everything behind the grill was a Pinto.

As many of you probably know, Pintos were notorious for bursting into flame when struck from behind.* So one day I stopped at a light and the car behind tapped me on the rear bumper. I looked in the mirror and the driver had thrown his arms across his face!

When I left Calgary I gave the Bobcat to my Dad. He drove it for several years before passing it on to a friend’s teenage daughter. Who promptly totaled it.

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* As the tale is told, Ford elected not to fix this flaw as paying off potential lawsuits would actually be cheaper!!

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 30 April 2024 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Sometimes us car owners don't realize how good we have it now.

There's a buddy of mine that told me a tale of his 70's vehicle's engine just randomly bursting into flames while driving it down the street in Brooklyn. He told it so non-chalantly - just seeing flames peeking out through the hood, calmly pulling over and shutting the engine, walking away and calling a cab to go back home. Meanwhile, my jaw was agape on the other side of the phone call, because that sounds like such a nightmare scenario to me - what if that happened in the middle of a busy highway with no shoulder or a bridge??

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 30 April 2024 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
And speaking of Yugo, I remember an old Letterman bit where he announced that their newest model will be named the "Yugo Screwyourself".

Edited by Vinny Valenti on 30 April 2024 at 5:37pm
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John Cole
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Posted: 04 May 2024 at 12:56am | IP Logged | 5 post reply
My 1976 Oldmobile Starfire got stuck in it's parking spot once or twice winter 1985,86 when I was stationed at Wurtsmith AFB,MI when I was on active duty USAF so I traded it in for a 1986 Ford Escort and that was a brand new needless adventure.
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