yugo Vs. pinto Vs. metro

which one would you pimp ?

my friend has a pimped out yugo, its blue and he has a blue muffler can thing, yellow whindshield wipers, yellow cd player face, and the bue and yellow montage continues throughout the car. i do not, in anyway, condone the ricing of any car especially the three mentioned in this thread, but i have to admit that his yugo looks hilarious and its, uuuuuuhhhhh, unique?

only b/c you can put a 302 ford motor in it, i would go pinto

The pinto's were it's at dudes.

looks like a pinto it is, "party on wayne, party on garth" :p

Pinto all the way! i saw a hiliarious video of one of those getting rear-end and then they did a zoom-in on the burning Manquins (SP).

i must say pinto... it just looks so funny :D

I have to say Pinto. I owned more than one. Pumped that 2300 up and had some fun.

I was running poorly one day, had just installed some new Bosch Platnums (they had just come on the market) and the motor just wasn't quite right, anyway, I got STOMPED by a frigging turbo Metro.. I mean STOMPED... 150 yards, 2 lanes into one, he had 5 or so car lengths on me. Hung my head in shame, and yanked those Bosch's.

Why am I even in here posting?:huh:




Pinto:bloated:

Originally posted by Tireburner
I got STOMPED by a frigging turbo Metro..

hahahahah LOL.... a turbo metro, now that.... that's funny!!! :D :D :D lol haha

I wonder why they stopped making the turbo Sprint's and Metro's. At least with the turbo you didn't have to play Fred Flintstone to get it up hills at highway speeds!!

I have an 87 Sprint Turbo, 3rd owner since 92'. It is my little red rocket! I love spending $15-20 av a tire when they need replacement as well.

I have timed 0-60 in 8.4 seconds and even with 180k miles I have smoked a modified 88 Scirocco 16v, a mid 80's 5.0 Mustang on the freeway as well as a Beretta GTZ, a new Accord V6, and more recently my friends mildly modified 99' VR6 GTI pulled me 2 car lengths.

Long live the quick, reliable, 38mpg 87-88 Sprint!

-Kenny

I have an 87 Sprint Turbo, 3rd owner since 92'. It is my little red rocket! I love spending $15-20 av a tire when they need replacement as well.

I have timed 0-60 in 8.4 seconds and even with 180k miles I have smoked a modified 88 Scirocco 16v, a mid 80's 5.0 Mustang on the freeway as well as a Beretta GTZ, a new Accord V6, and more recently my friends mildly modified 99' VR6 GTI pulled me 2 car lengths.

Long live the quick, reliable, 38mpg 87-88 Sprint!

-Kenny
BTW... I also own a 74' Ford Pinto~ 2.0 (German Engine) w/ 26,480 ORIG miles, A kind of goldish brown color called "Saddle Bronze", owned by a little old lady. I like it, certainly does get it's share of ...uhhh..."looks" :eek7: :grinno:

which one would you pimp ?


PINTO is P I M P
come on you know a car is pimp worthy when you can get kill form just being rear ended


and metros are crap:bricks1:

Hellooooo

Actually, the Pinto did my all means HAVE a defective gas tank design (not denying this in anyway)
However, there was a mass recall for all 71-74 sedans (that is the non-wagon model, Wagons did NOT have the design flaw) to correct the problem. The recall was done on my car in 75' (good thing, huh?;)

Many people that are not aware of all the facts (you got to be quite an auto enthousiast to research the history of the Pinto I suppose! ;)
essentially the 75-80' models, no matter whether it was a sedan, hatchback Runabout model, or wagon, were all perfectly safe and in compliance with the safety and crash requirements of the time.

Funny thing huh?, they were around for a full 9+ yr run!! Not many so called "Lemons" have that long of a model run. : )

Pinto's final demise was due to the obvious publicity from the one fatal flaw in the 71-74 models, and what did Ford do but introduce a the far more mediocre Early "Escort" line to replace it.

Otherwise, and I mean I like many lines of cars and have a pretty good knowledge of most cars pluses and minuses....the Pinto was pretty underated and had quite a few really good atributes.

Some? Simple to maintain (change the timing belt ev 45 k, and adjust the valves every 15k on 2 liters, and give the 3000 mile oil change) and the car will run for an almost indeffident amount of time.

Aftermarket is HUGE for the 4 cylinder. Can rev to 8000RPM without missing a beat. turbos can be added, swap Merkur turbo motors as a nice clean fit w/ a lighter chassis to boot, pump the stock bullet proof engine to 250 hp with aftermarket parts, some people swap a V8 which I am not as much a fan of due to handling and balance not as strong...but nevertheless...they are good cars. Not like the best car ever of anything but, I would choose a well maintained older Pinto fromt he early 70's over a new Hyundai, Dawoo, Kia, or even Cavalier ANYDAY.

Kenny