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Originally Posted by wa2ise
I know a guy at work from Poland, and he mentioned that back in the bad old days (1970's) a Ford Pinto would have been a high quality car compared with what they had in Poland back then.
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I owned a couple Pintos back in the early 80's, my Uncle had a couple also.
The earlier ones actually were a pretty decent car if you got the 2.0L engine, the 1.6L was a miserable piece of junk though, the later ones (74+) with the 2.3L or the V6 and all the emissions equipment were also crap but still light years better than a Vega.
They were very under powered but the 2.0L engines would run forever if you took care of them.
The 4 speed manual Transmission was the weakest point, I rebuilt or replaced a lot of those, they came with a C4 Automatic too but that only made the lack of power worse.