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Please define "cheap gas". Isn't that tank only @24 gallons with est 18 city and 25 highway. Of course when your climbing mountains in it the fuel mileage will suffer...so never mind!
Overall, realiable as hell. I remember filling up at a local Vickers station in Bellevue, NE for $.35 per gallon, and the attendent saying: "good thing you got this car - I hear gas is headed north of fifty cents a gallon soon!" True this. 1973 was the year of the Oil Crisis so gas was getting ready to explode price wise. In 1973 I was making $4.24 per hour as a set-up electrician for the railroad and thought I was crapping in high clover! I was driving a 1969 Chevelle SS 396 so gas became an issue for me.Einsteiger wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:04 am Takes me back to the first car that I ever ordered from a dealer: 1973 Ford Pinto wagon.
Thems was the days.............
Heh. Shortly after buying the P!g diesel out here shot up to cheap CA levels. As I'm one to attempt to get every last drop out of a tank (had my Escape cut out on me just as I turned into a station and coast to the pump...) that was an annoying few months where I had to go through 2 rounds of swiping. Especially when I'd hit the odd station that refused to let you use the same card within a set period of time...
Heh. The P!g has spoiled me. Before I stopped commuting into the office the combination of short distance, 26g tank, and 30ish mpg meant that I was only having to fill up once a month. Now it feels like such a chore when I have to fill something upOceanBlue2000 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:14 am And the way I drive, I could use another 5 gallon capacity in the 996. Seems like I'm always filling it up.
Yea the good old days, especially with a Pinto with its optional rear seat BBQEinsteiger wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:04 am Takes me back to the first car that I ever ordered from a dealer: 1973 Ford Pinto wagon.
Thems was the days.............
Hey! I had forgotten about the exploding gas tanks! I went to Maui in the early 70's with a GF and we rented a Pinto for the week. I played Mario Andretti on the Road to Hana which was much more primitive than today. Lucky I didn't loop it and back it into a Banyan tree!JayG wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:43 amYea the good old days, especially with a Pinto with its optional rear seat BBQEinsteiger wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:04 am Takes me back to the first car that I ever ordered from a dealer: 1973 Ford Pinto wagon.
Thems was the days.............
My uncle bought 4 70s Pintos in all I think. At least one of them went back for the factory recall, which consisted of putting a metal firewall between the gas tank and the rear. All my cousins eventually got them, and I learned manual on one.Einsteiger wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:23 am For the record, the Pinto wagons did not experience the same kind of....incidents....as their coupe bretheren. We ended up trading it in MN for a gigantic 78 Ford LTD Wagon. Opposite end of that spectrum.