That Pinto's paintjob is immaculate to The Amazing World Of Gumball 👀👀👀👀

The fact that he’s kept that car so beyond period correct is incredible. It’s the car nobody saved. Nobody WANTED to save. Back in the 90s and 2000s we turned them into dirt track cars. Throw a fuel cell and a cheap homemade roll cage in it and go

"I want to tell his family the car is being taken care of" *Mr. Regular abusing the dog waste out of the steering*

I was a Ford mechanic in the 1970's. They were great little cars for the time period. I owned five Pintos over the years. The early ones had either a 1.6 liter engine, or the 2.0. The 1.6 was only available with a manual trans and no A/C option. I bought a brand new 1973, fully equipped with an automatic and A/C and manual sunroof for $2800. Sure, it wasn't fast, but we didn't care back then. The oil embargo had just happened and gas prices on Long Island shot up from about .20 cents a gallon to .55 cents. And we started car pooling to work and school. The old mechanical gas pumps would only go to .99 cents a gallon, so they started replacing them with the digital displays that could read over $1 a gallon. Ah, memories of the good old days.

When I was 26 years old; I nearly bought an EV converted Mercury Bobcat that had Miata suspension and a 150 mile range. If you are the owner of THAT car; I will 100% buy it from you.

This feels like a new format. The owner interview is quite natural and watchable. And the historical details seem quite well balanced. Even the obligatory college humor shit sandwich imagery seems more apt than usual. I think Mr Regular has an actual soft spot for actual underdogs! Cool.

Gotta be honest... I love this car. The looks, the color, everything.

Nice to see a person in the younger generation appreciating, respecting and maintaining an uncommon and rare classic car in original condition, well done sir.

The scene from "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer where the German Jeep rear-ends the Pinto ... eeeeeever so slightly ... and it EXPLODES is what immediately comes to mind...

The real joy of driving an old bucket like this is to really appreciate how far automotive technology has improved.

The interior of that car looks IMMACULATE! Good for him for trying to keep the car as classic and original as possible. That interior looks like a perfectly preserved time capsule from the 1970s.

My mom had a late 70's Pinto when I was growing up, it eventually became so rusted out that dust would come through the holes when driving on dirt roads. But I'll never forget our Old English Sheepdog sticking his head out of the sunroof like some ridiculous ornament.

Some people might be surprised that Ford didn’t issue recalls for all of its flaws because Ford thought it would be cheaper to pay lawsuits. But car manufactures do this a lot. GM had an issue that caused ignition failures and caused deaths due to cars shutting off abruptly. GM knew about it but also thought it would cheaper to pay out lawsuits. Just goes to show that manufacturers see you as a number and don’t care if they ruin your life.

"Oh sure, it's just like driving a really big Pinto." - Annie from _Speed_ on the GM 'New Look' bus. "Handles like a bean bag." - RCR on the Pinto. Sounds about right I guess.

It’s crazy how far separated quality control was between Japanese manufacturers and American manufacturers. I mean literally bean counting reputation away at a time when literally that’s all Ford had.

This channel is a wonder! Philosophy, vulgarity, regular cars and an original song. Astounding.

really enjoyed hearing the owner talk about the history of the car. you definitely should do this more if possible.

"a pinto was rear-ended by an oncoming vehicle" wow thats a maneuver

That’s awesome! He got that from my town I used to drive by it daily because of my delivery job and I always thought it looked so clean, it sat there for ages! I’m happy he saved it and actually appreciates this obscure little Pinto. I’m glad it’s not wasting at that shady little dealership anymore, small world lol

In 1977 when I was 16 my folks went car shopping one Saturday. Dad was a "Ford Man" and was looking to get a Pinto for my Mom to run her errands in. You can imagine my surprise and delight when she pulled in the driveway in a bright yellow Toyota Celica GT with a five speed. Fortunately there was a Toyota dealership across the street from the Ford and it caught her eye. She test drove the Pinto and then the Celica and said there was no comparison. The Celica was vastly better in every way. Thankfully she overruled my Dad on that purchase.

The first car I was allowed to drive at 14 was my grandfather’s 1974 Pinto, his was a manual. Seeing this car reminds me of him, if he were still alive he’d be 103. Thanks for posting this video.

I've owned 6 Pintos in my life, a 1973 Runabout, a 1974 Squire Wagon, a 1976 Runabout, a 1976 Sedan and two 1979 Pony Sedans. Still one of my favourite car models of all time. It doesn't take much modification to get the power up enough for them to be quite capable. The Manual transmission models were better to begin with. Thank you for finally reviewing the King of all Regular cars.

"It has 3 speeds. Useless, huh? and come on man" had me dying😂🤣

Props to the owner for keeping this little guy on the road😎😎😎😎

I love my Pinto. I think.

My rear end also explodes when Taco Bell comes into contact with it

That's a clean Pinto. Looks like it found the right kind of owner.

I love that this young guy found this car and wants to take good care of it!

Unpopular opinion: I actually like the look of the 3-door Pinto hatch. I know they had issues, but they were better looking and maybe a little more reliable than it's competitors of the time (Pacer, Gremlin, Chevette}. I also found them to be easy to repair, which is always a plus.

it was like a go-kart compared to Mom and Dad's Cutlass Supreme. Every crack in the road was a jolt. Very well documented, solid, corporate. The more I understood the amount of thought put into it, the more disappointed I felt.

My '73 Corolla actually had the fuel tank behind the back seat. There used to be a video of a rear-end collision test of a Corolla of the same era. You could see the dyed liquid from the tank spray throughout the interior.

Wow, this brings back memories. We had the exact same model, color, and options in a '76. First car my Mom bought after the divorce. It was always packed full of kids and their hockey gear, going from one rink to another. On hills, anyone in the car would be encouraged to lunge forward to help preserve momentum! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

I'm far from the biggest Pinto fan, But DAMN, I haven't seen one in this shape SINCE 1977. I'm digging it.

Hey, the Vega had a TWO speed automatic. Had one for a rental for a couple of weeks. I don't know which would win in a drag race, but drag would be the operative word.

I drove a pinto wagon in the late '70s for several years. I loved that car. I discovered that the carburetor had cracked in half and still ran like a champ and was not leaking gas. I wish I had one now.

Had a 1978 blue Pinto Squire wagon. Loaded with A/C, Automatic, cruise, rear defroster, trim package, floor mats, locking hood release.

For anyone else interested in the Pinto story, look at "the Halo Effect" on the RadioLab podcast. It goes in to some really interesting stuff in regards to the decision making process at the time.

Cars like this, and the decisions that led to them, go a long way towards explaining why the car industry is as regulated as it is

I had a '71 Pinto coupe with the 2 litre 4, automatic and a AM radio. Was my work car. Bought it with a NEW set of Michellins on it. When I got it home, I adjusted the valves [EASY to do!] and rebuilt the 2-barrel carb. For the test drive, filled it with 93 octane and off I went. Holy Moley, this thing SQUEAKED the tires on take-off!! Shifted well, too! Handled pretty good, it was those tires mostly, I believe. Drove that thing for a bit over 2 years and really enjoyed it. Decent gas milege and it ALWAYS started. Someone jumped a light and hit me up front, took out the right fender and headlight. Guy I worked with bought it for almost what I paid for it!!! My first Pinto, but not my last; had a '77 Squire wagon in white like this one. That 2.3 was a DOG engine, but that 2 ltr. was a pretty good engine for around town. Fond memories of this lil guy!

There is an old guy in my area, who has a 72 Pinto wagon...not a Squire. It's blue, and he still drives it a lot. Looks new!!! Super cool car. Same guy has an Opel Manta, which also looks new. Funny how that these cars were kinda ridiculed for years, are now cool! To me...anything that has been kept nice, and well maintained...always gets my respect. Particularly when they were not anything special, at the time. Truly treasured, and loved. Sooo cool!!!

Pinto. One of the very few cars that actually looked better in the wagon version than the sedan version.

My stepdad had a old pinto wagon that he motor swapped with an 80s thunderbird turbo 4 cylinder and some kind of 5 speed transmission. It was still painfully slow but sounded cool.

The interview with the owner is a nice touch, it adds more dimensions to the appreciation of the car through the video

I owned a 1978 Pinto sport model with a V-6 engine, factory mags, sunroof, automatic. It was a cheaply made car without question, but since it was so light, the V-6 engine would spin the rear tires from a stop and hauled ass up to 90 mph (top speed with the rearend gears). It was a very cool oddball car that always drew smiles when I would peel out from the stoplight. Alas, I traded it in on a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan that had only 27k original miles on it, but that story is for another day. Nice video guys!

I can relate to THAT experience of seeing an ORPHANED car that no one loved. There were at my local Ford dealer in the late '70s a couple of Pinto Panel Deliveries (same as the Pinto Wagon, except without a rear seat and without side rear windows) that were on the lot at least 18 months without selling (both were white and in nicer condition).

Perfect thing to watch while I’m on nights, thanks again rcr!

I've had 5 Pintos. The first one had gone through a tornado up in Omaha. I bought it and had it repainted, then it was wiped out again in the Plaza Flood (1977 KCMO). I found a hatchback with a bad engine, so I took the engine out of the flood car (a 2.0l with solid lifters), rebuilt it, put in headers, new intake, new bigger carb, dual cherry bombs, and G60-14 tires in the back (on '68 Mustang rims). Top end was close to 90 and didn't take all day to get there either. Fun to drive and I got 45mpg out of it too!

One thing is sure . . .show up at a classic car meetup & the Pinto will garner a lot of attention!

About the Pinto safety issues. It effected the coupe version. Station wagons had the extra room in the rear to make it safe. Or at least safer. Another problem was that the body would flex and crumple at the B pillar during a straight rear or front impact. This would jam the doors shut. So, along with burning, it was possible that you would have to smash your way out through a window.

"What sorta stuff did it need when you bought it?" "Really nothing." *Flashback to turning the steering wheel while still driving straight*

I loved all three of my Pinto wagons, they were very easy to work on, got good gas mileage (that was easy to adjust via the carburetor) and held my then young family. The best part was that it was low enough that elk and moose could jump over it in the middle of the night.

Damn this guy scored a great car, that is one clean original Pinto.

Oh look, the waterson's family car

The wagon didn't have the same combustiblity problem the hatch did... and my dad had one when I was a real little kid! It became impractical when my little sister was born because rear doors exist for a reason. Also, the foundational mythology of the quintessential Elvis Impersonator/ Reggae /Classic Rock Cover band relied on a Milkman rear ending a Pinto and the subsequent kablooie transforming everyone into Dread Zeppelin the band, and the powers that be showed this at least once on MTV. I defy you to call me a liar.

This video is yet another reason why I look for RC videos every week. At-A-Boy

I still got a picture at home of me with my parents when I was a little kid in the late 70's in front of our Pinto wagon with real wood grain paneling!

Oh man, the dark irony as I’m watching this of Mr. Regular being interrupted in the middle of talking about the inherent design flaws of the Pinto causing multiple deaths by…a Ford ad

"Yeah Pinto's blew up from butt stuff because they couldn't go faster to ramm stuff from the front" 🤣 best quote from RCR to this day.

Hey, I had a '74 Pinto wagon that got me through school. Working nights, going to school days, sleeping in the back of that pinto between classes. It would cruise up and down the turnpike at 70 easily.

When I was in high school i wanted a Pinto Delivery. I thought they looked better than they get credit for, minus the wood grain this one has, when fixed up.

"This thing accelerates slower than a Plymouth from the 1950s." Christine has entered the chat.

That Pinto also kinda paved the way for the EcoStang: that 2.3 Lima was turbocharged for use in the SVO from '84-'86, and that turbo Lima by the end of the SVO's run was making Mustang GT-level power at the time: 200hp, which the 302-powered GT was also making from factory in '86.

These econo boxes were not the best this country had to offer, but they were made of metal & returned 20+ mpg in a time of history when this country needed it.

I used to take my box-stock, 1973 4-speed A/C Pinto wagon up to Mulholland Drive and chase MGs, Healys & Triumphs. It was a blast. The stick made a big difference, and the steering seemed at least as good as my '65 Mustang. On its 3rd head gasket, I got $100 trade-in on it for my first new car! Thank you, Mr. Regular. So many shots, so many views of the car, artfully edited. Keep up the good work!

When I took a class in college on white collar crime, the Pinto was the first case we covered. It was a very interesting class.

1977 Ford Pinto Squire. The official car of “Kiddo, I think it’s time you and me had….the talk..”

Man, that's a blast from my high school and early college years. I haven't seen one in ages as most were driven into the ground then left to rust away or sent to the crusher. Amazing to see one with low miles and in good condition!

Great touch with the interview with new owner.Really like the format you've got here and a breathe of fresh air .Truly thank you, especially for myself whom is an collector of 70s Ford's.

The T88 engine really has nothing to with the Mazda L/Duratec engines though. The T88 came out of Ford in Europe and saw many changes in its development, from a 1.3 all the way to a fuel injected 2.5l in the 1998-99 Ranger. The Mazda L engine evolved from the Mazda F engine which was unrelated to the T88

This owner is a nice chill dude !

My buddy had a '73 wagon with the 2L engine. It was zeibarted when new, which you could see through the giant rust holes in the doors. We took his mother to the airport in Chicago and were racing a guy in a Porsche 944 on the expressway. He never could pass us!

I drove my father's '77 Pinto Squire wagon when I was a senior in high school for a while. My '73 Corolla must have been in the shop. His Pinto was plagued with ignition issues, but it was manual, so you could pop the clutch most of the time to get it rolling ... except for that Senior party, when me and a group of friends kept pushing it up and down the driveway for what felt like an hour. I got so mad at it, I punched the windshield - AND IT CRACKED! I told my dad that a kid slipped when we were pushing it back and forth, and his head hit it. It diverted the blame, but he kept asking for a name and number to make sure the kid was okay. I hated that car.

The owner is really cool and the interview is a nice touch. A great channel continues getting better. Also, seeing a Pinto in this pristine of a condition is awesome. ETA: GOTDAMN Ford was sloppy. Shameful.

RCR on a Sunday night; woohoo! I'm not even a minute into the video! Also pretty good to see another quite regular car. I wish y'all'd do an 8th gen Accord because that's my daily; I'd submit mine for review, but I'm all the way over in New Orleans.

Im a Dodge guy. A V8 musclecar guy. But, I can appreciate somthing like a 30k mile Pinto wagon. If I had unlimited time, space and money, Id kinda want it. Owner seems pretty cool, and has fun outlook on the car. Edit: This was a much more fun vid than the abyssmal and misinformed/unfair reveiw you gave the Dodge Stealth a while back...

I owned two of them. A '75 wagon and a '78 wagon. The '75 was a daily driver for 10 years and the '78 was traded in on my first new car in '93. One of the most basic cars to work on and was so reliable.

'70s kid here. I rode in a few Pintos back then. It was called, among other things, the car that nobody liked, but everybody bought. Oh, that interior, LOL.

Hell yeah midnight upload

I have been driving a 1972 Pinto Squire wagon for nearly 20 years. Mine has the 2.0L SOHC inline four, and a 4 speed transmission. The paint is sort of a copper color. The woodgrain has faded over the decades, and so has the paint. I'm going to have it repainted and have the woodgrain replaced. The interior is in amazing condition. This is an amazing car. It is the most reliable car I have ever owned. It's amazing just how much you can get in it with the rear seat folded down. I did have to replace the engine about 10 years ago, rebuild the brakes, and install a new steering rack. It should be good for another 20 years without anything major. The body is solid as a rock after 50 years. Ford built these things right, unlike the tin cans on the road today.

Perfection. Simplicity. Uncluttered design.

In college here in UK we worked on pinto engines in the stands (likely from escorts or whatever) the old 2v OHC crossflow stuff and they ran surprisingly well, especially considering they were often timed WAYYY out and if a valvecover bolt went down the intake... "well I guess it lives there now" That was how much they were appreciated by teenagers. (not me, I brought a car aerial with a magnet to pull FOD out but the pistons still looked like they had goose pimples from previous students). Then you leave college and realise people are porting them and feeding them boost and making 180-200hp+. If I could get a modern car with one of those engines I wouldn't even be dissapointed (might not like the fuel mileage), because if kids can't kill them nothing can.

I feel like the 70s was where it all started to go wrong for American car manufacturing. Powerless, mass produced, soul less, garbage designed to be used for a little while and thrown away. You know how bad it is because you can still see some cars from the 30s, 40s, and 50s on the road. Meanwhile, I can't even remember the last time I saw a Maverick, Pinto, or Vega driving down the street.

Do what you can to keep it original and running. I know it's just a Pinto but there are so few left. Especially one in good shape.

The Pinto was perhaps the most durable sub-compact car of the 1970s, and safer in a collision than most of the Japanese imports. It also did not have the rust problems that many of the others in that class had. As for it being slow, they were dogs with the automatic transmission, but then a Corolla with a 2-speed Toyoglide is no rocket ship either. Try a Pinto with the 2.3 and the 4-speed.

I think this is your best review yet. Perfect combo of seriousness, literary type review, and comedy. 100004949393948/10

I live in the area where this was filmed and have seen it on the road before, props to anyone who would drive a Pinto on Route 61, taking your life in your hands.

The crazy thing is I owned a 1972 Pinto that we (my father and I) installed a 1971 2.0 liter engine in! And the crazy part is the 2.0 liter engine was actually "faster" with a stick shift!! Maybe it was "just me" being hard on the engine and the clutch, BUT I could do wheelies in the little Pinto I had!! The car I owned had the nine inch Ford rear end, and I know that, that was the standard rear end that came in the 1972 which my dad bought with an automatic and a blown 2.3 liter engine!!! Meanwhile the original car he bought was a beyond rotted out 1971 Pinto Runabout (which had a rear hatch) where the 1972 had a trunk! Basically the thinking behind my dad's logic was "A safe car for his son" (me) when he bought the 1971, but only afterwards did he realize how bad the body of the car actually was!! So that is why the 1972 came into the picture because the body of the 1972 was in far better shape but the motor was toast!! Ultimately the car ended up being a 1971, 1972 and a 1973 Pinto ALL in one car!! Because the first two cars had lousy interiors on them, and my father ended up buying the 1973 to steal the interior out of it!!

God I love old station wagons, there's something so charming about an ugly, slow and dangerous station wagon that draws me in

That engine is called a 'Pinto lump' in the UK. Five up in my dad's '75 Cortina auto could get 90mph! No emission junk I guess. Not much was really safe back then,my daily was a Morris Traveller with wet rot!

My first car was a '78 Pinto wagon that I got from my mom after she was rear-ended by a Lincoln Mark 5. Few people will know the freedom of driving a car that can't get any worse, but can always get you where you need to go. Sometimes I miss that thing.

To help even more to tie the Pinto into the Mazda 3, there was a specialty Pinto that you could buy from Huntington Ford in Southern California in the early 70’s; it was called the Pangra. The manager of that dealership read the tea leaves and knew that the days of big V8 muscle cars were about to come to an end but also knew that people would still be hungry for performance. So they offered a modified Pinto with a special fiberglass front end with pop up headlights, special 13 inch slotted mag wheels, beefed up and lowered suspension, modified dash and center console, Stewart Warner gauges with a digital tachometer, Recaro high back bucket seats and most importantly a 2.0 liter engine with a Ak Miller turbocharger kit with water injection and roughly about 175 hp….. incredibly rare but this one was not slow as Pintos weighed as much as a beer can, but with 175 hp….. Another odd one but an epic failure was a Pinto that could fly…. literally. Essentially you would combine the Pinto with the back end of a general aviation airplane (Cessna, Piper…. ect) and fly it. It failed. On one of its test flights, it fell apart in flight and crashed into a field, killing the CEO of the company and the test pilot. That ended it.

I normally don't comment on regular cars videos despite watching most of them but I'm compelled to point out what a good job you guys did on this video. Keep up the good work!

God, I love the styling of that car. Simply amazing!

American small cars didn't have to be bad. The car companies made them bad on purpose to steer customers to more expensive cars. Pinto was just plain awful and it didn't have to be. Selling an updated Cortina was the original idea, but nooooo, Iacocca had to have his, "One dollar per pound" car

When I was a kid, my dad had 2 different Pintos. Then as a young adult, I had a Pinto wagon, but mine had the V6. Then I got a 1980 Ford Pinto Pony, red, with plaid interior. Probably the best clutch of any car I have driven, I taught maybe half a dozen friends to drive stick on that thing ~ And yeah, if I saw one in relatively good condition, I would absolutely buy another one! Thanks for this fun and enlightening review ~

My cousin and I used to build Pinto wagons for 4-cylinder demo derby cars. They were nearly indestructible compared to nearly anything else in the class (I think the fact that the ass end was easy to smash helped, they would crush up to a point but then run out of crushable structure and be essentially a battering ram), and we’d run the same 2.3 for YEARS before we blew them up. A couple times, the entire car was salvageable to run for two or three seasons. I think we had 3 engines and 2 4-speed transmissions in, God, 15 cars? I was honestly relatively impressed with them. They started being impossible to find for derby car prices maybe 12 years ago or thereabouts, and thus an era ended for me.

Dad drove one of these when I was born. It was olive green but a 4MT. Only time it let us down was when the radiator let go on the way home from picking up a Christmas tree (it was on the roof even). End of the road was when it literally was stolen from the bus park n ride in 1987 and completely gutted when the cops found it. Ended up with Grampa’s VW Squareback as the backup car.

YES! Finally! This is the RCR video I've been waiting for! Proud owner of a '78 pinto wagon here!

My neighbor has one of these in green, and he’s keeping it in immaculate shape. I haven’t been able to talk to him about it, but I can tell he knows what he drives and he doesn’t care because he loves it regardless of its flaws.

The interior is absolutely mint