sprint pinto,v-8?

are they really that diffrent? they didnt have the independent front end like the mustangs did they?

im sure a maverick can take a hit better than a pinto though

 

They really are. Pintos are very similar to the Mustang II, while the Maverick is very similar to the older style Mustangs and Granadas.

 

They are entirely diffrent cars both mechanically and in the way the body is constructed. Mavericks are based on the Falcon. Pinto's are not, and have entirely diffrent bodys and suspensions. They are much smaller cars also. The only common part between them is the tail lights.

 

Wrong again Jamie...the headlights would interchange too!

 

I killed a Pinto once. Nailed it square in the rear end with a VW beetle. At about 35 mph...

Didn't blow up like I expected it to

(I think I may have just made brownie points with TL...can I trade these points in for something useful? )

 

wow, i did not realize that. never had the chance to study one in person.

 

You guys are sounding like Stang guys now... Don't do that.

Check the picture... They are all 72 Ford siblings.
None of the 3 is exactly the same, but they are family.
They are all built by the same company with the technology of the day and often by the same workers. Then sold next to each other on the car lot.

To say that they are all 3 different is quite obvious from the pic... however, they are very closely related in more ways that tail lights.
It would be pretty boring if they were all the same.
Also, we would not have the Pinto/Stang2 front suspension swap without the Pinto to start it all.


Edit: Sprint-philes need to look very closely at this ad!
I'll just say to look at the rear Sprint decal and see if you notice what's wrong.
The cars in this pic must have been photographed before the car was put into production.

 

you gotta give him credit for liking pintos....mavericks wernt much more than a bigger pinto! everybody alaways asks me "hows the pinto" but the refering to my grabber, buncha smart asses

 

BullS#!t to that. There is no comparison. They have the same taillights and that's it. They are UGLY, too small, and poorly built. You rarely ever see one, because the majority of them ended up in junkyards before they were 10 years-old. The only good thing about a Pinto is the rack & pinion steering...

 

I get that crap all the time too . Mavericks are a totally diffrent animal than the pinto.

 

Gee T.L. I knew you would come around

 

I like pintos. If I could find a good one it would get a big inch stroker 460 and some N20.

 

Don't forget the cracklin' cornbread.

 

the same can be said for mavericks as well. no body held on to these low-end economy cars the way people charish mustangs and c@maros and all the other "real" musle cars of the day. im sure there were even less were on the road with the recalls and the paranoia of being blown up.

i mean looking up at that sprint ad, with the maverick and pinto right next to one another i really see alot of the same styling features in each car. ive been thrown off many times in person too, from a distance mechanically i really cant comment because i dont know. i just assumed it used alot of the same technology that mavericks and mustangs and all the other unibody fords of the period used, just scaled down. I didnt realize they were so diffrent. i do realize they were asembled very cheaply but that was just the nature of the car. it was a high MPG, low cost ride for the period and whenever a US auto maker tries something "new" it usually ends in failure. the ch3vy v3ga suffered a simular fate trying to quickly bite into the low-buck import market as well. ford didnt seem to get it right untill the mid-80's with the escort. even then im sure i could pull more miles out of a 70's pinto than a late 80's-1990's FWD escort or festieva. Now that was some crap there, looked and smelled like it.