Aug 12 2013
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Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW is nicknamed the Thunderbug. That’s due to its turbo T-bird motor, and not…
Jul 24 2013
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Have you ever wanted a Pinto, but felt like they might be too safe? Too slow? Too unable to fill the back up with…
Dec 7 2012
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By all rights, I should be dead by now. I spent my first minutes outside of the hospital where I was born in a Ford…
Jul 7 2012
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When you think about automotive safety the occasionally explosive Ford Pinto is hardly the first vehicle that comes…
Jun 14 2012
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upped the ante on its investigation of fuel tank related…
Feb 24 2012
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Here's a a pair of exclusive photos from the set of next Tuesday's apple pie-flavored Top Gear on History, which…
Mar 31 2011
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Cars that live long, unmolested lives are considered survivors. Some survive as icons of past glories, while others…
Mar 28 2011
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The Ford Pinto was born a low-rent, stumpy thing in Dearborn 40 years ago and grew to become one of the most…
Dec 27 2010
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Not many may remember Al Pacino's gay murder mystery, Cruising, but needless to say, Pacino gets his man in the end.…
Aug 21 2010
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Back when I was more serious about photography (i.e., when I thought it was cool to huff Dektol fumes in a darkened…
Apr 25 2010
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If you were into hot-rodded Beetles during the Late Malaise Era, as I most certainly was, you probably remember the…
Feb 14 2010
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Jan 24 2010
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The Ford Pinto was once one of the most common cars on America's roads, which seems impossible to believe nowadays;…
Nov 1 2009
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We've already honored the Ford "Pinto" OHC engine here, but what about the pushrod four that served as the early…
Aug 24 2009
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The homemade Balanced-Over-Batteries car works like a skateboard tilting its chassis when it steers. The electric…
Aug 22 2009
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We couldn't cover the first-ever Concours d'LeMons in Monterey last weekend, because Jalopnik's entire West Coast…
Aug 1 2009
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In general, cars at the high-turnover self-service junkyards tend to be 15 to 20 years old, but some types of cars…
Jul 5 2009
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Today we're showing the work of a Los Angeles-based pro photographer who heads down on the street to find his…
Jun 26 2009
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Nice Price or Crack Pipe wants you to take the long way home in a questionably-hued Pinto with only 40,000 miles —…
Apr 18 2009
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