For $2,000, Bajallelujah
Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW is nicknamed the Thunderbug. That’s due to its turbo T-bird motor, and not because…
The V8 Pintochero Will Haunt Your Dreams
Have you ever wanted a Pinto, but felt like they might be too safe? Too slow? Too unable to fill the back up with the…
I Began Life In A Ford Pinto And Have Loved Crappy Cars Ever Since
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…
How Was Anyone Driving This Ridiculously Unsafe Car On The Highway?
When you think about automotive safety the occasionally explosive Ford Pinto is hardly the first vehicle that comes to…
Feds Now Investigating 5.1 Million Jeeps For Pinto-Like Fire Risk
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upped the ante on its investigation of fuel tank related fires…
Top Gear USA Hosts Tempt Death By Corvair, Pinto And Samurai
Here's a a pair of exclusive photos from the set of next Tuesday's apple pie-flavored Top Gear on History, which reveal…
For $7,500, domo arigato, Mr. Cobrato
Cars that live long, unmolested lives are considered survivors. Some survive as icons of past glories, while others…
Why the Ford Pinto didn't suck
The Ford Pinto was born a low-rent, stumpy thing in Dearborn 40 years ago and grew to become one of the most infamous…
For $9,500, How Gigolo Can You Go?
Not many may remember Al Pacino's gay murder mystery, Cruising, but needless to say, Pacino gets his man in the end.…
1990: The Great Pinto Extinction Proceeds
Back when I was more serious about photography (i.e., when I thought it was cool to huff Dektol fumes in a darkened…
Pinto-Engined Baja Bug Couldn't Hide In The Desert Forever
If you were into hot-rodded Beetles during the Late Malaise Era, as I most certainly was, you probably remember the…
Automotive Perfection Achieved!
We've been waiting a long time for this…
1972 Ford Pinto At Death's Door, Still Ignores Your Explosion Jokes
The Ford Pinto was once one of the most common cars on America's roads, which seems impossible to believe nowadays;…
Engine Of The Day: Ford Kent
We've already honored the Ford "Pinto" OHC engine here, but what about the pushrod four that served as the early…
Homemade Tilting Electric Car Built For $500
The homemade Balanced-Over-Batteries car works like a skateboard tilting its chassis when it steers. The electric car's…
KV Mini, Towed 1,000 Miles Behind MGB, Takes Worst Of Show At Concours d'LeMons!
We couldn't cover the first-ever Concours d'LeMons in Monterey last weekend, because Jalopnik's entire West Coast…
See, Not All Pintos Blew Up!
In general, cars at the high-turnover self-service junkyards tend to be 15 to 20 years old, but some types of cars…
American Cars: Photographs By Kevin Gray
Today we're showing the work of a Los Angeles-based pro photographer who heads down on the street to find his subjects:…
Flesh-Colored 1978 Pinto for a Stiff $2,999!
Nice Price or Crack Pipe wants you to take the long way home in a questionably-hued Pinto with only 40,000 miles —…
Do You REALLY Need Those Pinto Parts?
Mmmm, toxic junkyard mud!