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Gary Lewis

Do You Get it?

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Saw this on FB today and just had to share. Do you get it?

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Dad's: '81 F150 Ranger XLT 4x4: Down for restomod: Full-roller "stroked 351M" w/Trick Flow heads & intake, EEC-V SEFI/E4OD/3.50 gears w/Kevlar clutches
Blue: 2015 F150 Platinum 4x4 SuperCrew wearing Blue Jeans & sporting a 3.5L EB & Max Tow
Big Blue: 1985 F250HD 4x4: 460/ZF5/3.55's, D60 w/Ox locker & 10.25 Sterling/Trutrac, Blue Top & Borgeson, & EEC-V MAF/SEFI

salans7

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Pintos were recalled for the dangerous possibility of the fuel tanks exploding upon rear impact. I was born twenty years later but still get it. You can't be a car guy and not have heard about this.

Gary Lewis

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Yep, you got it.

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Nothing Special

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I literally laughed out loud (literally literally, not the new figurative literally that it often means now) the second I saw that!

Bob
Sorry, no '80 - '86 Ford trucks
"Oswald": 1997 F-250HD crew cab short box, 460, E4OD, 4.10 gears
"Pluto": 1971 Bronco, 302, NV3550 5 speed, Atlas 4.3:1 transfer case, 33" tires
"the motorhome": 2015 E-450-based 28' class C motorhome, 6.8L V-10
"the Dodge": 2007 Dodge 2500, 6.7L Cummins

Gary Lewis

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Yes, it was funny! When I got it. At first I thought "The flames are backwards." But then I realized what was intended.

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Rembrant

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I saw this one too Gary LOL!

My mother bought a brand new Pinto in 1980. Last year they were made. My grandfather was working at the local Ford dealer at the time. I learned how to drive stick in that car in 1987 when I was 15. Drove it up and down the driveway a few hundred times lol. I later got a Lada and perfected my shifts lol, but it was just a yard car.

1994 F150 4x2 Flareside. 5.0 w/MAF, 4R70W, stock.
1984 F150 4X2 Flareside. Mild 302 w/ 5spd. Sold.
1980 F150 4X4 Flareside. 300i6 w/ 5spd. Sold in 2021.
1980 F100 4X2 Flareside. 351w/2bbl w/NP435. Sold in 1995

grumpin

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Funny!

Dane
1986 F250HD SC XLT Lariat 4x4 460 C6-Sold
1992 Bronco XLT 4x4 351W E4OD
1998 GMC Sierra SLE K1500 350 4L60E
Arizona

ratdude747

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1984 F150: 300 L6, AOD, RWD. EEC IV / TFI, Feedback Carter YFA Carb. Stock everything but radio (for now).

85lebaront2

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Oh yes, my daughter's first car was a 1975 Pinto Pony MPG, she drove it back and forth from Newport News VA to Radford VA. It had the "recall shield" in front of the gas tank.

I always found it sort of strange the focus on the Pinto tanks, at least it was underneath and not the trunk floor like Falcons, Comets, Mustangs and Cougars. I had both a Falcon (1964) and a Mustang (GT350, 1966) and the Shelby actually developed rust holes in the sides of the tank top. Was interesting to drive until I replaced the tank.

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"Getting old is inevitable, growing up is optional" Darth Vader 1986 F350 460 converted to MAF/SEFI, E4OD 12X3 1/2 rear brakes, traction loc 3:55 gear, 160 amp 3G alternator Wife's 2011 Flex Limited Daily Driver 2009 Flex Limited with factory tow package Project car 1986 Chrysler LeBaron convertible 2.2L Turbo II, modified A413

Gary Lewis

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And what about the pickups with the in-cab tank? Granted the tank was well protected from rear collisions, but not side.

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1986F150Six

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And, don't forget the VWs... 10.6 gallons right in front of you!

Gary Lewis

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Yep. We sure didn't have "safe" vehicles back then, did we?

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Nothing Special

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I used to have a 1929 Model A Ford. The gas tank was in the cowl, so the back of the tank was the dashboard. The steering column bracket was riveted to the tank. On my car the rivets had worked loose so gas dripped onto the floor (or your knees).

Gary Lewis

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My nephew that set up the A/C on Big Blue borrowed a Model A for the getaway car on their wedding day. And it caught fire due to one of those fuel tank leaks. They got it put out, but there was damage.

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Nothing Special

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We fixed that fuel leak by putting some Loc-Tite around the base of the bracket! I was about 10 when my dad implemented that. It was still not leaking 24 years later when I sold that car. And that was even with having the body dipped to strip the old paint and rust and everything to get it ready for new paint! (Sorry, I don't know what Loc-Tite product it was.)

ratdude747

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Off topic:

At my wedding the "planned" getaway car was supposed to be a Yellow Model A with a rumble seat... but it was rainy. We instead got cheuffered in the same guy's 1917 Model T. Still way cool!

I'd like to have a Model A someday... or a Stovebolt Chevy. IMHO it's the best of both worlds; modern(ish) controls but with the old wagon styling. But really any pre-1970's car is cool like that (or any "old" car in general!). But, alas, I'm young and realtively poor; my Bullnose is the oldest thing I've ever owned... or ridden/driven in routinely (my parents' oldest when I was growing up were a 1987 Chevy C10 and a 1988 GMC Safari!).

1984 F150: 300 L6, AOD, RWD. EEC IV / TFI, Feedback Carter YFA Carb. Stock everything but radio (for now).

85lebaront2

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Earliest car I remember my parents having was a 1948 Pontiac, straight 8 and the 1st year Hydramatic (for Pontiac) They bought it new to replace the 1941 Buick Special dad bought after WWII to replace mom's 1939 Chevy. Mom hated that car, every time they had a little extra money it would break something.

My first pickup was a 1958 F100, tank behind the seat. I could fill it in the rain without getting wet. As for safe gas tank locations, the full size Ford wagons and sedans had the tank vertically behind the rear axle where it was in between the frame rails. That was one reason those big land yachts were popular demolition derby cars Between the space between the front bumper and radiator and the gas tank location they where hard to kill.

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Littlebeefy

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That is Ralph Nader's Pinto

LittleBeefy aka Chad

“Dot Doitall”: 1984 Bronco XLT
460 (C8VE), Edelbrock Pro-Flo 4, ZF5, NP205, D44HP solid axle, 4.56
urban assault vehicle

"Bebe": 2022 Bronco Badlands 2dr
2.7l, Sasquatch, Iconic Silver, Black Marine-grade interior, hard-top

"Celeste": 1979 Porsche 928
4.5l K-jet, 5-sp, S4/GTS brakes, LSD, Pasha interior

Nemesis F150

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Nothing Special wrote

I used to have a 1929 Model A Ford. The gas tank was in the cowl, so the back of the tank was the dashboard. The steering column bracket was riveted to the tank. On my car the rivets had worked loose so gas dripped onto the floor (or your knees).

Model A gas tank … brings back memories. We lived in the country and there was a lightly used single lane with turnouts dirt road nearby that had a Model A that was apparently abandoned sitting well off the right of way by a hundred or so feet and slowly being obscured by the woods growing up around it. At the time, Model As were popular for hot rods and with time on my hands I slowly started stripping it, the gas tank being one of the components.

Were the early A cowls narrower than the later ones? If I recall (that was a long time ago), this one was narrower than the later versions.

Unfortunately, the gas tank had a g'zillion bolts to undo, every few inches all around it. Rusty threads. Seemed the whole body of the car was attached to it. This one aspect I remember well. The body was a sedan and being large it required some thought about how to get it to my parents property. While figuring out how to move it the remaining part of the car "disappeared".

Fun activity while it lasted.

Dad “cleaned up the property” while I was in the service during Viet Nam and all the parts went away, along with a ’39 Plymouth and a ’50 Ford Panel. Guess I was an early collector.

-= John =- 1985 F-150 EFI 302/5.0L dual tanks, long-wide bed, "heavy-half"

Nothing Special

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Nemesis F150 wrote

.... Were the early A cowls narrower than the later ones? If I recall (that was a long time ago), this one was narrower than the later versions....

Yeah, the '28 and '29 cowl ended with about a 1" step out to the body on each side. The '30 and '31 cowl blended into the body.

By the way, the cowl tank in the Model A solved a problem the earlier Model T had. Neither had a fuel pump, relying on gravity to get the fuel from the tank to the carb. The T had the tank lower and further back in the car. It worked fine most of the time, but my grandmother told me about a hill she had to negotiate between her house and her job. It was steep enough that with the T's nose pointed up the hill the gas tank was no longer above the carb, and the engine would run out of gas. So she had to stop at the bottom, turn around and back up the hill to make it up!