Faults:

It's 40 years old. You name a part and it's likely been broken and repaired.

General Comments:

America hated this car. It was an underpowered rattletrap deathmobile. I remember watching Johnny Carson present a gag safely award to Ralph Nader for his great work trashing Ford for its highly combustible compact car. Ralph's trophy was a metallic replica of a Pinto fashioned into a cigarette lighter: when you pressed on the hood flames burst out of the trunk.

That being said, I loved this car and so did my kids. My daughter learned to drive in it; my nephew and his girlfriend learned contortionist positions in the back seat, etc. I bought it for $450 from the Salvation Army. The paint had flaked off but the body looked intact and it started right up the first time I tried to start it. I thought to myself, how bad can it be? It took some doing, but I got it to run reliably and a new coat of paint made it look like new. It should have, too, because it cost me more to just paint the car than the original owner paid for it, wheels, motor, paint and all! Accumulated lots of stories about it over the years, and when I moved out of Cali I shipped it to my sister cuz my daughter wouldn't let me sell it. She said it was part of the family.