Word: pintos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women were conspicuously absent from construction crews. Now it doesn't seem like it matters much what sex the person is who waves a flag to direct cars around road construction. But it sure appears to make a big difference to some people. A group of men in a Pinto were run off a single lane detour road into soft sand this week when they steamed right past a long line of cars being held by a flagwoman at a construction site in New Hampshire. For some reason, they didn't believe the young woman as she tried to tell...
...people give you things," says Tanya genially. "Western belts. A white monster of a truck I call Moby Dick. And a man from South Dakota gave me a new breed of cow with a talent for putting weight on fast. A doctor in Houston promised me a pinto quarter horse if I would just stay the same and not get stuck up for two years. I've got about eight months to go now before I can go back to him and say 'See, I'm just the same. Where's my horse...
...months rose 30% in the U.S., a market that accounts for one-third of all Beetle sales worldwide. The port-of-entry price of a Super Beetle in the U.S., without options or accessories, is $2,849, compared with a basic $2,442 for a similarly stripped-down Ford Pinto. It is a fact that U.S. and Japanese competitors have been quick to exploit-Ford TV ads, for instance, hammer away at price comparisons between the Super Beetle and the Pinto-and during the first quarter this year U.S. sales of Volkswagens plummeted...
...early 1974 have made official a historic shift in the public's automotive tastes: for the first time in memory, standard-sized Chevrolets and Fords are no longer outselling every other make of car. They have finally lost their lead to the Chevy Vega and Nova, the Ford Pinto, the American Motors Gremlin and the Dodge Dart...
...will introduce two new small luxury cars, one to be distributed by Ford dealers and the other to be sold by Lincoln-Mercury dealers. Chrysler last week finally confirmed that it plans a U.S.-built subcompact to supplement its Japanese-built Dodge Colt in competing against the Vega and Pinto. The new car will not be ready until...