Comments on: Cars in Film: 1974 Pinto from the Blues Brothers http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19/ CarDomain Blog - Crazy news and CarDomain Finds Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: GTwildfire http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19/comment-page-1/#comment-29564 GTwildfire Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:35:06 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19#comment-29564 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I once drove a friend's pinto looooong ago. Definitely not much of a loss. I guess some should remain for posterity but yeah, they were as bad as their rep, and time should not change their original evaluation.</p> </div>

I once drove a friend’s pinto looooong ago. Definitely not much of a loss. I guess some should remain for posterity but yeah, they were as bad as their rep, and time should not change their original evaluation.

]]> By: Gary Faules http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19/comment-page-1/#comment-29565 Gary Faules Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:43:15 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19#comment-29565 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>CORRECTION....</p> <p>Here is the correct link for falling Pinto.</p> <p /> <p /> <p>illinoisnazisfreefallin.ytmnd.com</p></div>

CORRECTION….

Here is the correct link for falling Pinto.

illinoisnazisfreefallin.ytmnd.com

]]> By: Gary Faules http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19/comment-page-1/#comment-29566 Gary Faules Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:39:57 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19#comment-29566 <p>They used six Pinto's for the Nazi car that flew off the bridge. There was a lot of trouble getting a permit to do this since they had to prove that they could accurately predict where the car was going to land. They dropped one as a test run into a cornfield. They sawed two in half, to get the camera inside them. They<br /> used one for the low-drop into a ditch in the road and two for the high drop off the bridge. Here is a video of the falling Pinto with some great music......</p> <p><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.ytmnd.com/content/7/6/4/7646f8cdfa0786a7a49dce50e85fbe33.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ytmnd.com/keyword/fall%3Fstart%3D120%26PHPSESSID%3D6ff3d0d970c7a1837...&h=250&w=300&sz=21&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=aQ1ZuHNchIvGYM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblues%2Bbrothers%2Bpinto%2B%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8" rel="nofollow">http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.ytmnd.com/content/7/6/4/7646f8cdfa0786a7a49dce50e85fbe33.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ytmnd.com/keyword/fall%3Fstart%3D120%26PHPSESSID%3D6ff3d0d970c7a1837...&h=250&w=300&sz=21&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=aQ1ZuHNchIvGYM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblues%2Bbrothers%2Bpinto%2B%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8</a></p> They used six Pinto’s for the Nazi car that flew off the bridge. There was a lot of trouble getting a permit to do this since they had to prove that they could accurately predict where the car was going to land. They dropped one as a test run into a cornfield. They sawed two in half, to get the camera inside them. They
used one for the low-drop into a ditch in the road and two for the high drop off the bridge. Here is a video of the falling Pinto with some great music……

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.ytmnd.com/content/7/6/4/7646f8cdfa0786a7a49dce50e85fbe33.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ytmnd.com/keyword/fall%3Fstart%3D120%26PHPSESSID%3D6ff3d0d970c7a1837…&h=250&w=300&sz=21&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=aQ1ZuHNchIvGYM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblues%2Bbrothers%2Bpinto%2B%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8

]]> By: retroman http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19/comment-page-1/#comment-29567 retroman Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:52:04 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/cars-in-film-19#comment-29567 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Better a Pinto than say a Mustang. Pintos if you remember were some of the worst cars ever built. The car everyone hated, but everybody bought they say. (Wonder if the gas tank exploded in the test cars)</p> </div>

Better a Pinto than say a Mustang. Pintos if you remember were some of the worst cars ever built. The car everyone hated, but everybody bought they say. (Wonder if the gas tank exploded in the test cars)

]]>