Date: 10 Jan 2002 16:43:51 -0800 From: johsnopsamanytime.co.uk (Johannes H Andersen) Subject: Re: anyone here know h.p. on 86-89 9000 turbos.....
ychennopsam30.net (Yaofeng) wrote in message news:<e89d1e3e.0201101034.57503d6cnopsaming.google.com>... > > > > > Help me anyone, I'm twisting my brain. The Pinto has actually quite > > a following, although the first ones were marred by the infamous > > petrol pipe design flaw. The picture in my mind was of another small, > > but rather squat US car from around that time. It looked like an > > overblown supermini attempt that could only have made in the US. > > The car looked like it somehow felt sorry for itself. What was it? > > > Is the Chevy Vega what you are trying to remember? Another four > banger the US didn't know how to build in the 70's in panic reaction > to the oil crisis. > > > Yaofeng No not that one. The car had two or doors, but unlike the Pinto it was tall, wide and short (squat) hatch style with some rather large windows. Space efficiency and weight was appalling compared to European and Japanese compacts at the time. ?? Cars of that kind was naturally unloved and much less likely to be preserved than the sports muscle cars of the period. Johannes