THe K car turn around

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Shows you what one VERY good Leader can do.

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Ah...........1980

Am amazed it went fast enough to "Warrant" their attension

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Shame Lee is not a round now...........
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/i...ian-government

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Shows you what one VERY good Leader can do.

You mean Lee "Let-em-Burn" Iacoca?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/car...to-fuel-tanks/

... Everything was going well until, deep into the development cycle, a problem was discovered in the fuel tank design. In low-speed rear-end crash testing, the fuel tank, positioned behind the rear axle and in front of the rear bumper, exhibited several flaws. Upon impact, the filler neck would tear away from the sheet-metal tank and spill fuel beneath the car. The tank was also easily punctured by bolts protruding from the differential and nearby brackets. One report later described the entire contents of a tank leaking out in less than a minute after an accident. These problems combined to create a serious risk of fire, so engineering teams proposed solutions. One was to borrow a design Ford already used in its Capri, a tank that sat above the axle and out of the way. Another alternative was installing tank shields to prevent punctures, and reinforcements around the filler to prevent tearing.

In today's environment, those measures unquestionably would have been taken. But at the time, management's attitude was to get the product out the door as fast as possible. So, Ford did a cost-benefit analysis. To fix the problems would cost an additional $11 per vehicle, and Ford weighed that $11 against the projected injury claims for severe burns, repair-costs claim rate and mortality. The total would have been approximately $113 million (including the engineering, the production delays and the parts for tens of thousands of cars), but damage payouts would cost only about $49 million, according to Ford's math. So the fix was nixed, and the Pinto went into production in September 1970.

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Yes........but he saved Chrysler
BTW on the 1st video, does anyone know where the music is from?

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Cars of that era were not good safety wise............I do wonder how Lee got on in the great "Boardroom in sky"?

It depends if GOD is into cars, .......may be he gets to meet all those rather HOT "dissatisfied customers"?

Mike

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Cars of that era were not good safety wise............I do wonder how Lee got on in the great "Boardroom in sky"?

It depends if GOD is into cars, .......may be he gets to meet all those rather HOT "dissatisfied customers"?

Mike

Thanks for the laugh :-)

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AS I understand it he needed a plastic packing piece to sit between the axle & fuel tank......?

GOD:- Lee, these people would like a word about the Pinto
LEE:- ER hi guys...gee there a lot of you, but before we start how did you find the ownership experience apart from the fire?

Mike

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AS I understand it he needed a plastic packing piece to sit between the axle & fuel tank......?

GOD:- Lee, these people would like a word about the Pinto
LEE:- ER hi guys...gee there a lot of you, but before we start how did you find the ownership experience apart from the fire?

Mike

LOL! and I don't LOL lightly!

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Yes we got the Pinto.......but we also MUSTANG !.........................& I got a number of "Fast Fords"

Mike

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A VERY smart guy, the Euro division had a floor pan, this turd:-

He had to go to bat with it as he had nothing else.....this is a K car in 1976.
I was stunned by the US press very possative reaction to what was older euro platform.

Mike