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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Restored 1973 Pinto Squire Wagon For Nearly 20 Grand?
Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Restored 1973 Pinto Squire Wagon For Nearly 20 Grand?-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:20

It's time for once again, where the readers decide whether a car's seller has anything close to a grip on reality when it comes to asking price. Last time we were here, the got a Nice Price thumbs-up from 48% of voters; not a majority, but the closest we've seen yet.

Old guys like me, who suffered through a childhood of Pinto passengerhood followed by teenage years of beater Pintos clogging up the roads (now I'm having a PTSD flashback of being a helpless passenger in a Pinto driven by a very dramatic high-school girlfriend who yanked the parking brake at 80 MPH on the Nimitz Freeway- in the rain- so that the resulting loop-de-loop spinout- miraculously missing other vehicles and the guardrails and ending safely on the shoulder- would teach me a lesson about… well, I forget, so it wasn't as effective a move as she'd hoped) might rejoice that damn near every one of the things has been crushed by now, but maybe the Pinto was just ahead of its time! This example is just about the nicest Pinto you could possibly imagine: a 66K-mile Squire wagon that's been completely restored. You might laugh at the $19,500 Buy It Now, but it's already been bid up well into five figures. Thanks to for the tip!

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