Is this a good first car? I want something a little classic and

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>Anything to look out for?
Fire. You will die in a fire.

>>14663850
>Anything to look out for?
Things coming from behind.

>>14663878
This can be solved with a fire extinguisher? Idiot

The bumper is made of flint

>>14663893
You don't seem too sure about it.

>>14663893
>a fire extinguisher
>for a ruptured, exploding gas tank
No. You will be kill.

>>14663850

You might also want to check out Gremlins, Novas, Darts, Coronets

>good reviews
>he chose the literal exploding car

Buy a civic and shut up

I learned to drive in a manual station wagon Pinto. It had a stick shift and rwd, so it was just like a racecar.

You want a cheap first classic? Porsche 924. Return it to full power by removing some of that smog or whatever crap you murricuns like to hobble cars with.

>>14666400
That's only going to net you 15hp, optimistically. Probably more like 7.

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>>14663850
Don't get a Pinto. Get a Maverick.
>>14664293
Or these (except the Coronet, those are expensive as fug)

>>14666445

71' Maverick in restored interior condition, and a 302 put in it.
Going for 9k at 86k.
Is it worth my dollar? I'm a huge mustang faggot, but I know next to nothing about these mavericks actual worth

>>14666472
Depends where you are, on the west coast you could get a pretty nice Cutlass, Skylark, Torino, 64-66 Stang coupe for that. Also depends on how well-restored it is, whether there's a shitload of bondo, etc. Worth checking out though

>>14663850
I grew up in the backseat of a '73. If you were lucky, you got to crawl all the way back in to the "cubby hole", but you had to call dibs on that because your siblings wanted it too. I remember the seat release to get in to the backseat was about the size and strength of a straightened paper clip and the whole thing smelled like an ashtray because your mom refused to roll the windows down as she chain smoked Kent cigarettes....ah, good times, that.

>>14663850
Google "Ford Pinto recalls"

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>>14663850
Plymouth Fury is always the answer to a cheap easy to fix classic driver.

>>14664293
You forgot the vega and the monza

I don't know what people have against mustangs but >>14667281 is a good choice for being dirt simple, cheap and with fair aftermarket.

>>14667692
They're shit though. A Nova is way better.

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Go for a Maverick or Comet instead, Comet is the lower trim model and you'll probably find them for cheaper. My buddy's first car was the '72 Comet in pic related, he still DDs it, but it has been a hell of a challenge over the last few years. He's had to rebuild his tranny twice, rebuild his rear end, has to service his brakes every few months for one reason or another, and is of course constantly dealing with the general carb issues all classic drivers face on the regular.

If you're going to DD a classic you better be eager and ready to learn how to wrench, because that's the game, no matter what you end up buying. It's a lot of fun if you enjoy that sort of thing, but a fucking nightmare if you don't.

>>14665507
Well I've heard from many sources this is the American Civic and some even call the civic the chinese pinto

>>14667725
What sources? The only thing the Pinto has in common with any Civic is that they both have four wheels and an engine.

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>>14667713
How? they're way lighter and smaller, 4 cylinder cars with v8 engine bays, pretty sure monza spyders had a 305 at some point, and the older Vegas look sex

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>>14667725
>Chinese

>>14667737
Many sources. some call the ford pinto the mona lisa of the car industry

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automobiles_considered_the_worst#1971_Ford_Pinto

>>14667899
a $1 part that takes $11 dollars to fit and is spread across thousands of cars
the issue was known about early in testing but the production tooling had already been set up beforehand
the other option was to use a ford escort fuel tank but that would have killed trunk space important to marketing

>>14663926
don't forget that in a rear end collision the b pillars can crumple up and pin the doors closed

If you're getting a pinto, you might as well look for a Vega

>fundamentals of the car
now I don't expect much of a car, but how the basics are missed so often is beyond me

#1 is reliability
I don't care how fast a car moves but it must always be ready to move
part of this is ease of maintenance and non critical modes of failure
sacrificial parts are important both in terms of cost and time

#2 water proof
sounds simple I know but many cars fail even this
all it means is not having water trapped in places that it can't drain from

further down is good seats and decent luggage space
enough for two people and long trips

this is a bit picky but id rather have a good stereo or none at all
car makers are really fucking this up atm with factory stereos that are both indescribably bad and annoying to replace due to din type and control integration