While the wife has a junked car…
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tgs333 — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 01:04 PM)
Depends how you look at it. That could have been a late model Pinto. Ford made them up until 1980, only to be replaced by another piece of crap: Escort.
Pinto was Ford's answer to building a small 4 cylinder car with decent gas milage. It was a piece of crap from the start. While it was a decent family truckster at the time, it was a piece of crap nevertheless. Looking at her driving habits, it probably didn't have that many miles on it. Just a crap car with low miles.
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jclarke@attglobal.net — 13 years ago(March 29, 2013 08:50 PM)
He needed a reliable vehicle to get to and from work.
ROF,L. It wasn't a "reliable vehicle", it was an '80s Jaguar. The Pinto would have been a better bet. -
tgs333 — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 04:07 PM)
Wasn't his sports car a 2 seater? So the Pinto was the "family" car. If the husband, wife and kid had to go anywhere together they'd have to travel in the clunky old pinto. Maybe he/they weren't being selfish, just "cheap". In respect to the "family" mobile.
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TheSonomaDude — 13 years ago(November 02, 2012 11:32 AM)
My aunt and uncle are like this. Uncle has a brand new Cadillac STV truck while his wife has dinky mid-90's Oldsmobile 88 Special.
I have El Sonoma del Torra de Fiero Syndrome. Be happy you don't.
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bloodontherisers — 12 years ago(May 01, 2013 04:47 PM)
I've seen this a hundred times. The father of a girl I went to school with made damn good money working for Goodyear. They lived in a little run down house, the girl and her sisters all had the same car handed down to them, and her moms car was a wore out '94 Tarus. But her dad had what was probably at the time, a $ 70,000 boat, a new truck, a a brand new Harley. It's lame as hell, but there are lots of people like that,
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Falconeer — 12 years ago(November 14, 2013 12:54 PM)
It seems like if they could afford that Jaguar then they should have been able to afford a second car that wasn't a total piece of garbageunless they were just trying to live beyond their means..
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fiatlux-1 — 11 years ago(June 21, 2014 11:18 PM)
t seems like if they could afford that Jaguar then they should have been able to afford a second car that wasn't a total piece of garbageunless they were just trying to live beyond their means..
I agree. I thought that too. Its fine to want to be conservative with money, but come ON! Buy the wife a car that's not a piece of crap!
Your son is riding around in it, for God's sake. Keep him safe at least.
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Falconeer — 11 years ago(June 26, 2014 01:39 PM)
Actually, maybe in the 80's, when this movie was made, that car wasn't such a piece of junk. Plus the fact that the husband drives such a flashy car is perhaps another way to show the viewer what a self centered scumbag he was..
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electricrat66 — 11 years ago(March 29, 2015 04:49 PM)
On your second point you are correct.
On your first point, wellYeah the Pinto was a POS in the 80's. I was there. My sister had one. The pinto was considered to be one of the most dangerous cars ever produced. It killed and maimed hundreds of people. It had an exploding gas tank. There was a huge lawsuit.
I could have been at a barbecue!