Episode 386: Family In Front, Bomb In the Back

This week Host Dave Bledsoe sustains painful burns in a sensitive area while attempting to light his farts as part of his “research” for this episode. (Again) On the show this week, we tell you the True Story of The Little Carefree Car, which turned out to need a LOT of care indeed, the Ford Pinto! (Big Badda Boom)

Along the way, Dave tells the same damn story he always tells when cars come up about his dream car that turned out to be a real POS. (Much like every poor woman who dated Dave naively thinking he was their dream guy) Then we dive right into the story how Ford created a little car that could go boom because of the Nazis. (Technically, they were just West Germans by then) From there we dig into the details behind the design flaws that made the Pinto so flammable and the lawsuit that demonstrated how little the Ford Motor Company valued a human life. (Less than eleven dollars) Then we cover the debunking that wasn’t exactly a debunking, but more like lawyer-splaing.

Our sponsor this week is A Used Yugo, does it suck? Yes, but it sucked when it was new! We open the show with a commercial introducing the Pinto and close with Randy Scott Slavin and his sweet ride!

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

The First VW Beetle in the U.S. Landed 70 Years Ago

https://www.motortrend.com/news/first-vw-beetle-landed-in-the-u-s-70-years-ago/

Poor Quality Products: Is their Production Unethical?

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/00251749210015661/full/html

Chevrolet Vega vs. Ford Pinto

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a15125566/chevrolet-vega-vs-ford-pinto-archived-comparison/

Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company, 1981

https://www.tortmuseum.org/ford-pinto

Wikipedia Ford Pinto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto

Fatalities Associated With Crash Induced Fuel Leakage and Fires (Pinto Memo)

https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/phpq3mJ7F_FordMemo.pdf

Youth Awarded $128 Million in Car Explosion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/02/08/youth-awarded-128-million-in-car-explosion/62887410-f870-44da-98ab-14f58d6fffaf/

The Myth of the Ford Pinto Case

http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf

Uncited Additional Reading:

https://www.autorephttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pintoair-review.com/shop/i92869/j-g-auto-inc/article/4002/why-did-ford-pintos-really-blow-up

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness/

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/archives/yearold-recall-of-fords-pinto-continues-to-stir-deep-controversy-50.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/02/15/jury-in-pinto-crash-case-we-wanted-ford-to-take-notice/996a9aa5-8f48-4541-8553-19c63f666830/

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