Remember them in their context--their competition. They weren't as bad as they look in hindsight. Many, many, many cars had the same sort of gas tank design--where the tank formed the trunk floor. The problem was the small size of the Pinto moved the tack closer to the axle. Well, that, and Ford recognized the safety issue--and proposed a solution--and discarded it because of cost....

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags