To the customer who....

[xxscooterxx]

When I worked at Big blue home improvement warehouse I helped a man tie several sheets of OSB to the roof of his Mustang.

[ADeMartino]

And would go boom if someone rear-ended it.

In Ford's defense, a recent and more clinical assessment of the lawsuit and claims regarding the Pinto reveals that the Pinto was no more likely to explode in an ass-end impact than any other car in production at the time. The 'flaw' was mostly hype created to draw attention to the lawsuit. Ford really did get a bum rap there.

That said, the Pinto was still a shitbox - which is hardly surprising, given that QC was virtually non-existent at US manufacturers in the 1970s, and the Pinto (like many of its contemporaries) was designed to be an inexpensive, essentially disposable economy car.

[Deserted]

I was still driving my Impala when I bought my first big flat panel TV. 47 inch, IIRC.

Now, the Impala is not a particularly small car. On the other hand it's also not a particularly large car. Theoretically the damn thing should've fit.

If only the seats folded down.

You had the wrong kind of Impala. My first car was a 66 Impala wagon. The seats folded down. I moved with that car (and nothing else) more than once. (I also could drive 10 people comfortably, without stacking them like wood. I loved that car.)

[otakuneko]

That's not a car, that's a boat!

[wolfie]

Now, the Impala is not a particularly small car. On the other hand it's also not a particularly large car. Theoretically the damn thing should've fit.

I had to have the store hold the TV for me while I went back home to retrieve my dad's much smaller car...with folding seats. Getting the TV into it was a breeze.

Many years ago, a co-worker and I were on a business trip. Since we had arrived at different times, we each had a rental car (Mazda 626 for him, Ford Escort for me - for some reason, I'd gotten the 5-door instead of my usual 3-door). As it turned out, we needed to ship 7 large boxes back to head office, and had to transport them to the shipping site. The Mazda could carry ONE of the boxes (not one at a time - only one of the 7 was a size that could fit through the door into the back seat). The Escort (a smaller car), with the rear seat down and the "package shelf" stowed, could hold any 2 at once.