Everyone Made Fun of This Ford — Then It Beat a Porsche

Ford Pinto. Just the name is enough to make most car enthusiasts laugh, cringe, or leave the room. It's gone down as one of the most embarrassing, most ridiculed cars any American automaker has ever built. But underneath the bad reputation, the jokes, and the exploding gas tank lawsuits, there was a version of the Pinto so fast and so well-engineered that it was out on racetracks humiliating Porsches. Not keeping up — beating them. This is the story of the Bob Negstad Pinto, the Pinto-based race cars of the SCCA, and the high performance Pintos most people have no idea ever existed. 👉 Watch More Rare & Forgotten Car Stories #fordpinto #pintopangra #rarecars #classiccars #musclecar #porsche #scca #carhistory