Aug 10 - This day in the Automobile-History.



A crash of Ford Pinto in Indiana


1978. On this day three teenage girls fall victim to a fatal accident where their Ford Pinto 1973 was rammed by a van and bursts into flames on a highway in Indiana. This crash was just one of a number those when the ‘Pinto’ was involved. A nation-wide scandal was caused by it in the 70s.