Back in the early 1990s, the elite members of the Detroit Big Three were trying hard to compete on price with dirt-cheap imported Misery Boxes such as the Subaru Justy, Hyundai Excel, and Toyota Tercel EZ. They came up with stripper versions of their low-end subcompacts (e.g., the Plymouth Sundance America), which few bought. Why buy an Escort Pony for $7,976 when you could have a zero-option '91 Civic for $7,095, and still be driving the Civic (very slowly, and maybe on its third head gasket) today? This makes the Escort Pony a very rare Junkyard Find today, so I grabbed my camera when I saw this one at a Denver yard.
Ford used the Pony name on their cut-priced Pintos in the 1970s, and it made sense to recycle it for the Escort.
This one wins the Cryptic Sticker of the Week award.
Remember super-simple climate-control panels like this in cars? Replace the plastic knobs with cheaply plated pot-metal and you'd have the controls from a 1963 Ford truck here.
These 1.9 engines have proven to be fairly reliable in the 24 Hours of LeMons, which is a good indicator of resistance to horrific levels of driver abuse.
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