TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto

  • samus12345@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    My childhood car was a Pinto. I was very grateful it never blew up when I read about the issues many years later.

      • Corkyskog
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        6 days ago

        Wasn’t that just some PVC pannels zip-tied behind the tank?

        • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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          6 days ago

          it fixed the problem

          Most of them had some rust issues and it was easy to replace the tank with a much better one anyways

          I knew a girl in highschool who had one. Her dad had customized the shit out of it… put a V8 in the hatchback trunk … that think was a fucking rocket

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 days ago

      It had nice lines. Must’ve been nice whipping that around while I was looking for a place to dock my Cutlass Supreme. Lol

      Glad you didn’t blow up.