Dudes, bug thanks for all the kind words and good suggestions on the previous piece. Now I'm fired up to make some more illustrations!!
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Bonus Pinto
Drew this at a Coco's in Riverside this morning and took a photo of it with my phone to get it into the computer.... For the Firebird article. Hope it gets in....
Dudes, bug thanks for all the kind words and good suggestions on the previous piece. Now I'm fired up to make some more illustrations!!
Dudes, bug thanks for all the kind words and good suggestions on the previous piece. Now I'm fired up to make some more illustrations!!
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I had a Pinto for a little while. I bought it off of my Brother who was moving to another town for a dollar. Drove it until the axle broke.
Glad to hear it didn't detonate. Gave us my all-time fave sight gag--the one in Top Secret with the nazi's rear-ending one.
And I like that you had to pay your brother for the privilege. That's grudge-worthy!
Is the car in the drawing small like a Pinto, or a representation of the family "woody" station wagon? We had a Ford Torino station wagon growing up with fake wood paneling on the sides. We used to love riding in the far back on the way home from long trips. No seat belts back there of course. But you could read comic books, play games then curl up under the blankets and go to sleep in the dark.
Great action. I like the kid at the back, watching his approaching doom from being rear ended.
The top secret joke is a great one. But probably already needs to be explained to two new generations. At least.
Tommy--the Pinto wagon was like a scaled-down version of the Ford Torino (my great-grandfather's car, passed down to my dad who drove it during his early 30's--?!?). Fake wood paneling. The cartoon captures a moment in the story where the narrator sees a Firebird with the graphic on the hood and cries out in excitement, which his mom misinterprets as terror, and slams on the brakes. And yes--he's in the back without seat belts and sitting atop the famous "explosive" gas tank that's made the Pinto a punchline/source of terror for generations now (Ellis, I reject your time-moves-on critique categorically!!).
We'll always have explosive Pintos as cultural touchstones. "mi pinto se ha disparado!"
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