Cool! I once owned one of those cars. What a piece of junk! It had all of the sophistication of a buckboard in its suspension, although the 2.0L SOHC four cylinder engine was a truly nice piece of work. The back seat was acceptable ONLY for children up through age 6 or so.
I once drew a cartoon of a guy shoving a Cosworth-Ford V-8 Formula 1 engine into a Pinto while his buddy watched, observing, "I don't think that the tech inspectors are going to buy that as Showroom Stock." "Showroom Stock" was a class of SCCA racing at the time where you could enter cars that were truly street machines with rollbars welded into them. That was about the ONLY mechanical alteration allowed.