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AC7060IL 
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 Topic: Anyone used to own a Vega?
Posted: 11 Mar 2021 at 8:08pm |
 Want to know the not-so-good background of the Vega? Here’s an interesting video narrative about it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1uWf2_t_g
Edited by AC7060IL - 11 Mar 2021 at 8:21pm
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PaulB
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Posted: 11 Mar 2021 at 8:15pm |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2021 at 9:10pm |
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Drove a Vega station wagon for a year, had fun in it.
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Posted: 11 Mar 2021 at 10:29pm |
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Thought I was going to buy one, drove it and liked it but banker thought different at the time. I think he was wise from what I heard about them later on.
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Posted: 11 Mar 2021 at 10:43pm |
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That takes me back. Grumpy Jenkins raced one. A friend of Dad's has an auto shop. Back then he would buy wrecked ones and splice them together. He would store the donors and future projects at the farm. Another of his friends had this idea to gut one, install a large air tank, rework another engine as an air compressor and have a mobile sand blaster.
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Posted: 12 Mar 2021 at 7:40am |
Had 2 of them. Good in the snow and slick. Did tend to fall apart and leak oil.
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Posted: 12 Mar 2021 at 8:15am |
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I worked in the GM Plant that assembled the Chevy Vega in St. Therese, Quebec in the early 70's.
They had a Dealer Promotion. Built 500 identical all red with double white hood stripes.
Dealers came to the Factory and picked them up, all on the same day.
I believe 4 were written off before they got a mile from the Factory.
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Posted: 12 Mar 2021 at 8:53am |
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Only 2 I drove were projects I was helping a buddy out. the 327 powered one was a mess helped buddy build subframe connectors after he did a launch and twised the body so bad the doors wouldn't close. years later I helped a buddy build a 454 powered one. but it was just a Vega shell tube framed race car. it was an interesting ride.
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Posted: 12 Mar 2021 at 10:38am |
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Had a 1975 Red Vega Hatchback. It was a fun little car--put on 100,000 miles and towards the end was really consuming oil and the driver would get spit in the face during rain and wiper operation--the little drain trough under the window gasket had rusted out and water was seeping iINSIDE and getting caught up with the defrost! R. Musgrave
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Posted: 12 Mar 2021 at 11:58am |
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Grumpy Jenkins & Bob Glidden, that goes back a few years, like 35 years, no wonder my joints hurt.
Edited by weiner - 12 Mar 2021 at 12:00pm
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Posted: 13 Mar 2021 at 2:32am |
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My cousin had one, I was back in Ohio in the winter, don't remember why, doesn't ever seem like a good idea to be there in winter. Anyway, she had someone give it a tuneup, so to speak professional, said it didn't run any better then before. I asked her to start it up, sure sounded bad. Shut it off and traced the spark plug wires, the dummy mixed two of them up. Ran a lot better after that. Was a pretty blue color, probably rusted away before the engine wore out.
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Posted: 13 Mar 2021 at 3:54am |
Yeah, Ten Four on the Grumpy Jenkins Vega,,,he made the 327 famous for producing enormous HP,,,,!! The one that has stuck with me mostly is, (If anybody else remembers) was the CKC Racing Team,,,think the guy's name was Fritz Callier,,but they had one of only 4 prototype Vegas made by GM and they were fastbacks and resembled the Hemi-cudas of the day. Couldn't figure why GM didn't follow thru with more production. The CKC team were traveling match racers and I seen their car run against Dickie Harrell in Carlsbad, NM,,,and then again at Lions Drag Strip in Long Beach, CA against Butch Leal in a Hemi Cuda. Then those Fastbacks disappeared,,,maybe wrecked,,,and I remembered some time after that and reading an article in one of the many hot Rod Magazines about those Factory Vega race cars,,,,,,,,
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Posted: 13 Mar 2021 at 4:02am |
OH,,,page 2,,,,,  The oldest of the 5 boys got as his first car a 1974 Vega with a 4 cyl and 4 speed that had been involved in a Hit and Run and dude sold it as is for $450,,, That sob was one running sob,,,! After showing him how to do body work and a complete shiny black paint job,,he drove the pi** out of that thing and after 3 engines, 4 transmissions and 2 rear ends,,,I finally gave up on that car. Turned around and sold it to my BIL for,,,,$500 and a kiss on da cheek,,,
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Posted: 13 Mar 2021 at 3:14pm |
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