A buddy of mine had a Vega - “the millionth one made” - engraved in the door handles. Maybe they put those on all the Vega’s they made that week or something?
He wrecked it and the insurance company totaled it.
So my buddy buys his Vega back (bad front end) and with the rest of the insurance money bought another Vega (totaled rear end), welding equipment and a 350 short block engine.
He put both of the good halves together, and dropped in the 350. Painted the thing a shiny black.
Stick shift. I only rode in it once it scared me so much! Every time he would shift the rear end would squirrel about.
Yeah - he wrecked that one too.
Oh, yeah my dad made the mistake of buying a Vega. Even though my Charger used twice as much gas, it was cheaper to drive because that sh!box hardly ran right. It was so bad when I worked for my dad I would drive to the South Bronx, Bushwick, Newark and “exotic” places like that and leave it unlocked, sometimes with it running, I’d come back and IT WOULD STILL BE THERE! Even the car thieves wouldn’t steal it. The only Vegas I see at the shows are either modified with small block Chevys or Buick V-6’s. The ONLY original Vegas I’ve seen in the last 30 years are the Lotus Cosworth’s from 1976-77, with the DOHC and fuel injection, super high tech back then. They also improved the cooling system, something Chevy should’ve done in the first place.