“If the car overheated the engine seized up.”
Yep, that’s what did my older sister’s Vega in, way back when.
To be fair, she got her money’s worth out of the car (bought it used for $125), but man what a junk bucket! Easily the worst car in the family. And my family had two Gremlins and an AMC Hornet at the time, so that’s saying something! :-)
I had one of those engines!
Yanked it out and had cylinder sleeves installed - ran forever after that!
You guys were green before green was even cool, to paraphrase Barbara Mandrel.