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GOVT MOTORS cars already falling apart! (Drudge headline) (The new Vega)
Wall Street Journal ^
| 4-11-2011
| Jonathan Welsh
Posted on 04/11/2011 7:01:14 PM PDT by Frantzie
Imagine turning your cars steering wheel, or giving it a gentle tug, and having it break away from the steering column. Now youre speeding along holding the suddenly useless wheel.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: clunkers; garbage; gm
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To: henkster
My granddad told me to drive it around town a couple times to knock the mosquito population down for the 4th of July. LOL
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:23:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
Hey I liked my vega. It got great gas milage. Oil milage wasnt so great though. ![](http://nozama.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ed05fc288330133f525f25c970b-350wi)
I remember liking this ad (the year I graduated high school; the girl crossing the street looked like someone who was special to me).
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:23:53 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: cripplecreek
Hey I liked my vega. It got great gas milage. Oil milage wasnt so great though.So you didn't smoke, but your car did?
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:24:37 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: Frantzie
You may want to think about a trade-in. You can get a great deal.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:25:59 PM PDT
by
maggief
To: Steely Tom
Mine ended its life with a 283 smallblock in it.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:26:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
"Fill 'er up and check the gas."
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:27:25 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: RegulatorCountry
Meh.
I thought it was funny.
And makes the point.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:29:14 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: Carl LaFong
A lot of the stuff I think has come off the Opel Germany AG design boards. Some of the cars look good but they are screwed together by subhumans at GM/Obama or Chrysler/Fiat/Obama. The difference in German IG Metal union workers have some pride in their work.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:29:35 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
To: Roccus
Couple cases of oil a week.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:30:36 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Frantzie
To: Bean Counter
![Chryslers to Rickshaws-1sm](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/5612053706_9f22140fdf_b.jpg)
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Hope and Change.... Tragic.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:33:00 PM PDT
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
To: cripplecreek
Couple cases of oil a week. Whoa. I'm a little surprised you had to put in any gas.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:34:16 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: cripplecreek
Heh. In the late 70s early 80s, there was a local mechanic who used to keep vega rear ends in stock. No fooling. Seems a lot of motorheads did the same as you and crammed mouse motors into them. Stopped the oil issue but was hell on rear.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:35:06 PM PDT
by
Drill Thrawl
(I can haz CW2 now?)
To: FrankR
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:35:36 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: Steely Tom
LOL! Drive a Vega and you can pick up hookers in the rain in Flint, MI.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:37:30 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
To: tumblindice
They were all aluminum. The Cosworth head was for the sport model - probably the GT. Cosworth was not that failure point. They were actually the better Vegas.
Supposedly at the end of the Vega run - the last cars were supposedly pretty good but the damage was already done.
The Cruze is the new Vega. Built by even greedier thugs than the 1970s.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:41:49 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
To: Drill Thrawl
I didn’t put the 283 in it. I sold it to a guy who did it and promptly shredded the rear end. He eventually turned it into a bracket racer with an old Chevy II rear end under it.
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:43:10 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
” He eventually turned it into a bracket racer with an old Chevy II rear end under it. “
Grumpy Jenkins pretty much single-handedly invented the Funny Car (AA/FC) Class in a Vega.... (Okay - it didn’t actually have any ‘Vega’ parts in it, but it did kinda look like one... ;))
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:50:54 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: Uncle Ike
Right you are Uncle Ike....I should have said that we can’t make stuff like this up, or get away with it....
Comparing this to the Vega is just incredibly accurate....
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:51:56 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts!!)
To: Frantzie
Imagine turning your cars steering wheel, or giving it a gentle tug, and having it break away from the steering column. Now youre speeding along holding the suddenly useless wheel.Been there...had the same sensation watching our current occupant of the White House playing President the last two years...
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posted on
04/11/2011 7:52:02 PM PDT
by
NorCoGOP
(Obama's approval ratings: so low that Kenyans now accuse him of being born in the USA)
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