[socal_parrot]

"HI! I'm socal_parrot and I owned a '74 Chevy Vega."

"Hi parrot!"

The first step to recovery is admitting you need help.

I got better. My next car was a '78 Trans Am.

[doug from upland]

Two of the Vega comments:

"As near as I could tell, the car was built from compressed rust.

"My Chevy Vega actually broke in half going over railroad tracks. The whole rear end came around slightly to the front, sort of like a dog wagging its tail."

[rabidralph]

Back in the mid-70s, there was a crime-wave in DC/MD of a man going around picking up women and killing them and then dumping their bodies. Witnessess told police the criminal was driving a green Vega. So the papers dubbed it the Green Vega Murders. Besides the sadness at the loss of life, I always wondered what kind of woman would allow herself to be picked up by a man driving a Vega?

[TC Rider]

"HI! I'm socal_parrot and I owned a '74 Chevy Vega."

"Hi! I'm TC Rider and I owned a '72 Vega. In '74 the rear end fell out of it and I traded for a '74 Blazer (in time for the gas shortage)

I traded it for a '74 Vega with the 'head' problem. I literally coasted that one onto a Toyota lot where they gave me a hundred in trade. (in my mind an excellant deal)

Then in '76 I married Mrs. TC who owned a '74 Vega (head problem). We sold that one to a GI at Fort Carson for a hundred dollars in '78. He later complained he got screwed.

sigh