The Vega

This is a quick vid that i did in about 3 minutes and please dont comment on the music because i know it sucks!!!

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[robertplattbell1]

0:45 - Nice!

[eyeinidas]

I remember those. One really good thing about them, was the engine bays was large enough to take the aluminum POS out and put something else in it.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

@lrd9999 GM stopped caring about it's customers when they got a new CEO back in '65. He decided that GM no longer needed to be an innovator, but a profit source for the shareholders alone. From then on,quality and innovation were dumped in favor of marketing and common platforms to cut production costs. By the mid '70's, most American companies had gone that route and it drove them into the ground by the early '80s. At least Ford was addressing internal problems starting in the late '70's.

[lrd9999]

@Oldbmwr100rs So typical of GM in those days, from the rope-drive Tempest, to the Vega engine, to the Citation, to the Fiero. They'd find a good idea, market it before all the bugs were out of it, then drop it because it wasn't worth fixing a product with such a bad reputation. I hope they've learned their lesson.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

@lrd9999 The main problem wasn't the unlined cylinders so much as that the cylinders were tall and unsupported in the water jacket. the cylinders would move,soon destroying the head gasket. A fix was to weld the freestanding cylinders together at the top. the head was supposed to be alloy,but the design never worked and was recast in iron. The radiator was originally one square foot,far too small, making the car prone to overheating. The Vega suffered from excess bean counting.

[prunga308]

Chevrolet Vega, the only car that will literately rust out in Arizona

[punkazzgearhead]

A gift from god @ 0:33 .

[firebloxice1]

I have one of those but in hot wheels.

[jerywilliams]

The last 2.5 i overhauled had over 250k miles. It ran fine and the gears were fine. The owner just wanted to rebuild for reassurance that it would go another quarter mill miles. A belt would never last that long. A chain would have considerable stretch at that milage. Alot of engines are whats called "interference" engines, meaning that when chains or belts fail, you have pistons slapping valves and lots of damage. The ohv engines make decent power, but are limited on displacement by design.

[thekidrocks72]

OMG - I had one as shown at :25 Bought it new, it lasted 50K miles of true TLC. Still was a nice car, if the engine didn't wear out and the body didn't rust out (pretty obvious on a white car) I would have kept it much longer.

BTW you can't tell, but those Spirit of America Vegas had white vinyl tops... and the brightest red carpet you ever saw in a car.