When you see a pretty car...

[ZX9RCAM]

It's an awesome car. Would love to have a Cosworth Vega if it's cheap enough. It'd be more impressive on a road course than the drag strip, tho.

Absolutely, but remember, 1974 Z28s only ran mid 15s in the 1/4 mile.
I was 17, and it was the car I had.

 

[easy rider]

If I remember rightly, I had to pull the whole dashboard off just to change the heater core in a Vega. Decided I never wanted one after that.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I had mine 2 years, then got a 74 Impala 2 door, with 400 small block.
Even more good times....

 

[deemus]

It's an awesome car. Would love to have a Cosworth Vega if it's cheap enough. It'd be more impressive on a road course than the drag strip, tho.

I think so too. The handling and the acceleration was a thing of beauty.

 

[BRD@66]

Didn't the V8 Vegas have a droopy drive-train problem? But I guess Cosworth would'a overcome that.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Didn't the V8 Vegas have a droopy drive-train problem? But I guess Cosworth would'a overcome that.

Vegas were never offered with a V8.
Any of those would have been done by someone after the fact.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I think so too. The handling and the acceleration was a thing of beauty.

Cosworth vega had 110hp, 0-60 was 7.7.

 

[easy rider]

https://www.autonews.com/article/20111031/CHEVY100/310319922/the-vega-an-unmitigated-disaster

 

[ZX9RCAM]

https://www.autonews.com/article/20111031/CHEVY100/310319922/the-vega-an-unmitigated-disaster

Nobody arguing against that.

 

[Vaquero]

Three pages of Vega talk?
Dang.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Three pages of Vega talk?
Dang.

Well, I was involved, so....

 

[orbitup]

If I remember rightly, I had to pull the whole dashboard off just to change the heater core in a Vega. Decided I never wanted one after that.

You would have had the same trouble with just about anything else.

 

[Coiled]

Such a lopsided convo

 

[Coiled]

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I did own one ford back in that era.
1979 turbo mustang bought off the showroom floor.
Had it 6 months, then was rear ended and totalled out.
It was basically a glorified pinto, so that was scary, lol.
I thought the girl in the back seat was dead.

 

[tangoparson]

Such a lopsided convo

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Bunny Burkett. She just passed away this week. And yes, she drove and owned some pretty rad funny cars.


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[innominate]

I thought the girl in the back seat was dead.

Rule#2: double tap

 

[Big Green]

I skimmed over that article, still don’t know what a Vega is. There’s one little picture at the beginning of the article with some “interesting” looking wheeled things. Don’t believe I ever seen one before. Per the article that car was killed off three years before I was born.

Back to the pics.

Not the greatest example, but I saw this at WM just today when I stopped by.

 

[Davetex]

Prowler?

 

[majormadmax]

Prowler?

Yep, made by Plymouth (then later Chrysler) from 1997 to 2002. Retro-styled with a front-engined 3.5L V6, rear-drive, rear-transmissioned 42LE 4-speed automatic. Made predominantly out of aluminum. 11,702 were made over its run. 0-60 in 5.9 seconds, 126 MPH top speed (electronically limited). They have quite the cult following...