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Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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I've seen it. That car is schweet, but you know that 4-cyl would have to be dumped for a small block :D

I just though of something while reading the auction: That car was delivered to that Chevy dealer and never sold or titled. It is still a brand new car! In essence, a 1977 leftover! It would still have factory warranty! If you bought it, you would be the original owner, and the NVIS (New Vehicle In Service) date would be the day you picked it up. I can see a Warranty Admin's face when he saw a claim for rebuilding that aluminum sleeveless Vega engine :D
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1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken
I've seen it. That car is schweet, but you know that 4-cyl would have to be dumped for a small block :D

I just though of something while reading the auction: That car was delivered to that Chevy dealer and never sold or titled. It is still a brand new car! In essence, a 1977 leftover! It would still have factory warranty! If you bought it, you would be the original owner, and the NVIS (New Vehicle In Service) date would be the day you picked it up.


I can see a Warranty Admin's face when he saw a claim for rebuilding that aluminum sleeveless Vega engine :D


I believe starting '76(maybe '75,) the Vega engines had the steel sleeves from the factory. They upped the warrenty to 5/50 on those engines and still nobody would buy them. The Vega was dropped for '78(replaced by the Monza, which had been around since '75) which by then had the 4 cyl Iron Duke Pontiac engine. Anyway.. from a DIEHARD Ford man, Its a POS and I wouldn't give $100 for it. I'm intitled to this opnion cause I owned '74 & '77(junked it) Vega Wagons and they were definatly POS.

I owned a bunch of Monzas as well, a '76(262 V8 4speed, a fun little car), '77(305 auto, not nearly as much fun as the '76), and a bunch of the '78 -'80 Iron Duke and V6 Buick versions. Used a '80 V6 hatch back as my driver for about a year...

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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I agree with you, TC50. I wouldn't own a Vega if my life depended on it........ well, maybe then.

My brother had an Astre, though, with a V6 and posi rear. That thing hauled ass, for a small domestic economy car. Looked cool too, with chrome valve covers and headers. The odd thing is, he bought it off my grandmother. She actually had decent taste, before she got that old accord.

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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And they made them here in Lordstown, OH. Lots of horror stories about them. The novelty is cool but you just can't fix that kind of fugly.... ;)

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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Fugly? :eek: Dude, that's the uber classy woody version.

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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Yea its Fugly... But I really liked the '75-'77 Monza coupes. The front end looked a lot like the '70-'72 Monte Carlos..

Bet nobody knew this tid bit about the Monzas. In their first year('75) the 262 & 305 V8 would not meet Calif emissions. So they didn't have a V8 for CA??? Wrong, Chevy stuffed the 350 in those and sent them on their way. I've seen one and knew a guy that had one. He said it was almost unbeatable across a intersection, but with the 2bbl carb and single exaust, it ran out of breath very quickly.

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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Don't be hatin' on the wagon, guys. Wagons, especially two-door wagons, are uber-cool :D Even Vegas...
 
The woodgrain would have to go, and fill in the rear windows with metal (make it a Sedan Delivery), and toss in a nice TPI 400ci small block with a T-5 and Ford 9" - that car could be quite presentable.
 
I dunno, I've always had a soft spot in my head for Vega wagons, ever since my neighbour had the blown 454-powered burgandy one. He drove it on the street, and me being the impressionable youth that I was, I fell in love with it. There was about two feet of roots blower sticking out of that hood, and I swear the 9" Ford was only as wide as the pumpkin. The thing looked like a steamroller with the rear tires almost toucching each other.
 
He would take it to the local mall on Friday nights (when all the local teens were drinkin' in the woods next to the mall) and just idle it into the lot. Then he'd open it up and do a wheelie the whole (uphill) length of the parking lot. He'd shut it down near the end, turn around, and idle out of the parking lot. When he was idling it around it had that blatiddy-blat of a top fuel car. Very impressive shows, these were :D AND LOUD!!!!
 
He ended up twisting the body on the Vega from the torque, so he dropped the engine first into a Camaro (twisted that too), then a '72 Chevy truck. In the truck the engine was useless - no traction at all!
 
So anyway, yeah, I'll admit I have a thing for Vega wagons, but I think anyone here would have had they seen that burgandy beast as a kid...
Rather have a TC-engine'd Pinto wagon though...
 
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Tom, if you like Monza's you'd love the yellow one a guy was driving around here for a few years. It was painted that 70's Corvette yellow, with a built 355ci, and it was in unbelievable condition. The chassis was just as shiny as the topside. even inside the wheel wells there was nary a flaw. It looked as though the car had never seen a raindrop.
 
Oh, and just to piss the Ford guys here off a bit more: I WILL own a 1978 Trans Am, T-Top, 400-4-speed, with a big gold screaming chicken sprawled across the hood. My first car was a '78 T/A, and it was by far the most fun car I ever had. It was so much fun it should've been illegal. Oh, wait - for the most part, it was :evilgrin:
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣
 

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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Uh-oh! There he goes. I sent him spiraling off in a fit of nostalgia. :D

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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Quote from: oldraven
Uh-oh! There he goes. I sent him spiraling off in a fit of nostalgia. :D

Hey, memories are better than present reality any day :flip:
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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Quote from: Thunder Chicken

Oh, and just to piss the Ford guys here off a bit more: I WILL own a 1978 Trans Am, T-Top, 400-4-speed, with a big gold screaming chicken sprawled across the hood. My first car was a '78 T/A, and it was by far the most fun car I ever had. It was so much fun it should've been illegal. Oh, wait - for the most part, it was :evilgrin:


Yea I had one of those as well... Well mine was a '76 with a Bonneville 455 and 350 Turbo tranny. It had just been painted and had new decals, was really sharp.... too bad it was a turd. For a 455 in that size car it should have screamed, but I never did get it to run anything like I thought it should. No matter, I got it in trade(even up) for a '79 Camaro that had a dead cylinder, I sold it and made money..

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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There is a reason why it only has 13 miles on it and was never titled.  NOBODY WANTED THAT POS!!!

Re: Found a cool wagon for you Carmen

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A friend of mine had one like that with a 327, custom frame, painted black with tri colo(u)r  flames white,yellow,red. I think it looked cool. It changed hands a couple time after that and eventually it was sped. I got the rims and tires, another friend got the 327. The rest of the car was claimed by the salt water.