What started life as a humble ’72 Chevrolet Vega wagon has been cut, welded, and transformed into a homebuilt Vegamino. (Is that pronounced veg-a-mino or vay-gah-mino?). It’s a tiny pickup that looks like GM might have built it if the bean counters had been feeling unusually adventurous. But the real story sits under the hood: […]
Our next feature started out as a 1975 Chevrolet Vega, one of GM’s compact H-body cars, but it has been converted into a tiny pickup/ute. Think Vega meets El Camino, then somebody added side pipes and stopped caring what the brochure said. This thing meets all of the requirements for a front-page DT feature. Rack-and-pinion […]
Chevrolet never built a Vega GT Wagon with a DOHC fuel-injected V6, overdrive automatic, cold A/C, and a disc-brake posi rear end—but this seller in Lubbock did. What started life as a humble Vega wagon is now a thoroughly sorted and surprisingly practical daily driver thanks to a 3.4L V6 from a ’95 Lumina, backed […]
This next car comes as a tip from Rock On who writes: The perfect car for you to purchase and create your own El Camino creation! Find this 1977 Chevrolet Vega Kammback offered for $7,950 in Silver Spring, MD via craigslist. From the seller: 1977 Chevroletcondition: goodcylinders: 4 cylindersdrive: rwdfuel: gasodometer: 71156paint color: redtitle status: […]
I’m consistently suspicious of cars that are advertised to run great, but photos are taken inside of a small garage or cramped storage space. If the seller isn’t able to pull the car outside on a sunny day and snap some photos, it begs the question: what else has been neglected? Or maybe it is […]
In 1970, Chevrolet unleashed the Vega onto the automotive scene, thinking they had a trump card designed by the style maestro Bill Mitchell. They had big dreams with an array of intriguing engines in the pipeline – an inline-4 with a snazzy alloy overhead cam setup, a Wankel rotary engine, and an all-alloy V8. But […]
The late ’70s was an exciting time to be alive. And not just because gas was cheap and opportunity was plentiful…but think of film and cinema — the movies that came out in the year 1977 alone included the original Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever, The Spy Who Loved […]
This next car is the Vega GT, which isn’t exactly the pinnacle of automotive things with the GT suffix attached to their name. In fact, I can think of a few Mountain Bikes named GT that are sportier than a Vega. Anyway, ticking the GT option box on your Vega order form in 1970s meant […]
Sixty five hundred bucks doesn’t get you much in a classic car these days, particularly with one that has a sweet Kammback wagon shape. Except here we get a V4 engine…wait, that’s not right. This isn’t a Lancia Fulvia or a Saab Sonett, this is a Vega, which means it has some kind of SOHC […]
My parents had a Chevy Vega back before they had a bunch of kids, and to this day my old man claims was the worst car he ever owned. But his didn’t have a 300 horsepower Vette motor, nor a hacked off roof with a rear seat delete and shiny deep dish wheels. Could a […]