Find this 1975 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega here on eBay bidding for $3,050 reserve-not-met with auction ending on Sunday at 7PM Pacific. From eBay listing: Item specifics Condition: Used Year: 1975 VIN (Vehicle Identification Number): 1V77E5U205420 Mileage: 23,529 Interior Color: White Make: Chevrolet Number of Cylinders: 4 Model: Other Transmission: 4 speed manual Trim: Cosworth Vega […]
Way back in the early 1970s a young John Z DeLorean was in charge of engineering at GM and he directed his engine design group to find something to add some pep to the fuel conscious Vega subcompact. The result was an all-aluminum engine with a twin-cam cylinder head that was fed via fuel injection […]
The Cosworth Vega is one of those wacky and cool automobiles that certainly would have never been built in the first place, if not for the push of some crazy gearhead on the inside at GM. In this case it was John Z DeLorean who assigned Calvin Wade to find someone to develop a DOHC […]
If you loved GM’s subcompact Vega, (and who doesn’t?!?!) then you’ll love the badge engineered versions for GM’s other brands. The H-body offerings went up from the basic Vega and they included the luxurious Oldsmobile Starfire, sporty Buick Skyhawk, and the Pontiac Astre — whose purpose was as confounding as the name. Find this 1975 […]
Like the LeCar, Yugo, and others, the Vega/Monza is the car you love to hate. Some portion of that savage hostility is bandwagon H-body hate, but most is justifiable. After all, they were built during a time when quality control meant that the guy who controlled the assembly plant only read quality MAD Magazines, while the plant workers […]
A few weeks back, I published a story about a Vega that was modified in the vintage drag style and I said that I hated the wheels and suggested a set of Minilites and a thorough lowering job. A few commenters pointed out that this was a pro-stock nostalgia style drag car and the wheels […]
Most of the time when someone builds a hot rod and immediately sells it, the seller takes a bath on any money he sunk into his project. The only time that seller will make money is if he hits a fortunate upswing in market forces or gets a great deal when buying it. This is […]
DT commenter and Fiat owner PeteL summed up the Datsun B210 vintage racer featured yesterday nicely when he said: “That is a lot of kit and history (key for vintage acceptance) for $2600 and an easy freshening of the bottom end. The parts and fab work are 10x the selling price…wow.” If you still want […]
The word muscle derives from the Latin musculus which means literally “little mouse” – a reference to the way muscle looks when it moves under the skin. The Chevrolet Vega was a mouse sized sub-compact built by GM from 1970-1977- initially touted as “Merica’s answer to European sports cars. Unfortunately a number of classic GM […]
In 1970 GM’s General Manager per-incarcertion John DeLorean directed his engineering staff the develop a high performance cylinder head for the Vega 4-banger engine. Within a few years a combination of GM’s alloy block and a Cosworth Engineering designed head was mounted into a Chevy Vega that cost nearly as much as new Corvette. In […]