I loved the look of the black/gold Cosworth Vegas.

Geez, $3.00 for a Seymour Balz T-shirt!

Pierre, thanks for sharing because............................. I LOVE IT. Cheers. George

CdnGMfan wrote:

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..... They never sold them in Canada AFAIK.......

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 I remember seeing a black one in the mid-seventies at the ''Grand Prix Molson de Trois-Rivières'' in Québec. Didn't check the license plate back then. The car was park ''inside'' where you need to have a pass to be there.

eeluddy wrote:

The rest of the car was still a junk Vega that you could hear rusting on a quiet night.

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 That's a good one.  I don't think that was just in the east neither.

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eeluddy wrote:

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Problem was that they were close in price to a real car, and even with the Cosworth engine the rest of the car was still a junk Vega that you could hear rusting on a quiet night.

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 My 74 Vega Hatch back four speed stick car did not have one spec of rust on it when i sold it. I bought it around 1978 and other than burning oil..................... it was a sweet little car.  I love Vega's and it is really too bad that GM messed up a nice little car by not putting the cast iron cylinder sleeves in them. By the time GM corrected the problem, it was way too late. 

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 By the winter of 75-76 my 1974 Vega twin= Pontiac (of course!) Astre GT was on its 2nd paint job from rust repair and starting to bubble out again on the tops of the front fenders and was burning a quart of oil every 200 miles or so. I didn't want to sell it as I  knew I would get a knuckle sandwich from whoever bought it. So a mechanic buddy bought it so he could learn how to tear it down and sleeve it. He also did his own body job while apprenticing. He loved it because he got it for next to nothing from me and it was cheap on gas.

To me that car was the start of the long downward spiral of GM.

eeluddy wrote:

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long stroke wrote:

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eeluddy wrote:

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Problem was that they were close in price to a real car, and even with the Cosworth engine the rest of the car was still a junk Vega that you could hear rusting on a quiet night.

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 My 74 Vega Hatch back four speed stick car did not have one spec of rust on it when i sold it. I bought it around 1978 and other than burning oil..................... it was a sweet little car.  I love Vega's and it is really too bad that GM messed up a nice little car by not putting the cast iron cylinder sleeves in them. By the time GM corrected the problem, it was way too late. 

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 By the winter of 75-76 my 1974 Vega twin= Pontiac (of course!) Astre GT was on its 2nd paint job from rust repair and starting to bubble out again on the tops of the front fenders and was burning a quart of oil every 200 miles or so. I didn't want to sell it as I  knew I would get a knuckle sandwich from whoever bought it. So a mechanic buddy bought it so he could learn how to tear it down and sleeve it. He also did his own body job while apprenticing. He loved it because he got it for next to nothing from me and it was cheap on gas.

To me that car was the start of the long downward spiral of GM.

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 Earl, with all due respect to you brother. You are being way too dramatic here in this regard. I loved my Vega and it was real good to me  except for the oil burning and it was solid as a rock when i sold it. My heart goes out to folks that were not as lucky as me but I LOVED  MY VEGA. Cheers. George