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Showing posts with label Vega. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vega. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Gary is at the Woodward Dream Cruise, and shared these photos of a parking lot full of Vegas, many are Cosworth twin cams! Thank you Gary!
Sunday, June 29, 2025
One hell of a large time capsule in Seward Nebraska, was sealed in 1975, with a 50 year time line opening, so that many of the young people who put things in could enjoy seeing them after 5 decades, and to see what their parents and grand parents put in the capsule for THEM!
a 75 Vega and a blue Kawasaki motorcycle were in the 50 year old time capsule, along with 4,998 other items. Yes, even in a dry time capsule, the Vega rusted! HA!
The Vega emerged on with an engine warranty for the first 60,000 miles, and is hoped to be running for the 4th of July parade!
While a plaque on the World’s Largest Time Capsule instructed the time vault to be opened on July 4, 2025, the process was started early to ensure the public could view the capsule for the Fourth of July.
The 45 ton time capsule was the brain child of Harold Davisson, a Seward furniture store owner, in his store's yard, to preserve memories of that time for his friends and family.. At 20-by-8-by-60 feet and weighing around 45 tons, it earned recognition from the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest time capsule.
In 1983, after the title was snatched, Davisson responded by building a second time capsule on top in the shape of a pyramid. Inside that capsule, sealed in 1985, was a 1975 Toyota Corolla. His efforts paid off as he reclaimed the title which is now carried in perpetuity since Guinness retired the classification.
the tires are hold air, the car was put up off the floor of the capsule on blocks of wood designed by GM at all 4 wheels. Smart!
is an incredibly cool article to read, it's well written from that point of view of WHAT a time capsule is supposed to do, and that's something about hopes, about a thing - time capsules - that we rarely see opened in the lifetime of the people that added to it.
Plus, the guy who made this, and his daughter, were instrumental in it's carrying out it's mission, and now the daughter must choose if she'll put a new 50 year time capsule in it's place after this summer.
Seriously, that's explained in the article as a very heavy duty responsibility in the long term life of a person. Very intriguing.
After the contents have been distributed, Harold Davisson’s goal was for the crypt to be refilled for another 50 years. As the sole owner of the time capsule, and the only family member living in Nebraska, it’s up to Johnson to decide, and she doesn’t have plans to repeat the process.
“I have one granddaughter. She is 4 and a half. I would not obligate her to what I’ve experienced,” Johnson said.
Traci Prochaska hopes this isn’t the end of the time capsule legacy in Seward.
“It’s amazing how technology and things like cars have changed over 50 years,” Traci Prochaska said. “I’m sure back then people probably imagined flying cars by the year 2025, which hasn’t actually happened yet. It would be cool if they had a plan to create another time capsule with new stuff so people could witness it again in 50 years.”
Skip to minute 26 of this video for the capsule to be the story, up to that, it's another story for the podcaster
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064751614264 for the facebook page of the time capsule!
in the pyramid, on top of the time capsule, a Toyota Corolla was placed, with some other stuff... it didn't survive as well as the Vega:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=954353243399721&set=a.551234420378274
Monday, March 31, 2025
Monday, October 28, 2024
the Vega air filter, was known as the "bedpan of doom"
GM decided to put the paper filter inside an unopenable metal housing. The housing was still made in two pieces, and was pretty similar to a regular air cleaner design, but the top and bottom were permanently crimped together to enclose the air filter element inside. This assembly then bolted onto the carburetor directly.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
ever heard of the Yenko Turbo Stinger Vega? It produced 155 bhp at 4800 rpm, way above the 90/110 bhp found in the standard Vega.
Of the 400 or so Vega Yenko Stinger packages sold, there doesn’t seem to be any record of how many got turbos installed.
only 11 are reputedly still around.
Sunday, February 12, 2023
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Chevy info / trivia / interesting stuff found in Automobile Magazines 100 years of Chevrolet
Founded by Billy Durant, it was one of three car companies he founded that year (he had founded GM years before, but got fired) He founded 2 more companies the next year
Durant did so well with Chevy, that by 1915, he took over control of GM... yeah, Chevy bought out GM.
The depression in 1920 jsut decimated his businesses., and he left in Dec, 1920
When Chevrolet started in business, there were 270 car companies in America
How American is Chevrolet? Well, Louis Chevrolet was Swiss, Zora Arkus Duntov was Belgian... you get the point right? Immigrants are Americas greatest asset, and they made Chevy and GM one of the few comapnies to survive 100 years, and one of only a handful of car manufacturers to stay in the car making business for 100 years or more.
Durant wanted to capitalize on Louis Chevrolet's racing notoriety, and had Lou design a car. It was completed in 1912. Lou quit because Durant nagged about his smoking, and went on to design Indy winning race cars, and found the Frontenac car company
1915 was the year Chevy tried to compete with the less expensive Ford, and made the 490 which was the same price as the Ford (Fiat 500 was the cost in thousands of Lira for a cinquecento) Ford retaliated by dropping his price by 50 bucks. Lots of money in 1915
1923 Chevy had 500 copper air fin equipped cars available, as this early in the car making development process, getting water cooling to work wasn't perfected for another 30 years, and the Franklin was successful as an aircooled engine... they work fine in hot climates, like the American mid and southwest.
The Copper Cooled Chevys were a flop, they detonated terrribly, and of the 100 bought by customers, all but 2 were reaquired by Chevy, AND DUMPED THEM IN LAKE EIRE!
Fangio's first big victory was in a Chevy Master 85. It was an endurance race round trip Buenos Aires to Lima and back
The longest running nameplate in auto history is the Chevy Suburban, launched in 1935
The 55 Chevy Bel Air grill design was ripped off from Ferrari. It only was used in 55.
Chevy's first international competition win was a 1953 210 sedan in the La Carrera Panamericana
1960 Daytona 500, the Junior Johnson Chevy was 20 mph slower than the leading Pontiacs,... and Junior discovered drafting, and won the race. He'd been in prison for running moonshine in 57 and couldn't race in first NASCAR Grand National Championship
Jim Halls Chaparral 2J "sucker car" used a 2 stroke snowmobile engine to produce suction in the ground effects race car to capitalize on the design
The Nassau Speed Week of Dec 1963 proved that the Corvette Grand Sport could beat the Shelby Cobras and Ferrari 250 GTOs ... but that was the last call for Chevy in racing before the AMA ban. Zora was about to take them to Sebring and LeMans
The Chevy LUV (light utility vehicle) was the first Chevy sold in the US built by a foreign manufacturer. Isuzu
The Vega had 2 notorious recalls, the rear tires falling off, and the carb filling with gas til it spilled out onto the engine onto overheating aluminum engines
GM went into partnership with Toyota to get better manufacturing processes and production systems, and reopened a GM facility in Fremont Ca, and Toyota would gain experience in building cars in the US. UAW workers were flown to Japan, learned the Toyota way, production began in 1984, was an immediate success, and they built 8 million cars before shutting down in 2009. The things learned from Toyota were implemented in GM in 1992
Dick Guldstrand was commisioned to make a high speed Corvette to test Bridgestones, he hit 176 at Talledega . It's in the auction cycle right now, and it didn't sell at 40 thou.
Durant did so well with Chevy, that by 1915, he took over control of GM... yeah, Chevy bought out GM.
The depression in 1920 jsut decimated his businesses., and he left in Dec, 1920
When Chevrolet started in business, there were 270 car companies in America
How American is Chevrolet? Well, Louis Chevrolet was Swiss, Zora Arkus Duntov was Belgian... you get the point right? Immigrants are Americas greatest asset, and they made Chevy and GM one of the few comapnies to survive 100 years, and one of only a handful of car manufacturers to stay in the car making business for 100 years or more.
Durant wanted to capitalize on Louis Chevrolet's racing notoriety, and had Lou design a car. It was completed in 1912. Lou quit because Durant nagged about his smoking, and went on to design Indy winning race cars, and found the Frontenac car company
1915 was the year Chevy tried to compete with the less expensive Ford, and made the 490 which was the same price as the Ford (Fiat 500 was the cost in thousands of Lira for a cinquecento) Ford retaliated by dropping his price by 50 bucks. Lots of money in 1915
1923 Chevy had 500 copper air fin equipped cars available, as this early in the car making development process, getting water cooling to work wasn't perfected for another 30 years, and the Franklin was successful as an aircooled engine... they work fine in hot climates, like the American mid and southwest.
The Copper Cooled Chevys were a flop, they detonated terrribly, and of the 100 bought by customers, all but 2 were reaquired by Chevy, AND DUMPED THEM IN LAKE EIRE!
Fangio's first big victory was in a Chevy Master 85. It was an endurance race round trip Buenos Aires to Lima and back
The longest running nameplate in auto history is the Chevy Suburban, launched in 1935
The 55 Chevy Bel Air grill design was ripped off from Ferrari. It only was used in 55.
Chevy's first international competition win was a 1953 210 sedan in the La Carrera Panamericana
1960 Daytona 500, the Junior Johnson Chevy was 20 mph slower than the leading Pontiacs,... and Junior discovered drafting, and won the race. He'd been in prison for running moonshine in 57 and couldn't race in first NASCAR Grand National Championship
Jim Halls Chaparral 2J "sucker car" used a 2 stroke snowmobile engine to produce suction in the ground effects race car to capitalize on the design
The Nassau Speed Week of Dec 1963 proved that the Corvette Grand Sport could beat the Shelby Cobras and Ferrari 250 GTOs ... but that was the last call for Chevy in racing before the AMA ban. Zora was about to take them to Sebring and LeMans
The Chevy LUV (light utility vehicle) was the first Chevy sold in the US built by a foreign manufacturer. Isuzu
The Vega had 2 notorious recalls, the rear tires falling off, and the carb filling with gas til it spilled out onto the engine onto overheating aluminum engines
GM went into partnership with Toyota to get better manufacturing processes and production systems, and reopened a GM facility in Fremont Ca, and Toyota would gain experience in building cars in the US. UAW workers were flown to Japan, learned the Toyota way, production began in 1984, was an immediate success, and they built 8 million cars before shutting down in 2009. The things learned from Toyota were implemented in GM in 1992
Dick Guldstrand was commisioned to make a high speed Corvette to test Bridgestones, he hit 176 at Talledega . It's in the auction cycle right now, and it didn't sell at 40 thou.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Trains delivering cars in the early 70's, packed, racked, and stacked.
Instead of using conventional rail cars, which carried just 18 automobiles, General Motors worked with the Southern Pacific Railroad to develop the Vert-A-Pac rail car, capable of hauling 30 Vegas per rail car. As the name implies, Vert-A-Pac rail cars hauled the Vegas nose-down, in a vertical orientation, after the cars had been bolted to Vert-A-Pac loading ramps that also doubled as doors. Once the Vegas had been secured, the ramps were lifted into place with heavy-duty forklifts, and unloading was as simple as reversing the process. Though the mere suggestion of hauling cars in positions other than horizontal typically horrifies auto enthusiasts, the Vega was engineered to be transported this way. Engine baffles prevented oil from leaking into cylinders, and special batteries with rear-mounted caps were fitted to prevent acid leaks. Any excess fuel left in the carburetor was drained via a tube to a vapor recovery canister, and even the windshield washer tank was oriented to prevent leaks.
those cars are Chevy Vega's
I've never seen this sort of thing, it's visually interestingfrom http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477
info and 2nd photo from http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/06/06/cars-of-futures-past-chevrolet-vega/
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