Is this Chevy Vega a star from 1977? – Jalopnik

Chevy’s Vega was one of the most beautiful and least reliable small cars of the 1970s, making the current beautiful price or no dice a commendable survivor. Let’s see if the price survives our poll.

Voltaire, one of the age of the most productive contributors of Enlightenment, wrote that “the perfect is the enemy of good.” Voltaire, a large part of his 83-year life in 18th-century Paris, France, was denied the opportunity to experience the modern automotive certificate of this aporism.

The Volkswagen Golf R 2016 that we looked at yesterday is perhaps not exactly what one could call perfectly, but if there are perfect good cars such as the slightly less hectic GTI, the larger costs of the R when buying and running can be questioned very well. That was precisely the case with our low mileage R. The comment from the advertisement of a new link with less than 50k on the clock also questioned the seller’s claim that the car had always been an adult and operated. Maybe one of those adults didn’t know how to ride a stick? That confusion led most of you to question the car and its history, which resulted in the asking price of $ 23,999 in a loss of 64% no dice.

If you think of the first small cars produced in the interior that arrive on the market, it is great to consider how wrong the two biggest names got it. Both Chevy’s Vega and Ford’s Pinto arrived as Great Fanfare for the 1971 model year, where the Chevy even earned Kudos from Motor Trend Magazine. However, each of these models would get a shame later; The Ford for a design error that the company’s bonentellers decided would be cheaper to litigate instead of repairing, and the Vega simply because it is generally craptacular in terms of reliability and build quality. The smallest of the four large car manufacturers at the time, AMC, released his import-fighting small car competitor, the Gremlin, a year before the Pinto and Vega became the stage, and it escaped his production run without suffering such a violation.

By time this 1977 Chevy Vega Wagon Rol of the line, most of the errors of the model were solved. The dice was already thrown on the fate of the Vega, because the early reputation of the car reduced the sale to the point that Chevy left the Vega nameplate completely the following year and to this day refuses to discuss it in a polite company.

The fate of the Vega is all the more frustrating because it was perhaps the best looking of all domestic small cars, and perhaps even one of the most attractive cars in the 1970s. Originally equipped with a Camaro-aping-Neus with bucketed headlights and a wide grid spent by a bumper of a knife, the vega, either in tangling, hatchback or as this car is, Wagon Styling had a large car looks in a well-proposed small autos key. Over the years, that nose would be adapted to meet the federal bumper standards, but to the extent that those efforts went at the time, the vegas was one of the most successful.

This has various add-ons, including a bee-like paint schedule with black stripes over a yellow background. It also has a roof rack, Centrine-style wheels and, doubtful, an aggressive set of spikes on the rear bumper. The body on the car is straight, but there is a noticeable bit of rust that spends on the front fenders and around the rear. That spiky bumper is also a bit related. However, it is still decent enough that the seller claims that it “makes people smile when you pass by.”

This was the last year before De Vega, and the sale had fallen quickly during that last run, making it the rarest year of all production. That is neither here with regard to this car, because most of the Vegas went to the scrapper from a year ago, so that a model is still a strange duck.

The interior of this duck has been updated over the years with black and yellow vinyl upholstery, a steering wheel with a small diameter and an eight-ball shift button on top of its four-speed gearbox. That manual gearbox is linked to the standard 2.2-liter Dohc aluminum block/iron head four of the Vega. By the time this car hit the streets, the emission standards had robbed the engine of all except 84 of his horses, making the Vega a kind of dog. This car seems completely in both its motorcycle room and cabin load, but it must be noted that it is sparingly equipped and even a radio in the dashboard is missing. The kilometer counter reads 32,480 miles, but because it has only five barrels, it may have been rolled. In the plus column, the car has a clean title and current tags on its retro vanity plates.

You will not find much love for the vega in the general car enthusiast, so it is doubtful that this car may find to their liking. That makes the asking price of the $ 7,500 car a difficult proposition. On the one hand, it is a rare remaining example of a historically important car that Chevy fans may find attractive. On the other hand, it is a vega cheap seats that is probably not that pleasant car to drive.

What is your opinion about this OLD school and that asks $ 7,500? Does that seem to be honest considering the condition of the car and the relative rarity? Or does that price that the star of this vega dims?

You definitely!

Nice price or no dice:

Santa Barbara, California, CraigslistOr go here when the advertisement disappears.

H/t Don R. for the connection!

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