Antique & Classic Cars Blog

In high school a friend of mine had a green Vega hatchback—’73 as I recall. When he got a job at a service and restoration shop one summer, he painted it. He also set the timing and for a very brief period, it would squeak the tires for an instant if you tromped it.

That car was pretty nice looking–European styling of a sort, like the Camaro. Vega’s problem, if you like to move along, was modest horsepower.

That problem has disappeared from the country’s remaining Vegas. This is because almost all of the surviving examples seem to have been converted to drag cars. The one pictured was out at Hooked on Classics in Watertown, but I’ve done some poking around in search of a good original one and they all look about like this one. (Not planning on buying one–just like a good classic car quest.)

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