100,000 mile club

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by yougojay

Chevette SS

For some reason this prompted me to think about one of the videos that Chevy dealers put in these huge, cumbersome video machines with screens in the early 70s. The one video I remember showed a VW Bug going around a corner on a forested mountain road. The Bug rolled over and off the road...out of sight. The video then showed a Vega executing the same corner with no problem at all. This was a promotional video for the Vega.....illustrating stability. Straightforward enough for a naive late tweener/early teenager to figure out.

[roxy1]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

For some reason this prompted me to think about one of the videos that Chevy dealers put in these huge, cumbersome video machines with screens in the early 70s. The one video I remember showed a VW Bug going around a corner on a forested mountain road. The Bug rolled over and off the road...out of sight. The video then showed a Vega executing the same corner with no problem at all. This was a promotional video for the Vega.....illustrating stability. Straightforward enough for a naive late tweener/early teenager to figure out.

well that does it....im going to pick this up. those blemishes will buff right out.

http://www.fossilcars.com/chevrolet/vega/576140

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by roxy1

well that does it....im going to pick this up. those blemishes will buff right out.

http://www.fossilcars.com/chevrolet/vega/576140

Your link prompted me to try to remember the last year of production. I correctly remembered that 1971 was the first model year, but I thought production ended in 1975 not 1977.

[Yaristeve]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Your link prompted me to try to remember the last year of production. I correctly remembered that 1971 was the first model year, but I thought production ended in 1975 not 1977.

I think it was past 1975. In 1975, Chevy produced the Cosworth Vega (a car I wouldn't mind owning if I had the time and space) which, IIRC, was produced before the end of Vega production.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Yaristeve

I think it was past 1975. In 1975, Chevy produced the Cosworth Vega (a car I wouldn't mind owning if I had the time and space) which, IIRC, was produced before the end of Vega production.

IIRC, the Cosworth Vega was black with gold trim. The next year ('76 model year) Ford came out with the 2nd Gen Capri and the (similar to the Cosworth Vega trimmed) 'Le Cat Black' was one of the trim levels. My dad was working for a Ford Dealer at the time, and in '77 someone traded in a '76 Capri...Yellow with a beige interior and a sunroof (and ugh...an automatic)...but the dealership gave it to me for the trade in value (great deal). A few months later, one of my best friends bought a '76 Le Cat Black.