I had a Vega also, not sure the year, maybe 76. It had a Holley carburetor,
but I never liked the car really. It always had that "bulky" feeling that I
find in American cars.
Linda
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On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Tom Bussard <thecpguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had a '77 Vega that my sister was about to have repossessed, that turned
out
> to be one of the best cars ever. Seems that GM tried, in vain, to save face
and
> installed sleeves in the cylinders, among other things, on the 4 cylinder.
>
> I yanked the cat conv. and did very little else and then had to sell it to
get
> into our first house. The people I sold it to were the only ones who even
> looked at it and came back to me years later and told me they had put over
> 300,000 miles on it with the normal maintenance and a valve job.
>
> I'd still love to get my hands on a Cosworth (after my 2K is completed, of
> course)
> Tom Bussard
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