Hot Rods V-8 Vega Traditional?

You be the judge:



















Like alot of Hot Rods, this one has a, you guessed it-a Vega steering box:



Complete with the Ford 3 speed box:

 

That is pretty darn cool in my opinion. A friend and I are currently putting a 302 Ford in a 76 Vega just to piss off the local Chevy guys. This car just plain rocks!

 

Hahaha! Wow! I wasn't expecting to see that under the hood.

 

haha....if you gave me 50 guesses what's under the hood I still wouldn't have gotten it....early flattie too.



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I always dreamed of putting a hot flathead in a Corvette....

 

I have known about it for about 15 years. It is sitting in a storage lot. The owner is just about to sell it.

 

Don Hardy sold a ton of V8 Vega conversion kits back in the day, but I'm guessing this wasn't one of them!

 

i saw the first pic and was like, hey, my daddy had one of them, fastest thing in town at that time, til i saw that motor, wow, very different.....i`m not too into all the traditional not traditional thing, but that even makes me scratch my head.....very bizaare......all i can say is why? waste of a good motor....

 

need to buy that and have 2 projects, normal chebby motor in the vega, dump it to fund something cool for the flatty......

 

Didn't see that coming. Some pretty cool parts on the motor too.

 

Kinda like Ak Miller's Pinto with the Model A four banger but not as fast!

 

Wrong for two reasons....

1.) It's a Vega for christs sake!!
2.) They ruined a good flathead buy wrapping a Vega around it.

 

In the ba*****t in Cobo Hall this year, there was a lowrider bodydropped, mini SUV (bronco II, or explorer) laying frame with a flathead mill.

 

Whats that saying,just becuase you can doesn't mean you should.

 

what a waste of a flathead and you never put a Ford in a Chevy

 

I know of a lot better places that flattie could go.

 

That one looks like the results of too much beer and too many what if? along with a dead Vega and a live flathead that was probably pulled out of something else and replaced with an overhead at the time.

 

We got flatties showing up in peculiar places this week. First a Ranger now a Vega.

 

I know of one, in a channeled Model A roadster that now has a pretty stout 350 that would turn the Vega into a monster on the street.

 

Thats just wrong!

 

But did it make the Vega faster or slower???????? I deserve to be drawn and quartered for asking, I know.

 

Waste of a perfectly good Trans Am hood scoop.

 

MMMMmmmmm, I've always liked those early Vegas (my first car at 15). If it wasn't so far away, I'd buy it for the car and sell engine.


(please note, there is no sarcasm written into this. I am serious)

 

I don't know what's worse, a Vega with a flattie or a Model A with a Chevy V-8

 

What have you done?

"I am Shiva, dystroyer of worlds!" Robt. Oppenheimer

 

I guess that's why they say "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"?

 

Hope you bought the car for nothing and took that flathead out . . . it could use a good home and has some nice parts on it!

 

Some real nice parts on that motor - Evans Heads , Edelbrock manifold .....

Both that and the Bronco II fall into the Dumb *** category in my book, but whatever. Need to save that flatty

 

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That Vega is looking better and better...........



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