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I know yall dig the luvs but but how about h-body's?

i had a 76 vega wagon , fun car ran great and had the t handle shifter (pull up for reverse)

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I had a Vega mail wagon (panels instead of rear side windows and no back seat) for about a week.
It had a 283 and Muncie 4 speed in it. I traded my 75 El Camino for it, but found out quickly it was a hack job. I traded back. The guy wouldn't do it at first and then my Dad leaned on the guy a little bit, reminding him that he traded with a 17 y. o. I was not an adult yet. Don't know if it mattered, but it scared this guy into trading back.

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Wow im 17 and my father and I have recently built and are still building our 72 hatch-I have done most the work I just needed help putting in and taking out the sbc so many times! its got a 400horse 361ci and a maddog transmissions th700r4 if you look at my thread in the introduction forum I listed every thing about the running gear on it-take a look if ya want and please tell me what ya think!

Sounds like you had the camback panel wagon wich is pretty much the only car I want more then a luv that is for sure the car I have always wanted but the 72 vega is the one I wanted to get cause I knew I could get my hands on one!!!

Yea. I knew what I had was rare, but this was in 83 and I was a kid. I was all excited about a V8 Vega (really wanted a V8 LUV but found this) but my friends that still had level headed thinking pointed out to me that it was a pretty bad hack job and would have needed a lot of work soon.
Today, that would not be a problem, but back then it was.

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Vega's are a sore subject with me, dad bought a new silver vega wagon that we vacationed all over the west in till about 76. The sore part (beside being cramped in it) was he traded in a 71 Roadrunner for it!!!! I still give him crap to this day for that move.

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RIP R.J.B.

Here's a previous post on the vegas. http://forums.luvtruck.com/viewtopic.ph ... light=vega

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Not a sore subject for me haha i love em im only 17 and am on my 3rd car that i own first was a 1949 chevy 3100 advanced design 5 window wich i still have and second was a 68 merc cougar and now currently i own a 74 dart that is gonna get a new paint job and be sold! so i can get me a nother vega or a luv-the vega we have now is both mine and my dads seeming as i did the work and he bought the parts dont get me wrong he tought me everything i know but he pretty much turned me loose on this project and came out with a $20,000 car that runs and is soon to drive great after i do the front end conversion!

Just to add a footnote to this thread, I've owned a couple of V8 Vegas and they were fun as hell to drive on the street (except when it rained...lol), and as a tribute to another misunderstood Chevy small vehicle, I just put Vega tail lights in my roll pan on my '78 Luv stepside.

I wouldn't mind getting my hands on another Vega just to tinker on, but sadly, all of them around here are complete rust buckets.

I almost bought a nice one about 5 years ago that had a straight 6 cylinder and a 4 speed out of an older wrecked Camaro in it, but I took too long to get my butt in gear with the cash and it got sold to someone else.

Oh man that's a bummer that inline 6 is a great engine in vega's they put out a lot of torque