1977 Chevy Vega with 44 miles!

[hyunelan2]

Wow.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1977-CHEVROLET-VEGA-GT-W-44-MILES_W0QQitemZ300110113931QQihZ020QQcategoryZ6173 QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://i9.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/9e/1d/bcae_12.JPG

[slvrsleeper]

Two words for you Mike, my man, SMALL BLOCK TRANSPLANT

[hyunelan2]

That's 3 words.

[ghrpdx]

Ahhhh ... the Cavalier's grandpa!

It's really cool to see the car preserved like that but I wouldn't pay $17,500 for it. Maybe $750.

Although, those a/c vents at your crotch almost make it worth it! My Mustang had that ... very nice to cool the boys on a hot day!

[mayollo072R]

Wow thats a show car but oof course a heart transplant will be necessary. Thank god I live so far if not I'll grab it just to drive around on sundays. Thats a '77 ****ing new car. I wish I could find a first gen RX-7 in that conditions again.

[05xd]

That is awesome man.I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat if he did't want that much loot for it.That and I couldn't molest a car in that pristene of condition

[ghrpdx]

About 10 years ago, my step dad found an old woman who had mothballed her husband's 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V for almost 20 years. Her husband bought it and died within a year and she just prepared it for storage and tucked it away in her garage. It was absolutely pristine and beautiful. Her son talked her into selling it because it just took up needed space in the garage. My step dad got it for a song and even though it was an old land barge, just the fact that is was 20 years old and still showroom condition inside and out and under the hood made it special.

[TDO]

1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V

That is an awesome car. Did it come with the 400 or the 460? I know that car gets a whopping 7ish mpg!

[04 elantra cvvt]

I would never own a Vega, but that is a great find. I have to say, a 30 year old car with only 44 miles on it doesn't happen.

[ghrpdx]

That is an awesome car. Did it come with the 400 or the 460? I know that car gets a whopping 7ish mpg!
His Mark V had the 460. A herculean 212 horsepower from a 7.5 liter engine. Pretty sad, I'd say. It did have a lot of torque though. 7 miles per gallon was average. I believe this car holds records for being THE MOST fuel thirsty luxury vehicle of it's time. So sad.

[TDO]

His Mark V had the 460. A herculean 212 horsepower from a 7.5 liter engine. Pretty sad, I'd say. It did have a lot of torque though. 7 miles per gallon was average. I believe this car holds records for being THE MOST fuel thirsty luxury vehicle of it's time. So sad.

My grandpa use to have one when I was little. Wish he still had it.

[06elantra]

while i dont know what this car is - as i dont think we got them here in Australia.... it still looks noioioice.

44miles on the clock? but they dont tell you how many hours the engine has been idling to get the fluids moving thru it...
better hope the oil has been dropped and changed outa it.. coz 30odd year old oil wont be pretty for your motor im sure! lol

mean looking beast tho thats for sure

[SuperGLS]

I don't think I've ever seen/known about the Chevy Vega. The only Vega I know about is from Street Fighter.

It's a pretty cool looking car.

[hyunelan2]

It wasn't a high-performance or muscle car, so there is not really a big following of the vega. The only reason this is even interesting is the fact that it's like a "new" 1977 car. My Elantra had more miles on it when I bought it "new."

[saturn]

I had a car just like that except it was a red (not brown) '78 chevy monza. previous owner had started to put a buick V8 in it. fixed things up and drove it for about 2 years before it died on the freeway 200 miles from home (I had to leave it).

I still have the keys if anyone's interested in trying to find it ;]

[NovaResource]

Ahhhh ... the Cavalier's grandpa!

I don't know if I would call it that. The Cavalier was a J-body (FWD), the Vega was an H-body (RWD). If anything, the FWD X-body Citation was the precursor to the Cavalier.

The original Vega was more of the 2nd gen Camaros little brother:

http://www.marque.com.au/historic/images/1971_Chevrolet_Vega_TN.jpg

[ghrpdx]

^^ I'm just saying it was Chevy's entry level car of that time ... nothing about the other aspects.

[saturn]

maybe it actually has 100040 miles!! ;)

[Gman]

I don't know if I would call it that. The Cavalier was a J-body (FWD), the Vega was an H-body (RWD). If anything, the FWD X-body Citation was the precursor to the Cavalier.

The original Vega was more of the 2nd gen Camaros little brother:

http://www.marque.com.au/historic/images/1971_Chevrolet_Vega_TN.jpg

My mom had a Red Vega just like that one.

The Vega was Chevy's answer to the Toyota Corolla. The Monza was a little bigger and was targeting the Celica at the time. Both models failed and were quickly replaced, but not with anything good (Chevette and Citation)


There was an story in the local paper in early 90s about a guy who had bought a brand new 76 Vega for his son the day he was born, drained all the fluids, put it up on stands, wrapped it in pastic, and then build a cement wall around it. The story showed, the father and son (now 16 or17) tearing down the wall together. They asked the son if he was going to drive it, and he said he wasn't cause it was too nice to drive (they were going to show it) and "Vega's weren't cool". :D

[saturn]

oh man mine was definitely cool. HUGE windshield. little "sporty" lump in the hood... RWD... I felt like I was on "that 70s show" whenever I drove it.

[slvrsleeper]

:abovelol: :poke: That's 3 words.

Everyones a critic around here. I cannot express how hard I laughed at the fact someone is going to buy a sh#$ a$$ VEGA for roughly the MSRP on a Elantra LTD. For what ever reason people have convinced themselves that 70s cars are worth having. My first car was a 76 Dodge Dart with a 318 and Torqueflite auto. And it was the most infuriating, unreliable, misshapen, criminally mal-engineered piece of rotten donkey turd ever to roll out of Detroit. I loved it more than life itself and drove the wheels off it, twice. But I would rather be hung, drawn, and quartered than spend 17,500 on one with only 44 miles on it. That Vega needs to be in the Smithsonian as a cautionary tale about how good engineers can be led astray in the pursuit of better fuel economy.

[NovaResource]

:abovelol: :poke:

Everyones a critic around here. I cannot express how hard I laughed at the fact someone is going to buy a sh#$ a$$ VEGA for roughly the MSRP on a Elantra LTD. For what ever reason people have convinced themselves that 70s cars are worth having. My first car was a 76 Dodge Dart with a 318 and Torqueflite auto. And it was the most infuriating, unreliable, misshapen, criminally mal-engineered piece of rotten donkey turd ever to roll out of Detroit. I loved it more than life itself and drove the wheels off it, twice. But I would rather be hung, drawn, and quartered than spend 17,500 on one with only 44 miles on it. That Vega needs to be in the Smithsonian as a cautionary tale about how good engineers can be led astray in the pursuit of better fuel economy.

I can guarantee you that in 30 years from now, that a (then 60 year old) sh#$ a$$ VEGA will still be looked at as a collectible while a 30 year old 2007 Elantra will be a footnote in automotive history.

Take a new '07 Elantra with 44 miles, put it away for 30 years and nobody will care about it in 2037.

[Ugzz]

I don't think I've ever seen/known about the Chevy Vega. The only Vega I know about is from Street Fighter.

It's a pretty cool looking car.

Ahahaah.. thats awesome. i loved vega.. always seemed like he was gay to me.. but they never really got into that..

and im lost on the 44 miles... maybe it lived its whole life on a trailer? except for the ride from the dealer home i guess

[slvrsleeper]

I can guarantee you that in 30 years from now, that a (then 60 year old) sh#$ a$$ VEGA will still be looked at as a collectible while a 30 year old 2007 Elantra will be a footnote in automotive history.

Take a new '07 Elantra with 44 miles, put it away for 30 years and nobody will care about it in 2037.

This is the argument circulating amongst the classic car community these days. There are those (myself included) who worry that the car restoration hobby/business doesn't have very many more years to live. Reason being that cars that are new today will be almost impossible to restore, largely due to the fact that new cars aren't intended to be kept on the road longer than their original designed life span. A Model A Ford could be rebuilt by its owner dozens of times using a massive network of available NOS and reproduction parts that continue to be manufactured today nearly EIGHTY years after the car ceased production. Hyundai, Nissan, Honda, Toyota et al will never support their products that way, it just isn't part of the business plan, and for that reason I fear that you won't have to worry about what a thirty year old Hyundai with 44 mileson it is worth. I would care BTW but I still wouldn't pay 45,000 2037 dollars for it.

[ghrpdx]

The tides are turning around a bit ... used to be that the most valuable cars were those that were restored to perfection. Now those cars that are nearest to original condition are garnering higher prices. Anybody with money can restore a car but the rarity is one that has been shacked up in a barn somewhere, hasn't been altered, yet is serviceable and those are where the money is. Take that car and "restore" it and you are going to lower it's value now.

[06elantra]

The tides are turning around a bit ... used to be that the most valuable cars were those that were restored to perfection. Now those cars that are nearest to original condition are garnering higher prices. Anybody with money can restore a car but the rarity is one that has been shacked up in a barn somewhere, hasn't been altered, yet is serviceable and those are where the money is. Take that car and "restore" it and you are going to lower it's value now.

while i agree in part with you, i still think that the cars that have been restored to original factory condition will one day command a high price.
the classics that have been molestered (different engines, non matching engine numbers to the body, different paints etc etc etc) they wont be worth as much as people would want them to be in the next 30years.
and lets face it, a hyundai elantra, will not become a desirable classic in years to come will it? yes they are great little cars, but they just dont have the allure that old skool cars have.