VERRY NICE AND VERY CLEAN

Thanks!

youre welcome ^^

The first car my dad had was a orange Vega with Tan interior

Orange and tan. And a wagon to boot. My mom had a green Mercury Comet with an emerald green interior. We called it the Vomit Comet.

OUCH that just hurts all around but thats not bad the besides the paint

I'm impressed most of all that someone would actually dump this kind of money into a Vega! Quite original all on its own!

I betcha she's one sweet ride, too.

Looking nice, Dogbomb!

On another note of interest, back in the day, the Vega were often refereed to as "bombs" - smoke bombs. They had some kind of design flaw in their engines that made them start burning oil very early on.

So heh, I assume you've replaced the engine, right? What with California's strict emissions laws being what they are, for sure!

Nice ride, Dogbomb!

Yeah, I ain't real bright. No sane person puts $ into a Vega... Regarding the engine, see the pix of my shoehorned V8.

Also some of the hatchback Vegas had an aerodynamic issue that would suck exhaust fumes right into the cabin. We had three when I was a kid, two wagons and one of those bad hatchbacks. Course, I always was sensitive to odors in those days.

Totally awesome ride!

Thanks again!!

Looks great! Vegas are definitely something you don't see anymore, good to see someone keeping one alive.

Yeah, this could be the last one left. Given the build quality of this car, maybe that's a good thing...

I always liked that shade of yellow. We were going to do my mom's 36 Chrysler street rod in something close to that, but we wound up selling it (in favor of a 56 Belair)
So you take it down the track yet?

No, I'm a little scared that I'll break it. I enjoy driving it to work everyday; it makes a great cruiser and the dogs like the attention that it gets. One day I'll run it through the 1/4... I think the '56 Belair is one of the coolest looking rides out there. Give me a yellow and white '56 anytime.

Yup, the 56 is going to be hot! I have a 427 witha forged SCAT crank for it. (That's all I have so far. Block and crank, I also have a Team G single plenum intake and a Holley 850 double pumper)
I'm shooting for about 600 horsepower.
So do the notoriously stingy police give you trouble in California? And you good at tuning carbs?
Would you believe I have to run a 1.5 inch power valve? That's what kind of cam I'm running.

Sounds like the '56 is gunna' be a runner! Yeah, the police have had a few words with me, but nothing lately. I'm getting to be an old guy now so I've slowed down I can tune a Mikuni motorcycle carb, but haven't really tried much with a big Holley. How is the idle with your big cam? I'll bet she's plenty lopey (love a lopey, glurpy idle.)

VERY lopey. And that's with the carb being made just for that engine. With the cam being as big as it is they made a few modifications to let it idle, such as drilling holes in the butterflies and there's a pinhole bleeder thingie they actually elongated. The butterflies must be open just enough to unblock that pinhole, so they put a groove in. I still havent gotten it tuned just right yet. I have to get my piston clearance problem fixed first. Last time I DID have it around the block... it blew my mind. I can smoke my dad's 1966 427 Stingray.

You really keep that thing clean, don't you? I ssee the axle and suspension even look spotless. What's that nipple beside the license plate? Electrical cutoff?
When I was a kid we had three vegas (The years of the more wedge design), the Blue and Brown ones were station wagons. The brown was totalled out, we were on the interstate doing 55 and outta blue a muscle car creamed us from behind and hit us so hard it pinched the wheel wells around the tires. I was in the back, just a toddler mostly, if sis didn't pin me down I would have been ejected out the back window.
The green Vega had that flaw where exhaust fumes were sucked into the cabin.
Yours is by far the nicest I have seen. They make awesome race cars even if stock they were a little anemic. I'd be proud to drive a car like that.

The little thingy beside the lic. plate is the port to fill the air shocks. Tricky, huh?
You were rear ended in a Vega? The whole car is a crumple zone. Glad you lived to tell about it! I guess the first year Vega had some fume sucking issues, so they punched a bunch of louvers in the hatch and changed the weather strip in later cars.
Thanks for all the kind words. I really appreciate everyone being so nice.

Real hot rodders appreciate a real hot rod. It's not like a lot of these tuner jockeys who think trash talk is a legitimate part of racing. "Yeah, but I burned ya, yo. Ya beat me by a tenth of a second so I win because I burned ya homes. Y'dig sweetness? I'm drivin' the hotness."
Ya have a lot of work and a lot of money into your car and clearly love it, and ya don't abuse it. That's pretty respectible!
The air shocks for my car are hiding in the trunk in a rather rough to get to spot. I have been considering under the rear license plate beside the gas cap.

Yeah, I agree. People who build their own rods are almost always appreciative of another's ride. Those that do the whole trash talk thing don't get respect. The hobby is as much about friendship and support as it is about the car.

Yeah, cuz in the end we're all in the same hobby and more like minded than most people would ever think.

I've not seen a "Vegrant" that nice in years. Skinny bumperd baby camaro years like this are the best.

Thank you, thank you. I like the '71 to '73, but '74 and on just lost me a little with the big plastic bumpers.

Yay Plymouth :P I used to run dumps on my 05 then I got a Pypes system. Cool ride.

Thank you!

DAMN THAT IS ONE NICE CAR! Nice job with it man.

Thank you!!

Nice, I have a camaro but this blows it away lol

Naw, this is only cool cause it's weird.
Camaros rock.

I got pictures of it in my gallery if you wanted to see, I noticed your lisence plate is from cali, i'm saving up for a trip there to visit my cousin, if i see any yellow vegas with "DOGBOMB" on them i'll say hi lol