1974 Chevrolet Vega Estate

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    Was for sale a while ago for a long time and never sold. Looks like Cosworth wheels Is the wood correct?
     
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    It seems a bit light.
     
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    Pretty sure MOST of the estate models had wood. Cosworth wheels I have no clue if you could get special order. Back then tho ya never know.
     
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    And only 1 pic of the underside and not even the BAD spots where they go, rear trailing arms
     
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    Vegas are very pretty, very badly engineered and very poorly built cars. To add to the entertainment they also seem to be the most rust prone American car of the 70s. Good luck to all involved on this one.
     
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    The Estate package was Chevy's name for the woodgrain applique option, just as the Squire option was at Ford and Villager at Mercury (except Colony Park). Plymouth snuck the word "Sport" in for their woodgrain wagons -- as in Sport Suburban or Satellite Sport -- for a few years, and I think "Safari" was used for the woodgrain package on Pontiacs for a couple of years, but most of the time it just meant a wagon.
     
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    cammerjeff Longroofs Rule!

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    Looks like it sold, what was the asking price? Hard to tell if it has Cosworth wheels in the one picture in this thread. If they are they were exclusive to the CV when new.

    They were not really poorly engineered, but they were definitely poorly executed, and poorly assembled. The accountants decisions to get $8 out of the total production costs of the early cars doomed it.

    Also GM did not realize that most people buying a cheap 2nd car were not interested in many options. If they would have limited the choices to 2 or 3 option packages (plus 1 or 2 large high profit options like A/C) they probably could have competed price wise as it would have simplified the production line, and warehousing of parts.

    When I see H-bodies at shows, I marvel on how no 2 seem to be alike (it is even more evident on the later HM series of the Monza and its Sister cars) They basically Marketed it the same as the Large cars with an almost endless choice of options. This does not work on an inexpensive car.
     
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