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Bill[_47_]

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On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:58:39 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:17:55 -0400, wrote:

I always take the reviews with a big grain of salt -
- the Chevy Vega was MotorTrend Car-Of-The-Year for 1971 -
.. yep I owned one ..
I drove one cross country. It was good on the trip but bunred oil after
that. I guess an 800 mile day is too much for it.

After you bore them out and put in cast iron sleaves and akuminum
postons instead of iron plated pistons in aluminum bores, they
actually were not a BAD engine. If you could keep them from
overheating even the aluminum wasn't bad - but keeping them cool was a
problem

Do all that - then drop the engine into a car that doesn't rot away
in 3 or 4 years ..
then you might have a car-of-the-year candidate !
John T.
Just about any car in the seventies rusted away in 3 or 4 years.
My '74 Rustang II (a Pinto in drag) disappeared and I replaced it with
a '78 Granada that I had for fourteen years before I gave it away. It
looked like a Liberian Tanker but it ran.

"We" had a Granada of comparable vintage: 6-cylinder, about 8 mpg city
(really and truly), no performance. That was when gas was spiking at
about $1.51_9 too!