https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1uWf2_t_g
I always enjoy The History Guy videos and he does a great presentation of why the Vega failed.
Comments from the public are entertaining as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1uWf2_t_g
I always enjoy The History Guy videos and he does a great presentation of why the Vega failed.
Comments from the public are entertaining as well.
I haven't watched the video yet, but assume it's because the aluminum blocks melted. I'll watch tomorrow.
My father-in-law bought a new orange 1974 Vega for his #3 daughter after she graduated from high school. About a year later he took it away and sold it when she announced she was marrying me. Forty-five years later we are still married. I should have sent him a thank-you note for getting rid of it for me.
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It might have failed from birth but heavily modded ones roaming the streets are full of win IMO
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I really liked the Cosworth Vega when they were new. Hot little car for what it was.
1963 Marauder S-55, Super Marauder 406
Only factory 406 powered Marauder, and earliest built Marauder documented to still exist.
https://sites.google.com/a/wmich.edu/supermarauder/
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+1!
I used to walk home from my High School (1975-1977)....and along the trek there was a Black & Gold Cosworth Vega.
I knew what it was, and drooled over that car for 2 years.
Once I graduated, I never saw it again.
Wish I knew what happened to it....rare bird!
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2017 Ford Fusion Sport DFI Twin Turbo 2.7L V6 6 speed Auto (14.000 ET bone stock in 82 degree heat)
1985 Mustang GT 5.0 Hatchback 4bbl 5 speed manual (525 HP 363 Dart block/AFR heads with Magnum 6 speed in the works)
1984 Mustang GT 2.3 Turbo Convertible FI. 5 speed manual
1966 427 Cobra (ERA) 468 all Aluminum FE 2x4bbl 5 speed manual
SOLD : 2003 Mercury Marauder FI. 4 speed Auto
w/Crower Cams & Springs, +1mm SS valves, mild port job on the cylinder heads.
Extrude honed intake w/PHP spacer.
Kooks Headers w/2.5" High Flow Cats & X-Pipe, Magnaflow mufflers, OEM tailpipes w/Megs Tips
B&M Trans cooler w/fan, Level 10 Shift Kit, Art Carr Hughes Deep Sump Trans Pan,
SVO Rearend Girdle, Redline Gear lube; OEM 3.55s
'Real Gauges' + matching Trans Temp, Oil Temp, Water Temp, Fuel Pressure, Vacuum/Boost Gauge
Built: 10/15/02 Bought: 12/16/02 Sold: 10/15/18
sounds familiar!
2004 Trilogy #93P 12.2@113 Built and stalled
I've seen a Cosworth Vega at the Street Machine Nationals car show at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
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