<VV> The demise of the American Car - Limited Corvair

[Tony Underwood]

At 12:46 PM 12/30/2011, Doug Mackintosh wrote:
>I am happy to hear that there were good experiences with Vegas, but 
>I had a different experience. GM sometimes pushed out new cars that 
>weren't quite fully-baked back in the day, and I think the Vega 
>suffered from that syndrome.
>



I musta gotten lucky.   I test drove a new Vega in September of '70, 
a couple weeks before I went into the Army.  It was dark blue w/blue 
interior, 4-sp, notchback, and spunky as Hell.  It was a spirited 
little car that ran very well and handled nicely, never a bit of 
misbehaving for the 20 minutes or so that I played with it, including 
a blast down a back street with my mom riding shotgun who kept saying 
"Slow down!" since it didn't take long to get going towards gofast.


Others may have gotten a bad batch but the one I test drove new 
couldn't have run any better, remember to this day that I was 
impressed with the little sucker and was giving serious thought to 
getting one when I got out of the military, but then that Plymouth 
happened along...



tony..