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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Heaven and Hell (in cars)
Message-ID: <678@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 18:02:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 18:02:20 1986
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In article <612@ttidcb.UUCP>, bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas) writes:
>If I were given a car in Heaven I would have to say it would
>be a 67 427 Cobra, something about that car I never got over.
>
>As for the car all people get in Hell it's easy.  You get a
>Vega and you have to fix it yourself (there is something wrong
>with an engine made completely out of recycled beer cans!).
>
>
>The opinions expressed here are for the most part totally
>indistinguishable from those that are expressed during any
>trip while using the infinite improbability drive.
>
>Odds 2,234,847 to 1 against, and falling.
>
>                -Pete-

Aw shux this article is short, why bother trimming it :-)

I've been waiting on this 'heaven and hell' discussion for someone to
lambast the Vega.  Yeah I'd allow they were among the worst Chevys ever
failure-wise.  But I would still say that if I _HAD_ to fix my own car, I'd
choose a '75 or '76 Vega over almost anything else of that vintage (or even
today) for ease of accessibility to most everything under the hood (marred only
by that you can't get the oil pan off with the engine in place without
partially disassembling the front end).  The block and head are light enough
to lift out MANUALLY if you lift them separately (while for safety reasons I
would not advocate doing this as a rule, still try THAT with your Nova,
Cobra, or whatever other iron you're partial to if you're not an Olympic
weight lifter :-).  For weekend-mechanic-friendliness it sure beats the
plumber's nightmares of the '80s and even most of the '70s pre-pollution
models.
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