One of my cars on BringaTrailer.com!

[Arne]

No, not the 240Z. In fact, I sold this particular car 30 years ago! Amazingly, it looks as good or better today than it did when I sold it!

http://bringatrailer.com/2009/11/22/clean-and-original-1975-cosworth-vega/

[lonetreesteve]

Arne, I almost forgot all about the Cosworth Vegas! That's really cool that it's your old car.

Edited November 25, 2009 by lonetreesteve

[=Enigma=]

A very interesting car Arne. Sad that it's getting such as bashing over on BAT. I always like the styling and potential of these cars.

[Arne]

Yeah, they did have lots of potential. If you swapped the pistons to get the compression up into the 10's, add a pair of Crane cams and replace the injection with a pair of DCOE's, you could easily double the horsepower. Chevy completely ignored the potential of that motor.

Of course, my old car is being touted there now because it is so stock and original. And the only reason it survived that way was because at that time in my life (bought it at age 19, sold it at 22 with a new wife and fresh mortgage) I couldn't afford to modify it like I really wanted to. Ironically, had I done that back then it wouldn't be considered all that special now.

[Walter Moore]

There are a couple of Cosworth Vegas that run around here sometimes in the summer.

It sure seems like some people just don't "get it" when they bad mouth the Vega. They were famous for engine problems, and like all cars from that era they rusted quickly. But they were loss-leaders from the beginning. The Vega and Pinto were Detroit's first serious attempts to make small, cheap cars. But with the value of the U.S. Dollar in that era, (relative to the Yen...) and their chronically higher manufacturing costs, if either G.M. or Ford had tried to build a copy of the 240Z it would have cost twice what Nissan sold it for here.

I still think he Cosworth Vega was a cool car, even if it's performance wasn't up to the full potential of the car. (By 1976 they had to run on 87 octane unleaded gas remember...)