Monza rears in and around Las Vegas are basically non-existant. In the early 2000's when the price of steel went up, everything in town or nearby was crushed. An entire, decades-old, classic VW salvage yard was bought from the long-time owner and promptly scrapped. There are no hidden gems in pastures and backyards around here.
What can be found by the truckload about 5 minutes from my house are the 2000-era s10 blazers. They come with disc brakes, favorable gear ratios, and sometimes posi. As a bonus, the engines crap out on them and it's not uncommon to find a whole truck in decent shape for $300. I can part out and scrap the rest after I've harvested the front spindles and rear axle for a possible break-even. That's more than can normally be asked for in Las Vegas.
Not to spit in the face of the knowledge you just to passed on, but because it is logistically impractical, I will probably go with an s10 blazer rear axle. A foxbody 8.8 would be choice #2 because of availability in the area, but then I would have to spend some decent coin on aftermarket axles to adapt to 5x4.75 lug pattern like I did for my GBody wagon (link in the signature). Machine work around here is pretty outrageous and it was not cost effective to have the stock axles drilled. This leaves me with the best option being an s10 for these and more reasons I'll cover below. In the interim, while I'm scrounging up the cash and time to bring home a whole s10 blazer to put my plan into motion, I have a set of 25 year old tires on the back of the Vega I would like to turn into smoke. Preferably without damaging the rest of the drivetrain and suspension in the process.
There has been a recent increase in interest in the Vega recently. I coincidentally bought a Vega I had been searching for just ahead of this spike in interest. I would like to believe, there are guys left in the world who want to buy a Vega and not immediately hack it to pieces to turn into some pro-mod. I'm not a purist by any means, but 9 of the 10 vehicles I see for sale are missing the floor from the firewall back with some unrealized attempt at a tube chassis. I want a simple driver that can handle a corner, with enough V8 to make the drag strip fun on occasion, and that I can use to make the wife reach for the oh-shit handle at will. I want it to be comfortable/practical enough for a family road trip and robust enough I'm not afraid to drive it. In the project section I have a thread where I lay out my plan to make
this car into my vision.
I read the Car Craft article in its entirety
in this thread and understand the reason behind, and benefits for this mod. I feel like the article from Car Craft did an excellent job at presenting the information in a day where car magazines were the media of choice. Now YouTube exists. I make YouTube videos and take it seriously-ish. I won't claim to make good videos, just videos. I would like to take this simple mod and make it into a video. This mod is cheap and for the entry level enthusiast, a bit easier to swallow than an entire axle swap. However, I do not want to make a video with low resolution pictures or ones marked by photobucket. I was hoping someone in this forum might have a copy of that issue laying in a pile somewhere they would be willing to scan and send my way. It's not a huge deal, I just figured I could ask. There are copies for sale on Ebay, but I thought I might try here first. I do intend to give credit to where I found the information, which includes both the magazine and this forum.
Thanks for all the responses so far Smiley. Your help is 100% appreciated. I sent Monzamouse a PM a couple days ago, but nothing yet. I couldn't find his email.