by anorexicvega » Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:58 pm
Edit* This is round two on my build, as I have more free time now, I decide to make a better build thread, and I've decide to change somethings as well.
So i've been searching high and low for around the last year for a clean mostly rust free and unmodified vega at a decent price. I found several super nice all originial cars, but they were out of my budjet. I was really dead set on building a 71-73 trunk car due to the fact they are the lightest and strongest of the h-body platform, and not as popular. Basically i was fed up with waiting on finding the perfect canidate, so i settled with something real close to what i was wanting.
I found a 73 hatchback car, that had been drove into a lean-to on the side of garage and parked in 1984. The car, firewall back is virtually rot-free other then surface rust. The owner, for some dumbass reason, used the hood and front end to store his empty burlap feed sacks for the duration of the car sitting there. So, what little weather the car endured from the open ended lean-too allowed the feed bags to get wet and the salt and sugar played a little hell on the bumper, bumper filler panel, and the driver side inner fender well.
My plans are to build a car capable of daily driving, or drive it anywhere. I'm picking up a L33 shortblock next weekend, i have a M22 4 speed im going to use, and a 12 bolt cut to stock length with strange axles. Im going to make all my own rear tubular control arms with heims, for the front i will purchase a set of Justins upper and lower a-arms. I plan to keep this car as light as possible, chromoly subframe connecters, k-member brace, transmission crossmember. Im ordering a 1 piece fiberglass front end and hatch from glasstek in the next few weeks.
Enough typing, ill post some pics, and update when i make progress.
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anorexicvega on Sun Nov 24, 2013 8:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.