From: wheatchex1_REMOVE_893860_THIS_@yahoo.com
Hi Al,
In my humble opinion, which isn't worth much, we have several things
working against us. The biggest one being the Vega stigma that the
cars were unreliable and rusted away on the showroom floor. Another
is that the cosworth to most people is just a black vega with
stripes. Another is the fact that most people figure that a V8 swap
is the best use of a vega body. The CVOA does promote the Cosworth
as being unique and of historical significance. But it is up to the
members to get out and promote the car and it's uniqueness at local
car shows and maintain their car(s) so that the number of cars that
are scrapped or destroyed is minimized. However on the flip side the
fewer cars that are left the more valuable the remaining become. If
you hang on to it long enough Al your car will someday become
valuable to someone.
Some one had said previously that the 63 split window corvette is the
most desireable of all corvettes. Why is that? Mid seventies
corvettes are not as desireable the rest. Why, it's still a
corvette? There must be something that causes it to be less
desirable. What makes a corvette desireable? It's history and image
is is what comes to my mind. Vega's have a history and an image as
well. Unfortunately it's image is tarnished by it's mechanical
problems and the time in history when it was released to the public
for sale. We have to promote the car and eventually the value will
rise for clean unmolested Cosworths.
Brian
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