off topic: V8 Vegas?
11-06-2018, 01:28 PM
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My stepmother had a mud brown '71 Pinto with a 2000 cc and a 4 speed and I used to drift the hell out of that car up in the Oakland and Berkeley hills. It handled like a slot car and was a joy to drift on those tiny bias ply tires. This was about 1977-78. Great times. Always liked Pintos, hated Vegas. When I became a mechanic a year later or so, I REALLY hated Vegas. Absolute crap.
11-06-2018, 09:17 PM
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2020 C2 of the Year - Modified Winner
2020 Corvette of the Year (performance mods)
C2 of Year Winner (performance mods) 2019
2017 C2 of Year Finalist
The optional OHC 2.0L was German made while the base pushrod 1.6L was English. Mine has the 2.0L and ran well with a milled head, cam, headers, 4.11 gears etc. Sadly...mine has sat at a buddy's place for many years and has acquired a good bit of patina. Fortunately it's just surface rust and the car is actually solid overall. It's on the "to-do list" to do something fun with.
JIM
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11-10-2018, 06:47 PM
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Funny story on the Chevette - when Chevrolet got handed the Chevette program, it came with the 1.4L 4-cylinder engine used in Brazil. There wasn't much time to get the details going, so Chevrolet Engineering sent a Spanish-speaking translator to Brazil to sort out the engine drawings, notes, dimensions, and process details for Flint V-8 (where the Chevette 1.4L engine would be built), but he came home right away - they speak PORTUGUESE in Brazil, not Spanish. 
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11-10-2018, 07:33 PM
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My mom calls my '61 Corvette "The Chevette".....sigh....
11-11-2018, 01:55 AM
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I sorta like thsi detour now.....we are way raged edge of the original topic....i remember those goofy Pro Stock sub compzcts...but my friend Phillip Bland's little V8 vega from, about, 1980 was a thing of buetfuly....still had the 4 lug rear.for about amonth...that dude drovr like Bo Duke.....