My very first car was an orange Chevy Vega. I hated the color. Spray painted it Black. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
OMG, I just threw up! That's a fugly POS Chevette. Please, never ever confuse that with a Vega. Shown below, pre face-lift, and post face-lift. I liked my pre face-lift Vegas (note the "s" ), more than my post face-lift Vega. Fun cars, cheap to fix. I was able to pick them up for $50 to $150. They were my first "winter cars", and "F150 wanna-be cars" (used for moving stuff). Pre face-lft: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Vega_Chevrolet.jpg/1024px-Vega_Chevrolet.jpg Post face-lft: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/76_Cosworth_Vega_2673.jpg/1024px-76_Cosworth_Vega_2673.jpg More Pics: Millionth Vega | Chevy Vega Wiki | Fandom Post face-lift: https://flacarshows.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/3241-Daytona-Turkey-Run-2021-scaled.jpg https://flacarshows.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/181081606_2039562082865895_4630265703017296653_n.jpg Code: https://chevyvega.fandom.com/wiki/Millionth_Vega Post face-lift: https://flacarshows.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/3241-Daytona-Turkey-Run-2021-scaled.jpg https://flacarshows.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/181081606_2039562082865895_4630265703017296653_n.jpg
50 years ago I bought my first car , A Chevy Vega ,silver gray and hatchback style.This was my first and last lemon. I kept it 9 months . The automatic transmission failed ..and failed and failed. ...GM changed tons of parts but the problem did not go away. Funny that the Vega pops up in prius chat 50 years later
What was Earl Scheib's price back then ('70's?)? 'I'll paint any car, any color for $29.95. No Ups! No Extras,'
I stand corrected. Yes, the bee was in an actual Vega, not a shove-it. That was also the first car in which I learned that the radiator cap has to be turned clockwise to the second click. Dad was pretty mad.
I don't know if it was available where I was then. But using a couple dozen cans of spray paints probably cost about the same? LOL Some years later, I did use Earl Scheib or alike auto body painter for my second car, Toyota Celica ST, after I wrecked it. I fixed the car using cheap used body parts. For a while, the car had different colors on the body (beige) and hood and fender, and door. Saved up enough money to have the whole body painted... in two tones gold and black. But I don't think it was $29.95. Was more like $299.95 for the whole body paint then. My Vega was a used car I paid $300. It was a manual transmission, and I drove it for 2-3 years while I was in college. I took it on a couple of 4000+ miles trips. No big repair bill that I can remember. The biggest problem I had was the cast aluminum engine get so hot and burned oil. I used a case of oil for the trip and it cost more than what I paid for the gas. LOL In the end, I sold the car for $30. Yeah, a fond memory of the old days.
Toyota does need to expand our color choices, I agree! Check out this Scion iQ I used to drive as my commuter car until I got a Prius....color was "hot lava"....my wife called it my pumpkin car. (I got almost 45 mpg so I didn't complain.) Put 100,000 miles on her.
Oh how funny ..... our Vega got a custom orange w/ gold pearl paint job at around 35,000 miles. a couple thousand miles later, it suffered the fate of every Vega ever made. the engine blew up. So - off to the junkyard - yep talk about a pink ribbon on a pig. Still love love love the color. Early 1970s before the gas crunch hit, had a customized Ford Econoline in orange. Decades later, passing the Metrolink station in Irvine I saw a Model X wrapped in Orange with gold Pearl. I thought I was going to pee myself it was so beautifully perfect To each his/her own .
De gustibus and coloribus non est disputandum… that observed, for me every different colour have its peculiar attractive, except the “non colour” i.e. black, that on cars I not like at all… probably a reminescence of Duel movie…
