New from MI, Vega waiting in the wings

[VegaGT]

My name is Chris, I live near Grand Rapids, MI and I am in the planning stages of my Vega build. It is a mutt from the standpoint of years, it is a 74 car, I bought all of the stuff to convert it to the 71-73 nose, and someone along the way threw a bunch of 76 parts at it. Originally I was going to keep the factory type suspension in the car and just cram the biggest wheels and tires I could into the stock wheel wells, but as I dug into the car I found a few areas of rust that just did not make sense to fix, when the same amount of time could be spent building a chassis and fitting larger wheels and tires into the car.



Anyhow, the inspiration for this build comes from the Jegs Vega. http://woodyshotrodz.com/jegsvega/ I really dug on the chassis of this little car, and the fact they kept the wheel openings stock.

While researching different builds I stumbled across "Project Scud" on a Mopar Forum, that somehow lead me here to this forum... This little car will never compete for status of a Camaro or Mustang, but to me it embodies all that is cool in a little car.

Here is the current state of the car. This is where I stalled out a month or so ago once I discovered I needed to go deeper into the sub frame. A project thread should start fairly soon once I start buying stuff to actually start the build.