Another shot

Here's a picture, taken in the winter of '83 near Lecoma MO, of my '51 next to grandpa's '52. Teh tan '74 Vega was dad's. It was the source of the sleeved engine that went into my first Vega. Here it was repowered with a cast-iron 151 Pontiac "iron duke" engine. He drove it for many, many miles before selling it to my brother who also drove it a bunch. between the two of them they put nearly 100,00 miles on that engine. He sold it to someone else who drove it til the car was worn out (but the engine still ran great). The engine got transplanted into a Pontiac Astre wagon (that' what it came out of in '79) and was driven for several more years. In fact that car was parked for reasons other than engine trouble. At that point the engine had close to 300,000 miles on it.