Day 2 Paper Thread - Page 2

whitetop · #1 09-20-2011, 04:44 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markinnaples</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think I remember that Vega from a feature in Car Craft.

Does anyone remember a blown 68 Camaro burgundy with ghost flames owned by Gary Fravel from Hot Rod in about 1978? Still one of my favorite cars of all time. </div></div>

Look at the rear of the Vega. It has what appears to say Motion Super Vega on the side stripe. In the Car Craft article I swear it says Motion Super Vega but I called Marshall and he said it never was but I thought he said in our conversation said he did some freelance work for Joel or was a Motion dealer?? But again in the CC article you can see Motion Super Vega clearly in the side stripe. Who sold a new street car back then for 12K other than Joel??It also has a hone overdrive and Joel built another Vega with that exact same hoodscoop and the exact same paint treatment over the scoop. ????????? mystery. Maybe Marshall built a clone back in the day or maybe it's a real Motion Vega and he is trying to find the car first before someone else does and is downplaying it's heritage. Strange.

Gary Fravel still has the 68 Camaro and it exactly as in the article. I spoke with him 4 years back. It has never been changed or updated. Also one of my favorite cars. He lives right outside of Columbus and every year when I go to Goodguys I hope he brings it out but every year it's [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

Back in 1978 he drove it to a Zanesville Ohio car show and people just went nuts. People were literally running across the fairgrounds to see it drive in and park. Blowers were fairly new then. I remember him backing up and there was at least 50 people surrounding the car.

No one does that today. There are so many nice cars today people are really descentized and the cars built today do not receive the same awe factor today as back then. I never see people run across the show grounds as they did back then to view an arriving car...and I literally mean run.

whitetop · #2 10-25-2011, 04:04 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markinnaples</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Does anyone remember a blown 68 Camaro burgundy with ghost flames owned by Gary Fravel from Hot Rod in about 1978? Still one of my favorite cars of all time. </div></div>

Mark
Here you go:

**markinnaples** · #3 09-20-2011, 04:54 AM

whitetop, awesome, thanks for the update. lol, i can't believe i remembered his name but that car is seared into the memory of a 12 yo boy in 1978.

i have the mag with the article on his car that i have got to scan and post here. wow, thanks again.

did that guy Marshall Gardner either have that Vega or another that was all custom painted on the sides featured in CC as well? I seem to recall that as well.

whitetop · #4 09-20-2011, 04:58 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markinnaples</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

did that guy Marshall Gardner either have that Vega or another that was all custom painted on the sides featured in CC as well? I seem to recall that as well. </div></div>

Marshall told me the Vega with all the custom murals and pschedhelic paint work is the same car as above-just updated a few years later. He put Cragars on it as well.

**markinnaples** · #5 09-20-2011, 05:04 AM

funny how i can't remember what my wife just said 20 minutes ago, yet i can remember the name and paint on a car i read about 33 years ago, lol.

thanks again

whitetop · #6 09-20-2011, 05:19 AM

Here is Marshals Vega above in a later updated configuration.Car was probably prostreeted in the late 70's or early 80's and further updated and there is no link to it's earlier self.

**brent396** · #7 09-24-2011, 02:52 PM

Very COOL Vega [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

**markinnaples** · #8 09-21-2011, 04:00 PM

whitetop, did you see the magazine layout for Marshals Vega with the later paint?

I swear in one picture one side had showtubes on it and another pic of the other side had different sidepipes with those perforated screen guards on it. Weird.

C1SS396 · #9 09-24-2011, 03:52 AM

Found this today Holley dial your mileage card from K&G speed shop in a box of stuff i had at my folks house ...

**markinnaples** · #10 10-25-2011, 05:04 AM

Yes! That's it! Haven't had time to find my old mag.

You rock! Thanks for posting that.

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