When I first glimpsed this Malaise Era compact wagon in my local wrecking yard, I thought “Wow, I haven’t seen a Vega in a junkyard for years!” Then I saw the grille and realized that I was looking at an example of the very rare Monza wagon, which was a Monza snout grafted onto the discontinued-after-1977 Vega wagon. At the risk of enraging the small but very devoted Vega Jihad, I’m going to pronounce this thing The Most Terrible Station Wagon Detroit Ever Made. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1970s, 1979, 1979 Chevrolet Monza, Chevrolet Monza, Chevrolet Monza Wagon, chevrolet vega, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Malaise, Malaise Era, monza, station wagon, vega
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