palallin posted:"Rack 'em, stack 'em, and pack 'em!"*
I suppose the fluids were drained before shipping
*Die Hard II
Haha surprisingly, no. GM designed the Vega to be able to withstand vertical transport. Interesting short read on this shipping partnership between GM and Southern Pacific can be found here: https://www.railwayage.com/mec...-pacific-vert-a-pac/
Since the Vega was intended to be a low cost / low price vehicle, they designed the Vert-a-Pac (and the Vega) to increase the number of cars fitting onto a rail car from 18 to 30 in order to reduce shipping cost per car.