This is a pretty unique piece of rolling stock
Originally Posted by ReadingFan:... Have some misgivings about shipping automobiles stacked vertically. Seems like oil and gas would seep into places where they don't belong.
Interesting link there ...
At the time, rail cars could fit 15 vehicles each, but Chevrolet was able to lower shipping costs by making it possible to ship 30 Vegas per rail car, in turn allowing the price of the Vega to remain as low as possible. Each rail car had 30 doors that would fold down so that a Vega could be strapped on, and then a forklift would come along and lift the door into place. All the cars were positioned nose down, and since they were shipped with all of their required fluids, certain aspects had to be designed specifically for this type of shipping, including an oil baffle in the engine, a special battery and even a repositioned windshield washer reservoir. See for yourself in our image gallery above.
Those old Vegas are really rare these days. A friend's parents went through three engines in one Vega and after some other bad experiences with GM cars, switched to Hondas in the 1980's.
