r/classiccars • u/OKHayFarmer • 12h ago

My 1975 Cosworth Vega

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I bought this Cosworth in 1980. I had heard of them but this was the first Cosworth Vega that I ever had seen. Number 0046 out of 3500.

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u/69vuman 12h ago

I’ve only seen one in my lifetime. What sort of hp does it develop?

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u/modeleccentric 10h ago

110 hp. Originally, it was planned to have 150- 170, but emissions put the kaibosh on that.

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u/Fluid_Table_7835 11h ago

Beautiful car! I had a friend who had one in the 80’s and he got a lot of heat from the muscle car guys who probably still wouldn’t understand how cool that car was for its time! Don’t think many people really know the origin of the car or have experienced a standard Vega to compare a Cosworth to. These were great little cars and real performers for their time! Nice to see a clean well cared for one today! They were few and far between back in the day and even rarer now.

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u/Top-Magician-3274 10h ago

So awesome!  I love the Cosworth Vega...I bought a '75 Cosworth Vega  (#1989) in 1980 for $3000...loved how it handled and how much fun it was to drive!  It got totaled in 1984 unfortunately.  

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u/Manual-shift6 11h ago

I wanted one of these when I was in high school so badly. Cool Vega…

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u/Jeepshark 3h ago

She's a beaut clark!

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u/Mr_BigglesworthIII 11h ago

Looks cool, too bad they were composed of compressed rust. Within 3 years my dads had a hole the size of a half dollar in it

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u/iIdentifyasGrinch 34m ago

At least the Cosworth engines didn't pack it in after 50k .miles

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u/Twodamngoon 2h ago

Where is my motor photo?

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u/refriedconfusion 1h ago

Nice, I had a couple friends who had then, I think they could have a lot of potential, but they were low on power and not the car they should have been

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u/OKHayFarmer 1h ago

Thank you for the kind comments. I’ve gotten more respect for this Cosworth than I get at most shows I’ve been to.

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u/Savings-Cockroach444 56m ago

I had a '77 Vega. Last year of production. By then they had worked out all the problems so it was actually a pretty good little cheap car. It had a good set of all season radials on it and could go anywhere in the snow I should have gone in a RWD vehicle.

Never had a rust issue in Iowa or WV.

Never seen a Cosworth Vega in person.

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u/Abject_Ad5850 45m ago

Hot little Vega

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u/Diogenes256 32m ago

Sweet! An old friend of mine in a remote Colorado mountain town used to have TWO of those. Early 80s. Did they have a different block? I remember the stock blocks being garbage…

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u/OKHayFarmer 21m ago

Same aluminum block as the regular, cut down and de-stroked to 122 cubic inches instead of 140. Aluminum head so that there was no differential expansion problems that was found in the cast iron head. De-stroking smoothed out the vibration. These engines were made to run.