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<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.