A What???

[MikeMc]

Its A VEGA!!!

A Facel 2

Edited May 4, 2011 by Stasch

[Jantrix]

A vega what? More info please.

[george 53]

The front end looks mid 60's Mercedesish. Not a bad lookin car. I've never seen it before.

[Harry P.]

  On 5/4/2011 at 6:08 PM, Jantrix said:

A vega what? More info please.

Is this a cool car or what?

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Facel_Vega

[MikeMc]

  On 5/4/2011 at 6:08 PM, Jantrix said:

A vega what? More info please.

  On 5/4/2011 at 6:47 PM, Harry P. said:

Is this a cool car or what?

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Facel_Vega

Yessir Harry..Rob, that is a Facel II vega...and they claim to run hemis......all I can find are wedges .

FACEL (Forges et Ateliers de Construction d'Eure-et-Loir, in English: forge and construction workshop of the department of Eure-et-Loir) was initially a metal-stamping company but decided to expand into car manufacturing in the early 1950s. Facel entered the automobile business as a supplier of special bodies for Panhard, Delahaye and Simca.

[ra7c7er]

Looks cool to me.

[Swifster]

Early cars from '54-'58 used DeSoto & Chrysler hemi's. They switched to 383's in '59. Nice cars, but good luck getting parts. Never have seen one in model form.

[Chuck Most]

A car with Vega in the name! The editor of that other magazine (the one without "Model(s)" or "Car(s)" in the title), is going to flip his lid when I send him the link to this thread! And/or ban me!

[peter31a]

I started to write that they were hot with Hollywood A-listers like the Rat Pack but after checking referrences I find out it was a car called the Dual Ghia that had been popular at the time. Similar look but Ghia was perhaps sleeker. I have been a fan of Facel Vega since a young age after picking up a book called Cars in Profile published in 1974 and one of the cars profiled was the Vega. I had never heard of it but thought is was a very handsome car. Also featured in this book are the McLaren M8 series, the 4 1/2 litre Bentley, the Formula 1 Matra Fords, The Jaguar D Type and the Rolls-Royce Phantom II.