PurpleHelmetedYoghurtSlinger
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Vert-A-Pac shipping system General Motors came up with to ship the Chevrolet Vega back in the 1970s? Developed along with Southern Pacific Railroad, GM was able to double the amount of Vega models it could ship by packing them into the unique storage cars vertically.
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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.
Sauce : http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/01/vert-a-pac-train-cars-kept-your-chevy-vegas-price-in-check/#slide-159316
This is some what of a repost
OPP:http://imgur.com/gallery/ctVIZft
SatanBakes
Neat!
ThisIsANewName
Holy mother of God, that poor title.
PurpleHelmetedYoghurtSlinger
i know its MR
NickBorowitz
can't say this isn't cool
teenylilsuperguy
i think my hot wheels carry case operated on the same principle
tkohl
Now if only they had spent that much effort engineering the damn car...
TheShipsHungInTheSkyInMuchTheSameWayThatBricksDont
@infestedpenguin
infestedpenguin
You called?
higuy5
cool
SlickerThanNick
why ship them with fluids requiring extra engineering? why not ship without??
CaptainSkyhawk
1/2 Adding fluids (and not forgetting anything, or else.) would be a time(=money) cost per car later, while engineering is done once.
CaptainSkyhawk
2/2 plus you need to add everything while at the factory to test and drive it off the end of the line. Draining would be more costs.
SlickerThanNick
ah ok. that sounds reasonable. thanks for the explanation. have a cookie!
bilateralLaplaceTransform
Today, on oddly specific logistical and engineering logic. (Pretty cool.)
pobody
My favorite kind of logic!
bilateralLaplaceTransform
Well good. I'm mildly curious how you ended up viewing a comment from 10 months ago?
pobody
Haha, I didn't even notice that. One of those replies from the abyss! Someone linked this post from a similar front page post.
Hamdurleigh
It was linked in a post today
infestedpenguin
My question was more referring to the actual fastening details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorack#Vert-A-Pac_and_Stac-Pac
infestedpenguin
Vega was fitted with four removable cast-steel sockets inserted into the undercarriage that locked into the hooks on the bottom-hinged doors
infestedpenguin
Shout out to @justforthefakepoints @collius and @sgtmichaelcross for the original info but OP your still my boy blue!
collius
Doing what we can, because we must.
PurpleHelmetedYoghurtSlinger
just trying to help a fellow imgurian
IronFarmer
who in the world just wakes up and wonders how Chevy Vegas were shipped?
infestedpenguin
well what had happened was....
JJAbramsBetterNotRuinStarWars
Tell us, @infestedpenguin !
infestedpenguin
Well there I was balls deep in an Asian mans asshole when suddenly a wild vega appeared
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infestedpenguin
In*
JJAbramsBetterNotRuinStarWars
Fair enough.