Oct 6, 2015 11:46 PM

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

Neat!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Holy mother of God, that poor title.

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

i know its MR

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

can't say this isn't cool

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i think my hot wheels carry case operated on the same principle

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Now if only they had spent that much effort engineering the damn car...

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@infestedpenguin

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You called?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

cool

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

why ship them with fluids requiring extra engineering? why not ship without??

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

1/2 Adding fluids (and not forgetting anything, or else.) would be a time(=money) cost per car later, while engineering is done once.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ah ok. that sounds reasonable. thanks for the explanation. have a cookie!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Today, on oddly specific logistical and engineering logic. (Pretty cool.)

11 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

My favorite kind of logic!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well good. I'm mildly curious how you ended up viewing a comment from 10 months ago?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Haha, I didn't even notice that. One of those replies from the abyss! Someone linked this post from a similar front page post.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was linked in a post today

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My question was more referring to the actual fastening details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorack#Vert-A-Pac_and_Stac-Pac

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Vega was fitted with four removable cast-steel sockets inserted into the undercarriage that locked into the hooks on the bottom-hinged doors

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Shout out to @justforthefakepoints @collius and @sgtmichaelcross for the original info but OP your still my boy blue!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Doing what we can, because we must.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

just trying to help a fellow imgurian

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

who in the world just wakes up and wonders how Chevy Vegas were shipped?

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

well what had happened was....

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Tell us, @infestedpenguin !

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well there I was balls deep in an Asian mans asshole when suddenly a wild vega appeared

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11 years ago (deleted Oct 21, 2024 11:43 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

In*

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fair enough.

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