Chevy Vega

Byram Rollins was a teenager the last time he saw his Chevy Vega. “327 4-speed. Stolen, never seen again,” he wrote. And just like that, the Vega was out of his life for good. Until two years ago. Now, this isn’t a reunite-with-your-old-car story. Rollins literally never saw his Vega again. But he did find

Vega—one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky—is located in the constellation Lyra, trillions of miles from planet Earth. Like that distant star, Charley Denny’s spectacular Chevrolet Vega station wagon is light years away from the compact Chevy grocery-getter that rolled off of a Lordstown, OH assembly line back in 1976. The rebirth of