Vega Mudder: From Family Wagon to Mud-Slinging Monster

Think back to the last time you saw a Chevy Vega in the mud bogs.

- JERED KORFHAGE 

We are willing to bet you have not, at least until your eyes landed on Bernard Eastburn’s creation, that we visited in the January 1986 issue of Four Wheeler. Bernard spent his weekdays tugging a triple trailer to and fro across the Oregon mountains so that on the weekends he could play in the mud. However, he wanted a machine that was a little something different than the rest. He spent enough time glancing between the junked Chevy 3 ⁄4-ton pickup withering in his backyard and the sagging and impotent grocery-toting ’73 Vega GT in the driveway that he began to have thoughts of “what if …?”