Chevrolet Vega engine removal for spark plug service

Brief design-foible aside in the Hyatt section. The 1978 Chevy Vega had to have its engine removed to change spark plugs because surrounding components blocked wrench access. Used as a low-stakes illustration of the same as-designed / as-serviceable gap.

There are lots of design foibles. The 1978 Chevy Vega — they build the whole engine and they put the engine into the frame of the vehicle, and it turns out when you needed to change the spark plugs on a Chevy Vega you had to remove the engine, because some of the other components were blocking it. It was impossible to get a wrench in to remove the spark plug. In the plan it was no problem, the spark plugs were already in the engine when they put it in the vehicle, but no one ever bothered to check, could you ever service that engine. So there are little details that you have to worry about, the whole system going forward.