 Power transmission to the wheels is completed through individual axle shafts with universal joints on each end, or a total of four in-all.In 1972, "Hot Rod" magazine tested a prototype Chevrolet Vega featuring the all-aluminum V8.The fitted engine was the last of several units used in the CERV I Corvette research and development in the late 1950s, bored out to for the Vega application.