It seems we are on a new little series here, documenting the many-hued mid-seventies Novas. I found this exceptionally fine green (you can tell us the exact color) ’76 or ’77 sitting outside the mall recently, and its splendid paint job called to me very loudly. And that turned out to only be a prelude to its even more chromatose interior.
This is the one that started the series, and there was a lot of lively debate as to its hue’s exact name.
Then there was the “Flesh Colored” Nova, shot by William Rubano.
another Chevy CC in the background
And now we have this fine green machine. Yes, these simple and rugged cars are common survivors, although more often not in quite such pristine condition.
I wasn’t exactly expecting the bucket seats, console and floor shifter. Equipped like this, one could readily mistake its interior from a similar-vintage Camaro. And given that both cars share the same platform, suspension and drive trains, this is about as close to a Camaro two-door sedan as one could hope to get. In addition to the standard 250 six, a 145 hp two-barrel 305 and the 170 hp four-barrel 350 v8s were optional. With the 350, these would scoot quite well, especially for the times. And equipped with the optional Sport suspension, which included 7″ wide wheels, bigger radial tires, a larger front stabilizer bar, and a rear stabilizer bar, the Nova could do a very fine Z-28 imitation. No doubt the best handling American sedan at the time, or at least as good as some of the other GM cars similarly equipped.
And if this had been the popular hatchback, it would also have been the closest thing to a Camaro hatchback. The back seat, while not exactly generous, certainly exceeds what the Camaro offered back there. But then that’s only to be expected.
So what will the next chapter of the Colorful World of Novas be?
This looks fairly decked out as Nova’s go. Wonder if it is a V-8 and AC car.
I recall similar white / green interiors in some Monte’s of the time. No boring grey or tan here!
It’s a non-air car, I see no evidence of center a/c vent.
Wow! That’s quite a find. There can’t be another one of these left anywhere.
You wanna bet???
Wow. Even nicer with the original interior and rally wheels.
I chuckle at the miniscule ‘Chevrolet’ badges back then.
A better color, would make it near perfect, as Novas go.
I always liked those Michigan Bicentennial plates.
My 76 Ventura is factory Metalime green with white interior
that is a nice car
I just bought this car a few weeks ago from the museum…cheers
I have one like it that I’m starting the process of restoring. Did you restore this car? Mine is a 250
Those seats are in shockingly good condition. Someone’s grandmother’s car (who simply wanted a well-equipped small car)?
I’m guessing that it aint the original seat covers. Here’s why. Look at the front seat seatbacks. Wrinkled faded plastic. They are the same as Camaro/Vega and they are reproduced. Look at the quarter and door trim plastic. 40 year old ozoned out. Look at the original carpet. Sun faded and dirty. Also there should be seat belt loops on the seat backs. Those are missing. And I dont think the original seats were done in that style of two-tone. I could be wrong or maybe it’s the camera angle but the green doesn’t match between the front and rear seats. I’m thinking reupholstered because the seats look to good compared to the rest of the cars interior. Also what’s up with the under dash CD player? I guess the current owner did’nt have it in his heart to cut out the dash to make it fit, which is good in some sense. Is that a birthday card in the console? Most likely Christmas if this a current pic.
BTW I still see lots of these 75-79 X-Bodies on the roads in my neck of the woods. More Skylarks than Nova though. But hardly any Omega or Phoenix/Ventura for some reason.
Beat me to it, I imagine that this was an all white vinyl interior car that has been recently re-done.
I tend to agree with you. It’s likely the seats were originally solid white & the owner either wanted cloth or a color something less likely to show dirt. He/she picked a tasteful combination although I would have definitely gone back white.
The AK1 Deluxe seat belt option was chosen on this example, further enhancing the interior colors. (This car’s standard belts are always black).
I noticed that too, you can see the bright green carpet under the seat too.
The Omega and Ventura/Phoenix never sold as well as Skylark and Nova.
Skylark had name recognition, and also Buick promoted them better, calling them ‘little limos’. Olds was busy pushing Cutlasses, and Pontiac with Firebirds/GPs. Nova was already a popular car, and name almost moved to the FWD X car. [phew]
Condor was also an “almost” name for the Citation, along with Nova, the Chevrolet and Buick versions were also the best sellers in the FWD X-cars too.
The Toyota Corolla based NUMMI Chevy Nova revived the Nova nomenclature for only a short amount of time from 1985-88 which to be later replaced by the next version of the Corolla and then named Geo and then Chevrolet Prizm.
Say what you will, original or reupholstered, wavy seatback, it looks great. And the underdash cd player shows the owner really cares about the next owner of this time capsule.
My neighbors a few doors down had a Nova of a similar vintage, a sedan, brown in color with a manual transmission. They parted ways with it only a few years ago and bought a Honda Element. Nice to see these cars, reminds me of my sister’s first car, a ‘ 76 Buick Skylark.
A great find. I always liked the styling of these. Very clean by 70s standards. The Nova Concours with 350 and Rally wheels, was on my wish list at the time. Never liked the exposed row of chromed bumper ‘rivets’, unnecessarily gave the base models an added ‘econo’ look. A bumper rub strip on all models should have been standard. These were three rare colors in my area. Light metallic blue and light blue vinyl interior seemed the default.
That forward placed wheel well within the front fender, sure hints at the Seville. : )
That Nova Coupe you found is a tasteful beauty Daniel, and although it was on your wish-list back in the day, I’d gladly park it in my garage now. I only wish it could be there today when you walk into a new car showroom and are confronted with dozens of the same egg/bubble shaped cars with slightly modified obnoxious, over-sized and over-the-top grilles and headlamp assemblies that they ‘think’ spell brand individuality. There is alot to be said for: simple, clean and timeless.
It’s getting harder and more co$tly… but, thank God that so many of us respect and keep alive cars from the past.
Fully agree Mark. A neighbor owned a Concours coupe with aftermarket wire wheels. It was gorgeous. The grille and chromed wheel well moldings were especially tastefully handled.
I thought the earlier Nova LN’s, with the body colored wheel covers, were equally elegant.
I agree with Syke. I’d choose the LN/Concours over a Granada any day. I also liked the style of the 1977 Chrysler LeBarons and Dodge Diplomats, as compact luxury car choices at the time.
Daniel, I def agree with you about the LeBaron. I love the ’77 full tilt decked-out Coupe especially in a copper/bronze color with leather, a beautiful car I think. (but still personally have issue with the upside down headlamp treatment), But… don’t get me started on the Granada (let alone the Versailles) what a joke. The bold audacity Ford had then, take a look:
Got to say that I very much agree with you guys about the late seventies LeBaron. And, as you say, there were a couple of colors where it really stood out. And like you, I did have issues with the upside down headlight treatment. My Dad found a late-model used one in gold for my Mom. After several years, he got her a Dodge Diplomat. And after a few more years, traded in his Aries or Reliant wagon to get himself a Diplomat. Even those Diplomats were great cars which held up well over time.
if you have an issue with the upside down headlights, the solution is simple: just get the nearly identical Dodge Diplomat.
Here’s the one, and nice color too…
I had a ’78 Skylark between 1994-1997; a clean ‘detective’s special’; four door custom trim; vinyl bench seats, AM radio, no air and the 231 V-6 which, being a car sold new in Hawaii, didn’t have the California air pump attached to it. Very easy to work on; great gas mileage (averaged 23mpg).
I do like these RWD X-cars immensely. I also remember the ads around 1976/77 where Oldsmobile was pushing the luxury/sporty Omega S as a viable competitor to a Volvo and BMW 5 series! (FE7 suspension, perhaps, but the ads had the 4.2 Litre six and floor mounted three speed transmission . . . . OK . . . )
That 78 would have had the newer even-firing V6 design, would it not? That would not have been a bad car to live with.
As Weird Al once said, “Holy frijoles, you better get me a bowl of guacamole!”
I love this car.
It’s cool to see that Nova in good condition. 🙂 Let’s hope we find some B-O-P relatives in good shape as well.
I too always liked this era of Nova, especially in SS trim. Not at all a fire breather like the earlier 396 siblings, but more in tune with the times. What a great find in that condition.
The more I see fine cars like this Nova and the wrecked Monza Spyder in the junkyard by Keith, I’m again reminded how much I liked Chevy and what they were doing in this time frame. Just pleasant looking and decent running cars.
For all the abominations that Chevy was turning out at the time: broughams, colonnades, personal luxury coupes, etc.; all you had to do was drop down to the Nova and physically smaller cars and the beauty that was Chevrolet still shone through.
I have decided that I like the looks of each generation of 2 door Nova less than the version that precedes it. However, this may be the most appealing late Nova I have seen.
That’s a very nice example, and even an old hot rodder like me can appreciate the fact that it’s still pretty much stock. Looks like a time machine back to ca1978, right down to the steering wheel cover. These were a pretty decent driving car for the era. I wonder how this one escaped the “Pro Street” treatment back in the 80s?
That car is super clean, inside and out.
But, boy how times have changed, and this pristine, vintage automobile is yet another stark reminder…
If you didn’t know from this site and it’s loyal members who have dedicated automobile database brain sectors, or on your own accord… who would ever think that given what you see here: the lower metal matching painted dash (a la’ ’50s/’60s), door panels in white… yet, the tu-tone Camaro bucket seats in sage and white (AND in 2 different materials), that this ALL came right from the checklist at your local Chevy Dealer and rolled off the line at the GM plant as you see it, and not customized by customer request, at some neighborhood trim shop.
The vast majority of people who were born in the ’80s, let alone ’90s… just can not appreciate or respect the level of frustration the rest of us have in seeing the lack of color choices or option combinations these days. And… it is even worse for those of us who worked in the biz in those days and were the ones who had the dozens of individual options, let alone combinations to offer to a customer or to choose from to truly ‘build’ a car. You just can’t build a car any more these days and that’s sad.
Remember the literal late ’70s Olds advertising tag line “Can We Build One For You?” A perfect example of how things ‘used to be’. I was there, we DID ‘build’ cars then.
To most people, this car may not be anything special, but it makes my heart sing to see a 1976 car like this not only survive, but running regular daily errands in 2013 or ’14 (whenever Paul took the pic).
Not that it has not been said before, by me or many other car fanatics, but…
Seeing another old car like this running around, let alone the Concours model that Daniel mentioned… well, sometimes I wish I could have access to Rod Taylor’s Time Machine. If nothing else, with what I would do to cars today, life would be bliss, or, at least I’d think it was. And, that would be good enough for me.
Well, after reading some fresh comments above, you guys very well may be right about the seats in this particular car being re-done, they do look to good to be true in style and condition. I never worked for Chevrolet so, I couldn’t say. But never-the-less… you still cant deny what I said about the past & present where colors, options and trim combos are concerned. Especially Carmine, who I believe has also worked at the Dealer/sales & inventory level in his past career.
I absolutely agree with you but it’s all about the almighty dollar. Most customers just don’t care and it’s much cheaper to build a car with three trim levels, like Honda does. No custom orders to slow down the line, inventory or cause production defects that have to be fixed in a costly manner, either.
That’s a car like a Civic (or many others, it was just an example) which is a Top Safety Pic, has ABS and loads of other safety gear, gets 30+ mpg and will run for years goes out the door for $20k, cheaper in real terms than any good family car in history.
With the possible exception of the Camaro and Corvette, I’ve always regarded this generation of Nova as GM’s best buy of the decade. Sized roughly analogous to the ’55 Chevy, seemingly more reliable than anything else the company was putting out at the time, and I’ve always felt it was the most attractive car GM put out during the decade. A nice simplicity of line.
Now, if somebody could only come up with a Nova Concours. Not a mini-brougham. A tasteful bit of luxury, interior restraint that went along well with the sheetmetal, with more than a touch of class. Much classier than a Ford Granada. Without trying nearly as hard.
My idea of a bit of upscale luxury for the times. It whispered, rather than shouted.
Of course, it got broughamed to death. Granada’s could be mistaken for Cadillac’s and Mercedes’ by the half-blind and stupid, to the enjoyment of their tasteless owners, so they sold like crazy. A Nova was difficult to mistake for anything else. And nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
They were really good cars but the back seats were not roomy at all and were curved at a weird angle due to the wheel wells in the back. That was the only problem with them. Up front, they were better than a Camaro. Drove like one, too.
That green one is BEGGING for sidepipes, cherry bombs and cragars! Don’t care what anyone says, I have an unapologetic and psychotic love for those ’70s greens and harvest golds. On a clean 2-door….priceless!
I remember buying the Revell “SWAT” Nova kit at the time. Didn’t like that it was ‘snap-together’. But the quality and detail of Revell kits, was generally pretty good. I wished at the time, somebody would sell a 4 door police package model kit. I thought they were the coolest.
I will always remember this image of the Buick Skylark that managed to stop just a few feet short of the collapsed portion of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in 1980. In the face of this tragedy, talk about very complimentary exposure for this generation of the Nova/Phoenix/Omega/Skylark.
Looks a lot like my ’78 Skylark . .
Betcha it still tracks sideways. They all do sooner or later.
Ahhh, yes it is true, I have driven behind many over the years> ‘dog-tracking’.
Our family cat actually does that as he bolts across the length of the house, running sideways/with his legs dog-tracking on alarm from whatever may have induced it at that very moment, as cats will do. It’s a site to see (on a cat or a GM X body) but I think more-so on the cat 🙂
Great car! Very 70’s!
Such a great, clean design. Light years ahead of what the competition was offering at the time.
Man that thing is pristine. The interior materials show no wear or discoloration and the bumper fillers didn’t even come apart. Amazing pictures! That green and white interior is pretty nifty.
Having said more than once before that it seems all current interiors are either gray or black, with an occasional rare tan or taupe – that the green Nova with the green and white interior really appeals to me! It’s like a breath of fresh air in a smoke filled room. It’s almost like after years of watching black and white TV, when my parents finally got a COLOR TV! Glory be!
I recently shot this Nova Concourse hatchback a while back. For sale!
Concours name was used in 76-77, and meant to compete with Granada, while plain Nova was slotted at Maverick. But, the separate name never caught on. By 1978, was just called Nova Custom.
’75 Novas came in three trim levels – base, Custom and LN (Luxury Nova). For ’76-77 LN was rebranded Concours as a “separate model”, in ’78 it was dropped to make way for the smaller Malibu and the Custom inherited the old Concours chrome grille which spread to the base model for ’79.
I had a friend also in the AF at the time who had one of these with the police package , fast as hell .Beige/Tan with matching vinal interior.
Manual windows, no armrest on the doors, V-8,I think 350 but quick as hell. I’d love to have one now for weekend drives .
That is the nicest looking, cleanest Nova I think I’ve ever seen. I’m almost jealous. I grew up seeing beater Novas — never a nice one.
While I would call the color Gangreen, (green is no big favorite of mine) it is still a desirable car and one of GM’s better efforts (especially after they put essentially the Camaro front suspension in them).
These cars were built here in my hometown of Ypsilanti, MI. When I was three years old, my parents and I got to take a tour of the Willow Run Plant where they were built, and I remember my dad lifting me up into a coupe body shell…all the interior had in it was the dashboard, so I was walking around in it and looking out the window!
Gorgeous car, Paul. My parents got a ’78 Nova, completely stripped, bar an AM radio, remote adjustable driver’s mirror and automatic transmission. It did NOT look anywhere as nice as this attractive green machine. It really shows just how nice and “international” the styling of the DiscoNova was.
Next in the series? How about a bright red sedan? Or the medium blue Chevrolet was so fond of in the late ’70s/early ’80s?
A friend of mine and his sister bought their mother a ’76(?) in that misty blue color with a white vinyl top. It had a 350 in it and he hopped it up as soon as the warranty ran out with a cam, headers, etc. It went a 13.90 at the strip, so it ran pretty good. His mom loved that car for the 4 or so years she had it. Sadly, it got wrecked during a police chase that started when my friend got high and basically went nuts and stole her car. After he was badly hurt in a motorcycle wreck in late ’76, he was never the same again. As time went on, he abused both legal and illegal drugs in amazing amounts for his small size. The beginning of the end was the day he stole the Nova after a huge blowout where he trashed mom’s house, and slapped her a couple of times. I had my scanner on that afternoon, and my mother and I listened to the chase across town until he crashed the Nova into a light pole. He then fought the police as they drug him out of the car, and they ended up working him over pretty badly. He went to rehab at least twice, but it never took. In ’82 he died at the ripe old age of 27. The last time I saw him, he was stumbling down a sidewalk, totally burnt out, with blood trickling out his nose, about 3 months before the end. Every time I see a Nova from that era, I think about him and wonder if he could ever have gotten sober or not and what great sculpures he would have made, he was really talented.
Dead at 27, huh? I guess he’s in with “good” company like Hendrix, Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Brian Jones, etc.
Something about being 27…
Look up on Wikipedia the “27 Club” for more. Fascinating and tragic.
Don`t forget Cobain-or Paul Mc Cartney if he really died at 27 like the album cover of Abbey Road sort of suggests, if you believe that.
I had a good burn in a 1976 Nova four door with the 350. This one was all heavy duty but it was not an ex-cop car, since they are best avoided, having mostly had the bag run off them. Anyway, I drove this Nova from Duncan to Victoria to become a cab and it was by far the fastest thing I had ever driven in my young life. With the 350’s torque in a light chassis which was basically a Camaro, the car was lusty as all get-out. Unlike most GM squishy gas pedals, this one gave you grunt with the lightest push and loads of it. The torque as just a rush on this are and it never seemed to end. We hand timed it 0-60 in 8s, while not accurate, it was a fast car for its day.
It was painted up as a cab and the driver, a Hippy malcontent named Harry, decided he drag at a stop light in the right lane. It was so powerful he lost control and crashed in head on into phone pole. Fortunately (or not…) Harry wasn’t much hurt but our two day taxi Nova was totaled. Bye Bye $4000 in 1981, not pocket change for a small business.
Stovebolt Novas as taxis were the stuff of legend. They were just coming out of service when I started at Beater Taxi in the bad part of Victoria, being replaced by Collonades. The Nova was famous for being indestructible. The Six would tolerate almost no maintenance. When the THM went, many would convert them to Powerglides, believe it or not. In Victoria BC, a cab doesn’t need to go fast and the slip n slide will go forever. When my family first bought out the company, there were a fleet of these Novas all in various states of decrepitude, on a scale of 1-10 the best was probably a 4. Most had bare metal instead of carpets on the floor. One had the lid of a big can glued over a big hole in the floorboard, right at the passenger’s knees. The point is that THEY ALL RAN. I don’t think one had ever seen an oil change. One brake shoe at a time was changed in the bar parking lot. It was that kind of a place, one that couldn’t today, which is probably a shame and a blessing at the same time.
We shocked the remaining hold out shareholders when we got some el-cheapo 1980 Caprice’s off lease for like $2400 each and presto, we had the nicest cabs in town. It didn’t cost any more to run them, either. Problem for the old boys nobody had ever seen $2400 in their hand in their life.
Green is like blue. Done right it is one of the best colors, done wrong it looks like this Nova.
There’s one of these in brown living two blocks from me. It’s a fairly clean car for around here, but the owner’s driving it in the salt, so it won’t be too long for this world. Too bad.
I looked at buying one of these in late 1975. I should have, instead of the 3/4 ton Chevy C-20 I did buy… and sold it two years later to the very day.
Sometimes one pays the price for being young, macho and dumb…
That green in 77 would be Medium Green Metallic.
I have a faded version of it sitting in my garage covering my 77 Chevelle.
That green looks oh, so much like that of the Marin County Sheriff’s Novas.
They were real Camaro-fighters, not that the emasculated V6 Camaro was much to fight. In a head-to-head with the Plymouth Volare or Dodge Aspen Pursuit with their 360 engine, it was a draw. The Mopars were a bit torquier and ultimately stuck better in turns, the Novas had a quicker turn-in on the twisty roads in our area once you got off the well-trod streets.
Plenty of boy-racers in Trans Ams were flabbergasted at how they were handily bettered by a mere CHEVROLET (or PLYMOUTH) that looked like an old lady’s car with a white door. BMW 5-series, too, if the pursuing officer had the skills to match his car. A Nova, properly equipped, was no slouch and the big advantage for the consumer was that the good suspension parts were available to them. At Dodge and Plymouth they were Police Package Only.
Green with white door Marin County Sheriffs! Nova with F41 suspension, 4-bbl LM-1 350 (good performance for the day) and 318 4-bbl Dipolmats. Those Marin Sheriffs were good for chasing people out along Highway 1, Petaluma Valley Road, Nicasio and all those wide open, but curvy haunts. Of course, they did it better (and faster) with the large Dodges they had before these . . . .
One of the small city departments in the county had car guys in charge. The Chief was diehard Mopar; he never ordered anything but Chrysler products until the Dodge Diplomat was discontinued, even though by then the full-size Chevrolet was a better police car. He and his Sergeant brother would set up the cars’ engines themselves after the city corporation yard put the lights, siren, lettering and other accoutrements onto them.
When the 1978 Plymouth Volarés arrived with their 360 engines, they got to work with Chrysler’s performance catalog (the California 1978 pursuit engines still had vacuum/mechanical distributors, so tinkering with lighter advance springs was easy). They dialed in more basic spark advance, contrary to Chrysler specs; set the toe out as far as Chrysler’s specs plus tolerance allowed, to get sharper turn-in; and ran four more pounds of air in the front tires than the rears. Then, as firm believers in “if you break-in a car slow, you’ll have a slow car,” they took the Sergeant’s brand new Volaré out in the wee hours for a run on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, back and forth a few times at 120mph. “Testing the red lights and siren under heavy vibration,” they said.
That was not only the fastest of the Volarés, it also ran the longest in service. When everybody else was moping around in the underpowered 1980 Dodge St. Regis, the lowest-seniority officer got the Volaré with 80,000 miles on it, since by then Sarge had become a detective and drove an unmarked.
There are similarly-green cars these days, but what is the closest option to that first green Nova?
I remember in the day (1975-77), I’d see this shade of green more often on a Chevelle/Malibu than one of these. Tan, Maroon, and that burnt Orange were more common on the Chevy X’s. . . . .
Brings back memories! I knew several people who drove 75-78 Novas back in the 70s-80s.
I remember lots of tan Novas (and on the relatively few other B-O-P versions), also lots of that “GM Blue”, as well as powder blue, maroon and burnt orange.
That’s a nice green Nova here! If the front grille (76-77) is original, the 75-76 dashboard (without A/C, as middle vents are missing, as an earlier commenter noted) proves it to be a 76.
If it had the period bench seats with cloth trim and a column shifter and a Chevy 305 or 350 V8, it would be perfect!
My dad got a used light tan 75 Pontiac Ventura in 1977. It had the cloth benches, and an Olds 260 V-8 that had the power of a six with the thirst of a V8 at 13-17 mpg. Still, it was a smooth trouble free drivetrain over 10 years and 100k, car handled very nicely, and felt like a tank compared to our future Ford Fairmont. If only it had had a 350 V8 for the days I got to drive it to high school in the early 80s….
My mom’s cousin had a 76 Olds Omega. WIth 4 doors and less appealing front end (Nova’s best, Ventura, next, Olds worst), it didnt’ look as good–but with a 350 V8, in 1981 it felt like a rocket!
I believe that color is Metalime Green, same as Chris Green’s ’76 Monte Carlo. That would make this Nova a ’76 as well, as the color was discontinued for ’77 and not available in ’75.
Here’s an Impala Landau in the same color–with matching wheel covers!
I think it’s the same color as my ’76 Monte, too. I also think that those seats have been redone, but if so, they were redone pretty well. The seams look really good. I’m relatively (but not completely) sure that they wouldn’t have paired that dark green upholstery with the lime green carpets. On the other hand, the seat belts, which would be very hard to change, look like they match the seat upholstery pretty closely. I have a data book for ’76 Chevrolet which I don’t have in front of me right now, and I *think* the recommended interior for cars this color was always either buckskin/camel/tan (or whatever they called it) or the white vinyl with green accents. However, with the white with green accents, I don’t think the dash top would be black, as it appears here. Puzzling! I’m going to go home and look this up.
I checked my data book/dealer album. Yep, this one must have been white vinyl that was later redone in dark green cloth, at least if it’s a ’76.
For the lime exterior, the only interiors available were black, buckskin/saddle, and white. The white was available with compaticolor (carpets/dash etc.) in black, firethorn red, or the lime green. But no green seat upholstery was offered. So there you go. Oh, and by the way, several plaids were available on ’76 Novas!
Whoops — the white interior was available with firethorn accents, but not with a green car. That would have been a super special order and probably never allowed!
I had a 1979 Nova coupe , 250 straight six , three speed automatic on the column ( THM-350 or Metric , help , anyone ? ) . It was Firethorn Red with matching vinyl interior. It wasn’t particularly fast , but got about 20-23 MPG if I could keep my foot out of it . I loved that car , and it tore up many a winding Pennsylvania dirt mountain road ( usually sideways ! ) and should have kept it. One of the many automotive regrets that I have from my youth .
I got a 76 nova that needs interior is there anyone that can help me also I need a nice clean bump for the front also bucket seats
I have had one of these green/white nova’s for 30yrs and am now thinking of parting with it. It came from factory with a 350cu/in 4spd manual trans.Wheels are stock 7″x14″ steel with foam spoke pressed inserts and chrome beauty rings. Haven’t seen another Nova with this. Engine is dressed with 625 Carter carb, intake and mild cam. Any interest out there?
Do you still have? is it for sale?270-535-5732.
I checked out PaintRef.com. In 1976, that green would be code #41 Medium Lime. It’s not as bright as (and not to be confused with) Chris Greene’s outstanding Monte Carlo which is # 40 Lime Green.
Like it or not, the choices we had back then were awesome. Nowadays if you want something special color wise, you have to look at Aston Martin…
Do you still have? I s it forsale?
If it is please call 270-535-5732.
My Grandpaw’s Nova I got after he passed. We always called it the dreamsicle.
After waiting for about 45 years now, Matchbox finally released a 1:64 scale version of the 1975-79 Chevy Nova especially that none other Diecast Toy Manufacturer even produced them regardless of how popular the real cars were. If anything they were rudely eschewed and ignored by them.