Looks Like I bought a car
 

My wife asked for this car to be her 30th birthday present, so that means I'm the proud new owner of a 1971 Nova.

Very nice. what did ya give for it if you dont mind me axin?

o sit boyeee, it gots da craga ss's

I wish my lady would pick something like that.

$2500. I'm sure I got raped, but when mama says she wants it we usually end up bringing it home.

Anyone on here run a body shop that is moderately inexpensive?

Did you buy that car off Sewee Rd in Awendaw by chance?

macco, unless you want good work done, cheap and body shop do not go together

I got the connection on paint and body work. Let me know what you want done.

No I bought it out of Mt. Pleasant.

Yea I know, but you know me I don't like to pay for ANYTHING!


I will look you up for sure. Deana and I need to sit down and decide how in-depth we want to go with this car.

You stole it for that price. You ever wanna sell it let me know.

Don't know that yet, it depends on how much work I put into it.

First thing I'm going to look into is new disc brakes. This car has 4 wheel drums which has to suck.

welcome to the cruel world of Novas!!!
we put more than your purchase price in our old 77 in a few months.

here's where I looked for parts, but never found anything REAL cheep
http://www.pro-touring.com/forumdisplay.php?46-For-Sale

wrong gen for you, but a good site...
http://www.stevesnovasite.com/forums...splay.php?f=16


will she want to take it to Bowman? Susan LOVED going down the strip.

congrats & good luck with it.

I hear this a lot on forums, unsure how true it is.

But if you slide the painter/prep'er at Macco some money, they willl do a much better job.
And will even use their better paints (not tell the boss ect).

Same from hearing from forums, is the only issue is they dont prep properly. So people slide the guy
doing it and he will take his time ect.....

Nice car faggot..oops is that gonna cost me 100k lol

Awesome,Mike.My wife Christy works with yours.She told me you all bought the Nova.Congrats.Nova's to me are the best car Chevy ever built,68-72 that is.I,my father and brother owned all those years except the 68 model.If you need any help let me know I still have some parts and my brother still has his 69 Nova.The drum brakes aren't to bad.We installed 73 Nova brakes on the front of my brother's.My 70 had drums all the way around and it ran a 6.16 @ 110 mph and stopped with no problems.But the aftermarket is flooded with up grades for Nova's now.What do you want to do with it?Is it still a 307 car?Is it a T350 auto also?

Yeah Cliff I'm sure I'll be calling on your expertise sometime down the road. It still has the factory 307. A previous owner has put a turbo 350 in it, but I am getting the original 3 speed that came with it. We're not 100% how in-depth we want to go with it, but it'll be a cruiser for sure. Maybe we can have you guys over for BBQ in the next couple of weeks and you can take a look at it, and give me some tips and ideas.

yeah, i stopped over there & talked to Deana today, told her she needed to take it Bowman, and just make fun runs.

there is a guy on the Nova forum (link above) who has parts & stuff,
Phillip, i got a lot of parts from him, and just gave him my old parts in return.

FWIW, the stock non-power brakes have a different pedal pivot point than the power brakes. the manual/non power brakes will NOT stop with a power pedal...ask me how i know....

This Nova will be ls powered and running 9's before billys vette moves under its own power.

Sounds good,Mike.I likes BBQ:bigthumb:

LS power would be awesome.That's the route my brother would like to go now.

We'll be better off letting the women set that up. I look forward to you seeing it and giving me some ideas.

Mike, FWIW, I talked to Deana about going to Bowman, and told her Susan would help her with staging and all that stuff. much easier on you, Kevin did it for Susan, kept wife from getting mad at me :(

i told her if she did not have a helmet, she could borrow one from susan, she has....a LOT of helmets, she prolly has more helmets than purses...:fial:


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This car will not see the track. My wife says, "this will be a mommy and daddy date night car". Not my words. Now that we have this the white car might eventually become the track car.

It can still be a "Date night car"....just a fast one:mrgreen:.Nova's hook up so good on the track.Is the yours a mono leaf or multi leaf rear sup. car?It probably has a 3.08 rear gear also.Good gear for every day driving.My brother's 69 was a 307,PG and 3.08 and it got 20-24 mpg around town.Christy said Deana wants to make it a SS Nova.All it needs is to be that is the emblems,rear trunk bezel,hood bezels,rear sway bar and front disc brakes.The steering wheel horn cover also had a SS emblem on it also.JW Nova has most of these parts.

Here is my brother's car

Cliff, that car is badass. It'll be a quick "date night" car for sure. Is there a book or website that shows what all vehicles and parts interchange with this one? PM me your number sometime so I can begin bugging you with questions.

We used JW Nova alot.They sell new and old parts.Year One and Hubbard is also good source.