66 Nova SS
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cosmic12
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Dirtyrat
Got Fins?
Really makes me miss the 67 I restored for my first car....
I'll be watching this one for sure!
I'll be watching this one for sure!
choppinczech
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My favorite body style ever. [cl
dmw56
Busted and Rusted on Route 66
Country Misfit
I tell you... I get no respect!
Add me on the list of I love it too
cosmic12
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OK, if there is interest I will keep posting. I got the motor out and went back to work on the floors. This car was used as a drag car at some point and they had cut out the tunnel for some reason and cut out part of the inner fender aprons for fender well headers. I found part of an orig tunnel and now trying to make it work.[
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Bamamav
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Nice, makes me wish I'd kept my 67 with a 66 front clip. Are you going back stock with the rear wheel wells, or staying with the opened up ones?
GJunktionMike
Something's wrong with that boy!
Mine too, I'm in.
Neverdone
He's not done yet...
I'm jealous, I never had one!!!
I am also on the list for one of my favorite cars!! I seem to have a lot of those.
RoddingRon
A man in his natural habitat....a Studebaker
I have to join the list on this subject too. Very first car I ever bought when I was 16 was a 1966 Nova. Over the years I've owned 5 different 66-67 Novas. This was my last one
cosmic12
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Going back stock. He has a correct #s small block for it also. It still has the orig #s matching 12 bolt posi rear end in it. The guy that owens it has a few other cars also. He flips about 6 or 7 a year. Just sold a 67 Chevelle BB 4spd last week along with another 67 Nova SS. My next project for him is a 65 Malibu Vert triple black BB 4spd that is real real nice but needs paint/rubber/top and a bit of upolstry.
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ssimpala
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Very nice! I was lucky enough to have a NEW '66 Chevy ll Super Sport with the L 79 package and got to race it against such racers as Grumpy Jenkins and Don Hardy. It was a great little car. By the way, they didn't label them as Nova's until '67, so when you start putting the trim back on don't put Nova emblems on it...us purists notice those small things.
cosmic12
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cosmic12
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Whoever had this before cut the rear of the front inner fender aprons out I asume for fender well headers. I am trying to put this back to stock so I had to clean up the hack job they did and make new panels. They are in and rock solid.[
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ssimpala
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Looking good! I remember that we used a small sledge hammer around the rear fender wells in order to get even the shortest slicks under them without rubbing. We left the chrome molding on and just pounded it flat up against the metal...didn't look too bad.
cosmic12
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cosmic12
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bob w
Still crazy after all these years!
You're putting a ton of work in that Nova. It'll be super nice when you are done.
