1966 L-79 Nova SS

[MotownMadman]

Ok, for all the Nova guys, here you go. I am getting ready to list this car on Ebay, thought I would give everybody here the jump. 151 MILES! That is not a typo, the car has an actual 151 miles on it since new. Was bought new as a hobby to run in stock class at the drags, saw very few passes before put in storage. Current owner has had it stored last seven years. Beautiful Tuxedo Black, black interior w/ buckets, 327/350 hp, 4 speed. Original paint except for sides which had lettering so was repainted. Modifications from original are: Rally wheels instead of hubcaps, chrome on original valve covers, air cleaner, driveshaft, z bar, rear end cover. Has fenderwell headers. Heater and radio removed. Engine has been rebuilt, balanced, blueprinted, 4 bolt caps added, decked so unfortunatly numbers gone off block. Trans numbers matching. Rear has 4;88 which I dont believe would be original, but possibly. No documentation but going this week to look for build sheet, VIN decodes as V-8 SS Willow Run car, was in Hot Rod How To Magazine in late seventies. Underside still has original satin black on floor pans as new, original spare and jack. Has to be one of the nicest in existence with only 151 miles. Coming from very reputable private collection to make room for latest aquistion. Will be listing on Ebay later today, 35K buys it now, if interested PM, Email, or call toll free at 1-866-YENKOSC and I will send Zip File of photos.
Thanks,
Motown

[NovaStud]

WOW!

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Sounds like a pretty hard 151 miles!

[MotownMadman]

Marlin,
Actually, when the current owner got the car it has less then 100. He trailered it to the St Ignace car show and drove it around that weekend to hit 151. It was raced the summer season of 67 on weekends in stock trim and then stored. The car is breathtaking to stand near and seems to still have the new car smell.
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[MotownMadman]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2415207376&category=61 72

Here is a link to the Nova auction on Ebay.
Thanks,
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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Sorry, sounds like a pretty hard 100 miles - that's a lot of changes there Matt, fenderwell headers require a little choppin! Is this one of Maynard's cars?

[MotownMadman]

Marlin, You ever think about the big picture? For the sake of argument lets say all 100 miles were in quarter mile passes, which they wouldnt because most would be in staging and return, but even if it ran the quarter mile 400 times with a skilled driver under controlled conditions, I would think that would not be nearly as hard on the car as some idiot kid running the quarter mile ten times a night on the street, missing gears, over reving, all the while with a car full throwing beer cans at signs, and not for 100 miles but for thousands as most these cars were....No brainer. And yes, the inner fenders had to be cut to install fenderwell headers, but I would think that is a whole lot less choppin then taking a completly rusted out car and cutting everything away to weld on new panels... as many a vintage Nova has had done...and many with taiwan steel. I think I could live with welding in a new set of inner fenders, or would that make it a rebody?
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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Don't get your panties in a wad there Matt! I'm just stating some facts about what you posted. The big picture is that there is a big difference between a 100k mile car that is all original vs. a 100 mile race car - that's all. Good luck with the sale.

When you going to get that Yenko Camaro off the guy's lawn?

[MotownMadman]

Marlin, somewhere in there I see your point, I just have a hard time trying to figure out if there really is a difference of 100 miles on the strip or 100 miles on the street with a car that was built for that purpose. I cant see the difference except one situation has a christmas tree and the other a street light. In the good old Detroit days going to Detroit Dragway or Milan was actually a chance for our cars to get a rest as we had to wait our turn, and with luck get three or four passes in on a Sunday afternoon, while out on Woodward Avenue we were getting as many as twenty passes every Friday and Saturday night. This Nova is a perfect example, because of it's track history it survives today, while a great many of the same vintage muscle are long gone to the boneyard after the beating we put to them on the street. I would guess a very large percentage of these very cars left the Chevy dealership on their maiden voyage sideways in every gear. I dont think this particular car ever had slicks as I could not find any stress wrinkles in the quarters. Oh, by the way, I dont have my "panties in a wad" as you put it, actually I find you rather amusing.
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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Ok, just checkin - at least you didn't mention a thong or something /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

My perspective comes from stories like this one; the lowest mile Yenko Deuce (6k miles) is generally not considered to be the #1 car out of the 80 cars found, hard to believe. This car is all original paint, stripes are in good shape, almost perfect interior, etc... but.... it was raced a little at Keystone Raceway and a lot of the originality of the car was discarded to make way for the race 'improvements'. Now, it's still an excellent car, but it's the kind that just makes you scratch your head a little and say 'this car could have been one of the best survivor cars ever'.

At least this '66 Nova is for sale! (The Yenko Deuce is not, many have tried!).

[MotownMadman]

Actually Marlin, that may not be true... In between playing rock em sock em robots with you on the keyboard, I just got a call from New York and it seems the Nova may no longer be for sale. We will see what happens here. I have already had more interest in this car in one day then I have had with most overall. One of the ways this board stays fun is when you and I start slamming our Tonka trucks into each other! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Yea, I enjoy hammerin out the various points of view, you should see us at car shows /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

Anyway, it's all good, I have seen the record holding '66 L79 Nova from upstate New York go from a race car to a beautifully restored red/red post car - and it was done by the original owner who made it into a race car in the first place! So, here's hoping the same for this car!

Oh, I don't have any Tonkas or Robots, maybe I should check EBAY for them too!

[Belair62]

Rockem Sockem Robots !!!! Man you guys are definitely showin your age !!!!

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Not me, I never had 'em - maybe Matt did /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[MotownMadman]

Marlin,
I never had them, we were to poor, I just tied the neighbor kid up and pretended! By the way, first day on the Nova site and they chased me away, I know we get a little rough over here from time to time, but they sure know how to welcome a new member aboard over there, they flat out accused me and you know who Marlin of being criminals. Their loss, I would rather hang out with you guys anyway, I get too far away from Bel Air and I start to get lonesome...and no Charlie, I am not talking about your dog.
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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Matt, I'll have to find out where you were posting over there, I only go to the 3rd gen section. Nova guys are usually pretty easy going /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Allen]

Most of us are pretty easy going... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

.... at least the regulars in the 3rd gen. section. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[Stefano]

Motown,
No welding necessary as the complete front end will unbolt from the body shell/firewall.

[MotownMadman]

Stefano,
Does that mean I could put new inner fenders in and it wont be a rebody? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Marlin, Naa, Naa, Naa,Naa Naa Naaaaa /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Matt;
You can replace the inner fenders, along with almost anything else that might need be, who said anything about a rebody - are you suggesting? Why bring that type of subject up?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I'm just keeping ya going /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

[MotownMadman]

Marlin,
I just didnt have anything else important to do today....thought playing with you might be fun! Once a wise a$$, always a wise a$$! You were discussing all the choppin and cuttin going on to bring the beat up drag car back to life, thought maybe by the time I got done replacing all that metal people might think....well you get the idea. You went and got me on a roll, I have been answering this dang blasted phone all morning with "Comedy Central"! I am starting to feel like Paul T. senior from that wonderful new show, "American Chopper", I am about to slam the phone off the desk! Anyway, all in good fun Marlin, all in good fun. Lets see if we can get somebody else to come out and play....Belair?
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[NWYENKO]

Thanks, Matt & Marlin, things have been boring here lately!! Now that I have time to surf again, I appreciate a little controversy!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif Still doesn't hold a candle to the old Charley vs.Ignitionman on the Camaro site!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif Jim

[69rsz28]

Those guys on American Chopper build some awesome bikes. Watched it last night and saw the spiderman bike, way cool. Aren't choppers like that around 100k?

[MotownMadman]

The Nascar bike sold at 150K.
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[T Billigen]

Is anything going on with the green Yenko on the lawn? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

[Charley Lillard]

Man I miss him.........Now all I have is Belair....

[MotownMadman]

Tom,
I never, and I mean never admit defeat, but this guy is one tough nut to crack. It seems like he is so overwhelmed from the interest and offers that it has put him in a state of suspicious fear over the whole thing. I am working on a possible trade, I have a friend in his area that has been slowly gaining this gentlemans confidence in the fact that it really is the car we are interested in, and that the whole thing is not some kind of lost evidence in a forgotten murder. Obviously I have no way of knowing what he is thinking, he just has that deer in the headlights look whenever the car is mentioned. I really dont care at this point who gets the car as long as someone does, but the more people who approach him the worse it gets. As I said, I may have a possible trade working, if it dont break loose soon I may actually have to give up because I am NOT going to resort to strong arm tactics. Marlin said I have to behave, the last thing I want to do is pi$$ him off, I heard he has some big mean hairy guys who work for him picking on little guys who sell Nova's! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Thanks,
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[MotownMadman]

Charley, Are you bored? Tell me about this Ignitionman guy or post a link where I can read this before my time stuff. I hear you are going to be at Berger this weekend? I think me and Bill O. are going to pop in, I might even be putting up Belky for the weekend, you want me to bring a date for Belair? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[Charley Lillard]

Ignitionman has a vivid Imagination. He was finally Banned from the Camaros.net and Chevelles.net sites but I think spends his time on the second Gen Camaro site. He is a good source for HEI Ignition info though. He also sells Smallbody dists that he converys to HEI. DJD probably has a link to his Web site. My big Beef with him was his statement that there were no Factory built ZL1's and that they were all conversions done in Los Angeles. He also claimed to have a Couple but wouldn't divulge what #'s they were. And yes I will be at Berger in Grand Rapids with the Yellow ZL1's and the Mule.

[MotownMadman]

The Zl-1 Camaro's were built in Los What? Uggg! Oh boy, that must have been fun. See ya at Berger Charley.
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[Belair62]

Motown wears thongs on that crusty ole ass of his I bet !!!!

[MotownMadman]

Belair,
I knew sooner or later you would wake up from that drunken haze, Belch, Fart, Scratch your ass, Light a Cigar, and make your way to that keyboard to fumble out some type of incoherent response! What took ya so friggin long?
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[Belair62]

I was out looking for some inner fenders so you can rebody that low miler !

[MotownMadman]

Well guys, the Nova SS sold on a "Buy It Now" to the owner of a Chevrolet dealership in Stubinsville Ohio, who also happens to be Dean Martins Nephew. Anybody down that way will be able to see the car in the showroom soon.
Thanks,
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[Mr70]

"When this Car hits your Eye like a big Pizza Pie....Thatsa.......Nova...".
Forgive me,I couldn't resist the Dean Martin reference. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Belair62]

You beat me to it Mr 70... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif

[MotownMadman]

Jeff, how long did it take you to come up with that one? We got some talented people on this board. I will forward that little phrase to the new owner, he should find that amusing!
Thanks,
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[Charley Lillard]

"Thatsa....Stupid /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif ...."

[Mr70]

Mitch Wha??
Who's Jeff?
I'm Rick,and I will enforce copyright infringement. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Belair62]

Hey Mo- gravevine says you are actually a R.U.B. !!!! All gussied up with Arlen Ness do-dads...tell me it ain't so.

[MotownMadman]

Belair, if you are trying to push my buttons you are going about it in the right way.....I aint never owned a Rolex, and not cause I couldnt afford it, and chrome dont make it go. I have never even had a windshield on my scooter, and I prefer a hardtail as long as I got enough painkillers to keep my broke down old back from killin me. R.U.B? I dont think so Belair, if it comes to that somebody please put me outta my misery. And just what grapevine did that come from? For those of you following this thread who dont know what this nut case is talking about, that stands for Rich Urban Biker, which in comparison to me is like calling a Camaro a Mustang! So come on Belair, fess up, who is spreading the vicious rumuor?
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[JChlupsa]

Rick, Hes starting to forget easy now days who is who

Jeff

[MotownMadman]

Jeff, yes, I caught that, sorry Rick, but I have so busy fending off the likes of Belair and such that you are right, I am starting to forget $hit. Besides, I was so busy singing along with the Dean Martin song I couldnt think straight while I was trying to respond......Marlin thinks I'm a geezer, Belair thinks I'm a yup, and Jeff thinks I got alszheimers. What a cruel world we live in...woe is me.....
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[Mr70]

No need to apologize Mitch.....

[MotownMadman]

Good one Rick, Mitch who?
Thanks,
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[Belair62]

I knew that would get you rolling MM !!!! You asked me to come out and play !!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

[MotownMadman]

I located the magazine this Nova was in that I sold, has some really neat history. The magazine is from the early seventies, "Basic Engine Hot Rodding" by Hot Rod, the article was by Gray Baskerville. The car was called "Lil Chevy Wonder" raced by a John Avery at Irwindale Ca Dragway in 68-69. Has been stored ever since as all the work as current on the car was done back then, including the block being decked,(original engine). The only thing different on the car today is the lettering has been removed, even has the same SW gauges and fenderwell headers as in the magazine. I talked to one of the older guys at the new Irwindale Speedway who remembered the car and has photos he is sending. If I had known all this detail when I represented the car for the seller I would have bought it myself. The ironic part of the article is the last paragraph, "So the next time you come across a classified ad which goes something like this...For Sale-low mileage Chevy II SuperSport only driven on the weekend, a 1/4 mile at a time, by a lean old lad from Pasadena, you can pretty well guess that car will be John Avery's Wonderful Iil Chevy" Not kidding, that is the last paragraph in the article. I bet the owner or writer had no idea it would be 35 years later and that statement came true, with the car as un used as it was then. Talk about time travel.....
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[55chevy]

Hey Motown.... How about a pic of your 55 Chevy


Ed

[MotownMadman]

Ed, Second time you asked, I will get it posted this weekend, the ones I got have a near naked young lady hanging all over it so I have to find one presentable for the board, I dont want to offend anyone, I would take a new one but she is tucked away in one of my buildings,(the car, not the girl)(and no LV, it's not my wife who you think is my daughter), so let me dig one up that is not offensive and I will get it posted. Maybe Tom or Rob can comment on what is considered offensive here.
Thanks,
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[55chevy]

ooo.. You can PM me that one. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Won't be any offense taken here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

Ed