Hurst Grand Prize 1970 Nova
 

saw this Hurst Grand Prize 1970 Nova on the Peterson Photo site

might be the winners of the Hurst Nova for the Hurst name the shifter contest
Looks like "name the shifter contest" is on the quarter panel

They call it a 3 speed stick automatic

It became known as the Hurst Auto Stick and was made as a bench seat floor conversion shifter using a rod not a cable.

Also used by Yenko in the Deuce auto trans cars
some were even installed by Hurst

Always wondered where that car wound up.

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Cool shot Joe also similar to another we've seen w/ the kid on the roof.
I'm always keeping eyes peeled for this car and saved a few pics of it over the years, here's a couple below but there's more in past threads here including some w/ the Hurst Girls and a different lucky young lad?:hmmm:
:beers:
~ Pete


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I entered that contest with Hurst Automatic Stick Shifter.

Im guessing, 396-375 horsepower powerplant in this Nova?

Hurst Nova...
 

Does anyone know the vin number for this car ?

in that drag racing photo , looks to have a 1970's New York orange color plate on it

Wes Eisenschenk, who wrote the Lost Musclecars book, has been searching for it and the trail went cold in Ohio I believe.

in that youtube he said the winning name was Hurst Matic ?

I never heard that name. Hurst had a lot of names like Pro Matic and V-Matic

The contest was for the shifter that was named AUTO/STICK

Later there was a Auto/Stick II and Auto/Stick 3

Hurst A Matic. Per the folks who won the car.

I think they were from KY, no?

Ohio.

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Here’s another of the pics w/ the Hurst Nova, bonus sweet Linda’s in it too.
Anyone w/ more shots of this car or any updates what became of it, please share.
:beers:
~ Pete

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I had a hat like that (in yellow and black).

I know I had it up through high school, when one of my buddies grabbed it off my head and jumped in the swimming pool. I don't think it got saved after that.

K

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Color pic of the Hurst Nova w/ George Hurst and Wally Parks also same kid on the roof as Joe posted back on page 1 but slightly different shot.
:beers:
~ Pete

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You can see on the roof of the car, under the young boy, the words "Hurst A Matic", so that would indicate that they at least intended for that to be the name of their automatic trans shifter. Personally, I have never (previous to this thread) heard of that shifter called anything other than "Auto/Stick" :dunno:

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Here’s the Hurst Nova pics Marlin posted a few years back w/ same kid on the roof/contest winner?:hmmm:
Last shot’s same as Post#3 but a fuzzy closer-up, anyone w/ better pics, please share.
:beers:
~ Pete

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See 68 Pontiac GTO with Hurst-A-Matic and and Hurst-O-Magic as far as that verbiage

I'd bet money both of those GTOs had the factory Hurst Dual Gate shifter.

Original Auto/Stick Hurst box and original Dual/Gate box