What's It Worth - Fabulous 1969 Nova Shell-Roller
 

I keep wrestling with selling my Nova. If I do, I'll part it out, selling the body first, and if/when that sells, then I'll sell the rest of the parts. Pix of the basic rolling shell are below. I'll also include (don't have photos of these pieces, but can get them pretty quick):

*Near perfect deck lid
*Near perfect doors
*Near perfect fenders
*Near perfect inner fenders
*Windshield cowl panel

Car rolls on a very nice drum brake subframe. There's a 10-bolt out back. All of the above has been metal finished (there is no filler on the car and there was no rust ever but the passenger quarter was properly replaced with a dry GM panel) and is PPG epoxy primer. Body has 9300 original miles. And those are the original tires [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]. Includes open US Title.

Any idea of what all of this is worth?

http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3119.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3096.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3099.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3097.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3112.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3106.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3095.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3113.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3110.jpg
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC_3108.jpg

Thx Yenko Net. You folks rule!

Wayne

Re: What's It Worth - Fabulous 1969 Nova Shell-Roller
 

6,000

Re: What's It Worth - Fabulous 1969 Nova Shell-Roller
 

As described...at least 10k or a little more. Compare this to the normal 4-5k rust bucket and just do the math from there. There is nothing better than original sheet metal.

wilma

Re: What's It Worth - Fabulous 1969 Nova Shell-Roller
 

Yes, the body shell is as described. I had it media blasted before the metal work was done. Under the car (floors, tunnel, etc.), it is still in original GM factory primer. The rear quarter work is exceptional (done by a close friend...you should be able to soon see his craftsmanship in Street Rodder magazine...he chopped and sectioned a '32 Ford 5-window for a local rodder -- all metal finished). When the Nova was in bare metal, Al (the metal man) set all of the gaps like a street rod, which meant additional welding, grinding, filing, fiddling. Then we blew it apart for epoxy primer. The fenders, inners, deck lid and doors were primed off the car. I wanted to be sure that everything was covered, inside and out.

Honestly, for stripping, epoxy primer work, a good dry So Cal quarter the costs are probably around $5000, and that doesn't include Al's hours of labor.

Anyway, thanks guys for the headsup. Anyone else? I'm <span style="text-decoration: underline">definitely</span> thinking of turning it loose.

Wayne

Re: What's It Worth - Fabulous 1969 Nova Shell-Roller
 

Just curious, why the passenger side quarter replacement - anything else replaced in the trunk on that side?

Re: What's It Worth - Fabulous 1969 Nova Shell-Roller
 

Hi Marlin. Some time in the car's history, there was a botched repair on the passenger quarter. When the &quot;bodyshop&quot; did it, they actually sliced vertically (!) at the center of the wheel well up to the window and then they cut ahead to the door jamb. Then they just trowled on the Bondo. When Al fixed it, he split the original wheel well (tub) at the factory seam. Then, he removed the full original (botched) quarter, and put the replacement in and joined it at the wheel well (tub) seam, as GM did originally. Doing it the way GM did it is a longer and more costly way around the fix (drilling out all of the spot welds, fitting, re-spot welding, etc.), but I believe it is (was) the right way to repair it.

So in answer to the question, nothing aside from the outer quarter and the outer half of the wheel well (tub) was replaced.

Hope that explains it properly.

Wayne

Re: What's It Worth - Fabulous 1969 Nova Shell-Roller
 

Thanks to everyone who posted and to those who sent me private messages, e-mailed me directly and spoke with me on the phone. I now have a pretty good handle on what the rolling body is worth. You guys <span style="text-decoration: underline">definitely</span> Rock!

Watch for the roller in the Cars For Sale Section right here in Yenko.net! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

Thanks again!

Wayne