I pulled into the driveway tonight. Before I could even get out of the car, my 14 year old came out of the house holding a section of the news paper. What now I thought?
He handed me the paper and said "Could we go see it?" Low and behold on the front page of the
Daily Break section of the paper was this;
35 years after he purchased special-edition Chevy Nova, it’s still owner's pride and joy
BY LINDA McNATT
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
SMITHFIELD — In December 1970, Alan Ives had just gotten a job.
Pumped up with his newfound success and swaggering - just a little- Ives tooled over to Colonial Chevrolet in Norfolk, got out of his clunker and strode across the car lot.
"I want a Corvette," he said.
He remembers the car salesman patting him on the shoulder, handing him keys to the blue, low-slung beauty and telling him to take it home for the night.
Later, Ives called his insurance agent, who happened to be his father's best friend.
"He wouldn't stop laughing," Ives recalled. "He told me, at my age, I'd never be able to pay the insurance."
He took the Vette back the next day. The salesman had something else for him to look at. Sitting across the lot with a handful of similar sedans was a dark blue Chevy Nova with white stripes. Black leather upholstery. Push button AM radio.
Hidden under the hood, though, was a beast that few Novas ever knew: a 350-cubic-inch, solid lifter, Corvette LT-1 engine with a Muncie M-21 four- speed transmission.
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