1970 Nova SS 427 Converted at Nickey

[leach]

Bought this car after numerous people turned it down in Mar. 2005 and in the mail came packet of about 300 pieces of paperwork from speed shops dealers and change of hands from the guy who took the car to Nickey Chevrolet to have the 396 removed and 427 and speed equipment installed. Sent all the paperwork to Don Swaitek and it took him over 5 months to get it back to me with verification that they installed the 427 there. It is having a frame off right now.

[Hotrodpaul]

Pics???

Paul

[leach]

I sent pictures to club because I could not figure out how to make small enough I hope they get them on for me.

[nuch_ss396]

Send me the images. I'll post them.

[COPO]

Sounds like an interesting find. When did the car get the 427 engine from Nickey installed and how about some more details about the Nickey mods.

[leach]

The Nova has Lakewood drag package including bell housing,special Hurst V-gate 4 speed racing shifter, Hurst Gabriele dual/duty drag shocks, Mallory mag, Holley racing 3 barrel carb 1030 CFM, 513 posi gears, the disc brakes were changed to drum brakes, caps on windshield wiper posts, Eldebrock Torker 2-R intake plus more that Nickey did. You can see holes where the roll bar was mounted in the pictures after it came out of storage. The original 427 engine that Nickey put in to replace 396 on Feb. 1970 was replaced when 2nd owner sold the car Jan. 29th, 1974 and kept engine and transmission to race in a Camaro. Have notarized letter from 2nd owner to document that. The 3rd owner bought a 427 to put back in to race thinking he bought a 1969 one with serial no. T06141D which is still in the car turns out to be a 1966 427/425 HP engine out of a Impala. Have signed paper where he bought it on 6-15-74 and raced back and forth with 2 fours and tunnel ram and then 4 barrel have all the speed shop papers to document this. Then he sold it on Dec. 1st, 1976 have bills of sale notarized to prove this. The 4th owner raced it until 1980 then put it in storage until 1995 started to rebuild the motor then decided to sell the car had his friend moving to Hawaii to broker the car for him that is when I got to buy the Nova.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

What Nickey conversion paperwork does the car have?

[nuch_ss396]

Here are Barry's images:

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Neat pics. Did Nickey have 'Phases' to their modification packages, sort of like Motion?

[SS4Real]

Hey, that's a picture of my '70 Chevelle used as the background for that Certificate of Excellence (copied from Genat's book). First time I've seen or heard of one of those certificates.