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Old 02-24-2010, 05:51 AM
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Well, I can now fess up (as if most of you haven't figured it out by now). The Nova is mine, and it's in my driveway as this is being written. Getting it here was a gong show, and I'll probably explain it down the road (maybe in a future magazine article sidebar). Anyway, the plan is to blow it apart, repaint it in the stock Azure Turquoise (and most likely lose the vinyl top in the process), then convert it into a cloned big block SS Day 2 car. The idea is to assemble it as if it was constructed in the early to mid seventies. Expect to see much more of it in your favorite muscle car magazines.

So someone buy my Buick roller so I can start on this thing!

Thanks for giving me a soapbox Yenko.net!

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Old 02-24-2010, 06:48 AM
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Congrats Wayne. Cool project ahead of you. Keep us updated!
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Old 02-24-2010, 07:21 AM
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Any chance this came out of Colorado?
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Old 02-24-2010, 03:24 PM
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Just how and where do these neat survivor cars come from.... because I want one!
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Old 02-24-2010, 06:39 PM
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Hi Guys!

Thanks for the compliments. The car isn't quite a 100% survivor -- it was painted once in a past life. I understand the original owner used the front fender and the rear quarter as an "aimpoint" to get it in and out of her garage. There's filler in a spot over the right rear wheel, some ahead of the front wheel well and the vinyl roof was replaced (because she didn't open the garage door high enough). I've spoken to the last owner (aside from the dealer I bought it from) and he confirms the past damage and repairs.

You'd get a kick out of the original owner's manual. Important stuff like turn signal operation is underlined in Red. The piece that makes me smile is a note on the turn signal operation. Someone (and I'm guessing the original owner), wrote "UP for Right"; "Down for Left". I'm speculating here, but I'll bet she was accustomed to hand signals before (you gotta wonder what she drove previously?).

I've been told by the past owner (a friend of the original owner's grandson) that the old girl special ordered the car. It was built the third week of July, 1969. The original sales brochure included with the car has the same underlining of text for options and equipment, which seems to corroborate that statement.

Anyway, I found this thing at a used car dealer showroom in Colorado Springs, CO. It was advertised on the internet. And how I found it was by using this approach: At night when my wife and I were tired and had quit working for the day (we're both self employed), I sat in front of the TV with our laptop. For perhaps 10 weeks, I'd search for cars nighly. I used "Hanks Helper" to grind through a huge amount of websites daily (it was actually designed to cut through the Craigslist mess). I also searched by way of Google, using "Low miles 1969 Nova" as the parameters. Boing! The car showed up with multiple hits.

FYI, the previous Nova I had (which I unfortunately sold to go after motorcycle magazine work) came up the same way. It was a 38,000 mile three owner car. That particular car was a three owner, original paint 6-cylinder car. It was also a little old lady special and had similar "aiming" damage! FYI, in my recent search I also found another really, really nice 1971 Nova in my recent search (19,000 miles or so). It has a '71 LS6 in it but it all looks 307-stock. It was a cool sleeper and a very nice car. Bottom line is, these things are harder to find, but if you dig, you'll unearth one.

Anyway, the plan here is to use the restoration part of the car for magazine and book work and the vintage Day 2 mods as the basis for tech on my website.

Take care fellows .....and someone, please buy Buford the Buick!

Wayne

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Old 02-24-2010, 07:23 PM
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Neat stuff Wayne!
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Old 02-24-2010, 07:48 PM
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Wayne, leave the roof on it. And also make it a L-89 car.
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Wayne, you've got a web site? I really like Day 2 Nova's. Looking forward to this one!
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Hi again guys! My wife and I had a speed shop way back then (actually two different speed shops). When Chevy came out with the LS7, I found a jumbo deal and bought 14 of them at once (it was an absolutely huge stretch for me at the time). So I think that's what will power it. The other option is a 427 ZLX (you know..the real one, not that new generation LS-based version they have today....L88 bottom end, iron open chamber big port top end, Chevy dual plane or an Edelbrock Tarantula, 850 double pumper, etc.). In either case, it will have big compression and an equally big lumpy cam so it idles "nicely" <g>. Even though I have some really cool 9-inch hardware, I'm going to run a Dana 60 in it too, along with a column shift TH400, Line Lock, Sun tach, Hooker headers, slapper bars, turbo mufflers and five spoke wheels (although cast aluminum slots are still calling me). I think it'll peel out pretty good and make a lot of racketl! Yee-Haw!

My webmaster is working on the website....slowly...I have to prod him regularly. But for what I pay him, that's what I should expect. Anyway, besides, he's a skilled good guy and I'm sure it'll prove neat.

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Wayne

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