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Rebuilt 1966 Chevy Nova Comes with Basic Stilling and a $60K Price Tag

Chevrolet’s Nova is one of the favorite cars of the present-day custom industry. The decades-old machine has both the hardware and the potential to become something much more than the bowtie carmaker planned for it back in the day, and this is why garages across the U.S. don’t shy away from remaking the small vehicle into something they like.
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The Nova, also known in its early days as the Chevy II, was introduced by Chevrolet in 1961 to be a basic type of car, as one of the carmaker’s designers said back in the day. And that was essentially true, as the early 1960s were not yet the years of turmoil in the industry that spawned muscle cars and incredible motorsport results.

Despite not coming up with a mind-blowing design, or maybe especially because of this fact, the Nova nameplate became a customers' favorite and was kept into production until 1988. As a result, a great number of them survived to this day, and most of the ones selling on the market have been modified to some extent.

The one featured in the gallery above tries to keep as close to the original design as possible, but at the same time is mechanically upgraded to be a more alluring proposition.

Wrapped in Gunmetal Gray Metallic and featuring front and rear bumper guards, the car hides a 350ci (5.7-liter) V8 of unspecified power under its hood, tied to a 700R automatic transmission. The interior has been upgraded as well, but with the same goal of keeping as close to the original as possible.

This clean cut Nova is for sale somewhere in Ohio, and the owner asks no less than $59,900 for it. That’s about double the price of a Nova with few or no modifications, but far less than one of the most expensive Novas ever sold, the $275,000 inNOVAtor that went during a Barrett-Jackson auction in 2018.
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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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