Holiday L78 Nova Sale...Back Again!

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SuperNovaSS</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tom,

Awesome story! Thanks for sharing. Any history on the gold and red cars? I would love to hear if you have a chance.


Happy new year,

Jason </div></div>

Jason...here is some more history...let's start with the Autumn Gold TH400 car.

I bought this car back in April of 2004 (almost 10 years ago) from another SYC member. The driveline was out of the car at the time...lots of parts in boxes and in the trunk. Very solid original car with great documentation...the car had an interesting history. If I remember the story correctly...the first owner ordered this car sometime in the early summer of 1970 from Reedman Chevrolet in Langhorne, PA and it was delivered August 5th, 1970. That is pretty late for a 1970 model year car...and while I'm not positive, it was probably one of the last L78 cars ever produced. All of the dated parts and cowl tag point to a first week of July assembly date. Here is how the car looked when I bought it...note the vintage McCreary tires...G60's on the front..and J60's on the rear.

***by the way...those 454 emblems on the fenders were installed by the original owner...seems he wanted a little more under the hood, so he installed an LS6 and gave the L78 a breather...that must have been some combo on street back then...all that power in a Nova [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]








The original core support and front end were vey solid...49k on the odometer...undercarriage had some surface rust...original F41 sway bar was intact...car had a Day-2 cover on the rear, air shocks and a trailer hitch!! I was told the guy towed a snowmobile trailer with this car...don't see that everyday.. an L78 and a sled [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

The trunk was solid and the interior had a huge 8 track player w/FM convertor insert...the inside was a little funky, but overall in pretty good shape. I have since recovered seats, added a repro rug, removed the 8 track and cleaned things up.









Next post I'll get into some of the documentation and engine work I performed....wilma