9-C-1 Nova

[9C1Beater]

That blue and white color scheme was used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (and still is). Bruce Hamilton's RCMP 9C1 Nova has the same color scheme, and he has the buildsheet for the car which shows that it was a specially mixed shade of blue that was used only on the RCMP cars. Bruce sent to GM of Canada for info on his Nova and learned that 132 9C1s were delivered to Canada in 1977. When fleet cars with special colors were built, the factory would spray a large number of them sequentially, so there would've been a whole string of them going down the assembly line at the same time...I'm sure that would've been quite a sight. All of the RCMP 9C1 Novas were ordered by the main office in Ottawa, ON, but could have been built at any of the 3 plants that produced Novas at the time (Tarrytown, NY; Willow Run (Ypsilanti), MI; or Van Nuys, CA). Bruce's 9C1 was built in Van Nuys and then rail shipped to Edmonton, AB before being truck shipped to tiny Grimshaw, AB.

[SoupCoup]

Thanks for all the great info Alex. I'm really kicking myself now that I didn't persuade the guy to put this one off to the side. I'm a Ford guy, the only reason he called me about it 2 days before the crusher got there was he knew I was looking for a small block to build for my wife's 78 pick-up. I didn't figure the the LM-1 was anything special,so I passed.The guy I called at machine shop said they were only 2 bolt main & to pass on it. Truck is 4x4, so trans was of no use to me either. Hindsight eh ?

[9C1Beater]

Yeah, I know all about hindsight...many great musclecars have slipped thru my hands over the years (decades). Bruce was pi*sed to learn that another RCMP Nova was crushed, but it-is-what-it-is. I'm guessing that that 9C1 was in pretty sorry condition from 30 plus years in a junkyard...probably not worth saving, but who knows? These 9C1s are fantastic handlers and great little sleepers, and with a cam change, some head work, and a rear gear swap they transform into worthy musclecars. You might want to see if the guy kept that 200 Kph speedometer...it would probably be worth a few hundred bucks.