What would YOU do with this car?

[SS427]

Joe, that is correct. A flash coat of black was painted on these and was just enough to keep them from rusting. They were then machined. A combination of the machining oil and brake fluid would leave very little paint intact. When I restore them, I use a cast colored paint and then air brush a very fine 'mist' of black paint. What you end up with is a black part with a lot of bleed through of the cast paint.

[tom406]

This is a tough one. We'd all love to see these cars be preserved as benchmarks, but honestly, who's putting 6-cylinder Novas in their collections? The world's supply of Nice Novas is drying up, so the guy is looking at finding a decent one, painting it a fun color (as the one he finds will probably be dark gold, or white), restoring the interior, and generally spending a lot more time and money than just starting with this car.

If someone preserves it, that's great, but if this fellow does a tasteful upgrade of this car, I won't hold it against him.

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Tom;
With 500,000 gen. II Novas built, there is no logical reason to modify this particular car. The money raised by selling it would more than offset the purchase and repainting of another Nova. I'm not against having fun with a hot rod either, but just not with a 5k mile orig. car [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

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Lowmile;
As an afterthought, why not install a stout big block in the '72 Yenko clone Nova that you have on Ebay?? That car is a flashy color, it's in nice shape, has relatively low miles, and already has the big block yenko stripes on it!

Just a thought, [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]