Details 1969 396 375hp SS Nova 19,538 miles

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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"How many people are going to ooooh & aaaah over anobnoxiously lettered up, hillbilly suspensioned, wanna be drag-star that nobody ever saw run"?


This statement can only be made by a guy that is to young to have lived the era or somebody who was not a car guy in his early days. When I seen that picture I had goose bumps not because of that car but because the memories it brought back. In the 70s you would see that all over, lettered cars cars that were jacked up so high they drove like crap and scarey to drive but that was the excitment about it.
That statement hillbilly lettering every body had there own taste and there own budget and it was all cool primered or mint everbody enjoyed each others cars and always helped each other...

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Take it easy there Opinions were solicited, ya don't have to like 'em all!

As for your generalization about me 'not being a car guy', you are flat wrong See, I remember doing all that silly 'race-car' stuff to my old Nova - and I don't get goosebumps, I totally cringe! I recall the monster tire street scene, it was no big deal to me - I'd rather see 'em all stock, whitewalls and all.

Yuck!


Hillbilly style!


Nice!!!

[1969l78]

I will take the nova in the last pic- all stock and ready rock

[DarrenX33]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
"How many people are going to ooooh & aaaah over anobnoxiously lettered up, hillbilly suspensioned, wanna be drag-star that nobody ever saw run"?


This statement can only be made by a guy that is to young to have lived the era or somebody who was not a car guy in his early days. When I seen that picture I had goose bumps not because of that car but because the memories it brought back. In the 70s you would see that all over, lettered cars cars that were jacked up so high they drove like crap and scarey to drive but that was the excitment about it.
That statement hillbilly lettering every body had there own taste and there own budget and it was all cool primered or mint everbody enjoyed each others cars and always helped each other...

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Take it easy there Opinions were solicited, ya don't have to like 'em all!

As for your generalization about me 'not being a car guy', you are flat wrong See, I remember doing all that silly 'race-car' stuff to my old Nova - and I don't get goosebumps, I totally cringe! I recall the monster tire street scene, it was no big deal to me - I'd rather see 'em all stock, whitewalls and all.

Yuck!


Hillbilly style!


Nice!!!


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Now that's really funny. You say you don't like it now but you were obviously into back then otherwise why not just stock? I think the only answer for that is that your just twisted.

Honestly, I was born in 68. But when I was a kid I remember the musclecars that were in my driveway. None of them were stock and being around those cars is the reason I am into the hobby today.

[Tommy]

I don't think I have it too hillbillied up It used to be a bit more overstated than it is now with balljoint extensions and diamond tuck and all that sort of thing... Doesn't matter, seems like it will be forever emtombed in that garage....


Tommy

[PeteLeathersac]

I like 'em both ways...and Marty Stuart's Hillbilly Rock tune too!.

Give Marlin a few more years and maybe he'll be paying big for all those hillbilly parts he so hastily tossed and made fun of?.

~ Pete

[brgrman]

Try to get some Motion Valve covers, that we threw off the car because they were not original factory.

[Charley Lillard]

So a second engine went with the car ? A 74 LS7 crate engine ?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Darren is correct, I was a little 'twisted' at 17 years of age - now I'm recovered, and like my stuff stock. Those pic's just show that I'm not a newbie, I partook in the craziness known as 'day 2'.

I stand by my initial statement; unless it's a storied race car, take it back to stock

[Chevy454]

Locked per John's request...