1970 L89 NOVA

[HiPerf]

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Did any Novas get converted to L89 at your dealership for customers or for stock after you found out you couldnt get one direct from GM?

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We would install anything that could not be ordered from the factory on any car.

[Schonyenko2]

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Typical Liberal for Yah!!! Has the pot cooking before you even caught the CROW!!! [/quote

Well, you may be right about that crow. But the folks who looked at this car ain't no dummies.
And all us liberals don't hate guns and hunting. I was a farm boy who grew up with a Marlin 39A in his hands. And if you stop by at the reunion, and say hi, I'll be glad to share some Ia deer sticks with you.
And some of us liberals even were war heros like John Kennedy.
Maybe I'll just wait until that ole crow flies over again, and I'll knock him outta the air with them ole weapons of mass destruction....As soon as I find them.

Stefano, It wasn't me killin off them beers. I found out a long time ago I can't get em all so I gave it up.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Nobody could get a '68 Z28 'vert either, but they made one. Just because you couldn't get one in '69 doesn't mean they didn't make one - in '69 or '70. I'm a skeptic, but I've learned to 'never say never'.

[Xplantdad]

I agree with Marlin..that's always a good way to approach things!

[Kim_Howie]

I have never seen a L-89 Nova. They built 50 Gibb novas have personally seen 20 out of 50. The 311 L-89 Camaros have seen 12 or more personally. The 311 L-89 nova never seen one yet. You would think if the small amount of Gibb Novas made and I have seen 20. At least one L-89 Nova would show up. The only reason I think there maybe some is the fact the MAN that looked at it told me several months ago he thought it was real and I believe him!!!! Pass the peas and hold the crow

[ORIGLS6]

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Well, if you went into most dealers in 1969 they would also tell you it was not possible to order a 427 in a Camaro or Chevelle also. I guess they did not make any.

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When I was shopping for my Chevelle, four of the six dealers I talked to told me there was no such thing as a 450 HP 454 in a Chevelle. That was in late April/early May of 1970! (They also told me I couldn't get an LT-1 in a Nova!)

Like I said earlier in this thread, I have little knowledge of Novas, but I DO know this may well be another of those deals where you avoid those two dreaded words............. - ALWAYS and NEVER!

[PLATINUM6BBL]

and there was only 2 ZL-1 Corvette's built for public consumption! Is the orange ZL-1 automatic convertible, that is still in the hands of the original owner, a red-headed step-child? A friend of mine is coming over today (who mounted up the first set of slicks for the orange ZL-1) and I'm going to ask him if he has ever come across a L-89 Nova in all his years of travels to shows and appraisal work.

[427king]

dont know whether an L89 Nova was available nor do I know Bob Johnson personally. I will say that if Don Yenko was posting on this board right now and said there were no L89 novas available to him in 1969 youd certainly take that as fact,and Bob is the best person probably left to make these statements . Not saying anything that Bob says should be taken as fact, but i think based on his past at Scuncio and Bob Johnson Racing he may be one of the most knowledgable on this based on experience. In the day when most of us were riding our bikes to school, you should give him the benefit of the doubt especially when no certain proof of a real car has surfaced yet . He didnt work at "Mom and Pops" Chevrolet after all, and if it was available at the time HE probably would have gotten one if for nothing else the fact he ordered EVERYTHING else. He may be the best person to speak to regarding what was and how things got done back then.Just my opinion of course.

[ORIGLS6]

Good points.

[442w30]

I've never lent much credence to the anti-"never say never" crowd. Examples being used here are COPOs and Z/28 ragtops. A clueless dealership does not constitute evidence for "never say never", especially considering Yenko had a whole buttload of COPOs and magazines were testing them. And the Z ragtop was built for a GM official, so it's more of an anomoly than evidence of (once again) "never say never".

Then there's COPO Pete's Nova. Back in the mid-80s, these cars were 15 years old. They were just becoming something beyond a used car. These cars didn't have the benefit of research and preservation like we do now. It's no wonder people said he was full of it back then, but even today there'll always be a segment that'll be clueless one way or another, just like the guy who'll tell ya his dad used to own a factory 427 Nova with an L88 - they're everywhere.

People here are much stronger on Chevys than I am, but logic dictates that an L89 Nova would make sense for a '69, but for a '70? I'm skeptical. It would be mighty strange to find a '70 when evidence even for '70 Chevelles is hard to come by. It just defies logic, but at this point in the game I've resigned logic from the musclecar era as there are many things that don't add up but just are.