"Lil Old Lady" '71 Nova

[Zman]

Looking at the front bumper, the car is a 70. (clear park lamps)
She did say she bought it new in 71, maybe it sat on the lot for a while
Cool car...just what I'm looking for to use as my "work Car"

[GOAT72]

Makes one kinda jealous of the simpler way the WWII generation lived.

Great lil' Novie!

[Supercar_Kid]

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Looking at the front bumper, the car is a 70. (clear park lamps)
She did say she bought it new in 71, maybe it sat on the lot for a while

[/ QUOTE ] I thought that at first too, but the car was definitely a '71. It had the '71 style steering wheel, door panels, etc. It also had the vent do-hickey inside the trunk that wasn't introduced until '71. I was thinking perhaps it had something to do with the relocation of the jack assembly. I guess it's entirely possible that some early '71 models simply got the last of the left over '70 park lamp lenses. She did say it had never been wrecked or had any major work done, which was obvious when looking at the car. I think it's safe to say the park lamp lenses are the originals too.

[Mr70]

"It also had the vent do-hickey inside the trunk that wasn't introduced until '71."
That's called a Fuel Tank Seperator.They actually used those earlier on the NA9 equipped Vehicles,but they were smaller & hugged the fuek tank.
In 1971 they redesigned the seperator to pull away from the Fuel tank.

[Schonyenko2]

Did you check under the hood? Maybe she's the original owner of the draggin deuce, and she took the stripes off to make it a street sleeper.

[Pantera]

turn around what you said about somebody changing the '71 lenses onto thier '70 Nova to make it look like a newer car. We often changed newer ones to make a car look newer than it was back in '71. Especially '70 Vettes.

somebody may have swaped them on her with out her realizing it.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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turn around what you said about somebody changing the '71 lenses onto thier '70 Nova to make it look like a newer car. We often changed newer ones to make a car look newer than it was back in '71. Especially '70 Vettes.

somebody may have swaped them on her with out her realizing it.

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Pantera, swapping to the clear lenses would make the car look older - not newer, since they are '70's and the car is a '71

The thingy in the trunk was part of the EEC equipment which was new for '71, also included the charcoal cannister under the hood and a non-vented gas tank. The jack indeed got relocated to the tailight panel, with a special bracket welded to the trunk floor to accomodate it.

Neat car, love to have one

[Mr70]

EEC is really RPO NA9.
Also known as California Emissions,before 1971.

[Pantera]

Think the other way. The guy with the 70 wound up with a 71 or newer looking car while the little ole lady wouldn't have noticed anything different and her car looked older.

[Allen]

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I guess it's entirely possible that some early '71 models simply got the last of the left over '70 park lamp lenses. She did say it had never been wrecked or had any major work done, which was obvious when looking at the car. I think it's safe to say the park lamp lenses are the originals too.

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If it's an early build, I'd believe it. The early '71 models also used up the 70 style tail light lens (small back-up lens) before switching to the one with the larger clear lens. Anything is possible, and chances are GM wouldn't want to throw away good parts that could be used up.