Steve Ford's 73 Chevy Nova Hatchback

[Salvatore]

Moving right along Jed-I! I am sure Mr. Ford will be real happy!

[SOA-Nova]

It looks like you have a little more work to do on yours than I did on my 74.
I noticed in the last set of pictures you have not put in the hatchfloor supports. I replaced a little bit less of the hatchfloor in mine and when I was trial fitting the hatch floor I had to section one of the brackets that hold the one floor side panel plates. If you look at some of the pictures in my webshot albums you can see what I had to do.
Looks like you are on your way to getting another hatchback back out on the road. Good luck with your project.

Jim

[Salvatore]

Hey Jed-I, Better reinforce everything real good cause that 600 inch BB is going to twist that old nova like a pretzel. Jerry Ehly told me to tell ya!

[Nova Jed]

Hey, Sammy, Steve didn't want to put the hatch floor back in because he wants to put in a cage. I think that should reinforce it a bit!

[Nova Jed]

Firewall Pics.
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[SOA-Nova]

I had seen on your original post about a resto and didn't know it was going to be raced . I should have picked up on that with the smoothed firewall spots prior to my original reply. Another area he could loose some weight would be to remove the outer cowl sides but it looks like he might be retaining the heater.

Is the build going to have fiberglass parts on it ?. I bought fenders, doors, hood, hatchlid and bumpers from Glasstek years ago for another 73 Nova project of mine and the fit was not bad at all although I started modifying the doors so I could have crank up windows and be able to remove them fairly easily.

Jim

[Nova Jed]

From what I have been told, he wants a street legal car as well. I'm sure everything is going to be all steel.

Jed

[Nova Jed]

OK, time for some more progress pics!

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