nickey novas

[JoeC]

BillW..Wecome to the site. Sounds like an interesting Nova. Did you ever go to the Nickey speed shop that was opened after the dealer closed?

[BillW]

Thanks for the nice welcome guys. No, I never went to Nickey or the speed shop after the dealership closed. I do remember on WLS Radio "Nickey, Nickey, Nickey, Nickey Chevrolet". At one time I sent a short letter to "Muscle Car Review" magazine about my Nickey Nova and got a reply from a gentleman who said the " Hot Rod" cover car was in a private collection in Texas. I wonder if there was a mistake there and the car he was talking about is actually the Kevin Suydam car in Washington. I really would like to know how many of these cars were produced. "Hot Rod" magazine coaxed some impressive numbers out of their test car but it took some fiddling. If my car had real gears ( say 3:73 or 4:10) I believe it was capable of twelve second ET's. By the way, I am still into Heartbeat muscle, my pride now is a 1969 Z/28, 302 DZ, 4:10, M-21, mostly original but with MSD ignition, Hookers, Flowmasters. My dream car is a Daytona yellow Yenko! Your web site has brought me some very enjoyable reading! Bill W.

[bbdon]

Here are the pictures of Bill's Nickey nova. Thanks Bill!
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[JoeC]

great pictures thanks for posting

[BillW]

Glad you like the pictures, sorry for the blur but I could not find the negatives so I took pictures of my old 8 x 10's with my digital camera and sent them to Don. If you look close you can see the chrome "Nickey" emblems above the front fender marker lights and the "454" emblems under the "SS" emblems on the fenders. That's me smokin' the hides in my high school parking lot. A special thanks to Don Coffman for his help in getting these pictures posted! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[hvychev]

Bill awesome pics!! The slotted mags are cool. Are you sure the car is gone forever?

[BillW]

I went back to the bone yard several years ago and it wasn't there. It could have been purchased and stuck away but I think I would have heard of it by now. I am still active in this area with muscle cars and I think I would have heard something. Everytime I see a '73 Nova I check it out! With the renewed interest I have in the car I think a clone would be fairly easily done and the purchase price of a nice '73 Nova SS can't be that much. Thanks for your question. Bill

[69hurstSC]

Have any other 73 Nickey Nova's been discovered? Interested to see how many were converted.

[Stefano]

Kevin's and Reggie's are the only two 73/74 era NicKey Novas which we know to exist. We do have info on a few more which have never been found. Complete production records do not exist.