69 Nova L78 TH400

[@wot]

I worked at a chevy dealership (United Cherolet) outside of Worcester, MA in 1970. I moved cars in the lots and drove "car swaps" around the state. It was a very prominent, high volume dealership that always maintained a large assortment of corvettes. We did get an occassional high performnace car, but in general, the LS6's, L78's, Z28's etc were rare. My point: I dealt with hundreds of new '70 chevys, and only a very small percentage were true muscle cars. I believe this was true with most dealers of the period.

[Kurt S]

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could have been the cost of emission certification.

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Probably not. They were allowed to certify an engine/trans combo that could then be used in any platform as long as the components were the same. So the L35 would already have been cert'd under the Camaro drivetrain.

[Supercar_Kid]

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I think I read over at Steves that the Grumps Nova started life as an L79 non SS car.....how cool is that.

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Here's a vintage pic that Ed Hedrick was kind enough to share with me. It's from his personal collection, and is definitely a period photo. It shows Dave Strickler giving the Grump '68 Nova a drink between rounds. Notice there's no rubber flap on the fan shroud/core support, which seems to support it's small block origins. Pretty cool.

[sYc]

Cool picture... Thanks to Andrew H., I got the chance to visit with the Strickler family this past year at the York show. Both years I have attended they have had a booth along side a couple of Strickler prepared cars. Usually along side "The Grump", as Ed called him at SCR7.

[Supercar_Kid]

Here's another. What a pair.

[Supercar_Kid]

Last one. Note lack of SS hood louvers, or Super Sport rocker emblems.

[JoeC]

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Probably not. They were allowed to certify an engine/trans combo that could then be used in any platform as long as the components were the same. So the L35 would already have been cert'd under the Camaro drivetrain.


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According to JohnZ (Chevy engineer) the complete car had to be submitted for emission certification.
Here is a quote from a JohnZ thread on Team Camaro "EPA emission certification was done not only by powertrain, but by carline application, vehicle weight, aero drag, and coast-down horsepower testing, which created many variables. Every different situation required full EPA certification"
I also know that Yenko had to get EPA certification on the 1968 427 Camaro. He could not use the 427 Impala certification.

[JoeC]

Erik, cool Grumpy Nova pictures

[Belair62]

Wonder who's mighty Mopar is in front of it...looks like Dandy ?

[resto4u]

cool pic, of mr.5&50