Opportunity Came A Knockin'

As you can imagine, time always moves on.  For most of us, we marry. Raise our families.  Then the kids become adults and start raising their own families (Jan and I will be blessed with our 6th grandchild!!).  I digress...  Anyway, now with a bit more coin in the wallet and the fact I never did like golf, but there was always my love of cars...and those Novas'.  So, I was telling my friend Chris how I would like to find one of those Novas and build it.  Well, Chris and I sat in front of the computer in search for a lonely 4th gen Nova.  Low and behold, Chris found a 1977 Nova Concours that had been stripped to the bare bones.  The interior was trashed and wires hanging everywhere.  I called the guy and he said he still had the car.  To my good fortune, I was able to purchase it as a complete rolling chassis.  Not much more.


This is a 77 or 78 Nova Concours.  Lots of Chrome!

 I put gas in it and connected up a battery.  Chris and had to do an some adjustment with the timing and to the carburetor and it did start and the Nova ran!!!

I drove it around for a bit, parked it and started tearing it down within a couple of days.  I have an opportunity to make my dream of long ago come to pass.  I have a vision for this cars' build and this is my story.