Newbie with a 73 Nova SS

[jimmer]

Been lurking around for a while now...great site.

After spending a ton of time and money on my Jeep rock crawler project...I decided to pull the Nova outta mothballs now that I have a LOT of time on my hands...got fired in November from my job (management change).

Parents bought the car in late 74...daily driver for my mom and I acquired it in 1986 from her...Car was painted in 1995 and has sat since. Installed the 383 back then and ran the engine a couple times a year...but never drove it...

Need to finish the re assembly and get her fired back up again. Currently installing the Hotchkis suspension...will do the Hybrid brakes and still need to figure out the wheels and tires.

Here is a pic as I unload it into my garage...

Jim
Colorado

[twosaturns]

looks fantastic! I love the '73-4 novas. hatch or trunk? do you have all the SS pieces? what'r you going to do about the big bumpers?

[K5Cruiser]

Nice lookin' Nova. Looks like the kid in that pic is pretty happy too.

[jimmer]

It is a Trunk car...console/gauges/tach etc...HD suspension...blah blah blah...

As for the bumpers...not sure...I would like to "section and scoot them in" One reason that I stalled on the project a long time ago was that the painter 'lost" the front plastic filler panel...and the fiberglass ones were not available yet.

I really like the 73/74 rear...but I like the 68 to 72 front grills and bumpers.

yes, I do have all the ss trim and pieces...grill etc.

Just got the scandc upper control arms today...got the tall ball joints and ordered the tire rod ends and standard howe lower bj's.

Here is another pic before with stock rear springs

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/1515123_IMG1-1.jpg


And a pic after with the Hotchkis
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/1515157_IMG-1.jpg