Being a detail person I like the little detail of having a Chevy Bowtie logo on the front market lights of this 1976 Chevrolet Nova. This one-owner car can be found on Craigslist, or here on the CL archive, with an asking price of $6.000 cash. It’s located in Independence, Missouri. Thanks to Rocco B. for sending in this tip!
It’s hard to believe that by 1976 there had already been three previous generations of the Chevy Nova. By the mid-1970s we were starting to get into an unusual era, at least in the U.S., with regulations and gas crisis after gas crisis, not to mention white belts and shoes. Yeah, it was unusual.
Chevy tried to keep it real by evolving the Nova instead of going crazy on a total redesign. They just tightened things up a bit, steering the car a bit more into the personal luxury category and making the Nova a little more elegant even with their lower trim-level cars such as this one.
According to the seller, this Nova has only 46,819 miles on it and it does look good. They mention some “Rust On Very Bottom Of Quarter” but it’s hard to see in the photos. The interior looks great and those seats are fantastic. I’m reasonably sure that I had pants and/or a silk shirt in that pattern if not both. This car isn’t a “Concours” edition Nova which for 1976 was the top luxury trim level, but for 1976 this car has power steering, power brakes, and even AC.
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how a person looks at it, there isn’t a V8 in this Nova. This one has Chevy’s 250 cubic-inch inline-six which would have had 105 hp and with that AC running, ouch. I used to have a Saturn SL-1 four-door 5-speed sedan with 100 hp and I was sharing the truck lane most of the time on any hills what so ever, but I got 42 mpg and I doubt the next owner of this Nova will get anything close to that. Have any of you owned a fourth-generation Nova?
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