Facebook Marketplace ads are always light on information, and that’s the case with this fairly rare and snow-covered 1964 Chevrolet Nova station wagon in Marion, Ohio. The owner wants $13,200. This particular car is very nostalgic for me, because my parents had a nearly identical white 1963 Nova wagon when I was a young teenager. It was a darned good car, though I think it was gone before I had my license. We lived on a hill, and my mother failed to put it in park, whereupon it rolled down and left a sizeable dent in the tailgate. The car still ran fine. We never got it fixed, so the way back was now inaccessible.

So what do we know about this very similar 1964? It’s a six-cylinder auto just like our old car, and “everything works, except the dome light and the horn.” The ad says, “Needs very little to be a show car.” But that seems a bit much. It’s more like a nice driver, sourced from the south and a “very solid ’64.” Indeed, the undercarriage shows only minor surface rust. New on the car are the brakes, tires, and gas tank. It “runs good,” and the owner is open to trading it for a Willys Jeep.

The “compact” Nova/Chevy II was of semi-unibody construction from the beginning and first appeared in 1962 as competition to the Ford Falcon, which debuted in 1960. From the beginning, it was available in two- and four-door sedan versions, plus a 400 convertible (my high school car, actually, in bright red) and station wagon. The Chevy II was a hit—my convertible, probably the rarest of the lot today, sold 23,741 units.

In 1964, the new Chevelle took some sales away. For the first time you could get the 195-horsepower 283-cubic-inch V-8 in the Nova. Tom Waits sings about “buying a second-hand Nova from a Cuban-Chinese”—maybe it was one of these hot rods. The six in the 1964s was all-new, a 230-cubic-inch unit, replacing the Stovebolt. The Sport Coupe was briefly out of the 1964 lineup, but demand brought it back. Chevrolet sold 35,670 four-door Nova station wagons in 1964, not bad.

If you’d been looking for a cool old wagon, this Nova could be the end of the trail. Mechanical parts are easy to find, and this one doesn’t need any body panels or interior trim (of which there isn’t much).

The $13,200 being asked for this Nova isn’t totally out of line. Classic.com sees 1964 Novas at an average of $30,000. That may seem crazy, but a ’64 Nova wagon nearly identical to this one (but with less than 6,000 miles) reached an epic $51,700 at auction last year. Wagons like that are cool. A pity I didn’t keep our ’63, but it’s the ’62 400 convertible I had in high school that I really miss.