Projects 62 chevy II Parts car? possible future project

That was the exact plan I had for my nieces' sons' 69 Nova, original three on the tree...........
If I could talk them into it!
After I tuned it up that little four cylinder was quite spunky with the manual transmission.

 

Those Novas are good little cars, I had a bunch of them when I was younger. Economical, zippy, cool looking grandma cars were cheap and everywhere then

 

Yeah, the car I mentioned above was a four door, I could just imagine that four cylinder engine with some midget parts in it.

 

I had a few of these. One was a 4 door with a 6 cylinder and the engine had a chrome package on it. Seen this on a later model Chevelle once.

 

Like this?

 

Yep, I was driving around my street a few weeks back making sure everything checks out. It has some scoot for alittle engine, just a fun cruiser. the advertised hp/tq ratings are very close between the 194. Its basically the same motor less two cylinders with a bigger bore same stroke.

 

My grandfather had one like that. Bought it new I’d 1962. Three speed, four door, base series /no radio, and the four cylinder engine. Grandpa left it at our house when le went to Detroit to visit my dad’s younger brother for a couple of weeks. Dad decided that it wasn’t good to let the car sit in the driveway. He was somewhat taken aback when he had to downshift to maintain road speed on a little rise in the road. Grandpa totalled the car in 1970, but the junkyard did sell the engine. I kept the dog dish hubcaps. The car was a rust bucket when it met its demise at eight years old.

I almost bought a couple. The first was a two door hardtop Nova x drag car from the very early sixties, complete with US30 stickers in the window. Would have made a nice nostalgia piece. Didn’t have a place to keep it, as the Boss 302 and 55 BelAir took up the garage space.

The second was a 63 higher trim than my grandpa’s 62, six cylinder, and pretty rusty. We agreed on a price ($600), didn’t want a deposit, but he then flaked and sold it out from under me. I learned something about people on that one.

 

Yes and it had all the steel hard lines chromed. Fuel, vacuum advance, dip sticks and vacuum modulator line for the transmission. Not sure what they were trying to sell back then, maybe the start of gas prices going up.