1966 Nova Wagon ( now for some changes)

Thanks for that negative enthusiast comment.... will leave it at that... @Dick Stevens

 

Those will still work on your motor...

 

with the Blueprint crate engine... I may need run a thicker valve cover gasket or spacer on them... The price was right.. little concerned with the breather and PVC .. I'll mess around with them this weekend... Thank you @Deuces

 

I bought a pair new from the local Chevy store many years ago, looked just like them, don't recall if they had notches in the rails, I do know that the pre-1970 rocker covers did not have the cast-in drippers to improve rocker arm lubrication.

 

good to know , thank you @DDDenny

 

My mistake, but the general concept..........a clean basically stock appearing 4 door wagon tends to project a fair amount of street driving in its future.

I personally think that having gearing that provides for both performance and comfortable cruising is one of the most overlooked issues for many rodders. There are a lot of people who have built cars with performance gearing and then found that driving the car any distance was not a lot of fun..... Often those cars get driven sparingly. Met a guy last week at the grocery. He was driving an "unrestored" Chevy pickup (59) that sounded pretty healthy. Parked next to me and we began talking. He told me he had a 383 in it that he built with a 12:1 compression and had to run either aviation fuel or race gas in it.
Now a lot of people would be impressed. Myself, I thought it was not a good choice and would have done it where it was more driveable. But........it was HIS truck and he was apparently happy with the results.

I'm just pointing out that the choices anyone makes while building often affect how usable the completed vehicle is. Times have changed and speed limits are a lot higher, so its a lot tougher to enjoy cruising when you are relegated to the slow lane with semi's constantly approaching from behind.......or move over to the fast lane and and drive at 3500/4000 rpms for miles. A lot of hot rods do not get driven a lot simply because they aren't geared well for cruising as part of the overall equation we call a hot rod.

 

couldn't be more right..

 

had to send back the fuel I got that took forever to get off back order.... finally got the right one, that wasn't boxed wrong.. lol

 

so I finally got tired of the driver side sun visor falling down when driving... new brackets and bushings for both sides.

 

went for a spin in the wagon this evening... still plugging along on updates...

 

Well trying to get the wagon , ready for Goodguys here in Puyallup... We started on Saturday.. market off the do list as we go...

 

Valve Covers changed, wrong fitting for the flow bowl connection on the carb... Summit sent the wrong MSD box mounts...ugh.. miss not having Honest Performance in Federal Way great guys.. Austin Pro Max...closed up the parts section... Doug's Racing Stables been gone along time...Will Plasti-Dip the dip stick hand Black.. get rid of the blue Blue print handle View attachment 6480473 View attachment 6480473

 

Honest Performance in Federal Way brings back memories. Used to spend all my money there in the early eighties.....

 

.. They were great... always had what you need.
Miss that shop...

 

Great looking Deuce Wagon, last one I saw was in 1977 in Peter's Salvage Yard in Oshtemo MI, its front passenger side was hit and the pervious owner junked the 66 Chevy II Mediterranean Blue/Blue interior Wagon, it was a factory 283 3 sp standard on the column. I tried for over five years to get Peter's Salvage Yard to sell me that Chevy II Station Wagon, they had it crushed after keeping it together selling no part's off of it all those year's. It was a terrible waste to find out what they did to the beautiful Chevy II Wagon.
You have a favorite of mine keep her looking great.

Dustin
(1Nimrod)

 

Seems like with all the newer 5-6 speeds in standard or automatic the newer cars & trucks really don't get much better gas mileage, but the RPM's at top is lower then the Muncie 3-4 standard trans and lower then the old TH350 & TH400 automatic trans.
They must be better for buzzing the Interstate Hwy's, right?
Just me thinking out loud in print.
Keep On Trucking Brother's

Dustin
(1Nimrod)

 

Looks great! Wagons are really in!!

 

back on the wagon . been way to long