The 1966 Chevy II Nova SS arrived in showrooms as a compact coupe with polite proportions and restrained styling, yet it quickly earned a reputation for humiliating larger, more expensive muscle cars.

1966 was the first year of the second-generation Nova. Total production tallied 172,485 examples of the breed, of which only a handful survive without corrosion problems or aftermarket modifications.

We didn’t think much of the Nova when it came out. Chevy wanted an economy car with RWD and sensible engines that anyone could afford, and thanks to its relative simplicity, the 1960s Nova is a ...

Imagine graduating high school and your dad says you can have any car you want. Today it seems you have to be rather rich but, back in the 1960s, it seems it was more attainable. In the case of Roger ...

“My older brother loved cars. When I realized that I wasn’t going to be a professional baseball or football player … I had to have something to do.” So began Dave Terry’s long association with the ...

But that changed in 1965. For a mere $107.60 over the base 250hp 327, the new L79 offered both Corvette shoppers something attractive and new. With 350 hp at 5,800 rpm, the L79 was only 15 hp shy of ...

Louis Feis vividly remembers the day he ordered his very first new car. It was in late spring of 1966, and he was trading in his four-door 1964 Chevy II for something with a little more pop. "After ...

When Chevrolet introduced the L79 in 1965 for the Corvette and Chevelle, it soon became known as a Hemi-killer thanks to Grumpy Jenkins and his Nova in 1966. It lasted through 1968, but for 1969, ...

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