Have we Finally Found a Chevy Nova to Restore? Field Find | RUSTORATIONS EP3
2023 ж. 23 Сәу.
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10 months searching for this car has finally paid off. I've made it my mission to not only find a 1968- 1972 Chevy Nova but also to restore it top to bottom. I don't think I could ever had predicted the crazy journey this quest would take me on: abandoned car lots, cars left in the woods for half a century, the ups and down... the madness. Join us now on this crazy journey to see what happens!
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Johns Nova will be a good car! I remember the day when he got it running and took it down the drive way for a little test drive. Definitely can’t wait to see what you do with it🔥.
Oh no way you got to see it in action in person, thats awesome man. Yeah its a great car for sure. We will have to make a return trip when its done so John can take her for a rip!
You really did your homework! Glad you were able to find the perfect car. Looking forward to the restoration journey.
Thanks man really appreciate it. I had to self-learnt my self it was best case Ontario for success.
Glad to see you found what you were looking for. Excited to see how the build goes!
Thanks man. Will be be working on it soon can't wait. Lots planned
Good things come to those who wait and with the completion of your shop now your ready!
Thanks man yes sir it goes true. I literally built that shop out of garabe that was on the side of the road. Dont need to spend a lot to do a lot these days. Just have to build one in the garage now. Thanks for watching and commenting
@@SubdivisionAuto your welcome and you are absolutely right . I've been recycling things all my life they call it now" grassroots " ,but back in the day it was repurposing.
DD Speed Shop fix cars that were in worse shape then the green Nova in the woods.
Doesn't surprise me there are some amazing people doing things with much worse. Beyond my abilities though. That said hoping someone scoops this one up before it goes to the wreckers
DD Speed Shop! DD Speed Shop! DD Speed Shop!
Yes but Dan has experience and going through heĺl builds his channel
Congrats on finding one and making a deal. Cant wait to see the updates
Thank you and thanks for following the journey. Would not be doing this had people like yourself not been this supportive
@@SubdivisionAuto if you need help, don't hesitate to let me know.
I built my 72 Nova back in 1996, from three Novas a 68 Nova that had the trunk smashed in from a wreck way back in 1975 , and a 1971 SS that had no title and was gutted out out for drag racing, so now my 1972 Nova has 68 front cap and bumper with the 71 SS badges and Fender fins, rear end
Thats the way to do it, takes tremendous patience and good amount of skills but thats a hell of a story my friend. I am sure you will never let it go that story is just too good and a lot of work went into that I bet. Thanks for the support will keep updates on the project.
I built my 70 in 1991 out of 2 cars that I paid less then $200 each. Those were the days...lol!
@Country Boy Gas Garage man thats unreal crazy how much stuff got more expensive. But I get it these cars get rarer everyday it's not like they produce them anymore. It's an privilege to own one at this point! Btw your bus videos were sweet
@Subdivision Auto Thank You! The Bus has taken me on quite the journey!
Congratulations on the baby boy. That was an amazing video. I know it took a while just to do all the editing. I'm so glad yall got the car you were hoping for. We'll be keeping an eye out for updates on the progress of the restoration.
Thank you June, yeah this one was quite the monster two and a half months just one video. But i'm a patient guy and believe it's about quality not quantity. Will be posting videos of this project along the way for sure even if they are few and far between, going to make sure they are good. Thanks for the nice wishes and great comment.
congratulation on the newborn, Glad to hear you found your nova cant wait to see the restoration
Thanks Edgar. Can't wait to get it going as well
What a Great Series! You got a good candidate. Hope you continue to share the build with us. Looking forward to parts 4,5,6 and so on! 👍
Thanks man all In the works. Will take a couple years to get it all done but will document each stage for sure. Thanks for the support all the best my friend
Super excited for you man! John sounds like a great guy too, and I'm sure his friend is looking down smiling knowing his nova is going on to create more memories.
Thanks man, yeah John is a great dude fortunate to have met him. For sure will dedicate the first burn to his fallen friend.
Congrats on finding a Nova! Can’t wait to see your coming videos and the restoration!
Congratulations Max you weather out the storm.... I had a 71 SS the same color
Good stuff Jason thank you. 71 ss very nice
Happy about your little family. Your such a good guy! God bless and keep your family always!
Thanks Steve family always the most important thing for me for sure. Thank you for watching and commenting on the series
Beyond happy and excited for you and the boys this project will be an amazing journey and I can't wait to begin able to watch it all unfold 😊
Love you so much :)
You're not related to a Ron by any chance?
@@VicsGarage71 nope
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Max, I am thoroughly enjoying the series. Without a doubt you not only made the best choice, you made the ONLY choice. Also, love your family being a part of it. That's the best part! Wow! Just think, many years from now your boys will be able to tell their friends, "This is when we made our on-screen debut on international media." 😊
I think there is always a lot of value to being patient. I cannot tell you how many times I almost "made a decision" behind the scenes. Keep in mind I didnt film every minute of this but behind the scenes I was working on this everyday, calling people, emails etc. But at the end of the day I always kept to my guns and it sure helped a lot. Yes involving the kids was always the idea. I think its a cool idea for them to "grow up" on camera. Even if they only appear occasionally behind able to go back and see that happens is an amazing memory.... even if its selfishly just for me.
@@SubdivisionAuto Oh no, it is NOT selfish. Actually it's quite generous from my perspective. I think it's fantastic. Besides, you know when a TV series popularity is waning, the producers say, "Hey, lets add a kid or two." LOL
Very nice find. I’m building a 70 ss right now. Very cool cars. Can’t wait to see the first pressure wash vid. Congrats
Never even thought of filming that part, hell of an idea. Thanks and good luck on the 70 SS check in and let me know it goes. Cheers!
Looking forward to this build. Congrats!
Thanks man. Watched some of your video last few months preparing for the project. Well done and thanks for thr support
Hi there from the UK and a new subscriber, it’s really good to hear your enthusiasm for keeping these classic and historical vehicles on the roads and bringing them back from the brink again. Myself and my three brothers were always fixing stuff and cars classic cars and vehicles all our lives, I held my first spanner at eleven years old given to me by my dad and he said to me I want you to unbolt that front headlight on his 1977 Ford Cortina 2.0 Ghia (which needed replacing and he showed me how, from there I was hooked and went with him on my days off from school to his garage and with him picking up vehicles with his classic old beaver tail recovery truck a 1982 Y reg Ford Transit that was 19 ft long and specially built and unique and also I went to college to learn bodywork repair and mechanics and fabrication and welding later on for further study and passed my exams, I owe my dad a lot for teaching us brothers and my uncle’s and grandfather too. You will get it done and teach your sons how to and I have faith in you.
Thank you for the fantastic comment. Staying true to the goal and not giving up. Even if it takes longer to find a vehicle....
Great story, looking forward to the restoration 🌷
Thanks for commenting Albert hope you are well
Straight away you could tell, that's the one. John's story, even the way he spoke... genuine guy. Stark contrast to the guy that went crazy posting online huh! He was a real nut job! haha Super pumped for the next video, can't wait to see you pick it up and start working on it. Watching the XJ Mad Max build was awesome so it would be cool to get an in-depth rustoration of the Nova. Congrats on the new arrival also dude! Glad you're all okay and on the up and up. 👊
Thank you for the kind words as always as well as feedback. Yeah after speaking with John I was left with a feeling like none other. I have got to know John quite well lately and he's a great guy too so I am really happy this happened the way it did. Can't believe you were able to sit through the Mad Max project haha, I made so many errors and talked so damn much in it. One of the reasons I want to do this is to make it right. Lots of errors in the Jeep but thats okay learning experience. This one is going to be very different, getting experts to chip in and spent a lot of time researching proper techniques and science behind what we are going to do. Hopefully I can shut up as well and just get some work done. Thanks for the comments again. New arrival is good times. All the best Sean
@@SubdivisionAuto Man the Mad Max build was awesome, rare to get such an insight into what goes into making a dream project come to life. So stoked for the Nova series man. Talking too much? heck, i know it's not everyone's shtick but i appreciate the in-depth view and how your thinking evolves throughout the project. I'll be tuned in every step of the way. 👊
Glad you were able to get this Nova to save.....looking forward to the project!!!
Thanks for the support man got a lot planned for this. These videos will be few and far between but I thank you for your patience. At the same time I have an amazing lineup of other cars for the main show Between the Wheels. Should be a fun season. All the best
@@SubdivisionAuto And I forgot to congratulate you on the birth of your new son!!! Bet both boys grow up with the love of cars!!! Congratulations.
@Mr. Heated Jacket's Quebec Garage Thanks man yeah gotta start them early!
Awesome.... Glad you found a Nova...looks like it`s in great shape.....nice piece on the family congratulations
Thanks Ross... going to suck to break people's hearts when they see the next episode...
@@SubdivisionAuto Yes indeed....
Enjoyed every minute of your video! Look forwarding to more as you restore your Nova.
Thanks for the support glad you enjoyed it
So glad you got what you were looking for, now the journey begins 🙌
Yes sir. I don't know what's more intimidating: thinking about all the work it took to find it, or the idea of doing this and filming it all. Going to be a hell of a mental challenge. But I'm up for it and wil l keep the journey honest. Thanks again for the support
Congrats!!! I am so glad you found your car. Patient is a virtual. The man upstairs works in mysterious ways. I am so happy you found your project. Can't wait to see your hard work pay off. I have sub to you just see this pationent build. So lets get after it!!! Thank you for notifying me of your find.
Thanks Tony, will be fun getting started very soon and it should be a fun build. Will take a few years but going to make sure this one is done right. Thanks for the support and comments
Your such an inspiration. Drive on my friend drive on. I will be with you until the end.
Thank you for those kind words I shall do my best not to let you down
And by the way if you ever get a ride you raise from the dead and want to sell it, based on what it is I will always be interested. Be blessed sir.
@Shin-Gahn-Do thank you. But I'll be honest I would never sell it because I want to pass it down to my kids.
@@SubdivisionAuto great idea love your family ideals
@Shin-Gahn-Do without family this journey would not be taking place I can guarantee that. Thank you for the kind words
This is awesome Max! Excited to see this next chapter!
Thanks Nick now the real fun beings
So cool to find your dream car. Mine fell into my lap one day in 2012.. The floors were gone and the trans slipped. but I only paid $1k. Most people break their necks trying to get a look and have no idea what it is. The colonnade GMs were a funky group. If you know smooth, you know colonnade GMs.
It sure is....next episode comes out in just under 2 weeks it's a big one... Glad you got yours thats great and a fantastic price. Hard to get anything under 3-5 grand these days even in the worst shape.
That is a great start to a project congrats and good luck on the build looking forward to it. The editing is top notch!
Thanks man. Although watching your videos has shown me the possibilities are endless in restoration; I decided to go for a more "solid" restoration. It's still going to be a lot of work, needs bodywork, floor, trunk Pan and maybe a few others. Thanks for watching professor!
unless a 1ton log has fell on it and flattened it like a pancake , nothing is really past saving. it just requires bit more money but most of all more time . lots of time welding , finding parts , shaping panels, making custom stuff heck even making a box frame chassis for it.
Yeah that is very true. Just requires a lot of metal. I guess I should have worded that better.
I did this too,and found a good one,20 yrs ago in the states tho.Want to see your build
Yeah just takes time man. For sure thanks for the support
Congratulations on your find please keep up the content I have a 71
Thanks Kevin will keep posting videos and filming everything we do to it. Good stuff on the 71 dont let it go they are getting hard to come by these days. Thanks for the support
Congratulations bud! Just don't finish your metal work before me lol.
Haha thanks man
I'm sure it's been said but my advice would be to buy one in the best condition you can afford and if you can't afford one in good enough condition for that money get a loan. My 1972 Nova is super nice and paid for now. There are some things I'd like to do to it differently but I'm not starting with a hulk. Good luck no matter what you decide!
Hi Bo it's a good plan. I don't mind doing more work but certain parts of the car have ro be solid to make it worth it. It would be easier to have an all round solid car if I can find one in original shape. Thabks for the advice much more to come on this
Sounds like South Dakota weather did the very same thing
Nice! congrats on getting what seems to be a nice solid start. Ill be waiting to see the walk around breakdown video of that thing. That SS had to be some kinda scam but damn it was cool looking.
Yeah unfortunately I felt I was always tiptoeing around a scam. I saw over 50 Novas so the vast majority of them I didnt even mention but there were some scamy situations out there. Its just the way it is always some clown trying to make an extra buck at the expense of someone else. Unfortunate. If there is one I have learned in this (which i didnt include) is not to be too quick to act on a car. Even if it feels like the right one dont get excited and be patient. Could save a headache. Will do a breakdown and gameplan of the car for sure.
@@SubdivisionAuto man I totally agree, I had a Chevelle (sell out from under me.) but really I hate that term, because the guy who sold it owed me nothing he didn’t know me or if I would show up and I gave him no deposit to hold it… but sure enough after my 4 hour drive I had arrived to find out the car was already sold. You’ll look back at the hunt and realize how cool/interesting it was…. Now the fun fun is over and the real work begins.
@Jerry N that's right well said. After renovating old houses for the last 7 years (and when I started I didn't know a damn thing about renovating) I am ready to put that to rest and learn the automotive process. Hopefully I can do a half decent job but hey at the very least if I screw up it'll be entertaining
Just got my first car, a 1971 Chevy nova
Right on man!
My wife and i had a 70 and a 72 ss 327.
Very nice. Great cars
how do u find these classic car "junkyards" and these random classics on the side of the road? im trying to find a classic to restore too but having some trouble with it
I just dedicated a lot of time to it I was probably doing 3-4 hours a night . Eventually you learn to find stuff long as you know what you are looking for. I used Facebook a lot "for sale used" groups. Posted what I was looking for and sometimes people would respond. I also joined smaller groups of towns around and posted messages. Used Kijiji a lot had ads on there. And with all that I found a lot.
You need to at least get the dash from the car in the woods, it’s a 68 nova and it has the one year only dash that has the ignition switch on the dash instead of the column
100% right my friend. Keep watching you'll see this car again on this show someone bought it and we wre going yo recover it
I have front fenders LH and RH that came off a 74 nova if are interested.
Thank you for the offer good to know. Unfortunately do not have a car yet as I expected.... next episode comes out Friday to see why.
Check out the junkyards man
Hope you find that nova there are good cars believe me I have a 66 Chevy ii 2 door that my father buy in 66 brand new for my mother my sister drove the hell out of it my daddy was drunk wend he ordered that car am 56 years old and I fix it up and restore it its got a lot of memories in it take man besafe
Nova Omega Ventura Apollo
The BOPs are my favorites...I've owned a couple of Novas...
Big Block it please!
Too bad you're not in the market for a 73 or 74 Nova hatchback.
Believe it or not the 2nd car I went to see was one. They're pretty cool as well but not what I am looking for. Hell of a journey due to being so picky though let me tell ya. Next video comes out next Friday and let me say it's quite the adventure...
@@SubdivisionAuto a hatchback comment because I've got one and I've had it since 1985 ish. The hatch is there got a dash seats are there. Nobody wanted those cars back then but now there's more interests. I traded the other parts off for mustang parts on a car I was building back then as a kid. And cut the V6 engine in a slightly newer Omega. It has very great bones that's in the car was taken off the road but it was ten or twelve years old. More importantly here are a few places you may get parts for when you do find your car. In Minnesota and I believe it's called wind valley Auto Parts. John's down in Texas. There's a couple places in and one in South Dakota but I'm not thinking of the names. Adkins maybe. Probable good sources. I knew three of them and Wisconsin and Minnesota but the last one is crushing out by March earlier this year and Namath had two dozen are these Nova's. I'm also including nineteen seventy-three and seventy-four in that tally. The car you're looking for is very much sought after. If you can find one in Southern Kansas. Especially around Wichita 20 miles to the east, 80 miles to the West. No rust zone and low burnt out by the sun zone. D&h classics in Oklahoma around Shawnee roughly speaking. A good candidate or place to find parts possibly a whole car. All I'm saying is that in the area that I described around Wichita if you get much farther west they like to burn in the Sun but rest will be minimal. The panhandles where the sun ☀️ burns them up in both Oklahoma and Texas. From Abilene Texas on up through Oklahoma including Southern Kansas. Great place to find low Rust cars. But they are often burnt to a crisp by the sun other than that one spot around Wichita over to South Hutchinson that I described in Kansas. I don't think you'll find a lot of novas in that area anyway. Yo out at the rust Ranch is a classic salvage yard but your Nova would be at the upper end of the time period that he would deal with. Rosedale Kansas. I have bought parts from him. I found him worth several hours of drive time. But in his car 600-plus vintage vehicles I do not remember seeing a single Nova. He's always worth a try. One other hand that I found good in searching for cars. Where did they sell a bunch of them at? More so where did they manufacture the cars. Now as these cars are getting older that doesn't work as well. In the past at least those cars are more easily found around military posts such as Army Post. G.i. back in the day with often just toss them aside and go buy another one because they were cheap and they had money to burn to a certain point. I have been around fort Leonard Wood Missouri in years gone by and they have a ton of cars laying around within 30 miles of the post you just have to drive through and explore. I'm not talking about on post, just around it. I was stationed there one time for a two-time and I found this true wherever I went. Novas mustang GTO Camaro and so forth. Last time I was there a couple years ago was for a funeral and I've been there a couple of times for funerals. Those things seem to occur more often and as I get older. Anyway the last one was not necessarily on a military cemetery 🪦. That guy screwed up while he was in the military and lost that benefit but they still gave military honors. But on three sides it was somewhat scenic on the fourside across the road you could see a lot of old cars and if you haven't passed there there was quite a few more going deeper inside of the area of the compound. Maybe I'll stop you can add if you're in the general area I can't say that I saw a Nova. Out in Eastern Tennessee there is a yard but it's Rusty. Around the Georgia Alabama state lines for Florida. I picked up a first generation firebird and it had been sitting on his floor pan for about five years. It is the best no rust floor pan. I have seen on one of these cars ever. They only exception would be the ones I have had their floor pans replace the car has been meticulously kept. It was interesting driving past the alligators to get to it. Just another area that people don't think about often and it's a relatively dry area that often happen about a hundred miles in from the coast. Hopefully these tidbits from about 40 years of my life help you out. I like helping people out with great enthusiasm for the car hobby. Thank you for your reply.
God please help us
Your looking for an American car in the wrong places come down to the states we still have lots of cars everywhere even the two door nova is still findable
100% Tim. Canada is the worst place for these cars hence its been so tough. May end up there sooner than later
What a waste of time , just get on with it man ,
It may be who knows
Just do something. God man. Stop talking and move on