1967 Chevy Nova L79 327/350 hp | Old School Muscle Car
It was a fun day shooting with our friend Ethan's Uncle Chris. Chris is an old school car guy and has owned some cool ones including this 1967 Nova L79 327/350 hp car. He'll get into the details of what it was and what it has been since he purchased it almost 20 years ago.
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You know I appreciate all the high dollar builds but it's refreshing to see a plain Jane bone stock car!
Same for me. Very refreshing to drive a pure old school muscle car
These beasts were built for one thing. More than one Muscle Car saw nothing but tail lights from these "Econo Boxes".
I love it. Why deal with drama? It's simple, it works, and it's easy fun.
Exactly. I love the customs for sure but this one is considerably less temperamental and just as cool
Had a '66 L79 4 speed back in the mid 70's. Absolutely stock it pulled 309 @ 5200 at the wheels when dyno'd at Nobu's Auto Lab in Hollywoood California. Note also the ENGLE cam stickers. Knew Jack, Mark, and Doug Engle very well as I later started a BMW, MBZ, Porsche performance facility right next door at 1629 12th St in Santa Monica. Thanks for the blast from the past.
Could listen to that little 327 cruise at 3200 alll day long!
Love these post Nova's with an l79 and dog dish caps true sleeper!!!
Awesome car. My next door neighbor had one identical to this when I was growing up and I rode in it several times. 6 cylinder powerglide.
Very beautiful Nova brother. Also I'm loving the music as well.
Kyle on the editing nailed it again and yeah, loving this little old school Nova
@@AutotopiaLA Sounds awesome brother.
Back in 1967, my cousin ordered new 67 Chevelle in the same red color with the dog dish hubcaps and had to read wheels and was a 4-speed. This Chevy to reminds me so much of his car. First thing he did to that Chevelle please get rid of the wheels and hubcaps and put a set of Cragar wheels on it. It was the first modification back in those days. Another fantastic show. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it and got transported back in time 👊
The Late Steve Tate, and his family owned Gallatin Mo. Co. In Gallatin Mo. and raced this same car for years from the factory to the strip. I never new how rare it was till I grew up. Sadly I heard it was sold sometime after the late 80s and cant/hasnt been located . Bethany Mo. Drag strip had a lot of fine cars and bikes back then racing and still does today. We need more affordable drag racing for the youth today help the USA get back to the hands on proud manufacturing Nation we once were.
My dad has a 1967 Nova with a 4 cylinder. It has 3,600 miles on it. You read that right. My dad bought it off an old man who is now in his 90s. He sold my dad the car because he promised to keep it stock. I offered to buy it from him and he knows I already bought a 1967 327 for it, He winked and said as long as you keep it stock. So he still keeping his promise with the old man.
Bolero red That owner, stoic as he seems is sharp as a tack and funny! Guarantee he had his share of stoplight wars back in the day This was the engine that prompted the 340 Mopar. Both were killer st motors. Lots of st racers kept drums as they were lighter than disc setups. Love this car...this cam was used in the L46 Camaros L82 2nd gen Z/28 and L82 vettes.
beautiful ! classic no nonsense basic design, sporty coupe , period correct, simple and pure , with just the right amount of balance size and power. really beautiful !
Love this one 👊
Beautiful. I've driven a real L79 4 speed car (66) similar to this one. Lot's a fun with those skinny little tires.
I love the High$$$$$ builds but there's just something about the Old School Muscle that trips my trigger more than any other.
I love em all the same. This one is really special
Simply beautiful, What a sleeper
I bought a 67 nova in 1967 it was a true L79 327/350 HP 4 speed road warrior. It was Bolero Red and tuxedo black interior 2 dr sport cp.. The car was fast as hell but it would not stop at the top end. The 4 wheel drum brakes were a joke. The main reason I sold the car it would not stop. There were quite a few times my rear end puckered when I tried to stop.
They only made 6 L79 Chevy II in 1967, there are only three known to exist today and worth a small fortune
To be accurate the '67 L79 was rated at 325 hp. as Chevrolet swapped out the Holley carburetor for a quadrajet .
I had a 67 Nova with a 283 and 3 on the column. I had a friend install a 327/350 HP cam (the cam was 17 dollars) because I think the L-79 cam makes the best exhaust sound ever. I traded the Nova in 68 for a new Z-28 Camaro....
The plane Jane look is my favorite.
I love it too
Awesome car man love the raw cars in there original from
Nice, my first car was a 1962 Nova 4 door sedan. Always wanted to get a 63 2door coupe SS.
These are so cool. I prefer this body over the 68 and newer personally
It's a bitch'n ride for the old boy's! When I'm 70-80 yrs old I'm gonna get me one of these and drive down to the local retirement village to pick me up some fine ass! 🤣🤔😂
😂😂 hilarious!!
OG cool, scenic location!! 💯👊💯
Still can’t believe there used to be a track here and it was designed by Ken Miles!
Low key driver that rumbles with just enough muscle to make you want to drive all day!
Exactly 👊
Shawn, I checked the price of a new '67 Chevy Nova back then and the original MSRP price started around $2660.00. Can't wait to see the the finished '69 Grimm 7.0 Camaro. Keep the good videos coming. Later!
I figured it would be somewhere around there. And yes on Grimm!! We’re shooting more out there next week and sema is right around the corner. Can’t wait to drive that beast!!
If I had this car purely to race, of course I would put headers & 4:10 gears or even lower. And believe it or not, although the drum brakes are sketchy after a bit of use, they are something like 11 lbs PER WHEEL lighter than disc brakes. 44 lbs less weight is quite a bit, especially for un-sprung weight in the wheels. BETTER for drag racing, because you're only braking once, and then there's plenty of time between runs/passes to cool off. I would only want discs up front if it was my daily driver.
In 1966 the L79 was rated at 350 hp and it came with a Holley carb and an aluminum intake manifold and they built around 6000 of them. In 1967 they switched to a cast iron manifold and a Quadrajet carb and only built 6 of them in Chevy ll's and rated them at 325 hp. This car has the 325 hp sticker on the air cleaner and it looks like a cast iron intake. Common belief is that the Camaro was coming out in '67 and they didn't want the performance of the Chevy ll to outdo the Camaro.
Cool Nova. Gives me that Dirty Harry vibe that I love (although DH never drove one).
Awesome comparison!
I totally love that year of Nova, I don't mind the 69 Nova but the 67 Nova is my favorite, I wish y'all do a shoot with a 67 Plymouth GTX
Ooh, a 67 GTX...now that would be cool to do
@@AutotopiaLA like I always say us mopar lovers have stick together.
I'm currently building a plastic model of a 66 Nova awesome car
I have a friend back in Pennsylvania that has a 66 or 67 (can't remember which) Nova. Nothing fancy but still running on its original motor and drivetrain. As a matter of fact everything is still original. But what alot of fun to drive. So this Chevy II is awesome imho. Great paint and interior. And just like its owner it ain't gonna go fast so it'll be around for a little while longer. lol Great episode man. I dig it.
Glad you enjoyed this one. The owner is as cool as the car
That’s a cool little nova. Love it bro 👊👊
Yeah man...simple and cool af 😎
SD home run again brother!! Underpowered, but built for longevity!!
Yeah man...old school cool 😎
Looks good!
Yeah, cool old school car for sure
Looks like a getaway car . Cool 😎
Awesome car!
Agreed, as is the owner Chris
67 is the best. 327. Damm.
Love it brother!
Yeah, cool car and even cooler owner
My neighbor owns this same car and it’s so beautiful
67' Nova. Sweet as'. The only one that beats it in styling is the pillar less offering of the same year. Kelly Chadwick from Texas used to drag one of these on the West coast, red , naturally!
Agreed. No post is cooler but this is such a cool car and owner
A very cool car!
Agreed. Simple and beautiful
These L79's fkn hauled.
So clean
Yeah...simple old school beauty
Great Car, Great video. Please.... 1967 is a Chevy II . Nova became the moniker in 1969.
We know it’s a Chevy II but pretty much everyone calls it a Nova
Just old school cool!
Agreed 👊
It’s crazy that used to be a racetrack back in the day at paramount, too bad it’s gone, or we would be tearing it up and avoiding an 8 foot wide bridge, maybe not even 8 feet. 🤷🏽♂️🐦
Still hard to imagine that people like Ken Miles were involved and that it lasted for such a short time. Wish it was still there
I got my first posi track unit out of a 67! Just think how old that thing is it and still how much fun it is!
Yep. Still a badass after all these years
@@AutotopiaLA you have to find a 61 to 63 Ford unibody pickup truck and do a shoot on that! Those were the years where the bed was attached to the cab.... love your channel keep up the great work!!
Just one motors 427 4 speed is one slippeur soo good yes sir
Just bought the same car, would love to know what size wheels and tires. 14x7 or 15x7, and tire size.
Nice nova
Super clean old school ride
I love how he built it based upon how an L79 Nova would have been in 1967! He choose not to do even the most basic upgrades that most would do to an early Nova! This car doesn't have disc brakes . There are no front suspension upgrades even though the front ends on these cars are notoriously bad! He has the stock exhaust manifolds and intake where as most people would install headers and an aftermarket intake manifold. While some of these upgrades might make the car more enjoyable to drive, There are plenty of modified Novas already out there!
Imagine that Granada gold with the white top. I like his car but I’d love to see it in gold
THIS is the way to do a restoration.
A 327/350 came with an aluminum intake manifold and Holley.
I read on Stevesnovasite.com that back in 1966, There wasn't a huge demand for the L79 Novas, even though a real 350 HP 327 in a light weight Chevy II chassis, gave the L79 Novas more performance from the factory than other GM platforms.
327 350 hp was a big block killer.
Sure was. Love this piece of history right here
Yooôo one nova mk2 stok 350 hoseepower y love it the cars
Thought that one was the Chevy 2. The Nova trim package had more of a sweeping rear roof line. And didnt have the post style that made it so boxy. In a way the 1967 Chevy 2 Nova trim package. The cab/roofline was more similar to the Chevelle of the same year.
For example the gold car at 1:49 is a different car than the red car. That car is not the same car. The way the white part of the roof line comes down is one of the biggest differences.
Correct , the red car is a 100 series Chevy II , the gold car is a 400 series Chevy II Nova .
Looks like Grumpy Jenkins old car!
That’s what Ethan said too
My dad paid $2800 for his 68 Roadrunner 383 and paid $3600 for his 69 Roadrunner Hemi. I imagine that Nova couldn’t be more than $2500 new.
Right in that price range for sure. They sure have gained value through the years haven’t they?
Chevrolet nova 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍🇧🇷
👊 clean old school car
at 1:52 you show the "original car" (gold with white top) but it's a (beautiful) hard top. this one is a 'post' model. more suited to grandpa!
Just FYI.....that is a Chevy II, not a Nova.
Yep. But if you call it that most people don’t know what you’re talking about so we joined the party and called it a Nova
It's not a Nova! It's a Chevy II model 100. Nova was a trim level only available on hard tops!
I know but if you say Chevy II most people have no clue so we just call them Nova’s
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The Nova name didn’t come around until 69. It even says Chevy 2 on the badges.
67 Chevy II series 100 is a 2 door post, as in the video. The 67 Chevy II, series 400 is the 2 door hardtop super sport Nova
In 67 that was the "gross" horsepower rating. "Net" horsepower is quite a bit less. It really depended on the manufacturer and the engine, but probably subtract about 50 to 100hp from the gross to get the net. Net HP for this engine was probably around 275. In 71, GM gave gross and net ratings for their engines, so you can look at those and get an idea of how much lower the net ratings were. And the net ratings were more realistic as they (should have) included all the accessories and full exhaust...
Sorry , but you can't compare the engines from '71 to the earlier engines , as they had already started to drop the compression ratios . The L79 had 11.0 to 1 stock . By '71 they were down to 9.0 to 1 . That makes a big difference in itself .
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 Sorry, but I wasn't comparing the 67 and 71 engine output at all. My example is only to show the big difference between gross and net HP numbers - using the differences between the 71 engine's gross and net numbers - as GM provided both that year. Gross numbers were mostly unrealistically high.
@@westernapache1700 you still cannot compare the '71 gross numbers to those of a '67 because of the compression difference . Not to mention the camshafts are not the same .
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 Yes, I know. I am not comparing the 67 to 71 engines. I am only using the example of the difference between the gross rating of the engine and the net rating of the engine. I'm only talking about the difference between how manufacturers rated gross and net. The gross numbers for any engine from any manufacturer were not useful - as the gross engine output was often measured when the engine had no accessory drives, no air cleaner, open exhaust, etc. - so the customer would never experience that output in the new car they just bought unless they modified it. The gross rating sounded good, but was not realistic. For the net rating, everything was attached to he engine just like it would have been in the vehicle. The net rating was more realistic, and something the vehicle owner would actually experience as received from the dealer. So the 67 in this video didn't really have 350hp as found in the vehicle as received from the dealer - because 350hp was the gross rating. The actual rating would have been around 275hp net.
@@westernapache1700 are you aware of the fact that the manufacturers had a habit of underreporting the horsepower and torque numbers in order to gain an unfair advantage in organized competition and to keep the insurance companies off of their backs . For example; in 1966 you could buy a SS 396 Chevelle with a engine rated as high as 375 hp. Yet in 1965 the very same engine was rated at 425 hp. and the NHRA caught on to this and adjusted the rating for that engine in competition , along with many others .
It's not a Nova. It's just a Chev II
The 67 Chevy II was lighter than a 67 Corvette.
I'm lost because he said it's only about 300 hp when everybody who knows anything about the L79 they know it has the hydraulic cam and lifters with the camel back heads with the 202 valves and 11:1 compression so if this is a true L79 there is no way its 300 hp now they do have a 300 hp 327 so I would think that that's the one he has here. what say you?
1966 chevy nova super sport 327 375 hp,i owned one and smoked a lot of rat motors&elephants!1166 only
375 hp. was not available in any '66 Chevy as that was the fuel injected Corvette engine and GM dropped the fuelie after '65 . Also there were no '66 SS Novas , they were Chevy II SS cars . I've owned four of them , there were no Nova emblems on any one of those four cars .
quit splitting hairs on the name,the turbo fire 350 horse was available.under rated as it was.ours dynoed out @376 horse power at our own facility in san bernardino calif.from the factory stock. PERIOD.!!!@@bobbrinkerhoff3592
This dude is a little something.
He’s awesome! Funny quirky sense of humor. Cool guy and cool car
It’s not a Nova is a 100 series Chevy 2
True but most people call them Nova’s
Clicked to see a L79 Nova. What I got was hearing about Ricky Best, a great guy who died without providing life insurance for his family. Sorry, not my idea of a "great guy".
This isn't a Nova technically it's a chevy ii
Now this is nice...I'm old school, and the '67 Chevy II Nova is one of my all time favs... And this is a perfect example of K.I.S.S....Should've kept the Powerglide though...
Manual transmission all the way
The Rangoon Red reference is borderline blaspheme!.....that's a FORD color (yuck)....for '67 Chevy's it's Bolero Red! BTW there nephew w/the teeth, it's "Grumpy!"....NOT 'Bumpy! That short 'throw' (gate) was a 4-year-only ('64-'67) window of adjustment on the M20 & M21 Muncie shifter.
Nice car not some hacked up ruined classic.
Yep. Clean old school muscle car
Yeah don't bring it to Overhauling. Let's tuck in the bumpers and move the gas cap. Also let's put some 20 inch wagon wheels on it. Not a big fan of that show.
Red is basicly a flag for gay ppl, (pretty obvious by these 2 ) the orig gold was a real mans nova hands dwn. Wht a shame
Thank you for dropping a big terd here…