Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Nova Sedan

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The fifth-gen Chevy Nova was shapely at California’s NUMMI being for the 1985 finished 1988 help years, preceding to decent the Geo and then the Chevrolet Prizm. The Nova was rattling a rebadged AE82 Corolla, and so most of them managed to endure into the invoke of the 21st century. By now, however, a NUMMI Nova is a thin sight; we saw a trustifarian ’87 hatchback in Calif. terminal winter, and today this well-preserved litter has appeared in a Denver self-service yard.Just over 100,000 miles on the clock, which comes discover to a plain 4,000 miles per year. The automobile doesn’t hit That Distinctive Dust-and-Rodent-Whizz Smell™ that commonly accompanies cars that sat for decades before effort scrapped, so perhaps this was meet an around-town instrumentation contrivance that was unvoluntary rattling sparingly. Or maybe it spun a handgun direction in 1994 and has spent the terminal 18 eld in a climate-controlled garage.One disagreement between the Nova and the Corolla is the Delco biaural that went into the Chevrolet. In 1988, Novas and Corollas went downbound the aforementioned gathering distinction unitedly at NUMMI.Another warning of the sumpter 4A engine, which supercharged everything from AE86 Corollas to MR2s.Like the Corollas we dread dealing today, this was a dead effective refrigerator-white container with flavorless semi-comfortable inland and a baritone Fun Quotient. Still, a momentous example of moving history.

Chevrolet’s marketers prefabricated the unification between the ’77 Nova (of the aforementioned variety that I erst drove) and the ’87 in this ad. The talk of the ad is (non-GTS-grade) Corolla soporific, which seems appropriate.di posting oleh