Introducing Project Nuckin Futz

[awr68]

Congrats guys on the project! Like the word play on the title and you really had me going with the initial project outline! I was like "what the hell?"!!

[Hdesign]

Very cool project! These Novas are really starting to take off in popularity.

[ccracin]

Welcome to the site. Very nice project. Gotta love a Big Block!

Originally Posted by Hdesign

Very cool project! These Novas are really starting to take off in popularity.

I guess everyone will live in the shadows of Notorious! I bet alot of people would like a good project car. Nudge Nudge.

[jaronson]

Had to sell this before we could really start working on the Nova. (Needed the space and money) It is difficult having two ladies in your life. Sad to see her go, but just didn’t use it as much as I would have liked, but building it was more fun anyway.



Nova is stripped and ready to go out to sandblasting:

[GHOSTDANCER]

[jaronson]

Got the car back from the sandblaster, pretty happy with the results. Couple pinholes in the trunk floor and it is overall pretty thin. We are leaning towards cutting the floor out for the tank anyway. Couple other little rust patched we need to repair.







Lucky for us the drivers rear quarter panel was perfect.



Not sure who decided rivets were the best approach for body work. Obviously, we'll drill these out and weld it back together the right way.

Started working on smoothing out the firewall, will post pictures soon, also ordered the Chassisworks subframe and suspension from Jon and Drivers.

[DriverzInc]

What a P.O.S. <---------------- That's for Travis!

That picture of it on the tow rig is funny... we were NOT going 45 that's for sure.

The Chassisworks stuff is going to look great on that car. Looking forward to more updates. And as said before, just glad to help in any way possible. Let me know if you need anything else.

Hmmm... www.wetowyourgarbagehome.com, I'll look and see if that one is available.

[fesler]

Welcome to the site and the car looks like a fun build, if you guys run into anything let me know as I am building a 1970 Nova right now as well and have run into issues that we have worked through like fitting the

19X9.5 with 285/35ZR19s front and 19X12 with 345/30ZR19s rear. This is a super wide tire and looks just sick on the car and can be done with not that much extra work.

Good luck and keep the pictures coming

We will be building a set of billet hood hinges for this car so if you are intested let me know.

[7TSS]

Nice starting point. 3rd gen Novas are starting to get popular around here.
Enjoy the build guys.

[jaronson]

Thanks for the welcome guys.

It is funny you mention the tire/wheel sizes. We were just talking about that this week. I would love to fit 12's on it. Do you have to replace frame rails? or is it the body that hits? I was told by DSE that 315's were as big as we could go on the Novas.

I think the 3rd Gen Novas are becoming popular is because there are no more '69 Camaros left.