1962 Nova Build

[Steven B]

Originally Posted by Che70velle

Welcome to LatG Mr. Bunker! Great start you have there, but I have to admit that I was hoping that you'd found your original car. Thanks for the introduction!

Thank you! I do know where my original car is and at first it pained me to see it around. My old car was built by a shop and my dad actually built that shop owners drag raced twin-turbo El Camino. So I've been following along with its build. It turned out very nice and the quality is top notch but there's a couple things I would've, and will do with my new car now, differently.

[kevin_l]

Welcome aboard, that sounds like it will be a fun little chevy II and you made a good choice on the dse sub. What are your motor and transmission plans?

[Steven B]

Originally Posted by kevin_l

Welcome aboard, that sounds like it will be a fun little chevy II and you made a good choice on the dse sub. What are your motor and transmission plans?

Thanks, going with an LS-something and a 6 speed. What exactly I'm not sure, one step at a time and getting it rolling is step 1. Motor and trans is step 2 haha.

[DEIGuy38]

Welcome Steven. Was Bob Bunker your Grandpa? I used to go to Sac raceway and watch the Folsom Flash run. Loved to watch that car.

Nice find on the Nova and good choice on the Detroit speed front subframe. Good luck on finding the other parts need to assemble the 62.

[Steven B]

Originally Posted by DEIGuy38

Welcome Steven. Was Bob Bunker your Grandpa? I used to go to Sac raceway and watch the Folsom Flash run. Loved to watch that car.

Yep he is my Grandpa, we're kicking around the idea of restoring the Flash to how it was back in the 90's. My grandpa kept the original steel doors and front end that were on the car before he made glass ones.

Originally Posted by DEIGuy38

Good luck on finding the other parts need to assemble the 62.

Thankfully my dad has a customer that recently built a '62 Nova into a drag car. He didnt want to use the trim or glass and he got carbon fiber bumpers so that left me with some more parts I was looking for - misc. trim, front and rear bumpers, wing windows, rear taillights, etc. The small stuff is building up.