The pictures seen above are pictures of how I found the car, sitting in a farmer's field in Morden, Manitoba. I purchased this car for $500, tho the interior was ripped out of it at the time, all the pieces were in the trunk. A few small pin holes in the floor pans, left front fender was hanging on by a bolt. It started up and ran fairly smooth once we put alittle gas in the tank, but the car in general appeared in good shape.

I checked the car over, seeing what condition various compartments were in. I kept a small list in my mind of parts I was going swap with my 73 from this 74. So I took a gamble and bought the car, August 11/2000. I was planning to fix it up for my girlfriend (at-the-time) Candi, but we split in November. At the time, I was storing it at her parents place, and they asked me to move it when I could somewhere else to park the car. I had no place for the car and bringing it home wasn't an opinion as my parents woulda KILLED me for buying another car. So I was selling it for $500. I ended up selling the car to a buddy of mine at work Sid, who bought it for $600 with the Rallye Rims, Dec 27/2000.

This is more or less what the Nova looked like when I sold it to Sid, minus the new springs, exhaust, and window tint.

At the same time as I bought the green 74 Nova, Marcel (the seller) had a second nova sitting there and that was the car he was gonna use for parts. Tho he sold the engine and tranny out of it, I picked it up cheap. Turns out this other Nova had Air Conditioning and Front Power Disc Brakes. Two pretty rare opinions I hear. That was the first Nova I've seen with Air Conditioning in Winnipeg. I'm planning on putting the Disc Brakes on my 73 someday, and I sold the A/C to Sid for the 74.

I spent about a month fixing up the car slowly, replacing parts, and patching small pinholes in the floor doing some minor body work.

With some help from Glenn Evans, (friend from work, who helped me out with his PROJECT MEAN GREEN), I attacked the body and has grinded some rust off, and I thought about going wild with this Dyno-Glass Bondo stuff and Fibre Glassing to fix up the bad spots. I used that and some fibre glass to patch some small pin holes in the floor, and then undercoated it and painted it black for now. I wanna wait and see if I can find some carpetting for my Nova as oppose to the rubber-like matting that came with it. Also want to wire in a cigarette lighter so I can have power for my cellphone. I also acquired a set of Chevy Rally Rims for my car, there 15x7's, with CAPS and RINGS.

I figured once I had this car on the road, I would park my 73 and just go wild on this one and just have fun. The way Sid has it built now, was kinda the same way I woulda done it. Atleast the car is on the road, and not rusting away in some junkyard!!

Spring 2001, Sid got the car running. Sid swapped out the tired 305 for a fresh 355, rebuilt TH350 with Shift Kit, tho it still has the stock rear end. Gears are next in the plans for Sid. I had started a website up for this Nova, but when I sold the car, I changed it over and set it up for Sid for his 74 Nova. I took the site down, once Sid sold the car to Brent, and Brent created a site of his own.

Sid sold the car in September of 2002, to the son of another friend of mine whom I work with. I've seen it out this past summer (2004), the car is in all black primer. He had the quarters, & door skins replaced. The Nova was looking good!! Brent sold the car in 2005 and I haven't seen it since ...

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