1970 L78 Nova big money
 

Odometer reads 11,319 miles

VIN 114270W196043

For those who aren't registered w/Mecum,sold for $275,000.00

Gotta be a record!!!

L78 Nova...
 

A beautiful car...very nice details. The selling price is above a Gibb car or Deuce...wow! Must have been some serious bidding going on.

If this was an 11k mile car with the original owner until a couple of months ago...it was obviously restored at some point. Judging by the photos...it would appear to be fairly recent. I would like to know who did the work, they did a nice job. I would also love to see what it looked like before the resto.

The documentation is impressive...those are the only other L78 Nova chassis and body broadcast sheets I have ever seen, except for mine. Paperwork calls for rally wheels...and the white letters were not a Nova option. Again...a beautiful car.

This seems like a new benchmark for the L78 Nova...maybe I should have kept a few :tongue:

-wilma

Wow.

if the car only had 11K miles, ot could very well just been pristine with no restoration required!

Do not think so.
Look close.

Were Novas exempt from smog rules?

Agree it looks good, but this price level needs a microscope IMHO.

Never saw a Nova with the Red Oxide undercarriage, usually Blk with color overspray. Car was "fluffed" at least. IMO, the docs pushed the price higher than market

1970 L78 Nova..
 

This is in response to the last two replys;

-Novas were not exempt from smog...this car should have the AIR system with plumbing, pump, etc. All high cars with solid lifters required smog. If you look close at the engine pics the manifolds appear to be 'non-smog'.

-as for the red oxide primer...our survivor 70 L78 has red primer...the car got Zeibart when new...I have cleaned off a little on the bottom and the red oxide is there. Our car was built in the same time frame as this car [Dec/69]

-wilma

hood has been replaced at some point --- nice restoration minus issues

It looks like the rear lover brackets are there (if that's what you are referring to)

Should have a Muncie shifter too.

Anyone else notice the document of the adjustment sheet? Lot’s of information may be missing?

Man, someone got smoked on that one....

L78 Nova...
 

Ray...

Not unusual for these forms to be incomplete...I have seen many of these with stuff missing. Of course there are many that have more info...just a crap shoot. The guys doing this back in the day never knew us 'auto-detectives' would be checking up on them :cool2:

-wilma

I was surprised to see it is missing the POP info in top right corner too. Not a major issue for me either but it would help to enforce/valiate the POP.

I will guess there will be a few L78 Novas coming up in the January auctions, usually are. It will be interesting to see where those price out compared to this one..

I'd like to meet the runner up on that auction...:)

resolution on my lap top --- couldnt see the reinforcement brkts. ---

"Odometer reads 11,319" obviously doesn't guarantee/promise or swear that the odometer hasn't been turned back, hasn't gone around once already or was never replaced with one that read 11,319, it just means "that's what it reads now".

The car does look fantastic though.

Rolla is very close to me and I’ve been there a lot. Pretty cool that the original selling location is still a Chevrolet dealership. Now, I’m NOT saying it’s the case here but there’s a town right down the highway from Rolla that used to be known as the “Odometer Rollback Capital of The United States”!

It's a very nice car but for that money on a restoration I would expect to see it more original. Was it a previous drag car with those low miles and missing everything?

Looks like a Chinese booster, new door panels, guessing seat covers, 71 up speedo, hurst shifter, wrong front bumper license plate inserts, AIR missing, rubber shielding on the PB cables, Zinc coating on the trans bolts, looks like parts are painted over correct plating. etc.

Description reads "Matching Numbers" All the original to the car parts are there?

Again, Beautiful car but a lot to pay for some paperwork and a recreation?

L78 Nova...
 

Not sure if there was any info on who did the 'restoration' or cosmetics...but for a number like that, it should have a known shop in the presentation. The obvious incorrect aspects tend to indicate it wasn't done by one of the big shops...but, I could be wrong.

A lot of questions for 275 large..

No dog in this fight nor interest in "restored" stuff.

That said this car reminds of when I was looking for a 69 Boss 429.
Started looking in 1985 and finally bought one in 1986.

Looked at one that had "945" actual fully documented miles.
Car was a total rotisserie restoration???
Why does a 945 mile car need that?
Car had very few actual correct numbered and dated parts.

Anyone that knows Boss 429 69 models knows there is a heck of a lot of 69 only Boss 429 only stuff on them.

Looked at quite a few more as they were not in huge demand then.
Most were missing many original parts.
Did not want to fight that battle so I waited.

Finally found an honest one that had been parked early in life.
Peter bought it at SC Motors on Market Street in San Francisco.
He drove it for 33,000 miles until 1971, and it was not on road until spring 1987 when I put it back on road.

I could have bought a "restored' one for $5,000 less.
Moral of the story it would have cost a fortune and probably been impossible to bring a "restored" one to its level of correctness.
Not to mention factory [orange peel] paint and VERY few replaced parts.
To Peter it was just a used car that was a maintenance pain.


Not knocking this Nove as many like shiny stuff.
Do think this price range should include a full disclosure on what is replaced with incorrectly numbered- dated or modern repop stuff.
JMHO of course.

I like cars in street grubs myself.

Pics are said Mustang.
Car is dirty in second pic.
It was not rusty.