70 Nova L78 (8000 miles)Toronto Auction April 4th

[1969L78Nova]

Reserve of $30,400 USD!
[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]This was NOT a numbers car. Former race car I was told.
Engine was not correct. Had wrong distributor/rad and intake.Body was 100%.

Martin

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I like the advertisement of "extremely rare '70 L78 Nova...", there were over 4,000 of them in '70, over 5,000 in '69, 600+/- in '68. So, with almost 10,000 L78 Novas, they are not really rare at all!

[Mr70]

Weren't there only 3765 1970 L-78 Novas made? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gif[/img]

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

give or take, either way, they really aren't that rare [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img]

[Allen]

Out of a production total of over 300,000 Novas in '70 (didn't research the exact number), the L78's comprised of less that 2% of that total. I'd qualify that is fairly rare.

The L34's production numbers were even less, and the only thing more rare than them, with respect to production quantity, are the '70 COPO/Yenko Deuces.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I agree with you Allen when comparing them to the total production of all Novas for the year, including 4door cars, 6cyl cars etc... But, if you think about 10,000 +/- L78 cars lined up, or just 4-5k for '69 or '70, that's a lot of cars. My thought is, with 10,000 of them produced, you won't have to search too far to find one. You may have to pass over a bunch of other Novas, but a BB Nova won't be too hard to find. The '70 Yenko Novas really aren't that hard to find either, 175 produced, but if someone was truly looking for one they wouldn't have to look far.

Percentages prove you are correct, but I can instantly think of 25+ BB Novas. A trip to the Nova Nationals will show a several of them as well, probably only about 2% of the show car field but they are always there.

The L34 BB Novas are a lot more rare, what's the total production for the 3 years of Novas?

[Allen]

The L34 production breakdowns that I've seen are:

'68 - 234
'69 - 1,947
'70 - 1,802

TOTAL - 3,983

The L78 number is around 9,383 units total for those three years (68-70).

You can usually find one that is supposed to be a factory 396 car.... the fun begins (as we've talked about at length on Steve's Nova site) is determining if it is a factory BB car, or finding one that still retains the original drivetrain.

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[55chevy]

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My thought is, with 10,000 of them produced, you won't have to search too far to find one. You may have to pass over a bunch of other Novas, but a BB Nova won't be too hard to find.

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I would agree with that. You can look on Ebay or any of the Trader Papers/web sites any week out of the year and usually find more than 1 or 2 original BB Novas up for grabs. Granted sometimes they're not always what you would expect or hope to find, but they're still out there.

Ed [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img]