Well I had two friends with Novas. One wrecked his but the motor was fine, the other never changed the oil and burned up the motor. I was working in a garage, and we made a project of it and pulled the engine from the one and put it in the other, made a bit of a Frankenstein’s Nova if you will. Got it running good, but then the guy totalled it and that was it for tbe “no va”s .
“the other never changed the oil and burned up the motor.”
I bought my daughter an Acura. She took it to college. One day she called and said there was green liquid under the car. I told her to take it to the local Honda dealership.
She called later, the car broke down. The coolent had stopped flowing and she decided it had fixed itself and was ok to drive. (She did not want to spend the money at the dealership.) She managed to drive it 45 miles before the motor seized and she turned it into a $100 piece of scrap. It was pretty old to begin with but I was really pretty steamed. Last car I ever bought her.