‘69 Chevy Nova 2 door. Businessmens special. Inline 6, 2 speed powerglide, no radio, no air conditioning. No nothing. Black vinyl bench seats that would blister your butt if you sat on them on a hot summer day. Bought it for $300. Went through the basics: cap, rotor, points, condenser, coil, plugs, fluids. Scraped 2 inches of sludge from inside the valve cover. Didn’t realize how sludged up that powerglide was until one day the trans shifted 20mph quicker. Never shifted at the higher speed again. The body was rust city. But you just could not kill that driveline. Wish I’d kept it.
CC
That is usually how it works: it is the quirky cars tat we loved the most. One of my high buddies bought a second hand car from the grandmother of another mutual friend. It was a 1980 Olds land yacht. The car had some quirks, but my buddy still says that he misses that car.