The 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS arrived as a compact coupe with the heart of a heavyweight, a car that chased raw power and a sharp power-to-weight ratio even as its basic bones struggled to keep up.

Nova production figures skyrocketed in 1969, with Chevrolet eventually shipping over 251K units. The Super Sport output more than tripled, jumping from 5,571 units in 1968 to 17,564 cars, mainly as ...

The Nova packs a 402-cubic-inch (6.6-liter) big-block V8, which is a correct displacement for a 1970 Chevy. But it's not what ...

It's a story as old as the car hobby itself: Boy buys car. Boy drives car. Boy loses car. Boy longs for another. There's not a reader in the congregation who isn't nodding his head as he reads this.

With a name like Dan Novara, building a Nova came naturally to the guy. I mean, he couldn't really drive anything else, could he? Still, the 1969 Nova that Dan built is in a class by itself, both in ...

Muscle car and SCCA legend Don Yenko built incredible performance cars from Chevy stock, out of the Yenko family’s Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Chevy dealership. However, Yenko didn’t start with Camaros; ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Scott Sullivan’s tubbed Chevy II is credited with igniting the Pro Street movement upon its debut at the 1979 Car Craft Street Machine Nationals. It was a show-quality car with trend-setting style and ...