Anyone who lived in Oshawa, Ontario, in the late 70's through the early 90's saw a fair amount of GM sleepers. Chevy Novas were the norm. Being a GM town, there were all sorts of sleepers on the roads. 😋
Dad had a '72 Nova. 307 cu in. V8. Finally sold the car after it had not been used in years and the guy who bought it drove it to the east coast. He said the gas mileage was bad at first but got better.
If that’s the car I think it is, it’s without doubt one of the craziest sleepers in the world. It was in hot rod magazine like 10 years ago, with all kinds of slick shit. The cage was built to sit as close to the roof and pillars as possible to stay out of view, rear seat was retained to hide the mini tub, carpet hiding the fact that the front and rear subframes were tied together, and the LS2 under the hood has twin Rotrex superchargers with the air to water intercoolers tucked in each fender, along with a dual fuel setup; one cell/pumps/injector set for regular 93, and a completely separate set of cell/pumps/injectors filled with CAM2 race fuel. This thing is nuts and put down 1100 at the time. Favorite nova ever.
@@spraym88 thanks man. I drooled over this car when I was a kid. I’m not a muscle guy, but a build like this is too unique not to be respected. Dude even has harnesses setup on the factory bench seat, there was so much thought and imagination that went into keeping this car’s true identity a secret. The ONLY giveaway from the outside is the tires.
@@gregflores8959 After watching again, it's almost like the guy on the bike notices the cheater slicks, or hears it loping, or maybe knows it's built? Or notices the slicks once he is passed it an thats why he hit the curb? lol Either way, the guy on the bike is a car guy an got launch seats for that Nova
@@naturalaspired yeah but to be fair I’ve called the front corner a quarter panel and I can’t say anyone every misunderstood what I meant. I think we all got what he meant
Its still a sleeper. It has a full roll cage tucked into the roof line/pillers, not to mention its a twin supercharged small block with air to water intercoolers in the trunk. Also its pretty quiet and has original style wheels.
I know damn well when I had my v6 charger that when I look over I'm glad I've got 5% tint and the windows were up, there's no way in fuck I'm going to even try to amuse that thing.
@@cobraconcept1 :D thank you although my dream is to one day put these rather esoteric skills to some kind of constructive use. Gotta tell ya tho... 115 likes? even for an internet luddite like me, I can almost see why people do all that insta....and twitter and whatnot... this is giving me the warms! :)
so what....people have to play with something...boats, atv, Harleys.....airplanes really suck the juice and no body says a word....There goes a private pilot...right to the gas station...NOBODY ever says that!!!
Reminds me of my childhood in the late 60s . Every fri and sat night , tires screeching ,the smell of rubber in the air ,and the roar of the big v8s. Blessed to be an American !
I remember as a teen there was a guy with a green 69 or 70 Nova that had a hidden roll cage and it looked like a recent barn find. He used to make a lot of money racing people who underestimated his car. Reminds me so much of that. Thats why I would never bet my title on a car that looks neglected, but is on the road and not smoking like my late Aunt on Poker Sunday...
I know some1 whose brother works with an Asian guy and his neighbor's friends with a guy who works at 711 that has a customer who comes in only on Tuesdays and he knows a dude who has a civic that can beat this nova any day!!
Well,,, SARMEN, is that your name? Thank you for your view! You know ALOT OF PEOPLE it seems!! What do YOU DRIVE?? Your ignorance just got your comment PINNED!!! Appreciate the view tho
@@spraym88 Lmao I was just pointing out the fact that soooo many kids and I mean kids who don't even have a DL go on YT and watch clips like this only to hate by trashing the American muscle cars 🤣
@@sarmenpm1304 Ahhh ok. Well then I'll UNPIN your comment! Alot of gear heads Love this Nova. I normally pin the haters comments to see the Real Car guys comment on it!
Sleeper my ass, that car is absolute perfection and in all its personified glory! Dont change a thing except the oil. You also have your salutation, approach and launch perfected! This was awesome!
I went to school with a guy whose father bought him a brand new Nova SS while still in High School. That left my friend all of his spending money to up grade the carburetor, the headers, the exhaust, the tires and just about everything else that could make that car run like the wind. Sadly the mechanic who did most of the work, had a family and owned his own garage was killed taking the car out for a "test run". It also destroyed the car.
@dan b I can still remember the names of most of those parts. Holly four barrel carburetor, Hooker headers, Cherry Bomb mufflers, some kind of ice bucket system for cold intake air, Kreager Chrome wheels, Gabriel shocks and a Pioneer 8 track stereo with Jensen speakers. A whole lot of money spent on a brand new car, just waiting to kill someone...and it did.
My interest perked when I saw the tires but what really got my juices flowing was when he was shifting gears at the light to get ready and when he revved the engine before he took off. You could easily see the shimmy in the frame from the tranny torque and the shift down in the front end as the linkage tightened. If I had been at the light and was thinking about racing that piece of junk, as soon as I saw that front end shift I would have been like, “NOPE!”
In my youth, I had a 71 nova 3 on the tree. So much room around the engine you could practically climb in with it. Not too many cars around that could run with that beast, built like it wanted to crash.
Maaaan, I remember that car from HR magazine years ago. Never missed an issue back then. Freiburger, Kinnan, Marlan Davis. Those cats taught me how to wrench on cars. Miss those days.
I knew a kid in school back in the 80’s that had a little red S10 p/u didn’t look like much but he had a 350 all built up in it and that little truck would Go! Lol
I worked with a guy around that same time that had one of those Pontiac Vegas (I think it was called an Astre), the one with the unsleeved-cylinder aluminum block 4-banger. He dropped a 1969 Poncho 350ci with quiet duals in it (with a crowbar and soap, probably) and supplemented his income quite handsomely on the weekends.
My friend had a 396, 375 HP SS Nova. Quickest car I've ever been in. It was slightly rubbed on, headers, open exhaust, Mallory Dual point distributer, Mickey Thompson street slicks...It ate everything in town, even Vettes for breakfast...
My cousin builds novas and Chevelles. He has one Nova that has a Chevy 302 racing engine under the hood. Can't judge a book by its cover. Old muscle rules!!!
I fuckiug hate novas but that was sik! Bro reached up "if any of u r old eneough" n grabbed the shoulder belt n clicked it into his waist ....u knew it was on....rear tire give away be-damnad
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The guy on the bicycle was just teeming with anticipation! Nice American muscle.
Sho was with his opossum grin 😁
He was just wishing he had a car
No...probably was dizzy from inhaling fumes from a poorly tuned engine.
30 years ago buddy on the bike would have had a good job to buy this type of car
@@jimlastname yeah, okay
Anyone who lived in Oshawa, Ontario, in the late 70's through the early 90's saw a fair amount of GM sleepers. Chevy Novas were the norm. Being a GM town, there were all sorts of sleepers on the roads. 😋
That was impressive lift off! I love the old old Chevys
Love the sleepers
I like how Americans muscle cars has a stock velg like dop
stock rims? dope?
@@28_satryohafidzfathanmufli53 a wheeldop i think
What? Huh? Okay? It's me, Little John.
Dad had a '72 Nova. 307 cu in. V8. Finally sold the car after it had not been used in years and the guy who bought it drove it to the east coast. He said the gas mileage was bad at first but got better.
A very cool old car 👍
It's my favorite car. 😍
Axel Foley in da house
Sleeper Nova: drag radials.
That thing hauls up straight
arse! NOVA don't play.
That was the longest fucking red light in the history of red lights.
He said oh it's go time 😂😂😂
Like a brasilian Chevy Opala
I can tell that this is in Gurnee, Illinois heading west on Washington street
Musta been waiting for a really long freight train. But killer camera op anyway. Lol
Thank You
Super sleeper.. massive rear tyres. Not obvious to a blind guy
He didn’t flinch or budge or rev while waiting for the light. He knew what he had. Extremely impressive.
Lol you got that right. This Nova is NUTS. He took it EZ when he let the Transbrake button go
Bro, ever heard what dom say, “The only thing that matters is who is behind the wheel.”
Ha I was thinking the same thing. No show, just go!
@@thanos9240 lol. yes, we have all heard the line an actor recited...
@@spraym88 ok
I was already impressed when it sat at the red light without stalling.
Haha! You remember those days too!
But Nova's are still one of my favorite muscle cars.
Uhh my mustang does sometimes I hate it but I wouldn’t have it any other way😂
@@1k_lance are you a woman
Yeah cause vtecs never stall. Jk
A properly tuned and maintained car whilst already warmed-up shouldn't stall at all/ unless one is a douche and can't drive or keep the revs up nice -
All you gotta do is look at the rear tires and if they’re fat don’t race. Simple enough
my fwd four banger has someting to say....
@@mrcid6114 no it doesnt🤣unless your boost figures are north of the legal drinking age its not saying shit
@@contractkiller7634 just talking about skinnier back tires. leave my boost out of this.
Exactly
Tons of slow cars out there with fat tires.
If that’s the car I think it is, it’s without doubt one of the craziest sleepers in the world. It was in hot rod magazine like 10 years ago, with all kinds of slick shit. The cage was built to sit as close to the roof and pillars as possible to stay out of view, rear seat was retained to hide the mini tub, carpet hiding the fact that the front and rear subframes were tied together, and the LS2 under the hood has twin Rotrex superchargers with the air to water intercoolers tucked in each fender, along with a dual fuel setup; one cell/pumps/injector set for regular 93, and a completely separate set of cell/pumps/injectors filled with CAM2 race fuel. This thing is nuts and put down 1100 at the time. Favorite nova ever.
Thank you for tuning in!! You have definitely done your Homework man!! This comment deserves to be pinned at the top of all comments...
@@spraym88 thanks man. I drooled over this car when I was a kid. I’m not a muscle guy, but a build like this is too unique not to be respected. Dude even has harnesses setup on the factory bench seat, there was so much thought and imagination that went into keeping this car’s true identity a secret. The ONLY giveaway from the outside is the tires.
Your Welcome man. I worked with Dru for many years
I don't know what any of that means but it sounds very impressive.
@Danny P P car go fast but not look fast
I knew the car was a problem when he didn't care about the half of car length he let you take. 😂
^^^this^^^
He didn't say anything about the lead at all. That guy was playing with him. And dudes launch was on point too.
🤣🤣 He smoked me
Ha I was thinking samething
🤣🤣 It's a beast
So many people have no idea of what they are looking at, or listening to.
Facts 💯
I know what I’m looking at and listening to. It’s a Nova. It’s a car.
She may be fine but she's all show, she might be ugly but she's real fast
Is that one dem AMC Pacers?
Deff has a big block under the hood.
This has probably sent so many people to gapplebees
Plenty of gap sauce to be had!
And served them the entire menu
They got the "gap" sampler with plenty of cheese and sauce and a raspberry ice tea to wash it down.
Mmmmm, buuuurp!! Uh oh, taillights!!
Love it 😂
Thank You
Dude on the bike was like: Ahhh the good old days!
I was thinking the same. "I havent seen this for years!!!!" His grin said it all
Indeed! Bet that powerful Nova sent him so far back into his youth that he went home and gave his wife a good hard rodgering!
@@gregflores8959 hahahaha!!!
@@gregflores8959 After watching again, it's almost like the guy on the bike notices the cheater slicks, or hears it loping, or maybe knows it's built? Or notices the slicks once he is passed it an thats why he hit the curb? lol Either way, the guy on the bike is a car guy an got launch seats for that Nova
So true. Ha!
I would've thought twice about racing a guy whose plates say FBI
and that also has more rust than the whole car itself
Full Blooded Italian
Fat Boys of Illinois (club)
Female Bodies Inspector
@@hotrodray6802 or Federal Bureau of Investigation 🧐
Love how the back wheels tucks under the fender
Fenders are in the front. Those are quarter panels
@@naturalaspired 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
What’s it like correcting everyone lol
@@74nova36 it blows my mind how many people call a quarter panel a fender.
@@naturalaspired yeah but to be fair I’ve called the front corner a quarter panel and I can’t say anyone every misunderstood what I meant. I think we all got what he meant
@@74nova36 I'm sorry I don't understand. You can't say everyone every misunderstood 😂 ?
That thing looks like it has old man strength lol I ain’t fuxkin wit dat there, bud.
Things like this are not sleepers if someone pulled up in that trying to race you know damn well he's about to gap some fools
Its still a sleeper. It has a full roll cage tucked into the roof line/pillers, not to mention its a twin supercharged small block with air to water intercoolers in the trunk. Also its pretty quiet and has original style wheels.
You've done your homework man 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Shotgun Paintbrush yeah
@@hebson21 Original wheels with gigantic tires, there's nothing sleeper about that.
I know damn well when I had my v6 charger that when I look over I'm glad I've got 5% tint and the windows were up, there's no way in fuck I'm going to even try to amuse that thing.
Dude on the bike was like, “oh hell this is gonna be good.”
When me and my wife got married our first car was a Nova just like that one same color wow not as fast but nice
Thats Awesome man
73 hatchback, right?
Terry Sprague
My local strip wouldn’t allow my 74 Hatcher on the track W/O a roll cage! Anyone know why?
@@popscyclep8084 Not sure. NHRA rules?
Hardly a sleeper when it's a classic american muscle with an engine bay that's the size of an airplane hangar...
Most of them are slow, what are you talking about
@@noahs8495 m lp i
@@noahs8495 then you've never driven a real muscle car lmao
Bro Novas were like Mavericks. Not that special back in the day. My 77 Thunderbirds hood is over 6 feet. Its got a 6.6 but that don't mean its fast
@@Shade_tree_garage01 yep. With right engine, that Nova could do wheelies from 2nd.
🤯 When your opponent says: *"Its Showtime"* you know your in trouble...
Lol yep. He did
Is that an undercover cop in a dark green nova? - Eazy E Boyz N The Hood Song
🤣🤣🤣 Good one
Nice 👍🏻
Then he dipped into a car, a stolen Nova.
- Slick Rick, Children's Story
1:13 I was expecting the cyclist to smoke everyone, while yelling, "Study Study Study!"
Gotta love golden boy lol
With his trusty Kentaro rope!
Understated
Holy shit, your reference game is on point man!
@@cobraconcept1 :D thank you although my dream is to one day put these rather esoteric skills to some kind of constructive use. Gotta tell ya tho... 115 likes? even for an internet luddite like me, I can almost see why people do all that insta....and twitter and whatnot... this is giving me the warms! :)
There he goes... Straight to the gas station. What a launch!
Comment should be at 1k minimum. Legit LOL, thanks man!
Thanks for the chuckle 😂
so what....people have to play with something...boats, atv, Harleys.....airplanes really suck the juice and no body says a word....There goes a private pilot...right to the gas station...NOBODY ever says that!!!
most underrated comment
That ball hitch poking out like a foot from the bumper is the icing on the cake 🤣, this car is a work of art inside and out lol
Great looking sleeper, back tires were a giveaway and that sound of exhaust counting off.
Reminds me of my childhood in the late 60s . Every fri and sat night , tires screeching ,the smell of rubber in the air ,and the roar of the big v8s. Blessed to be an American !
I wish I was born early enough to experience that lifestyle
Yeah I miss them days too🙃
I smelled that through my speakers
Nothing but the paint job makes that a sleeper.
Kicked-door for added effect
Put your glasses on yo, drivers door has a big dent, unbelievable.
My uncles 68 El Camino was the same color green. I don't mess with those colors because they are a sleeping giant.
I don't know, maybe all the smoke billowing out from under the hood..?
Everything is under the hood makes it a sleeper.
When he said “OH it’s GO time.” I felt that.....
He said: "Show time".
@@andersnielsen6044 “OH it’s GO time.”
You were beaten before the race even took place. That car is a monster...
You ain't lying sir lol. Car is a beast. I know the guy and the car . We were coming back from A carshow
I remember as a teen there was a guy with a green 69 or 70 Nova that had a hidden roll cage and it looked like a recent barn find. He used to make a lot of money racing people who underestimated his car. Reminds me so much of that. Thats why I would never bet my title on a car that looks neglected, but is on the road and not smoking like my late Aunt on Poker Sunday...
No silly paint job or low rider crap. Just pure American muscle ! This Nova is smiling for a reason
Id take that exact car over any import super car. 100%
Agree. The fat slicks in the back would make me think right away that car wasn't stock or a sleeper.
I know some1 whose brother works with an Asian guy and his neighbor's friends with a guy who works at 711 that has a customer who comes in only on Tuesdays and he knows a dude who has a civic that can beat this nova any day!!
Well,,, SARMEN, is that your name? Thank you for your view! You know ALOT OF PEOPLE it seems!! What do YOU DRIVE?? Your ignorance just got your comment PINNED!!! Appreciate the view tho
@@spraym88 Lmao I was just pointing out the fact that soooo many kids and I mean kids who don't even have a DL go on YT and watch clips like this only to hate by trashing the American muscle cars 🤣
@@sarmenpm1304 Ahhh ok. Well then I'll UNPIN your comment! Alot of gear heads Love this Nova. I normally pin the haters comments to see the Real Car guys comment on it!
Is nobody gonna comment on the dude's license plates? 0:45
Its says FB1. From a distance it seems like FBI
Sleeper my ass, that car is absolute perfection and in all its personified glory! Dont change a thing except the oil. You also have your salutation, approach and launch perfected! This was awesome!
“Wow,that Nova sure has gorgeous tail lights”
Sounded like a perfect launch to me. He definitely built that himself
My first car was a 73 Nova. 400 small block 350 turbo auto. I marked up all the streets within a 100 radius. I even have a record to prove it.
You’re allowed to have FBI as your license plate?
A VW Bug could be on 20” drag slicks and I’d be just as terrified
Here in Brazil, you can't never underestimate a beetle...
You can see them on drag strips, pulling unbelievable times!
20" slicks??? Did we watch the same video? If I had to guess I'd say those are 28x10.5 nowhere near 20" wide
Old man on the bike was taken back to his prime with that smile on his face
Absolutely brilliant. The nova is hands down my favourite GM car.
I went to school with a guy whose father bought him a brand new Nova SS while still in High School. That left my friend all of his spending money to up grade the carburetor, the headers, the exhaust, the tires and just about everything else that could make that car run like the wind.
Sadly the mechanic who did most of the work, had a family and owned his own garage was killed taking the car out for a "test run".
It also destroyed the car.
Wow very sorry to hear that 🙏🙏
@dan b I can still remember the names of most of those parts. Holly four barrel carburetor, Hooker headers, Cherry Bomb mufflers, some kind of ice bucket system for cold intake air, Kreager Chrome wheels, Gabriel shocks and a Pioneer 8 track stereo with Jensen speakers. A whole lot of money spent on a brand new car, just waiting to kill someone...and it did.
1:35 the Man on the bike went back to hitting his meth pipe
Guy on the bike definitely knew what he was looking at, beautiful car !
Or was just looking.
They man looked at the camera and smiled. That’s when you know... his time had come.
I saw this car on a RUclips channel called drive. I'm so happy to see that he owns this car still to this day!
I knew I heard superchargers at 0:20
I love the way it looks, the way it sits, the way it barely even registers.
My interest perked when I saw the tires but what really got my juices flowing was when he was shifting gears at the light to get ready and when he revved the engine before he took off. You could easily see the shimmy in the frame from the tranny torque and the shift down in the front end as the linkage tightened. If I had been at the light and was thinking about racing that piece of junk, as soon as I saw that front end shift I would have been like, “NOPE!”
Not surprised. That's how a muscle car should go.
How is that a "sleeper" with those fat rear wheels?!
Nova at that
And traction bars.
People with civics won’t know what’s going on
Adult.videos
Whach
You do know what PONTIAC stand for right?
Guy on the bike knows something about to go down.
That's what I like. A real sleeper. And a real driver.
I'll assume the man built it, too. Even. Better. Holy Smokes!
stuff like this makes me forget my depression :)
Same :)
An undercover cop in a dark green Nova.
That 'FBI' Nova is very well-known and has over 1,000 BHP. Videos of it everywhere. Great build.
Seemed awfully weak for a 1000 hp. I could have smoked a cigarette by the time it made it through the intersection from the time it launched
@@shortthrow50 yes it seemed weak but i dont think he was pushing it to the max
FB1 looks like an "I" from a distance
In my youth, I had a 71 nova 3 on the tree. So much room around the engine you could practically climb in with it. Not too many cars around that could run with that beast, built like it wanted to crash.
No, the big rear meats give it away. Being on the same size 14" would be sleeper.
Hmmm...'dog dish' hubcaps. That either means there is a wheezy six under the hood...or a 496 Stroker. 😂😂
Those cars were the best, today`s millenial cars almost have to take it to theraphy... soooo fragile today`s garbage with a label "handle with care"
I am into old cars waaay more than new ones, but new sports cars are far from fragile. This Nova has an LS2 for example.
Sleepy 😴 for real, but you already know' she's beautiful just they way she sits..
Oh' but when it's time
to go 'lolol' 😅 this baby' is already gone..😉
That's one mean boomer rocket. The way he was holding those rpms, he won that race before they even took off.
Lol absolutely. He was holding that trans brake for a while. Barely got on it
All the people who dislike this video were once beat in a drag race.
My first car was a 77 nova
Great "sleeper", but when you see the size of its back tires, you should wake up 😅
The backend, dead giveaway , totally awesome.
Damn!!!! I know the slight curve on the road was scary as shit for him🤣👍🏽🍻🇺🇸
Maaaan, I remember that car from HR magazine years ago. Never missed an issue back then. Freiburger, Kinnan, Marlan Davis. Those cats taught me how to wrench on cars. Miss those days.
Lesson #1 Confucius say, one who mess with car subtlety hiding roll cage may lose pink slip.
I knew a kid in school back in the 80’s that had a little red S10 p/u didn’t look like much but he had a 350 all built up in it and that little truck would Go! Lol
I worked with a guy around that same time that had one of those Pontiac Vegas (I think it was called an Astre), the one with the unsleeved-cylinder aluminum block 4-banger. He dropped a 1969 Poncho 350ci with quiet duals in it (with a crowbar and soap, probably) and supplemented his income quite handsomely on the weekends.
The FBI number plates make it even quicker.
My friend had a 396, 375 HP SS Nova. Quickest car I've ever been in. It was slightly rubbed on, headers, open exhaust, Mallory Dual point distributer, Mickey Thompson street slicks...It ate everything in town, even Vettes for breakfast...
Just goes to show you you never ever EVER f$&k with a Chevy…. 😎💪🏻😎
Just patiently waiting at the stop light... That's a real sleeper !!
As opposed to less obvious non-sleepers also waiting.
Beauty in the Beast. I hate traffic lights, I hate traffic lights, I hate traffic lights.. Green light Plant It. Seeyaz.
Those Novas look great. True classics. Well designed from day one. Great color too. It's perfect
Had one
I'm 6' and never fit in mine good with stock seats. No legroom.
This car shows up sometimes to car shows by my house. It’s an older build but very well done.
My cousin builds novas and Chevelles. He has one Nova that has a Chevy 302 racing engine under the hood. Can't judge a book by its cover. Old muscle rules!!!
I like sleepers 454 nova . L.o.l maybe .i been in one once yeah .i gotten my doors blown off
As a Nova owner this makes me happy
Love anything NOVA...cept after 77 🤢🤮
That's how a chevy Rolls baby calm and ready park your donk and learn.
Old Man on the Bike: Some shits about to go down, I can smell i....
Aww shit, Ethel, I shit my pants again
I fuckiug hate novas but that was sik! Bro reached up "if any of u r old eneough" n grabbed the shoulder belt n clicked it into his waist ....u knew it was on....rear tire give away be-damnad
@@SherriHulet haha yessir