COME ON GUYS...WHOS GONNA DO A FOLLOW UP ON THE DISCO NOVA?? or is it really lost for good????????

that was the iseeue that got me back on board guys...  

I realize that that there are some unimaginative Car Craft readers who lie awake at nights dreaming about boxy mid-1970s GM compact cars (which have by some miracle escaped the endemic outer-body rust-through of that dismal era in GM's history and haven't already been recycled into even more mind-numbing Toyotas or cheap Chinese junk) ,powered by ordinary, belly-button, carbureted SBC engines and slathered with a hideous taxi-cab paint job.

HOWEVERthe only bigger potential wastes of valuable space in CC than spilling more ink on the "yellow snow" Nova a/k/a the Disco Nova would be alloting more pages to the irrelevant street-walker tee-shirt models of "On/Off the Rack" or a reprising of the great speckled FireBirdTurd series.  

Disco is dead. So should be the Disco Nova.

On the other hand, I suspect that the venerable Jeff "Camaro Craft" Smith and GMPP would "LUV" to swap a boring LS V8 into it if given the chance. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I can think of about 500 stories that would be more useful and interesting than another expose' on the Disco Hooptie.  

i agree with the t shirt models..no need for them..but i would of liked them to FINISH it.rememer the intro for the car?it was about cheap muscle..they are not the best yrs..but it was different... may i even say FRESH.at least its not DARE TO BE DIFFERNT stuff...

just asking.Geez  

Cheap muscle is good (that's why Freiburger's "Junkyard Craft" magazine formula is so revered.)

But the Disco Nova was hardly different or fresh(except for the huge chrome-plated railroad tie bumpers, it was exactly like building up a '68-'72 Nova).

You want cheap & Different?

How about an '83-'87 Thunderbird build?

Or a Lincoln Mark VII LSC or Mark VIII LSC?

Or a cop-style Crown Victoria/Police Interceptor?

Or a Grenada/Monarch (Barack Obama's "favorite" car)?

Or a Dodge Diplomat/Chrysler Fifth Avenue (okay, that might be TOO different).

Or a Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volare'?

How about budget turbocharging, nitrous oxide and strategic weight reduction on one of the few remaining 1970s land barges? (An 11-second Lincoln, Cadillac or Buick Electra 225 sleeper would be wild)

Or an Oldsmobile Cutlass build?

Or a Buick Skylark/Century (RWD)/Regal?

Or a Mustang II?

Or a '71-'73 Mustang?

Or a Maverick/Comet?

Or a Falcon (a lightweight early Falcon with a turbocharged, aluminum-head, roller cam stoker SBF and an overdrive manual transmission could be a sweet, gas-sipping street/strip project)

Or a second-generation Monte Carlo ('73-'77)

Or one of the 1961-63 GM compacts (Olds F-85, Buick Special, Pontiac Tempest).

Or a V8 Fiero?

Or a Torino (Starsky era or '60s style).

Or a real Fairlane build (not that quick fake "stock car" thing they did for the mouth cancer dip company).

Or one of those huge fastback Galaxie XLs from the 1960s?

Or a '69-'72 or '73-'77 or '78-'87 Grand Prix?

Or a 1960s fastback Bonneville?

Or a Dart/Valiant?

Or a V8 Pinto/Bobcat?

Or a BBF Fairmont (the last time CC did one (about 20 years ago as a quickie "giveaway" car) they "left a lot on the table" and CC ought to do one RIGHT this time)

There are lots of "dare to be different" project cars that would be more "fresh" and interesting than the "yellow snow" Nova.  

(And I haven't even started suggesting Kugel-style FWD to RWD conversions yet . . . or gassers . . . or Ramblers/AMCs . . . .)  

i agree..a 70 mav with a 408...or a 331/302 with a bt turbo...i always like the 78-79 futuras..a 408 in an LSC...a 4.6 in a mav...a 440 in a 80 volare Super Street drag radial car..i love the look of a black turbo coupe.
how about a pontiac sunfire with Smith (super stock fame)
v8 rear drive conversion...how about a superbird clone with a 528 hemi and a six speed(big bux).a h car with gran national power..BLOW THRU TURBO STUFF!!!!do we have to wait till 2010??????

i got more ideas than money...  

At least it's not a Camaro.  

Nope, it's the box a Camaro arrived in . . . .


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In the latest issue's Reader's Rides section, they asked the question, "Why aren't more people doing these?"
If you look at the Reader's Rides on this site, you'd see that a lot of people(including me)are building "Disco Novas".  They're available, they're cheap, they're not that ugly for a late '70s model, anything that bolts to a Camaro will bolt to one of these, and they're not a Camaro.
Hey Car Craft, how about a Reader's Rides section dedicated to the Disco Nova?  

In any case, the Disco Nova is gone and sitting in Alabama.