Notorious Nova

摘要

Sleep became a rare commodity for Tony Smith after he attended the Performance Racing Industry show in Indianapolis in 2001. It was at that show that he started telling people about the killer 70 Nova he planned to show at the Goodguys Nationals later that year; an excellent plan, except for the fact that the car he had in mind had been sitting idle outside his shop with a stock yellow paint job and a straight six under the hood for the past few years. Even after his boastful statements in Indy, Tony's regular job at his father's body shop in Tiffin, Ohio and a lack of funding kept him from working on the car until three months prior to the Nationals. When work finally commenced, the entire car was stripped and skewered on a rotisserie, so Tony could sandblast and paint the interior and bottom black. Tony's brother Chris was then charged with the task of dropping the Nova's stance by building custom boxes in between the frame rails and rockers, where the Air Ride Technologies four-link bars would be mounted. From there, they notched the frame rails and custom-fabricated mounts for the Shock Waves shocks and panhard bar in the rear and installed a set of HAL Street Star ALs up front. All the seams on the subframe were welded and the spring cups were opened up to accommodate the Firestone air bags. Several areas on the body were also smoothed, including the firewall, inside fender lips and marker lights.