@Blockheads, I’d reread your post if I could, but I can’t find it because Kinja sucks. Sorry.

1. No one is restoring one of these.

Someone else already corrected you on the “396/402" thing. The car you speak of, in this condition, is worth at hell of a lot more than $18,500.

If your theory is correct, the explanation is that they’re just currently on a wackier Earth seems like a very lame plot crutch to me.

It’s like they’re in “churning it out” mode.

I missed the first few minutes of this week’s episode, so when I turned it on my first reaction was,

Depends on the universe...

It’s become another animated series that has been on too long.

Why would they make bad drag cars? They essentially first gen Camaro underneath, and I don’t recall the 1975 refresh changing those hard points all that much.

The short answer is, this thing should be on BaT or rolling across the block at a collector car auction, and not on Craig’s List.

I can’t remember the last time I saw something like this to make a comparison. And in 1976 there wasn’t a more desirable performance model. The A/C and landau top are what made a car like this desirable in 1976 America.

My first comment was about the relative difficulty of designing subcompact cars to meet increasingly stringent crash test standards in order for them to survive on our SUV/crossover filled roads, not the relative difficulty of testing them.

I can’t judge this vehicle on personal experience because, while I’ve driven countless mid 70s Novas (and their various platform mates) over the years, to a car by the time I got behind the wheel they were well past their good by dates. Think gaping holes in the floors, 3-on-the-tree shift linkages worn out past easy…

Isn’t that part of what makes it worth the asking price though? No one would bother restoring such an example, so having one that doesn’t require restoration makes it valuable.

I have no problem with hot takes and strong opinions. I do have a problem with the open hostility toward the topic the website is covering.

I’ll have to look. My last full-face helmet is a SA2010 and my most recent helmet is an open-face SA2015.

The problem with racing (SA) helmets for motorcycle use is that eyeport requirements are different. Ride a motorcycle with a full-face SA helmet and you lose a good amount of peripheral vision.

This site is supposedly a car site, but in the last year or two as staff has turned over the editorial tone has become more and more hostile toward the automobile. Oh, and while this has been going on it has been BLEEDING traffic. But of course it’s the readers who are wrong.

Unless the vehicle with the larger volume/greater mass isn’t going to be as good at protecting its occupants as the smaller volume/less mass vehicle...

It’s become a car blog written primarily by non-car people.