1979 CHEVY NOVA, MALIBU & MONZA AUTOMOBILE SALES FILM CHEVROLET CARS XD12974
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This is a group of three color sales and promotional films about the 1979 Chevy Nova, Chevy Malibu and Chevy Monza. Copyright on these is 1978.
Opening: Reasons to Buy - 1979 Chevy Nova (:08-:18). The Chevy Nova pulls into a driveway. The four door Nova drives down a highway. A sporty hatchback coupe has the back hatch open. Boxes are put into the hatchback. A woman fills a Nova's trunk with grocery bags. A new grille on the Nova. Nova custom tag. Cloth seats, thick carpeting, instrument panel, doors. The Nova 6 cylinder engine (:19-1:59). Recommended Maintenance Intervals are shown and explained. The engine is shown and explained. The front of the car is shown driving without its panels on. Double panel construction helps as does the new anti-corrosion. The tire hits water and splashes it up. Inside there is room for 6 passengers. A Nova pulls up next to a truck. A car is being put together. A diagram of where the panels are inside the car. A comfort tilt steering wheel. Power door locks and windows. A finger presses a radio button. Cruise control switch. Nova with Nova rally equipment on it. The features are recapped and shown quickly: Recommended Maintenance Intervals, interior roominess, the car being made. The Nova's door opens inviting a driver (2:00-4:54).
Opening: Reasons to Buy - 1979 Chevy Malibu (5:19-5:29). The Chevy Malibu cruises down the street, rides through a neighborhood. A Malibu Classic shown on the street. Malibu Classic Red interior, seats. Malibu Classic Wagon drives. Two people get into the back, two in the front. Instrument panel provides room. Family size spaciousness. Animation shows the air flowing. Vent windows. Malibu drives down a street. Malibu being made on the line. Foam headliner absorbs sound (5:30-7:39). Engine options: Standard 3.3 litre V6, 4.4 litre V8, or 5 litre V8. Anti-corrosion measures. Body of car dipped into primer during production. Cars being sprayed on the line. Full coil spring suspension. A Malibu speeds down a street. The Classic Wagon drives near water. The hatchback to the wagon is open, the gate drops down. How much space the trunk has is shown in the wagon. Long Recommended Maintenance Intervals are shown and explained on the Malibu. People enter the Malibu. A finger presses the radio button, air conditioning, power window and door locks. Malibu 2 door, 4 door, and wagon drives. A four door Malibu door opens inviting a driver (7:40-10:11). End disclaimer (10:12-10:18).
Opening: Reasons to Buy - 1979 Chevy Monza (10:39-10:49). Four Chevy Monzas drive down a highway. Monza coup, Monza 2 + 2 hatchback coup, Monza station wagon, Monza 2 + 2 sport hatchback. Red Monza Coup. Front bumper guard on Station Wagon models (10:50-11:41). Standard sport steering wheel. Standard sport console. Bucket seats and the am/fm radio are standard now. Red Monza speeds down the road. Close on the tires and shocks. Wheel of a Monza coup. Monza coup turns sharply. Four adults exit the car. The hatchback is open. The Monza station wagon pulls up, the hatchback is up, what can be fit into the back is shown. The standard 2.5 litre 4 cylinder engine is shown as is the V6 and V8. Long Recommended Maintenance Intervals are shown and explained on the Monzas. (11:42-13:45). The trunk of the Monza is open. Body of car dipped into primer during production. Cars being sprayed on the line. The car goes through muddy water. A woman opens the Red Monza's door, adjusts the steering wheel. A finger presses the radio button, air conditioning, turns the steering wheel. The Red Monza turns from side to side on the road. The Black Monza Spyder. Spider symbol on the Spyder. A spider printed on the hood. The interior of the car. Exterior of the sporty Spyder. A Monza drives down the road. The station wagon model drives. A two door Monza opens inviting a driver (13:46-15:37). End disclaimer (15:38-15:44).
The Chevrolet Monza is a subcompact automobile produced by Chevrolet for the 1975-1980 model years. The Monza is based on the Chevrolet Vega, sharing its wheelbase, width and 140-CID (2,300 cc) inline-four engine.
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1979 the only year I ever bought a new car.. a Z-28 Camaro and I still have it ..
@scottofford3061 327 350 HP Cam Holly Street Dominator single plane intake .. Holly 600 Double pumper.. Hooker Headers.. 110 HP Nitorus.. Doug Nash 5 speed. .. way heavier Herb Adams VSE Sway bars.. battery in trunk .. half a coil out of front springs..
I'm sure every generation has it's memory of what was their zenith. Looking back, I did not appreciate just how fun and enjoyable the 80's were.
Thank you for uploading.
Marion.
Right you are. My dad's dream car was a 1940 Pontiac. My favorite time is the Late '70s - First Half of the '80s. Best time ever for American styling.
Keep these old car films coming!
I LOVE these!!!
I had a 1975 Nova. Good point was the bumper really worked in minor collisions . Easy car to work on , Bad points were the Rochester and rust
I will NEVER buy another car with a carburetor or points.
My Dad bought one of these (slightly used) from a leasing company in Toronto that had taken an order from a Police force somewhere in the Us the had ordered a whole bunch of them.
Then they cancelled the order.
They were giving them away at $4200.Dad's was a Hot Fudge brown 2 door Nova Custom 'Sleeper" with NO chrome trim other then the grill / headlight bezels and tail light bezels. It had the 5L V8 P235 70 / 15 Kevlar tires ,Certified MPH Speedo and air con.
My Mom was terrified to drive it by how fast it. would go.
Dad sold it 2 years later for more then he paid to some young "kid" who managed to rap it around a pole.
I had a 1979 Nova Custom. It was really unbelievably reliable. Took me all though high school, college and thereafter for a few years. Had the inline 6, and when it left me, it had 180k miles. BUT, funny watching this when they tell you all the rust proofing ........my Nova rusted away.....everywhere. I traded it in because the windshield would rock back and forth due to rust.
Our '78 leaked badly around the windshield and metal supporting it rusted away. My dad's fix was smearing roofing tar around it! Lol
This era was not the most reliable but sure was a real fun time to be a car enthusiast.
The Monza always looked better with the quad rectangular headlights and they came on all models when the Monza was introduced but for some reason only were fitted to the top of the line Spyder later on. The hatch version of the Monza with the quad rectangular headlights still looks great today. The 2 door with the trunk looks like what it is: a slightly restyled Vega. I saw very few of the coupes, but LOADS of the hatchbacks when they were new.
Agreed, I never thought the two round headlights looked good on base Monza. They should've made the rectangle quads standard.
You had me at "standard AM radio"!
Although I was too young at the time to drive a car, I remember cars like this being driven.
We had a 77 Chevy Nova and a 77 Olds Omega, both temperamental with getting the engines to run right. They usually stalled at least once on a cold morning. Sag was an issue with those leaf springs that were used in the rear. The floorboard under the driver's side rusted out on the Nova; I found out when water splashed up at me while going through a puddle during a rainstorm.
Malaise-era carburetion and tune, horrible times indeed. Spark timing at TDC or even after TDC, lean mixtures... Yeah, I noticed the shot of the 4-dr Nova sitting low in the rear in the video, classic... right off the bat it's sagging!
Still, far better than the turds that GM was in such a hurry to replace them with, the ‘80-‘85 X cars.
Same problem with our '78. Never seemed to idle right. Stumble and died after it started and if it was wet out it had a habit of stalling out. I blame how the carb was tuned, prob too lean. It also sagged in the rear, and it never tracked straight. Ours rusted out there too, I got creative with the sheet metal and pop rivets.
1991 I purchased a 1977 Nova-Grey exterior with burgundy velour interior..2 door hatch.. Straight 6 engine..$2195 from a used car dealer..Great freeway car.Decent economy.
Only option it had was an AM radio! Smooth ride and reliable.Wish I still had it...
Our family had a white 1977 Nova with red velour interior, straight 6. great acceleration, had an AM/FM radio with the antenna embedded in the front windshield. lasted my dad until he wrecked it around 1997.
Digging the 70's muzak! Sounds like Bob Barkers Price Is Right!
My dad had a 79 Nova! Thanks for this video
Red interior good for serious accidents, helps new rescue crews, not as shocking.
Wow, I can't believe that a big V8 engine was available for the little Monza! Those V8 Monzas with the same engine as a much bigger and heavier Impala or Caprice must have been as quick as lightning. On the other hand, it's hard to believe that a big V8 engine would fit under the hood of a small car.
In 1979 it was a 305, but only 130 horsepower. This is in a 2800lb car (base 4cyl weight), so by the time you add engine, power brakes (believe mandatory), steering and maybe AC - it's not a very impressive power to weight ratio. In 1975, you could actually get a 350- but it was detuned to even less factory hp.
Yes...but a few upgrades later. And look out. Faster than .a big block LS6 CHEVELLE. 😉😳......
Funky cars dude. The styling of the Nova hatch was replicated in Aussie Holden Torana hatch.
1:20 They had me sold to buy one once I saw the emblem
That does it! My next car will be a 1979 Chevrolet Monza!
You will love it I had the 1979 Monza spider with the 305 cid engine and a 4 speed manual transmission back in 1987 my favorite I also owed a 1976 Buick Skyhawk in 1985. Crashed the Buick and sold the Chevy when I went into the Air Force in 1987
Good luck finding a 1979 Chevrolet Monza in 2021. I'm guessing that these Monzas just didn't last, because they disappeared from the roads during the 1980s. On the bright side, I don't recall seeing rusted out Monzas.
In contrast, the Oldsmobile Cutlasses of this era had an uncanny ability to keep on running while looking like they belonged in the junkyard. When I was in high school (during the Saved By The Bell Era), beat-up Cutlasses were the most widely owned car among my classmates.
Hi hello in Brazil. Thanks for more vídeo!!!
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I'm taking my 79 Nova to Nickey Chevrolet so they can drop in a 454 under the hood.
3:26 I wonder what the take rate for power windows on '75-79 Novas was. I don't think I've ever seen one.
It could have been the Luxury Nova variant
@@harrybriscoe7948 It was a Nova Custom which was the top trim in '78-9 after being mid-line since '75. LN was rebranded Concours in '76 and dropped after '77 to make way for the downsized Malibu.
I remember seeing them listed in the owner's manual, and being surprised that it was an option. The cigarette lighter was even optional as I remember. I think most people tended to by these stripped or nearly stripped. My dad's only had power steering, automatic and AM radio which was also optional.
@@nlpnt By '78, the "compact" Nova was now larger than the new midsize Malibu.
@@Progrocker70 IIRC most non-fleet cars ordered to dealer stock had body side moldings, full wheel covers and white stripe tires.
My first new car was a 79 Nova.
V-8 4 speed Monza was a fun car ! Small block Chevrolet engine could be swapped out with …?
A different small block V-8 ! O it has been done and fun . F-41 suspension a good option .
Lots of talk about the cast iron engine, lest you think you're getting a Vega-like mill.
Little did they know, about 4 decades later, people would use these cars for race cars.
Yessir!!
They de-contented the '79 Nova. The '69s were nicer! They started life with counter-balanced spring hoods and the '79s had a prop rod, even though they cost 4 times as much! Cheap bastards! Even the wheel-well inner covers were nowhere near as good (they probably got them off the Vega!) And even a brand-new one would drag ass with those leaf-springs in the back. Two more leaves (better yet, coil springs,) would have solved that. And a split bench! The '79s were not cheap!! Still, I wanted one! They did look nice, though . . . The '73s and '74s were pigs! This was the body-style introduced in '75. Couldn't afford it at the time.
Damn!! Paper bag groceries!! That's alot of trees thy used to chop down!!
Plus how evenly stacked everything was inside them!
“Sheer luxury” with no armrest. 😝
What never made sense to me was why the Nova stayed the same shape and size, and the Malibu got smaller than the Nova?
My mom used to drive one of those rust buckets!
By the start of 79 nova was no more as citation was coming
5.0 litre Monza. Bring it back plz.
These cars were official OLD LADIES cars....you had to be over 70 to purchase one back then....they replaced the Ford Falcon before them....old ladies like these cars .....😁😁😁
1979 was about it for the cool nova's
It was never cool...
@@WALTERBROADDUS l 🤔 ☞ 😂 ☞ 👎☞ ☺️
@@Scalihoo I guess you disagree.....🤔
@@WALTERBROADDUS '79's were still cool body style, RWD , get a small block 350 still. Then the mid 80's they became Toyotas . :)
Do you have anything for the '77 Caprice/Impala or Concours/Nova?!!!!
I think it was 78 when they started putting all this emissions crap into cars so everything before 78 was pretty good after that it was just junk choking up the car with the emissions pulling the horsepower right out of them I had a 77 Scottsdale Stepside that thing was badass 350 with 300 horsepower straight pipes 41 inch glass packs headers and no catalytic converter no emissions four-wheel drive I f****** miss that truck so bad last of the freaking Mohicans I know you can get cars nowadays with 700 horsepower stuff like that but that was a bad ass pickup truck
No nova concours for 79, major disappointment
I would be interested to know how much more buyers paid for a Buick Skylark over the Chev...it didn't seem to be all that fancy in comparison - was it just for 'bragging rights' associated with a badge?
I had all my Driving Lessons in a 76 Olds Omega, the Olds version of the Nova. I took my Driving Test in a 76 Nova(we had a full size Dodge Wagon, and Olds Delta 88. I figured it would be easier to do the Parallel Parking part of the Drivers Test in a Smaller Car. These Pipsqueak Cars, which were called Compacts, are Larger, inside and out, than what is pawned off on us these days as a Full Sized Car. Although it looks a bit cheap, it certainly looks far better built than any Car Introduced in the 1980s, those were real POS.
And all of this for less than the down on a 2021 ANYTHING.
Well, I TOLD YOU to vote Republican, DIDN"T I?
Dont be stupid do you know what the wages were 45 years ago?
My second car was a “79 nova but mine was a two door with a straight 6 and was so slow 😂😂😂
"These are lame duck models...get them off the lot NOW!"
Lame duck in part because they were waiting for the front drive X-cars like the Citation.
This video must be for Canadian sold cars, for I see litre, rather than cu. in. when describing the car's engine displacement.
Nope. The US was on a "Go Metric!" kick back in the Nixon-Ford-Carter days. As usual, they dropped it with the job 1/3 done, like Americans always do, and Detroit was trying to curry favor.
I can't get over the zinc primer no wonder why these cars rotted so fast and so bad incredible what a scam and they don't mind telling you that they sprayed the car with it that dip they put put it in probably had zinc in it as well
Some Tru Coat
Also who in their right mind would change the oil in a car every 7,000 miles and change the filter every 15000 miles that was a scam to get you to f****** ruin your motor those cars you need to change the oil every 3000 miles and every time change the oil filter if you wanted them the last in the V6 which were Buick V6 you needed to change the oil pump to a high-velocity oil pump because it came with low velocity oil pumps which is what killed those engines scam upon skin lie upon lie going to sell those cars go to screw those people and it continues today
The Chevy Monza, like the Vega, was pure American CRAP from its inception to its ignominious END. The engine had all the performance of a lawn mower. GM should be forever ashamed for producing such a vehicle.
Jesus Christ why is everything 10 shades of brown ?!
Heh, the era when Detroit made more money from parts-sales than the cars themselves.
Ahh...back before cars had to have the correct political viewpoint in order to be successful or not. These cars weren't woke. They didn't shove their SJW stance down your throat or try to appeal to the nonbinary, transgendered, millennial market that the manufactuers are making feeble attempts at wooing!
I love these ads...thank you so much for showing them!
The mid 70s to mid 80s was a terrible time for auto manufacturing, HORRIBLE Design, HORRIBLE Performance, HORRIBLE Everything, pushing 150HP out of a V8 was hard, with the low compression, introduction of catalytic converters, and the gasoline crisis. We went backwards with performance. Nowadays, we get 150HP out of a naturally aspirated 4 cyl motor, turbo ? We get hi 2s and low 3s. We have come a long way, and, in my opinion, cars from this era belong nowhere but the scrap heap, with few exceptions. It was all about “value”, and higher end models were nothing but the same cheap heap of garbage low end model, with a shinier “caps” and an FM stereo. I lived through it as a kid, look back, and laugh about it, especially when dad upgraded from the ‘72 Ford Maverick to the ‘80 Ford Fairmont. My mom actually wanted an AMC Pacer, which was a fishbowl on wheels, but dad was a Ford guy. If I knew, would have told dad to wait a few years and buy a Jeep Cherokee.
All you had to do was change the engine. What do you want. The factory to do everything. Scrap hepe I don't think so.
I think the huge mandated bumpers that stuck out really spoiled the styling of many cars of that time.