1965 Chevrolet Chevy II Nova: Regular Car Reviews
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- General Motors made the Chevy II as an answer to the Ford Falcon. The Nova was its highest trim package.
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"They break but they're never broken", that is one of my favorite lines from Mr. Regular. Apart from HOT BROWN, of course.
You could apply that to so much.
COLD YELLOW
this cheesecake mountain dew?
What episode is hot brown in
@@dildobaggins069 It's easier to list the episodes without HOT BRRROOOOWWWNNN.
"they may break, but they're never broken..."
"well mantained, these machines will outlive us..."
wow... those are heavy lines... nice review!
cheers!
"They may break, but they're never broken"
*glares at the Toyota Prius for bricking itself after 100K*
Mr. Regular isn't a GM guy.
Mr. Regular isn't a Ford guy.
Mr. Regular is a car guy.
FokkerBoombass He's a Regular guy
he’s guy
He's a bathroom guy
He's a henns garage groupie guy
Pretty sure that most of us who follow the channel are car guys.
“If it’s anything like my Chevy Nova it’ll light up the night sky!” - Phillip J. Fry
I absolutely love u quoted Futurama
I feel like the Roman doesn't get enough love in UA-cam comments but he killed it in this one. Love the outro song.
Umair Dawood He also writes a good bit of the reviews. Someone can correct me if I am wrong.
Umair Dawood I was legit thinking "Damn, Roman... That was beautiful."
Was looking for this comment, Roman's songs have grown on me.
It reminded me of my ex, but just like her, I loved the shit out of that song.
What was the outro song?
GM: Hey I didn’t do my homework can I copy yours
Ford: sure just don’t make it obvious
And Gm got 100/100 from the test and Ford gets a 98/100.
Plymouth: the kid who does the homework early
Nash: The teacher who wrote the book.
haha
Tucker: Kid who got their homework stolen
Classic rock, in a '60s car?
WINGA DINGA MUSIC
twotailedavenger WHAT I THINK EVERY DAY
I now saw WINGA DINGA DINGA when I see an nice old car, but I don't know what it means 😆😆
XDTinman m.ua-cam.com/video/RFSbPKuOjy8/v-deo.html winga dinga winga dinga winga dinga
Mika Waarnink Really? I always thought it was Doo Wap.
Syd Barret Pink Floyd, Psychadelic rock, *Metric tons of LSD*
"60's American cars are the closest things we have to time machines"
Honestly RCR know how to spew out word of wisdom and knowledge
I get up at 5am to go skiing, but at 4am for a new review of an old car.
Where are you skiing it's still fall where I live
Where you skiing?
Samlap25 some resorts in BC are starting to open
Backcountry skiing accessed by hiking or helicopter is on. Near Valemount BC is my favourite, but somany good places in southern BC.
Affalterbach 1967 Nice going out to Breck/Vail CO in Jan
Wow, the ending of this when describing everything that these cars had seen really struck an emotional chord with me. I have a 1969 Camaro Z/28 and it was bought by my mom in 1970. She passed away a couple years ago, but I still have the car and the way you said those final words about how these cars would outlive us hit me because that Camaro out there outlived her. It had seen SO MUCH with her behind the wheel. Her eyes looked out that very windshield as she went through some tough times. My older sister's first car ride was in that car. It lives on and suddenly all these thoughts come on and the memories stop when I think about how my mom and I swapped the engine out when I was in high school. (I still have most of the original 302. Parts had been stolen but I have the engine block.)
And, God willing, that car will still be on the road when I'm gone.
FUCK I love it when you make videos like this, the shit you come up with to say near the ending gives me chills.
Them: if Chevy's so good, why isn't there a Chevy 2?
Me:
My father, who was an insurance claims adjuster, was issued a Chevy II base model as a company car. It was the same color as the one here. It was a good little car. I always thought it was very practical for having rubber floor covering instead of carpet. Dad like GMs better than Fords, but the company bought mainly Fords after that. Thanks for the memories!
GR46404 Ford is cheaper... gave him a better deal
This episode hit me right in the feels, and makes me want to get another classic... Great job Mr. Regular, well written and well said. This is the stuff that inspires people to do great things. The stuff that invigorates the youth of today to experience what the youth of yesteryear had. Thank you sir for your words, your time, and your passion.
19 minute old RCR?
Still has that fresh New Car smell to it.
Tom E
MOIST
New Regular smell
I do honestly think the II Looks better than the falcon. Thats just me though.. Falcon is still rad
Weirdly (at least where I am), Chevy II's/Nova's are much more expensive than equivalent-condition Falcons or Valiants or Corvairs... but they're certainly nothing more special than the other 60's compacts. It's literally the Nova name, like the Chevelle name. People think muscle car and think valuable and rare... I call it '57 Chevy Syndrome.
The II is easier to work on, cheaper to build up, that's all that drives that market.
I can believe that for the Corvair, but the Valiant or the Falcon?
Yep, ford and dodge parts cost more in general, the knowledge base is smaller. More hp/$, and this is coming from a Ford/ Dodge man
I agree with Gazdatronic, Chevy stuff is just easier to come by. And it feels less wrong when you put a chevy 350 or LS in a chevy lol.
Chevy IIs and Chevelles are expensive because you can shoehorn a Mark IV or 327 V8 in the engine compartment, and you have an instant muscle car. Also, there was a Super Sport option for the Chevy II and Chevelle, and it's easy to fake an SS with the standard versions. With the Corvair, you're sort of "stuck" with that aluminum block flat 6, unless you want to remove the back seat and make major modifications to the car. But while the most powerful Corvair can't beat a 396 Nova in a drag race, nothing will out-handle a Corvair on a winding twisty road...
"How do you pass a test when you studied the wrong chapter?"
"YA CHEAT!"
Jesus, Roman. That end song was fantastic!
I may only have a 32 year old T-Bird with 38,000 miles, but even driving that car is stepping into a time machine like this Chevy II. Listening to rock 'n roll on the stock tape deck with crackling 32 year old speakers and a severely under-powered 3.8L V6 that gives you that little jolt of torque as described in this video just brings a sense of joy and euphoria when driving an old car without exceeding 65 mph. This is probably my favorite RCR that I've watched not only because of another awesome car from the 60s, but just excellent narration. Well done sir!
9:37 Great one liners as usual from RCR! :D
Ali Mahfooz yeah man, this video is making me upset I can’t go drive my 63 Grand Prix right now.
You have a 63 Grand Prix? My Grandpa had a head-on in a 62 back then and he lived, I thought you might have liked to know that. I don't know how fast each car was going or if his model had seat belts or if he wore one. He said he didn't wear one for years though and I didn't ask.
Austin Lucas that’s crazy, the dash in that thing is metal. Wouldn’t have guessed anybody could survive a head on
Hey, as it turns out what I said earlier may or may have not happened. My Uncle told me that story but Dad tells me Uncle tells tall tales and Mom doesn't remember Grandpap ever having a head-on in the 62. Maybe Uncle's recalling a different car from the same time period; Grandpap had a side-swipe in the 60s from an oncoming car, Pap pulled over as far as he could but the other guy still swiped him.
Roman, this song is the best I've heard you do yet. Well done!
Moist. Moist. Wetness.
Moist. Moist. Sogginess.
I took my first road test in a friend's 68 Nova in Chicago. It was the summer of 1979. The thing was a rust bucket with no working seat belts. The examiner had me back around a corner and failed me because I wound up in the wrong lane. To this day I've never heard of such a maneuver during a driving exam. We were on a public street. It's amazing I didn't kill somebody or strike another vehicle.
How crazed is the Nova fanclub? Well, a friend of mine from high school loves these cars so much that he legally had his first name changed to Nova. So there's that.
Don't forget Nova Scotia in Canada, also named after the Chevy II Nova.
Do you mean Casanova
TheCommenter71 I think you're thinking of "Nora"
GreenLeaf5656 nope, Nova Scotia means new Scotland. Xd
And people thought my amc tat was excessive
the way you describe this car reminds me of my 77 pinto wagon I bought when I was in high school around 2001. it's a chore to drive and I'm the only one of my friends that can drive it across town without it stalling. and 17 years later, I still love driving it.
I think the Chevy 2 looks better.
Aaron Bane are you blind?
Aaron Bane
100% agree. Falcon always looked a lil goofy to me. Really like the wagon version of the chevy 2
Well, the difference is, the Chevy has styling. The Ford has none. Thanks Bob McNamara.
Hell no.
+Caleb Carrigan hell yes
I’ve got a 64 Chevy II, when paired with the 230 motor and the 3 speed manual this car flys. And when paired with the stock drum brakes it flies great into the wall. Overall it’s a great driver, thanks for the car gramps.
If this is the second Chevrolet, which was the first one?
The one that got banned from NASCAR, the fuel-injected Chevrolet 150.
Ford.
The full size models: Caprice/Impala/etc.
that would be the Chevrolet Classic Six
no joke
I think the Tri-Fives (55, 56 & 57) are considered the “first” models (Chevy 1) of mass produced Chevys. They were also known as the Bel Air, Chevy 150, and Chevy 210.
I am one of those “we bought a 65 Chevy II new, in 1965.”
For the 7 of us.
It was a wagon, with a six cylinder.
My first time, (wink wink), was in the back of it.
Was sold to me by my dad in 1970-ish.
My first car!
Got stories about my time with it and everything!
Thanks for your channel. I like your narration and original music too.
Man, you're making me want to look for a Studebaker Hawk all over again, and I'm happily driving an MR2 Spyder...
To quote my father, "You'll never find parts for that."
I also have a spyder. Fun car
I also have a Spyder. And Mr. Regular's review was 90% of the reason I ended up buying it.
megakiller999 i love old studebakers
Who needs parts when you have fins?
I have a '63 Chevy II with a 327 (300hp) that was installed in 1965. I bought it from the original owner in the 1980's, and he showed me the parts list that was included in the owner's manual to make the swap. I put a 4 speed in it and changed the diff to a posi unit. I also beefed up the brakes. It still goes like snot and looks great too. It's the perfect little hot rod.
Because sleep is
O V E R A T E D
Various Engineering Right?? I get home from working an overnight shift, all ready for bed. However, Mr. Regular is like, "NOPE"!
Damn, I need to go look forlornly at a sunset now.
Yo that outro song was radio worthy
"Wow, we're alive! And the car didn't explode!" - me every day
The stuff Mr R says in this about how the car makes you pay attention and you have to hang on and all that, that's what my friends don't get about why I prefer driving my slow, weak, lumbering, 2bbl intake 69 skylark over my slick, fast, and responsive 09 challenger r/t, and why I'm not afraid to do so despite the inherent danger of a car with 4 wheel drums and lap only seat belts. I'm used to the motorcycle mentality of internally driving every other vehicle on the road and predicting their mistakes, and I'm confident in my ability to do so since that ability has saved me from no less than four cager-didn't-see-me crashes that would have certainly been fatal and that a lot of people would have failed to avoid.
Ditto. My '73 Falcon wagon requires foresight when driving because of how slowly it reacts to inputs, so i drive it like i ride my bike, compared to my '92 Soarer which you just drive like a normal car. Despite the need to keep four fan belts and a gallon of coolant in the back, i prefer driving the Falcon over the Soarer because of the experience. Forgoing aircon, FM radio, disc brakes, power steering and airbags (Because we die like real men in old cars), i'd take my battered old wagon on a cross-country road trip over my other car in a heartbeat.
Have you replaced the steering column if it's not an energy-absorbing one? You know, so it won't impale you in a head-on? Sometimes it's better to NOT have seat belts, despite how good they are in many crashes.
I believe they started putting the collapsing columns in skylarks in 67 so it should have one. I wouldn't know what to look for to verify, but I assume that's why the housing seems to have a couple sections. If not, I'll ride eternal on the highways of valhalla. I intend to upgrade to modern seat belts anyway, so cracking my skull on the wheel is a kind of temporary concern. 3 point belts were an option in 69, my car just doesnt have them. It has all the mounting points though, so once I reach that point on my priorities list I'll order some and throw them in.
Just put a four barrel on it and BOOM. Suddenly a zippy car. Worked for me. Now my car has enough get up and go to produce a nice growl and drink gasoline like a college kid at a keg party.
It'll get a 4 barrel eventually, but my plan is to build up everything that ISN'T the drivetrain before I start adding power to it. I want to have a platform that can control the power before I put the power in it, and that means the engine comes last, after disc brakes, shocks and sway bars, limited slip differential, and overdrive transmission. I only just got the car to the point where I can start shopping for stuff to make it drive better instead of stuff to keep it driving at all, so it'll be a while before I'm ready to start hot rodding it up.
Last time I came this early I had to pay child support
XeroSnake coathangers: they aren't just for hanging mufflers anymore.
what i would give to have an old ameican regular car like this in england, the only cars that get imported from america are mustangs and corvettes, i want regular boring metal shitboxes damnit!
in america i expect nobody bats an eye at these sorts of cars but somthing like this would be cooler than a super car in england.
antsolja as an American, I can tell you from first hand experience that any car this old will turn heads, simply for the fact that it isn't a plastic alien egg with angry headlights, nor is it a truck. It is therefore the type of thing that you might see one or two of in the course of a week. Uncommon and different, but not exactly rare.
Get an Australian one since they're RHD and more luxurious because they filled a different place in the market.
I'm sick as a dog at three in the morning, but RCR uploads.
Life is kind of cool sometimes.
get well soon mate
Thanks friendo.
American Movie quote?
Kick-fucking-ass!
You are right. 1960's American cars are just so darned FUN!
outtro song was particularly good today.
My grandfather had a 66 Acadian. That's the Canadian car. Blue...all over and inside. This car brings back a lot of memories.
Your videos.... You crack stupid fart jokes throughout, then hit you hard in the feels at the ends.
My Dad's car. He loved this car and talked about it till the day he died as his favorite car. His was black with red seats inside. Unfortunately it came to its demise on a snowy/slushy day on Park Avenue in New York when he was rear ended by a Corvette, which sent him into the car in front so wrecking both ends of the car. Dad had the satisfaction of telling us the Corvette was in little pieces all over the street. Funny thing is the Chevy II looked all right when he brought it home, not much cosmetic damage, but maybe the frame got bent or something because he could never get it running right again and he had to junk it.
*Insert joke on how late I'm staying up because Mr. Regular uploaded at 3 A.M*
19 and my summer daily driver(live in canada) is a 1968 nova chevy 2 with a 250 inline 6, absolutely love it
Beautiful review and delightful outro song
That speech at the end, anyone else almost stand-up and applaud
Regular Car reviews: the only way to enjoy sleep deprivation
Damn Roman, that got me. My first love was long distance. My first burnout was in the backseat of her dads mustang cobra. I never got to drive it. Our trips to see each other were like a trip in a nova. Well planned. Our phones couldnt guide us and our college shitboxes were a gamble if theyd make the distance. I hope driving my project car (when i finish it) on a road trip gives me that feeling again.
Thanks you both for the great content, and the feels.
Metal boxes will out live us ..😎👍
Those Metal Boxes WILL eventually return to their natural state...........RUST (iron ore)
I've got a 67' 4door with a 250 inline 6. Good review, you nailed it. sums up the car very well.
Smoked a bowl, ate very late dinner, drank a few beers, finally time for bed.
(New RCR upload)
Hah, Packs new bowl.
I hope your bowl was *high*-quality!
This has made way more interested in a car than any commercial could with jd powers and so called real people.
Hey Mr. Regular, this is probably the best review you've ever done. It's perfect. Thank you.
I'm 53 and this was my first car when I was 16 in 1982. Three-on-the-tree manual six cylinder. Bought it for $500 with 83K on the o-dash.
I gotta say the Roman really improved his singing. Great Episode in general, also I want a classical car now.
I had ten minutes to spare and Mr. Regular hit me right in the feels with this one.
It's 1:17 in the morning and I still clicked on RCR's latest video. What am I doing with my life?
Leo Zhang Been there, done that
It's 5:00 for me... Whats a bed BTW?
Simple.cheep. Good regular car. Look at all that room under the hood,wow! Keep that straight six. Do not cut it up or "put a v8 in it" just saying.
I wanna turbo that terrace 6
LS Swap, tub the rear end, 4 link, thiccc cheater slicks, disc brakes, all stuff thats happenin with my 66
That bit about merging onto the highway reminds me of what it's like in a Ford Anglia... Good times, Mr. Regular...good times.
DAD NO I HAVE SCHOOL TO
TOMORROW
lol
This is one of the best RCR videos in a while.
I've been repairing a 64 Corvair since about May or so (it's almost done). "They may break but they're never broken" is a perfect way to describe it, lol.
That car driving down the highway looks straight out of a movie. The sole classic car and the grass/trees are highlighted while the gray concrete and muted colors of modern cars look faded and depressed. The classic car is closer to nature, closer to the Earth. You feel as one with the car and the car is one with the road while the modern cars are all disconnected from the car and driver leading those who drive them to be disconnected from the Earth as well.
This is entirely unintentional, but my god it looks like it's from a modern day dystopian movie.
thanks
I had one of these in 2002. It was baby blue on baby blue. I was hit by a drunk driver in my passenger side b pillar. That car saved both my life and the girl who was with me. Thanks chevy!
I bought my first car in 1999. It was a 1973 Ford F100. Everything you say about owning, and daily driving a vintage car is 100% true. They are difficult to own but rewarding in the oddest ways. The passion you put into these old cars with just words, really drives that home. Keeping these running and on the road is a passion, its an earned relationship.
My grandfather had one of these. It spent 90% of its life on a gravel road beside the ocean. The earth reclaimed her quickly but what a way to go.
The song at the end melted my heart.
I actually like the idea of having the fuel filler in the rear that way you don't have to be on a certain side of the gas station facing a certain way
I always come back to this review. I'm someone who is silly enough to daily his classic, but I love every minute of it.
I daily my 65 Falcon. Cars are meant to enjoy! I’m trying to hit a million miles!
My friends older brother had a 64. He put the 327 & 4 speed in it back in the early 70s
I own a 1982 Chevrolet El Camino with a 1968 Chevy 327ci V8, it's my very first car, the paint is terrible, it's an automatic on the column car with a bench seat (already got buckets to put into it from a Pontiac Vibe) and I daily it in a town filled with Ferrari's, Maserati's, Lamborghini's, Tesla's, and yet I still think to this day that I have the coolest car on the block, and that's all that matters to a car guy. Terrific review as usual Mr. Regular, can't wait to see your next one!
I've never heard someone sum up daily driving a classic car so well. My favorite episode so far.
That song at the end though
I NEED that in full length
The ending made me feel. The outro made me cry. The REAL ending made me laugh. This is a beautiful video.
The later second gen falcons were improved a lot. Things mentioned such as electric wipers and the air box knobs and other were standard by 64.
Man, what a great episode. I daily drive a '68 Dodge Dart, and it is so refreshing to see people still driving these old cars. I definitely agree with the time machine assertions.
Those old darts were good looking cars. Hope yours is in good condition with few dents. Only dents in my car are in the rear bumper, and they could probably be taken out with a ballpeen hammer if I wanted to remove the bumper and work on it, and if I had a ballpeen hammer.
WOW! Another video for Mr. Regulars legendary collection.
anyone else get a little teary eyed when he starts talking about how amazing old cars are and how they will live on when we are gone
I daily drove my 72 Pinto for 5 years in all its glorious stock form. and yes I had a collection of stuff in the trunk for when it acted up. but I was always able to get it going in about 10 minutes.
This has been one of the most beautiful reviews I’ve ever seen
Inline six... possibly my favorite engine from an aesthetic standpoint.
The last time I was this early Mr Regular still had silicone sally.
Thanks Regular for another beautiful review!
did he get rid of her?
Yeah awhile back. We still don't know what his current daily driver is.
TheCommenter71 no, that's a terrible idea to daily a AW11 lol. I think he uses a Subaru something right now.
That song at the end was beautiful!!
Its funny you say that 90s cars are disappearing. If anything, its the opposite. More people are buying them and actually taking care of them, rather than using them for beaters. Its pretty amazing. If anything, the new cars we have now will be fading into the history books in just 10 years. They were planned to be obsolete from the factory. And yes, that includes your plastic new turbo honda that looks like a bad refrigerator drawing.
The modern cars will go away because they're so expensive to repair. My brother's car was in an accident, and just the value of all the air bags that had gone off was enough to total it.
hlavco and thats because modern cars are plastic, and not worth the bolts that hold them together. 90s cars are here to stay for quite a while.
The 90's is where cars peaked, in terms of reliability and simplicity. Everything just came together. And then the decontenting started with cheap plastics, that was and is still rampant to this day, but improving. Technology started to get more complicated such as with infotainment systems and other silly things such as electronic parking brakes and not to mention cars with no dipsticks, etc.
I've got a '92 S10 pickup, 4.3/5 speed. I ...agree that it's a good combination of technology and simplicity.
My brother in law has this car with the bigger i6 with the power glided automatic as his daily an he loves it
Now that's an ending quote right there. Solid work as always
4:23 the MGB does it even though the fuel filler is just bellow the lid line.
This was one of my favorite episodes, a surprise favorite episode.
This...ALL of this! I have a 64 Pontiac Catalina sedan...44000 original miles...Yes indeed, it’s a time machine...and still hauls ass on the highway. But when you’re driving one of those things, it’s all hands on deck Because you are looking at every single driver in front of you next to you and behind you
I feel like I just watched an episode of the wonder years. Great job. Excellent narration.
I had a 63 C10 with a 327 and a 3speed. You have not lived until you try to stop mechanical solid drum breaks from 65mph in a truck downhill on the highway when the drums are already hot.
This car was produced in Argentina as Chevrolet 400 powered only by the 230 inline six. There was a 250 inline six in the next Chevy Coupè. Regards!
The philosophy at the end of this video really made me think. It's no different than the B-52's I worked on just over a year ago. These machines have seen Chrome Dome, constant nuclear alert through several decades. Our grandfathers flew in them, our fathers flew in them, and now our relatives still fly them today. You can replace the humans in machines, but the Machine, well maintained, will always outlast the humans who use them.
I have to agree with Mr. Regular that driving a jalopy is really fun.
Powerglides and I-6's ARE THE SHIT(run forever) !
8:43 V-STROM 650 !
Damn, Mr. Regular, your pep-talk at the end brought a tear to my eye . . . I'm gonna go drink my Minor-Pause/Mid-Life Crisis medicine now.
I am a loyal viewer and LOVE your channel. I have never commented because really, who gives a shit what I have to say. Lol. But brother, the narrative concerning classics was incredibly poignant, poetic, and moving. You have a genuine passion for all things vehicular. Keep on keeping on. And if you're ever in Maine your welcome to do a RCR on my 63 Cadillac Eldorado convertible or my 2015 GMC Terrain.