Thanks for viewing my 1967 Nova Sport Coupe.I purchased the car from its' third owner in June 2005. It was a rust free all original 283ci / 2speed powerglide survivor car with 67,000 miles. It ran and drove beautifully and was appreciated at local car club functions as an all orginal 39 year old car. Inspite all of my friends and family that discouraged me from "chopping it up", I had this vision ... I wanted MORE!!!... So in August 2005, I contacted Paradise Road Speed and Custom of Chester (Richmond), Virginia to start the process of creating what I thought was the perfect Hot Rod G-car. Over an 18 month period my little Nova has been stripped down, modified and built back up. Insisting on all "top shelf" equipment and custom fabrication, the transformation is beginning to look like what I had in mind.

I was/am a career Army soldier and now DoD contractor currently (FEB 2006) on my 5th trip to Iraq, third time in Baghdad. I consider myself a Patriot and wanted to build a car that reflected my personality, personal history and sacrifies that my family and I have made to our country over the years. Now, I could have put a big flaming eagle on the hood or covered the whole thing in a big American flag, but understatements reflect the "quiet professional" that I am. So, I designed a mild red, white and blue scheme with metal flake throughout. I thought the ghost stars on the 2" cowl hood and the tattered red and white ribbon down the side would do the trick.

As you can see the door handles, gas filler and side chrome trim has been removed and smoothed for that minimalistic custom look. The front fenders maintain the only badging on the exterior of the car. It was airbrushed under the clear and gives the public a gentle indicator of what is on the inside but upon closer inspection that isn't the half of it!

Engine: 383ci stroker with a hand made intake manifold housing twin 70mm throttle bodies pushing air through an all aluminum plenum. Ported and polished Edelbrock aluminum heads given the full high horsepower treatment with titanium valves, springs and retainers, long tube headers,1.6 rockers, titanium rods, forged pistons, forged crank, custom ground cam, billet water pump, MDS billet distributor, MSD digital 7 programable ignition, Griffin aluminum radiator with overflow. Accel Gen VII digital fuel injection and the direct port 250hp nitrous oxide system with dual LED purges and dual 15lb tanks in the trunk along with the sunken 22 gallon aluminum fuel cell, Aeromotive high capacity fuel pump and twin Optima yellow tops.

Transmission: Keisler Tremec T-5 speed

Rearend: Shortened and modified Ford 9 inch with Auburn Pro Gear posi-traction and 4:10 gears. AirRide Technologies 4 link AirBar, Moser axles.

Drivetrain: 550hp/575 ft lbs without the juice! I am looking for sub 4 second 0-60 times and low 11 quarters in a 3000+ lb car. Could get serious!

Interior: Handmade dash featuring Autometer Carbon Fiber Series 5" speedo, 5" tach with memory and shift light as well as seven(7) other carbon fiber gauges throughout the dash and center console. Honda S2000 push button ignition. Billet Specialties steering column and steering wheel with leather half wrap. 2006 GTO leather front and rear seats with custom red panels in each and 4 point harnesses. Custom center console housing the Nitrous arming device, remote JL Audio bass knob and Alpine head unit. Billet Specialties interior overhead light, center console lights, window cranks and dash knobs. Leather headliner and sunvisors and custom made one off blue with red and silver trimmed floor mats with the LoPro67 and Chevy Bowties

Stereo: CDA 9855 Alpine head with hidden antenna, JL Audio 500/1 bass amp running a JL Audio 10W7, JL Audio 300/1 bass amp running a JL Audio 8W7, JL Audio 300/4 amp running a set of JL Audio XR650 CSi's and a set of JL Audio XR525CSi's component speakers.
Stinger capacitor, LED lighting, custom leather covered fiberglass enclosures, kick panels and deck lid, you know the deal, if the motor don't getcha, the bass will shake your fillings loose!

Suspension: Is there anything better than Air Ride Technologies? Shockwaves up front and Four Link AirBar in the rear with programmable ride height and remotes. Damn!

Brakes: Polished Wilwood calipers all the way around with drilled and slotted rotors (13in/11in). It should stop so fast the paint will slide off!

Wheels and Tires: Billet Specialties GTX 10's 17x8 in the front on Kumho Supra 215/45ZR17's and 18x9.5 in the rear with Kumho Supra 275/35ZR18's with a custom offset to give me a 6 inch lip. Sweet!

Exterior: Front: bumper-grommits ground down and smoothed out and triple chromed , chrome bezels and billet grill with halogen "red dot" lenses
Rear: bumper-grommits ground down and smoothed out triple chromed, rear exhaust intergrated into the bumper; chromed bezels with custom LED tail lights

Exhaust: High flow headers into 3 inch tubes into flowmaster 40 series thunder mufflers out the rear. I mean seriously???!!!!