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A blown, Pro Street-style 1967 Chevrolet Chevy II Nova, built from the ground up by one family for their own garage, is currently drawing serious bids on Hagerty Marketplace, where the auction has already climbed to $65,000 with more than a week still left on the clock.
The seller says the Nova was fully built by their grandfather, with paperwork dating back to 2008 and the car reportedly finished around 2009. It's now for sale out of Toledo, Ohio, with a clean Ohio title and a binder of build documentation, invoices, and parts records included in the deal.
The Nova's second-gen sheet metal is deceiving. Underneath that two-tone red and silver paint sits a Promax fiberglass body mounted to a full-length, purpose-built Promax frame, engineered to retain the Nova's factory-style proportions and 110-inch wheelbase while accommodating a much wider, lower, drag-strip-ready stance. It's the same formula that's turned so many Chevy IIs into some of the baddest Chevy Novas on Motorious over the years, and this build leans hard into that Pro Street tradition.
Motivation comes from a supercharged V8 topped with a blower poking through the fiberglass hood, backed by an automatic transmission and controlled with a Hurst pistol-grip shifter. The seller didn't document exact displacement or output figures, but supporting hardware includes an MSD ignition system, a full dual exhaust system with side-exit routing, an aluminum fuel tank with a rear-mounted filler, and a trunk-mounted battery, all hallmarks of a car built to be driven hard, not just shown.
Stopping power comes from four-wheel Baer disc brakes with cross-drilled and slotted rotors, while a modern rack-and-pinion steering system and a Pro Street-style suspension package with a heavy-duty rear axle assembly and widened wheel tubs handle the chassis duties. Staggered aluminum wheels wrapped in Hoosier tires fill out the wide-body stance.
Inside, the custom theme continues with tan and beige leather upholstery accented in ostrich, a billet two-spoke steering wheel, a roll bar, AutoMeter instrumentation, and hood-mounted boost and fuel-pressure gauges so the driver can keep tabs on the supercharger. A JVC CD stereo and custom audio system round out the cabin, a nod to the car's dual life as both a show piece and a strip-ready build. It's the kind of attention to detail found in the best restomod muscle car builds we've featured, applied here to a car built for one family rather than a client.
Where this Nova gets interesting is value. Hagerty's own valuation tools price a numbers-matching 1967 Chevrolet Nova Sport Coupe at roughly $23,700 in good condition, and Hagerty's market analysts have described Chevy II Nova values as being on something of a slow burn, with steady, single-digit percentage gains rather than dramatic spikes over the past several years. A heavily customized Pro Street build like this one doesn't fit neatly into that guide, though. With no factory drivetrain, a custom chassis, and thousands of dollars in fabrication work, its value is set by bidders rather than a price guide, and the current $65,000 high bid suggests the market is willing to pay a real premium for a well-executed, one-family build over a numbers-matching survivor.
This isn't the first heavily built second-gen Nova to cross Hagerty Marketplace, either. We've also covered a 1970 Chevy Nova Pro Street build and a 1967 Nova SS with its own Pro Street transformation, both proof that the Chevy II platform remains one of the most popular starting points for drag-oriented restomods. Bidding on this supercharged Promax Nova runs through Friday, August 21, on Hagerty Marketplace.
