The boat would sell new in 1970 for $14,250.00 base price and options were extra. I had a 77 Ralley trim in root beer brown with an awesome plaid interior. Top speed was 47mph and cruising speed was around 43mph and the Nova24 would take seas of three feet or more at full throttle with little notice. My first love (car) was a 76 two-door Nova. With its base option motors it leaps on a plane in four seconds flat. If you tore a rudder off there should be no leaks. For an example the rudders were mounted on the transom in housings with the housing tops above the water line. 'I think those wheels could chop up a two-by-four.' Brownie would add, 'The shafts were stainless steel and we spent a lot more money under the boat then we had to in order to make everything five times stronger than she has to be.' The reason for this was to spare the buyer headaches from mishaps. There was no expense spared fitting out the boat with Ni Bral alloy 14 X 16 heavily cupped props. The power was delivered by two vee-drives with a gear reduction of 1.15 to 1 or within 87% of being straight drive. Standard power was a pair of Holman and Moody engines producing 235hp each. The Nova24 weighed 4400 pounds with a deep-V hull form with a deadrise of 24.7 degrees making her a floating wedge. The boat was always advertised as having a 8' beam to make it legal to be trailered without having special permit. I got an ST with a pair of small blocks - I believe most of the ST though were sold with twin 454s but the space is so tight I can't imagine where you'd have an inch of space to work on the big blocks.Ĭlick to expand. The step is pretty simple, but I really like the newer configuration as it comes up on plane very smooth and easy as if it doesn't weight a thing compared to the older 250 I remember. Violet and blue come together to create Blue Nova, an elevated and sumptuous hue.

Then starting in 1990 the ST has one step, strakes that end at the step, and a center flat pad aft of the step. But in the late 80's with the Nova III they added a relatively simple single step. I can't remember in detail what the Nova II and Spider (basically the same as the II but with a lower windscreen) hull was like. Set an alert to be notified of new listings.

Classifieds for 1977 to 1979 Chevrolet Nova. Resources Business Advertisers 1977 to 1979 Chevrolet Nova for Sale. I happened to come upon a deal that was too good to pass up from a nice guy who had upgraded to a 30' and now had one too many boats, so I picked up a 1990 Wellcraft 26' Nova ST at a real steal. Search Sell a Car Find Dealers Join our Dealers Auction Central Resources Journal AutoHunter.

Sorry there wasn't an answer posted yet - but thanks to this thread I did some looking around which brought back a lot of good memories.

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