Super Chevy – October 2019

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of mine had a ’62 Nova with a blower

motor in it, and basically he was in his

60s and was tired of driving around an

old car with a blower motor with no air

and everything else,” Rick says.

A conversation at a car show turned

into the opportunity Rick was looking

for, so he got to wheelin’ and dealin’ one

of his cars from his collection. That’s

what Rick does. He acquires cars in

which he has an interest, then starts

down the road of fulfilling his vision ...

which is how this car ended up in his

collection.

“I traded him my ’02 Anniversary

Camaro for the ’62 Nova big-tire

car with the blower motor built by

Advanced Racing Engines out of Salina,

Kansas,” says Plush. “I was going to put

the blower motor into my ’67. I tried

to advertise the ’62 as a roller, put it on

eBay, and nobody wanted to buy it as a

roller. They wanted the complete car. So

I decided not to break it up, put it on

eBay complete and sold it in two hours.

Then I went in search of a blower motor

car, and I really wanted a big-tire car. I

came across this car here, which is—as

far as I’m concerned—the best of all the

worlds,” he explains.

Even though much of the ’66 Nova

seen here was built by the previous

owner, Rick took it home and has been

putting his stamp on it since the begin-

ning. “The guy who owned it before me

ran a dragster, and basically, he bought

this as a novelty to race in between his

dragster passes,” says Rick. “His buddy

built the blower motor for it and they

put it in and they made one pass with

it before the buddy passed away from

complications from diabetes. Then the

car sat, and it sat, and it sat.”

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