'75 Chevy Nova Commercial (1974)

[@talltom1129]

Just bought a 75 nova for use as a daily driver. Solid, dependable, no electronics. Can't be beat.

[@dw8840]

I had a 1975 Nova in high school. Mine was the most upscale model you could get for the time. It was called the Nova LN which stood for "Luxury Nova". Cloth bucket seats, center console w/floor shift, cloth door inserts, air conditioning, power locks, rear window defogger and a 350 cubic inch V8 are just a few things the LN Nova came with.

[@jaymes1]

Our neighbors had one, had the fancy padded Landau top and no ac🤦🏻‍♂️

[@BenJabituya]

My dad’s first car EVER, was a 1976 Nova.

[@reginaldlawrence412]

My Grandpa had a 1976 Nova miss that car and him too.

[@Victoria3232-j7o]

reginald lawrence what a warm comment.

[@predatorhunts5499]

I miss my grandpa to,we have a 65 el camino that was his just sitting in the garage

[@dinocracchiolo2040]

It's hard to believe there was a time in America there was a market for simple, economical vehicles.

[@toronado455]

There was a market for small cars, but the Nova is about the smallest thing GM put any effort into. The smaller cars (Vega, Chevette, Cavalier, etc) were all junk.

[@jaymes1]

I agree, even with gas at record highs, suburbans and expeditions and trucks that get 14mpg are everywhere

[@AbronHawkins]

I had a 1978 Nova when I was in 12th grade and I miss it already

[@geraldscott4302]

As a teenager at the time, and a huge fan of the 1968-1974 Nova, I was very disappointed to see that commercial. But not nearly as disappointed as when I saw the 1980 Citation commercials.

[@martyjoseph9507]

Sorry that I liked both cars, a 76 in high school and an 81 eight years later

[@pjchmiel]

Love the closing tagline, "looking better all the time." Reminds me of Eugene Levy's "You think you hate it now, but wait'll you drive it!" car sales pitch.

[@cnkilts]

Would love to find a 4 door version of this car with the 6 cylinder still in it.

[@feoyjodido1372]

Hi, I'm from Monterrey Mexico and I have a neighbor who still has a 1978 Chevy Concours with a 6-cylinder engine.

[@martyjoseph9507]

I had a 76 red on red with a 305 and towing package. Couldn't bury that 100mph speedometer but it got to 98 quicker than a lot of cars, didn't lose to many races.

[@briteidea08]

My dad had a Chevy Nova. It was that chevy Orange/Red color with a tan interior. Pretty basic 6cylinder car and 2x60 air conditioning. Also had the "sport" wheels. I cried when they bought the 83 Cavalier. What a problem child that turned out to be.

[@montrosepatriot]

this was during the peak of the OAPEC crisis where entry level compacts were produced en masse and my late mom scored one used in February 1976 4 $2700 cash from tip $$$ earned from Trader Vic's Houston - still have the same car (a 2 door base model originally a 6 with a 3 spd manual - drove it in HS until 1997 when the swapped 350 was totaled out; extensive rust damage with the taillight panel is why it's sitting in my garage

[@kennethsouthard6042]

This is one of the rare times I've ever seen a low-end version being featured in a commercial.

[@kevinowen8155]

Life was better back then.

[@davehibbs9111]

It was? Better? I made $2.30 an hour and busted my ass off for ungrateful people! It's not any better or worse than today! Last year the amount of money I made would come out to that of making $24.72 an hour back in 75' I wish I would have made that back in that era of being 18'.

[@MaestroTJS]

@@davehibbs9111 Uh, your $24.72 is also not the wage of someone starting out.

[@MaestroTJS]

@Rich Santoro That line wouldn't work so well if you said it to, say, a Jew in 1933 Germany or a landowner in 1917 Russia.

[@MaestroTJS]

@Rich Santoro Yeah I guess I just had to be "that guy," lol

[@MaestroTJS]

@Rich Santoro Yeah, it's a shame stuff like that doesn't pay, lol. Although I'd give the money back if I could just sometimes FORGET that I did it....

[@TheEnderman67]

I wish car commercials were still like this. Not the contrived heartstrings bullshit today.

[@nlpnt]

Ads have a different function now. The old detailed sales pitch was needed to get you into a dealership, now all print and TV ads need to do is get you to the website to get the full info in your own time.

[@MontrealMan1970]

& hokey assed hipster shit

[@surferbri5346]

It's all woke bullshit now, Lexus and Cadillac both advertising electric vehicles costing over $100k each with only blacks acting, like they can afford those??

[@vincemistretta8999]

At that price I'll take 5 of them...

[@JohnnyTyrone77]

I had a silver with burgundy interior 1977 Chevy Concourse -Straight 6 auto trans.2 door hatchback(Cool part about the hatchback is it looked like it was a normal trunk lid.)

[@jacobfleming565]

Haha when I bought mine I thought it was a coupe until I opened the trunk lol

[@therealhotdog]

my first car, with a 262 v8 4 door , i drove that car through hell, i used to catch air with it, the only thing i used to pop the battery out of it's holder when i landed but never had a issue a fantastic car no problem doing 120 mph

[@martyjoseph9507]

Same, had a 76 with 305, but towing package so it only went 98, but got there quick.

[@misterwhipple2870]

Too bad you didn't treat it better. You could still be driving it, Bo Duke.

[@zekeonstormpeak4186]

My local police department had fleet of these, in 1976-77, I was in high school. The next few years would bring the Plymouth gran fury models. We could always pick them out because they were Navy blue 4 doors with black out tires!

[@dfygoh3215]

40 years ago my first car , 76 Nova nce looking but Oil leaks , Radiator leaks , but i miss it

[@davidjames666]

yes, but one could replace the headgaskets under a tree on a single saturday afternoon. today, the car needs a lift, and the entire powertrain dropped out the bottom. copper radiators, steel mufflers, and natural rubber gaskets were the downfall for all those cars back then.

[@nlpnt]

Basically a four-door Camaro; this is the base-base model but you could go full Brougham with a '75 LN or '76-7 Concours until they cut the top line off for '78 to make way for the downsized Malibu. I suspect most cars ordered to dealer stock had the full wheel covers, white stripe tires and side moldings, and the standard interior had that nasty molded-pattern vinyl but the cloth option was a nice plaid and cheap (maybe even no extra cost?) so that was the way to go.

[@thewillismon]

Was shocked to see this stripper car in an ad. Gotta think very few were sold with the dog dish hubcaps.

[@spoonfixer3387]

Love the blue!!!!!

[@unitedcity_mc4421]

This has got to be the best GM car of the mid-late '70s.

[@440_SIXPACK]

No.

[@elisehiatt4292]

Geez I wish my car was only $3222 brand new 😂

[@thud9797]

Wouldn't cover the tax on a car today!

[@JuniorFan08]

I remember being in the showroom of the Chevy dealership my uncle sold for. He asked me if I'd seen the price on the Nova on display and I said yes, pretty expensive. He couldn't get over a Nova with an MSRP over $5,000. I think it was something on the order of $5,200.

[@SnepperStepTV]

even small cars feel big in 1975.

[@mrmajik03]

Those cars are the last of the true hotrods my has a sbc400

[@kennethsouthard6042]

The last of the novas with any hot rod street cred was 74. 75 to 79 was pure malaise and the best engine you could get was a smogged out 350. The rally version had some okay looks but not a muscle car

[@mrmajik03]

Yeah but power could be had with just a few parts cam headers and intake

[@thebestisyettocome4114]

Chevy Nova, was my favorite automobile in 1970s. And I believe in 1980 or '81 they made the Chevy Citation a front wheel drive model. Thank you 👍

[@emeyer6963]

Citation came out in mid 79' as an early 1980 model.

[@BuickParkAvenue]

I know most people don't really like this model, but this is one of my favorite years for the Chevy Nova, with '63 being my favorite followed up by the '74 model.

[@Hwje1111]

You don’t like the ‘68 to ‘72 era car?

[@BuickParkAvenue]

@@Hwje1111 I do, I can see why that model is a cult classic, but I just prefer this model, however, if I came across a '68 to '72 model for a good price, I'd buy one.

[@elbarosa2084]

Mi and my rip husband favorite car nova

[@pjtalks1988]

Make Chevy Great Again 🫡❤‼️

[@bhzaddybhzolby1705]

When your compact is the same size as a modern full size sedan

[@MontrealMan1970]

that little blue badass looks like a detective's 9C1.

[@davidhibbs6989]

Okay I'm sold! How do I order a new one?

[@M21L35]

They made one helluva' police cruiser!

[@misterwhipple2870]

I got my first ticket from a cop driving a '79 Nova. City of Winter Park, Florida, on August 22, 1978. It was my 19th birthday and I was driving a '74 Pinto wagon. He caught me going 71 through town.

[@pcno2832]

I don't know if the passengers would agree that this car had "room for 6"; maybe he's talking about chimpanzees. My parents bought a Malibu solely because they couldn't find a way to shoehorn my under 6' body into the back of a Nova. It had a longer wheelbase than the downsized 1978 Malibu, but the extra inches were under the hood to support the weigh of the big block V8s that were no longer offered, so there was a lot less legroom. The 1975 Seville had the body of a Nova, but it was stretched 3.5" in the back seat to make it bearably comfortable.

[@jasonhsu4711]

Those "compact" Novas were boats! How could something so big have so little rear seat legroom? It's not a Corolla, Civic, Vega, Pinto, or Monza.

[@gorgeusjames]

Still the cabin was too small even when the car was rather large. we had a 4 door but the cabin was too cramped.

[@jonnyboy2128]

People weren’t as fat then!

[@supremes1964]

my sibling had a 1974 NOVA.....people envy him and his car! It was cursed ........most totaled in a accident .....he repaired it! Our cousin borrowed it .....he totaled the car in a accident! my brother sent the car .....to the dumpster!

[@frankdenardo8684]

Looks like an undercover cop car

[@pjchmiel]

"Undercover cop in a dark green Nova."

[@seand2711]

I prefer the 73 hatchback.

[@Spurs19921993]

$3,222 as $18,000 in today's dollars But if they made such a car today for sale, it would be worth around $25,000.

[@ScenicMidnightDrive]

It would be way more than 25k. Average new car price nowadays is just shy of 50k.

[@Spurs19921993]

@Lamborghini: I mean the price for inflation today. In other words, at its cost at the value of the dollar today. You can't compare this car to a new 2023 car because this 1975 Chevy didn't come with many of the extras that come with the new cars of the last years. Therefore, its value without these extras and equipment would not exceed $25,000. A car with all the extras and accessories of 2023 that it did not bring in 1974 if it was between $35,000 and $40,000 I prefer these Nova from 1975 to 1979 that a new car.

[@johnskogman5623]

It will cost you MORE. LOL

[@godcomplex2105]

I wonder who told him it would look cool if he had his back to the camera and then turned around and said "and one more thing"? It was actually kind of creepy.

[@jackd8147]

That would have been the director.

[@toronado455]

@@jackd8147 Yup!😊

[@BradFalck-mn3pc]

Shame they quit making them.....

[@DowntownCanon]

Lube jobs. lol

[@MaestroTJS]

We must think alike because I laughed at that too.

[@davidmeyers6884]

Economical lube job. Haha

[@Victoria3232-j7o]

Doesn't look terrible but not good ether its just a plain jane car for its what its suppose to do get you around were ever you need to go.

[@robertosoto3746]

Nice. Not the cookie cutter crap we got today. Cars of yesterday can't compare with technology but they were sure a lot more fun my OP.

[@daniellaubach7544]

Disco era cars. The last year of the Nova 1979 i thought the styling of the frt end was nice looking with the square headlites.

[@ironinquisitor3656]

Would rather drive this Nova than 99% of cars today.

[@jackd8147]

Could the pick a more boring and drab version for the commercial.

[@Drchainsaw77]

Some car makers turned out some gorgeous work in the '70s. This was not one of them. This car was *fugly.*

[@ironinquisitor3656]

I would rather drive something like this than 99% of todays cars.

[@unitedcity_mc4421]

@@Drchainsaw77 no. It *was* one of them.

[@mrbig4514]

I never liked that model!