{"id":27777,"date":"2020-09-11T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/?p=27777"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:37:58","slug":"frank-ss-1973-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/frank-ss-1973-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank S\u2019s 1973 Nova &#8211;  Customer Car of the Month February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This 1973 Nova SS hatchback was doomed to be a lawn ornament until Frank S. stumbled on it in someone\u2019s backyard in 2012. Luckily, Frank had a vision for the hatchback and took it upon himself to restore it over the next three years.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The engine has been swapped in favor of a Dart 406 small block coupled to a Tremec TK-600 5-speed transmission, making approximately 580 hp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank also had a custom two-tone interior installed along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/category\/nova-autometer.html\" class=\"rank-math-link\">AutoMeter<\/a> gauges and a custom console to complete the look on the inside. On the outside, the 1973 Nova was resprayed in Huntington Blue Pearl, which helps it stand out at car shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1973 Nova SS hatchback was doomed to be a lawn ornament until Frank S. stumbled on it in someone\u2019s backyard in 2012. Luckily, Frank had a vision for the hatchback and took it upon himself to restore it over the next three years. The engine has been swapped in favor of a Dart 406 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":21717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,200],"tags":[220,219],"class_list":["post-27777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-cars","category-nova","tag-1973-nova","tag-customer-car-of-the-month"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Frank-Sierras-1973-Nova_header.jpg",1200,771,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Frank-Sierras-1973-Nova_header-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Frank-Sierras-1973-Nova_header-300x193.jpg",300,193,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Frank-Sierras-1973-Nova_header-768x493.jpg",768,493,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Frank-Sierras-1973-Nova_header-1024x658.jpg",800,514,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Frank-Sierras-1973-Nova_header.jpg",1200,771,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Frank-Sierras-1973-Nova_header.jpg",1200,771,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ground Up Content Team","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/author\/klaclair\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This 1973 Nova SS hatchback was doomed to be a lawn ornament until Frank S. stumbled on it in someone\u2019s backyard in 2012. Luckily, Frank had a vision for the hatchback and took it upon himself to restore it over the next three years. The engine has been swapped in favor of a Dart 406&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27777"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46747,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27777\/revisions\/46747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}