He started off looking at 1st gen Camaro\u2019s online and soon realized that they were too expensive. So, he was able to afford a trip to the US and check out some cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He found a few nice cars that were affordable and well done. After returning home to Canada, he spotted a 1970 Nova for sale in Ontario. He had a friend in Ontario close to the location of the car. So he asked if they could go look at the car for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called back and said, “come buy this car” as it is a total restoration car. Colin called the seller and arranged to fly down and purchase the 1970 Nova. After purchasing an airline ticket, the seller called back a few days later and said he didn\u2019t want to sell it. Really!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So, he was back looking for a car again. A week later, the seller in Ontario with the 1970 Nova called him back and said he would sell him the car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first thought he had was, are you sure you want to sell it? As airline tickets aren\u2019t cheap in Canada. The seller would only accept cash, traveling with a large sum of money is stressful but in the end, it was worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 1970 Nova was made into a tribute SS model. According to the VIN# and the seller, it was a 307 automatic car from California. It is a big block, M21 transmission, 12 bolt Moser, cowl induction hood with black interior in citrus green paint (original color of this car). The seller gave Colin a Ground Up catalog, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, when you buy a completed car there are always things you want to change. Since 2015 Colin has added QA1 shocks, Hotchkiss sway bars, 15\u201d wheels, in-dash tach, and fixed a lot of small pieces on the car. Colin is currently working on small things to make it even more year-correct. With Ground Ups help new weatherstripping is being installed soon, and surely there will be more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colin had a few Muscle cars back in the early \u201970s then life got in the way. Fast forward to 2015, when he attended a few car shows in his area. When he got the bug again to own a muscle car. He started off looking at 1st gen Camaro\u2019s online and soon realized that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":55327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,200],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-55332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-cars","category-nova","tag-1970-nova"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Colin-Campbell-1970-Nova1.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Colin-Campbell-1970-Nova1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Colin-Campbell-1970-Nova1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Colin-Campbell-1970-Nova1-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Colin-Campbell-1970-Nova1-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Colin-Campbell-1970-Nova1.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Colin-Campbell-1970-Nova1.jpg",1200,800,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":"Colin had a few Muscle cars back in the early \u201970s then life got in the way. Fast forward to 2015, when he attended a few car shows in his area. When he got the bug again to own a muscle car. He started off looking at 1st gen Camaro\u2019s online and soon realized that…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55332"}],"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=55332"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67875,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55332\/revisions\/67875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}