An artist delivers a new Chevy Nova that combines the vintage personality and nameplate alongside a modern exterior design.
Chevrolet’s performance cars and sports cars routinely get remembered via the Chevy Camaro and Corvette, but there are other nameplates from the past that deserve recognition.
In these modern times the Chevy Nova still finds use as a drag racer and restomod base which gets loved by many despite its brief period as a muscle car.
The Chevrolet Camaro is a pony car, and like the relatively-compact Nova from the past, offers style and power in a smaller package – as long as the Nova is an SS.
As such, a remake of the Chevy Nova SS might make a good sibling to the 5th-gen Camaro, and digital artist JLord8 on Instagram provides us with a view into an alternate universe where the Nova SS returns.
The Return Of The Chevy Nova SS For 2023
The digital artist seemingly takes the fifth-gen Chevy Camaro as a base for which to build a new Nova SS upon, the retro-looking long grille of the Camaro offering a vintage feel to evoke the spirit of the classic compact Nova.
Of course, the Nova was a trim-level for what was initially the Chevy II, by the third generation appeared around 1968 the Nova name was being used and the ‘SS’ Super Sport package was no longer just an appearance package; you could get real power and also something approaching a muscle car.
A 6.5-liter V8 that would make up to around 375 hp and a special ‘Yenko’ version with uprated suspension and a 7-liter V8 meant that the Nova was starting to earn it stripes as a legitimate compact performance car.
Creating A Modern Day Chevy Nova SS
Back to the render – the car which appears in blue, seems to use the Camaro’s grille and face, an angular design and the same kind of pointed lower bumper.
A black hood scoop and lower lip spoiler combine with the relatively-small sporty alloy wheels, but the rear quarter section is most telling, the trunk section making the car look less like a coupe and more like a traditional compact, through the filter of a muscle car.
We like the simplicity of the design, of course it looks more than a little like the Camaro and without the nameplate it could simply be an elongated-Camaro.
Under the hood we would expect nothing other than a V8, perhaps the Camaro ZL1’s 6.2-ilter supercharged V8.
