Chevrolet Racing, the early years.

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It seems the Alan Green Chevrolet fastback Chevy II / Nova started out as dark green, then painted lime green, and then ended up being painted yellow over the years...until it was found as seen in the previous photos.

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Article on the CKC Chevy II / Nova fastback...funny it shows a few different big blocks in it though.

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A couple more early pics of the CKC Chevy II / Nova fastback...

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And a few of when they switched to injection & supercharged engines...

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Has anyone here ever heard of how many of these fastback Nova's that survived after all these years...

[chris ok]

whats incredible is the rear is independent suspension, front solid. rear has coil over shocks and springs and front leafs, that is some amout of fabricating they did then.
It must've been some wild ride from launch, thru the full stop.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

For what it's worth, in 1974 I went to an older mans home in Parsippany N.J. to see about buying a 67 Z-28 that he had for sale. When I got there he told me that he had 2 67 Z-28s that he and his brother had bought new. The one that he wanted to sell was pretty rusty and, at the time, not worth his asking price (hindsite?) but we had a nice conversation and he showed me his other toys. That's where this story gets good. He takes me into a garage and there sits a phonebooth T and a fastback Chevy II ! It was in primer and had an injected big block in it. And I have no idea what happened to it, I never saw it again.

this is a pic of the car that I saw. I don't know if it was taken before or after I saw it but it is sitting at Sedgefield Gulf in Parsippany N.J..

[Rich Biebel]

That Sedgefiled Gulf Station was owned and run by Earl Benson for many many years.

Earl and his brother Bobby.....my good friend in high school......raced various cars.

They lived in Lake Hiawatha NJ and Bobby and I spent lots of time messing with cars and reading Earl's little Hot Rod Magazine collection before we were 17....

They owned a sizable property with a huge garage and other garages.

Their father ran a dairy and food delivery service out of the big garage before he died.


Earl had a Corvette and raced it as a gasser with injection. I can recall him struggling with that injection trying to get the car off the line....

Bobby at one time had a Turbo Corvair and raced it as well....

I passed that station many times and still do as 2 of my good friends live close by.

I don't recall ever seeing that Nova and have no recollection of the Bensons ever racing anything like that......

They basically were just locals like so many back then that went to the drags with a car to race for
trophys....


P.S. The van in the background of the picture is one I probably drove ! I worked at that parts store along with another friend around 1969-1970 for a short while....

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Some other racers used the other regular Chevy II / Nova bodies like this one with the motor set back...