Its unfortunate the old guy cared more about the wood than the cars sitting on his property.

I'd love to see Vice Grip Garage drive it home!

A rare vehicle now, very few, left.

Gosh I was 13 years old when my parents had bought that car brand new. We used it for our paper out on the weekends. Thank you guys for saving her. Just looking at that car even in that condition brings back memories. God bless you all

It's really sad to see these cars like this but thank you for saving them we appreciate you going out there and working really hard and getting these cars back to where they were supposed to be thank you

That’s a shame how people can just let them waste away and hold on to them until they’re on their last minute of being rescued! Imagine what the frame looks like wasting away in the dirt! Good luck guys I appreciate you sharing! 👍🏻

This video went a long way in motivating me to get the 1963 Nova Wagon - Baby blue on Baby blue - my granddad owned since new, left me when he pasted in 2016.. Been covered under his lean to as long as I can remember, I can't let it end up like the one in the video.

Turned 16 in '79. Got my driver's license, bought a '64 Nova wagon from our next door neighbor, for $100. Inline 6, 3 on the tree, no radio. Had to replace water pump and the tires eventually but other than that, served me well. Installed an 8 track tape player, bolted a circuit breaker box door over a hole in the drivers floorboard, drove it for 2 years, sold it for $250. Wish I still had it.

That's how it starts, thank you for saving this one and the others as well. Sure it's rough, real rough, but it is savable and I would imagine fairly rare and desirable. It all starts with a guy like you, thank you once again.

My hat's off to you, my friend, for what you do. Really enjoyed you taking us through most of the rescue and hope that this car can be of some use to someone down the road. Keep on keepin' on.

I appreciate the respect you show others and yourself by not cussing. You're a good guy! I myself love classic cars. They were great. I experienced them in the day!

My wife and I have started doing the same thing. Before we got married I was always into the rescuing these pieces of American history. The imagination and ingenuity I’ve seen there’s always a home for these old cars. Those out there with the sight to see more than just a pile of rust. I’ve seen cars that most would haul the the scrap yard turned into some of the wildest running pieces of plunder. They’re a constant reminder of a time where so much pride and craftsmanship was poured into these cars. My opinion the car industry could really use a big shot in the arm of what it used to be to make it great again. GOD bless you for your time and dedication, I’m glad my wife and I are not the only ones. To all those out there breathing life back into these old cars, let’s keep making rust buckets great again!!!

It's awesome that you rescue cars like this, keep on doing what you do!

Thanks for saving her ☺️❣️

You are doing a great job trying to undo the damage done by these misguided hoarders. Just keep on doing the best you can.

Sir, I thank you and appreciate your effort in rescuing a classic car.

I hate to see old cars just sitting up or hidden by overgrown plants. Thankfully there are people like you to salvage them and return them running

She looks like a real hot rod now with no hood and those slick wagon wheels!! Good save!

I took my drivers test in one of those....51 years ago! Red interior and solid white exterior! ❤️

I’ve never understood why people won’t sell these cars that have been sitting for years when they obviously have no plans to put them back on the road!! I’d love to see you bring this one back!!

It makes me sad seeing that '65 Nova Station Wagon abandoned.

What an absolute beauty, totally worth saving

I just found this channel. It's nice to see you taking the time to resurrect old iron.

I would still try to get it running and have a little fun with it. Still a cool little car to save!!!

Once u put the slots on, that wagon took on a whole new persona~

This car is worth saving and restoring too! I dont think i ever saw a nova wagon... Usually just into the muscular one... But this one looks so unique and with all the years it spent left, its interior is real good!

I love that you're saving them

This car brings back memories, I was born in 1980 but we had the sedan style nova as a daily driver. We always had older classic cars around as a kid.

Good that you saved it. Curious to see if anyone restores it.

Good Job grabbing that wagon, love those old Nova's. Nice dash with the original radio!

My parents bought a '65 Nova wagon, brand new, in the early part of 1965. It was blue, and was a base model. It had a heater, but no radio. Manual transmission, steering & brakes. It did not have the optional reverse lights, so there were metal plates instead of the backup lights on the tailgate. The car was in our family for eleven years; it was the car I learned to drive in. It was rugged and the simple engineering meant we could replace the clutch plate, install brake pads, perform tune-ups, mostly by ourselves. I have many fond memories attached to that car.

Those old stovebolt 6's were next to impossible to kill. We had one in our 67 Bel Air station wagon (which, believe it or not, was in even worse shape than this). My father had to strap the gas tank to the side of the rear fender by punching holes through it (the fender) and running those metal tension straps through the holes to keep the gas tank from falling out. Not sure if the tank was originally located someplace else (like the rear floor under the tailgate) but it ended up between the interior plastic moulding and the metal. Car had vise grips to open the doors (two vise grips) and windows, there were rubber mats put on the floors to keep the gravel from flying up and whacking him in the shins when he drove, there was more stuffing than vinyl on our seats, and the radio would zap you if you touched the knobs. Rad was kept alive with an egg periodically (it worked, but not well), and Ma's panty hose ended up being a temporary fan belt one fine evening when ours exited the engine bay. But despite ALL that rot (in Canada, salty roads will kill a car in pretty short order) that engine ran perfectly with zero maintenance (Dad wasn't one to change oil or fix anything, he'd just keep topping it up when he got gas) right up until he drove it to the junkyard after a cop ordered it off the road as being unsafe. Point? That old stovebolt might be seized up, but a little coca cola on the rusted bolts (or penetrating oil if you want to do it right...LOL), and I bet that thing roars back to life. In a little Nova wagon, it would be enough to get her going down the road, although it's no smallblock Chev by any stretch of the imagination.

I didn't know Nova had a wagon version, first time I see one. Hope you can restore it. Loved your video homie, keep doing what your doing. Thumbs up.

It's a bummer that it's a little too far rusted, it's got great patina on it. I wish it coulda got more lovin'. I've got one just like it (except it's a '63) and it was so well taken care of I daily it all year. Didn't even realize what I had until I started taking it places. Make sure to keep the interior and exterior trim, we're always looking for it.

Bravo! You are 1st who clean car, and working... Bravo for everything...

never seen them before this ep but the Irish/medieval/old old country earned them a sub

The guys at the drag strips love those old patina'd wagons

Oh man.. the music on repeat is just killing me.

Glad you saved it as a parts car if nothing else. I hope somebody got parts off of it. Good job keeping it from rotting completely into the ground.

I love what your doing and i love to watch. This is something i used to do in my younger years. Don't stop!

Thank you very much for saving it

Those are really cool wagons, worked with a guy in the 1980's who had a blue one with Craigers big and littles with a 327 and four speed.

My father cofounded a race team in the 60s called poorboys racing in PA. Held a few track championships and built chassis and sold em too. Revived it again in the early 80s . I've got the old team jackets .

Fantastic find and get. Look forward to seeing future vids of her. Happy wrenching.

Remember the movie Christine? The garage owner once said " You cant Polish a Turd " Regards from Ody Slim

Man that’s so sad that the nova was allowed to sit and rot away.

Glad you saved it! I'd like to see more of that!

Those accessory headrests are frigging sweet!

Enjoyed the video. Cool car, love that year. I know a lot of people around my neck of the woods (Boston), who would restore the hell out of that thing. Thanks for entertaining us.

i see this in my mind a 302 .fire engine red. smoked glass .old school cragars . black interior ! bad ass !

Reminds me of my Grandpa's place, remember back in the 70's, he had a 40 ford coupe, old 50's 5 window Chevy, a 55, 56 and 57 Chevy sedans, plus an old John Deere with steel wheels. He always had stories about each. Thanks for the video sir. From Ozarks in Missouri if it matters. :)

I just discovered your channel, Thank you for your service. I sometimes think people forget that these cars are not "classic iron" when they were parked. This was a worthless 14 year old wagon in 79. The storage conditions may not be ideal for the preservation of these vehicles, but at least it is still here for the right person to resurrect or use it's parts to save another. If anything the people complaining about it's condition should consider how many of these cars were sent to the crusher at 14 years old because of bad brakes or even smaller issues than that.

FAMILY HAD WAGONS GROWING UP, WISH I HAD THEM ALL BACK NOW. WAGONS ARE COOL NO MATTER THE YEAR.WE HAD 65 CHEVY ,ANOTHER 60'S I DONT KNOW WHAT YEAR AND A 69 PLYMOUTH WITH BIGBLOCK. THOSE WRE THE DAYS. GOOD LUCK IN YOUR JOURNEY GUYS. P.S. I REMEBER FIGHTING WITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS,TO GET TO SIT IN BACK FACING BACK.

you know it is bad when your reviving an old car and the first tool you reach for is a chainsaw.

I appreciate you Grew up with '63 Nova wagon. If I had loot, frame & LT1, no LS.

WOW, he probably ran out of beer money. 😁 The shape that wagon is in he should pay you to haul it away. Thanks for the Vid!

It's a rare car guys. I know it's a bunch of work bur if you haven't already decided I think you should restore it. Bill

Like so many cars I see in the south, owner thinks I'm gonna restore that car someday, lets it sit outside unprotected, turns into a pile of rust. If they would have sold it to someone that begged for it 40 years ago it could have been a very easy restoration.

Too bad it was so far gone, the wagons are pretty rare even if they aren't that collectible. I watched to the end mostly because of your backing music. Nice. Keep it up.

My dad bought one new . It was a great little wagon

So many of these cars were scrapped and we're in decent shape and now they're trying to restore rust buckets

S-10 frame...5 speed with 5.3 wedged in. All glass good and body fairly straight aside from the rust holes.

When I was 14, my folks bought a brand-new '65 Nova wagon. Had the little 283 V8 and a Powerglide. Wasn't quite 'enough wagon' for our family though, and the next year it was traded in on a new '66 Caprice Custom wagon.

I learned to drive stick in a 62 Chevy II that my Dad bought used as a "work car". It was kind of rough- we hit a bump once and a front wheel came off (while driving), and sometime when you turned the key to start it, smoke would come out of the keyhole! Good old days...

I love these kind of videos because people like you restore the good stuff because I'm sorry the stuff these days all this fiberglass crap it it just it ain't the same. So for me to you thank you for your video for all your hard work I have very much appreciate it. The only thing that I had just a small thing is the music in this video it muffled throughout the whole thing where you working I would much rather hear you banging around and and doing stuff versus the music I don't know if that's just me or if other people feel the same way but that's all I had to say. Thanks again please keep

Have no idea what posesesed old boy to sell this project he was working on all these years. It was so close to completion!

Neat find. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those Nova wagons before. Pretty cool.

Just found your channel. I grew up in Carolina and now have lived in Florida for a long period Ike. Great save ty

Killer nova wagon. My brother had a 67 nova 2 in high school. 283 3 on the floor

Another classic case of I'm going to fix it up one day

Man I've seen people start with worse. I'm glad you pulled it out

That's great that you pulled it out of the weeds....it'd be great to see it on the road but I understand that it's going to take a lot of restoration

Love the music, is so soothing!

Should have grabbed those beer cans to patch it up hahaha !

We had 1 of these growning up Brad....think I was about 8 when I feel in love with it !!!!

I learned to drive my dads 65 Wagon I begged him to keep it but there were to many years between my license to store it. Loved that car white with red interior....

It's just amazing why people will let a car sit that long before they will sell it. Ronnie.

Fill the cylinders full of Marvel Mistry Oil for a week and try gentle back and forth movements till you free it up. Don't go Gorilla on it like you did that poor back window. Nice find, one can bring it back to life. The 65-67 Chevy Two's were my favorite choice in the 60"s.

I have a 65 nova wagon and I’m ten rare cars thank you for saving it

I know where one of these is sitting, but they made it into an elcamino!! pretty cool looking as it rots away in the woods

so cool you dont see many of them

Love those wagons! Nice save brotha!!

Used to Live in Kinston. Went down to New Bern several times. Beautiful country side around there!

From the cowl tag: 06C - third week of June build NOR - Norwood, OH 793 - Red deluxe vinyl seats V-V - Cameo beige exterior W - tinted windshield 2MP - M=Powerglide trans, P= push button radio. 5OL - O=exterior chrome passenger mirror. L=seat belts FYI - 11635 is for a V8 Nova wagon, but Fisher body stamped all cowl tags as V8s. They had no idea what chevy would put in it. My 65 is stamped this way too but was originally a L6.

Nice! I Love the Novas! Like the music you use. Great save!

5:22 looks like its in good shape. TAKE IT, SAVE THEM ALL!!!!!

Glad to see you save that cool car! It is rusty, but like you said lots of great parts for someone's restoration project.

Truning rust would have a feild day with that nova

I've seen way worse turned into some nice rides. Sure someone out there could put her back on the road. I kinda dig the look of the ol girl.

Happy Easter!!

One thing that my father-in-law taught me was whenever we loaded a tractor or something heavy, we always put a jack stand in the middle of the back trailer. Keeps from causing the hitch from raising the back of your hitch

What a Shame....It set that long. Outside....Good job Saving this car....Great Video. Thank You for sharing...

Just subbed watching in the UK cheers and cold beers

Wow dam shame that you weren't able to get at it 10 years ago when it was in better shape. You got your work cut out for u ...what u give for it ....

Thanks for share great work and show the people Sam times it’s not to ease rebuild old and nice classic cars thanks for your video y now that feeling

It looks KILLER at the end. I'd love to own that, if were a mechanic. I love that look.

The dealership emblem still on tailgate...bet it’s not around anymore!

Please please please restore it Nigel England

Man I'd love to have that wagon. Perfect starting place to go tube chassis with a healthy small block with some laughing gas to have fun.

My ‘64 Nova sedan was a North Carolina car. Same exact color as this one. Dad bought if for me in 1976 for $200 from an AMC a lot here in Columbus and surprised me with it. Isn’t that a dad thing to do 😂😂👍 I bet I put close to $5000 in it over 6 years with engine rebuild, tires, tearing doors off, paint job, etc. But never had any issues with the tranny. Thanks for posting this guys.