1976 Chevrolet Nova: the last Nova SS

This record's own dek describes 1976 as the last Nova SS year in the source production table, with an enthusiast-compiled total of 334,728 cars, of which 7,416 were Super Sports, kept as its own separately scoped package row rather than folded into any body-style total. This record's own overview states that every count comes from the same single enthusiast compilation, NovaResource.org, whose body, engine and transmission tables are reproduced as separately scoped rows, with ratings carried as SAE net figures for the year.¹

Three body-style rows are documented, 26,293 hatchbacks, 154,157 cars in the source's own "2 Door Sedan" column, and 154,278 four-door sedans, with the 7,416-car Super Sport figure kept separately scoped rather than folded into any of them. Three engines are documented: the 250 six coded L22 at 105 net hp, and two V8s, the 305 coded LG3 at 140 net hp and the 350 coded LM1 at 165 net hp. The installation figures in this record's production table sum exactly against its own V8 cylinder-count row: 116,000 305 V8 cars plus 15,030 350 V8 cars equal the 131,030-car V8 row also documented here.¹

Four transmissions carry their own installation counts, including a new Turbo Hydra-Matic 200 automatic, coded M29, alongside the returning three-speed manual (20,893), M20 four-speed (2,317), and M38 Turbo Hydra-Matic 350 (190,251), the M29 itself accounting for 121,267 cars. This record's own key facts cite Chevrolet's price schedule for initial 1976 shipments directly, listing the Nova from $3,247.60 for the six-cylinder two-door coupe to $3,578.71 for the V8 hatchback, with the SS equipment package at $187.00 on either the hatchback or coupe; the same key facts note that Concours-series prices are not included on those particular price-schedule pages.

This record's own options section sources the Nova SS package's price two ways: $187.00 from Wikipedia's group price and, separately, two factory price-schedule rows for the hatchback and the 2-door coupe each also priced at $187.00, with this record's own note stating that the 7,416-car install count is the NovaResource Super Sport column figure. Also documented is the AB8 Cabriolet roof, a Landau-styled vinyl top with its own nameplate at $150.00, and a twin-remote body-color mirror option priced at $46.00 without the Nova SS package or $20.00 when ordered alongside it.

Twenty-six solid exterior colors and twenty-four interior trim codes are documented for the year, both drawn from the enthusiast reference's own cowl-tag code pages rather than the factory information kit. This record's own specifications section carries a 111-inch wheelbase, a standard E78-14 tire size stepping up to FR78-14 on the Concours series, and curb weights for six body and series combinations ranging from 3,298 lb for the base Nova two-door coupe to 3,511 lb for the Concours hatchback; its performance section remains empty for the year.

This record's own identification section documents cowl-tag series XX for Nova and XY for Concours, alongside body codes for the hatchback, coupe and sedan, and four assembly-plant abbreviations, K for Kansas City, Missouri, L for Van Nuys, California, T for Tarrytown, New York, and W for Willow Run, Michigan. Conflicts and unpublished leads are both empty for the year, leaving production, prices, engines, transmissions, the extensive options list, paint, interiors, specifications and identification as the whole of this record's sourced coverage for the Nova SS package's final documented year.¹