By 1966, the Nova SS was actually one of Chevy's fastest, but ride refinement wasn't really a priority. There was a solid investment inside to stay close to the factory black interior look.

The 1968 SS 396 gets all the love, but it's the 1966 327 L79 that turned the Chevrolet Nova SS into a proper muscle car.

In the long-forgotten baseball classic Forever Blue, a writer chronicles how businessman Walter O’Malley took the Brooklyn Dodgers from a broken-down franchise ...

A standout 11-second 1966 Chevy II Nova SS, homebuilt with a fuel-injected LS engine, full of street machine style.

A perfect example of this is this 1966 Nova SS resto-mod that will appear at Mecum’s Dallas auction September 3-6, 2014.

Around Monroe, Michigan, car guys knew of an L79 Nova parked outside on a farm. Read more about Tim Lay's 1966 Chevrolet Nova SS L79 Rare Find.

Then, in 1966, the Nova and the Corvette family resemblance became mechanically closer than ever. Detroit's proven youth-market formula of putting a big motor in a little car added up at last.

In this video, a Chevy Chevelle SS races a Nova SS in a heads-up drag race. Check it out here to see which of these high-performance Chevy comes out the winner.