Cold Reception: Art students to place Chevy Nova in an ice cube
Photo for illustration purposes only, courtesy of JaySki.com
If you've ever lived in a cold climate, you might know the displeasure of having to scrape ice off your windshield and out of the keyhole to get to work. It's one thing when Mother Nature is the culprit, but it's quite another to deep freeze your wheels on purpose. But that's exactly what a couple of artists are planning to do in Michigan.
Sue Wrbican of George Madison University and Mary Carothers of the University of Louisville are preparing to display a circa-1970's Chevy Nova in a giant block of ice, which they'll display in front of the library at the Houghton campus of Michigan Tech. They've even enrolled the support of some teenagers from Hancock High School, who are using their shop class to craft the frame for the ice block into which the car will be placed before the water will be poured in. That ought to be enough to get the Nova onto Top Gear's "Cool Wall", if not right into the Sub-Zero section.
[Source: Detroit News Autos Insider]
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Seoultrain 6:06PM (1/23/2008)
.. and the point of this would be.. ?
art? really?
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joe 6:20PM (1/23/2008)
Sounds like a copy of the latest BMW art car that is covered by an ice sculpture; except, dumbed down as there is no sculpture element to it. Unoriginal. http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Columns/articleId=122723
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Blake 6:29PM (1/23/2008)
This still wouldn't qualify the car for placement into the DB9 Section
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chuck goolsbee 6:55PM (1/23/2008)
Well, at least Houghton is the ideal location for this sort of thing... there or Fairbanks, AK.
--chuck
http://chuck.goolsbee.org
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labosh 11:47PM (1/25/2008)
Check. This time of year in Houghton it is colder than a dead pig.
elprogramer 11:23PM (1/23/2008)
Hm, maybe it'll still be there when I go up for Carnival.
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ronnie 4:27AM (1/24/2008)
Maybe the point is Art or just one of their plays . . .
http//cars.ozfreeonline.com
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Bman 2:07PM (1/25/2008)
I guess these guys just want some attention. I would have like to have heard one interesting thing they were going to do besides freezing the car for display.
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Hotrods&GasGuzzlersRULE 2:49PM (1/25/2008)
it will probably be a rare one....69 or 70 SS 396.....cant just use the Failed Import Nova.....Freeze the American Muscle.....then Scrap it. How about Freeze the Foreign Crap....Youtube it send it to the car makers.....Tell them that well start buyin american cars when they start building an American Car! Not a poor copy of a Foreign car......GM....follow Ford & Chrysler.....Bring back a RESPECTABLE GTO & Trans-Am......A Real Chevelle, 442 & Skylark!....then look at your sales! Before Toyota buys you and does it themselves...DUH!
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jb 5:15PM (1/25/2008)
i agree completly if chevy made a body style like the 55,56,57 they would sell. a 57 chevy had one of the most aer-o-dy-namic body style's of just about any car thats on the market today. in my appinion. hey i hope that they don't ruin a classic nova!!!!!
BAMA 2:46PM (1/25/2008)
THAT TIME AND ENERGY COULD BE USED ON SOMETHING USEFUL SUCH AS HELPING THIER COMMUNITY.
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JB 3:16PM (1/25/2008)
What a waste of a perfectly good CHEVROLET,,,,but my 73 Z-28 will outrun that crackerbox,,,but ya gotta admit,,its pretty "COOL"!!
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DAVID 3:23PM (1/25/2008)
Top Gear should shun these loonies.
This isn't art, it is bull****.
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DAVID 3:25PM (1/25/2008)
Top Gear should shun these loonies.
This isn't art, it is bull****.
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Mary 3:29PM (1/25/2008)
ANd the point of this is...?????
Why waste it guys, give it to me, I'll drive it, and do something USEFUL with it!
And F Y I...I am someone's momma....and I used to drive a 72 Nova. SO I would APPRECIATE IT!
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Mary Gibson 3:36PM (1/25/2008)
El Chevy no va, eh?
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pogo 3:57PM (1/25/2008)
i have an idea man, ( puff...puff)
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Joe 5:07PM (1/25/2008)
Check out this awesome video of a 1970 Nova being built by rad rides by troy. Troy Trapanier is on the level of Chip foose in his fabrication skills.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/86593296-4fcf-4b40-9db4-9a1a014a8081.htm
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Bret 5:10PM (1/25/2008)
That's where the Chevy Nova piece of crap belongs--frozen in ice. Did they fill it with manure before they froze it?
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steve 5:13PM (1/25/2008)
I've got a 67 z/28, maybe I'll drive it 5000 miles along the salt water shores of Florida. for a world record, what do ya think!
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