Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula - Jalopnik Comments

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

Turboner — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:31:14 EDT

I detest the later Novas. If it was a pre- '68, then I'd call it art. And blasphemy.

Turboner

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

Mizzle fo Shizzle — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:40:27 EDT

I want to encase a 1979 Mercury Zephyr in Jell-O. Who's with me?

Mizzle fo Shizzle

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

verbing weirds — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:21:39 EDT

New Mexico homebrewed Toyota truck version:

[santafe.craigslist.org]

Will they raise the price now that it's art?

verbing weirds

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

SpeedWagon — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:29:46 EDT

"Caught beneath the landslide in a champagne Chevy Nova"

SpeedWagon

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

Murdoc — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:05:04 EDT

@elwood: You'd be surprised how cold it gets before the drunks just stay inside. And we have plenty of bars, we have three times as many bars as we have stoplights!

Murdoc

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

brandegee — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:02:13 EDT

It only becomes art if someone breaks in and steals the radio and any spare change lying around.

brandegee

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

lascauxcaveman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:32:25 EDT

@lascauxcaveman: Oops. That s/b 'Damien Hirst'. Y'know, like the shifter ;)

lascauxcaveman

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

OldeEnglishD misses Polar — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:04:23 EDT

@Elwood: My bad, fingers got ahead of brain

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

Stitchopoulis — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:01:54 EDT

I like the cubic protrusions, very "Fortress of Solitude." It's like it's straight out of Jor-El's garage.

Stitchopoulis

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

lascauxcaveman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:39:51 EDT

It's cool, and way different than I imagined. I thought they were going to encase it in a solid cube of ice, nice and square, like a prehistoric fly in amber, or one of Damien Hirsh's bisected farm animals in formaldehyde.

lascauxcaveman

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

Amscram — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:21:51 EDT

I'll have to side with the "turned out better that I thought it would" camp.

Amscram

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:43:07 EDT

I'll give props for this. Almost looks like the carved the Nova out of ice. Actually, a Nova carved out of ice would be more impressive, but I dig this nonetheless.

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

elwood — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:34:04 EDT

@OldeEnglishD: I hate to bust your chops, but you can't make a Star Wars reference and spell "Leia" wrong.

@GOOD SHEPHEЯD POLAЯ: I think the Michigan Tech kids keep their drinking inside anyways. It's not like there's a whole lot of bars to go to in Houghton.

elwood

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

OldeEnglishD misses Polar — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:07:40 EDT

So will there be a part 2 tomorrow where Luke and Leah sneak into Jabba's palace to rescue the frozen Nova?

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

beercheck — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:06:37 EDT

A lot LESS interesting than I was expecting. Meh-1.

I know a guy who could've created that exact thing from a block of ice and a chainsaw, and some food coloring for the signal.

beercheck

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

workingonyourinvoice — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:31:53 EDT

A lot more excellent than I was expecting. Kudos to them.

It's supposed to be 80 and sunny for the next 3 days for me.

Ha.

workingonyourinvoice

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

POLAЯBEEЯ — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:59:15 EDT

So by Saturday morning there should be some campus kid nursing
a wicked hangover with his tongue stuck to a frozen '78 Nova.

POLAЯBEEЯ

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

FЯeeMan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:48:51 EDT

Yeah, funny, I build a garage exactly to prevent the above from happening, and they call it art?

Now, if they'd put it on a stick and called it a Novacicle, then I'd call it art!

FЯeeMan

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

Mizzle fo Shizzle — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:43:01 EDT

In Minnesota I have have to scrape that off my car before work every morning.

Mizzle fo Shizzle

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

YankBoffin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:05:28 EDT

It's wonderful. If i didn't know better i'd say it was merely an ice sculpture, but the fact that there really is a Nova entombed in ice makes it just that much more special.

Entombed, yet still looking triumphant.

YankBoffin

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

Maymar - now with 37% less anonymity — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:03:02 EDT

It'd have better chances of starting if they'd used a Phoenix instead.

Maymar - now with 37% less anonymity

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

NovaloadMissesPolar — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:25:35 EDT

This must be historical homage to days gone by, when frozen Novas were a dime a dozen!

NovaloadMissesPolar

Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula

OldeEnglishD misses Polar — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:07:36 EDT

What's the big deal here? You could have taken pictures of thousands of cars like this in Cleveland last week.

OldeEnglishD misses Polar