Every avenue of car culture has its legends, one that everyone knows, and remembers fondly. But buried under the Camaro and Chevelle fame sits a Chevy Nova that quietly broke every rule. It was built ...

In 1969 and 1970, Yenko added the compact Nova to his lineup of beefed-up COPO Chevys, creating arguably the wildest high-performance compacts from the golden age of muscle. After the first generation ...