There are plenty of big-name families in drag racing at its highest levels, but it’s the grassroots racers and their families that make up the backbone of the sport. You can go to any track across the United States and you’ll see multi-generation racing families. Corey Bohl and his 1967 Nova “Denver’s Deuce” could be the perfect example of how a family is brought closer together by racing.
Corey grew up watching his father Carl compete in multiple forms of racing. From drag racing, to dirt track racing, and even demolition derbies, Carl did it all. What really inspired Corey was his father’s ability to build anything while making sure he was involved in the high-horsepower shenanigans
“At an early age, I watched my dad build two complete dirt-track cars. He fabricated the roll cages, did the bodywork, and everything else on both cars. Growing up, some of my favorite memories were doing burnouts in one of his cars. In the early 2000s scrap prices were low, so he bought four 1980s Caprices for $50 each from a scrap yard. He drove them home one by one, and turned me loose in the woods at the back of our property so I could learn to drive,” Corey says.
Corey found the Nova on Craigslist in 2010 and decided he needed it in his life. The Chevy II-style Nova has always been one of Corey’s favorite muscle cars, as his dad has owned several of them. Corey sold a truck he had built so he could purchase the Nova. The car was in fairly good shape since it came from the south and had sat in a garage since 1989.
The Nova has taken over 10 years to build, and when the time came, Corey really put the hammer down to get the car done.
“This build was staged out…there was a period I didn’t touch it for two years. It was on a rotisserie, and I stripped the car to bare metal by hand with a DA sander and a wire wheel on a grinder. Toward the end of the build, I had a deadline I had to meet — we wanted to use the car as a part of our second daughter Stella’s gender reveal. I got the car done, and it filled the air with tons of pink smoke when I started to do burnouts and donuts as part of the reveal,” Corey explains.
Corey knew in his mind what he wanted Denver’s Deuce to look like as he worked on the car. The Nova needed to have open headers, no hood, a four-speed transmission, and a large tunnel ram intake sticking out of the engine bay. The final product is a kick-ass B/Gas Nova that’s raced with the Southeast Gassers Association,…
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