Originally Posted By: L. Brown
Originally Posted By: Golfswithwolves
It was certainly somebody on the sales staff of one of the shotgun companies who came up with this nomenclature. As I read somewhere, "Improved Cylinder" would sell a lot better than if it were called "Degraded Modified".


It's all in the terminology. Light modified is a big thing these days. And it's said that Chevy's choice of Nova for one of its models did not help sales to native speakers of Spanish.
Did you know, Larry, that the letters N-O-V-A were the first letters of the GM Nova type cars? Nova- Omega-Ventura and Apollo. smile