My Dad once purchased a used Nova that was painted kinda like the local police cars and had a CB antenna on the trunk.  It gave out the wrong impression to the public, so we would often get flipped off or people would try not to react suspiciously when we were nearby.  This department did drive K Cars at the time, but I guess people couldn’t tell the difference.

The car had another unique aspect, its frame was crooked and drove down the road kind of sideways and if I had a nickel for every time someone flagged us down to tell us that, we might have actually fixed it.  Thou it did drive fine despite this issue.  Now also being a quality Chevy product, when the car sat through a rainy or damp night, it was guaranteed not to start the next morning because its carburetor was crap and all attempts to correct this issue never worked.

Finally we decided to just junk it and replace it with something more reliable. Then to my surprise one day while backing an ambulance into a bay, that Nova pulled into the parking lot with someone looking for help.  They had resurrected it from the junk yard and put it back on the road, go figure.  One person’s junker is someone else’s sort of reliable transport.