Nordic Blue 1989 1.2 Merit

Hey guys

This is my Nova I just picked up. I'm wanting to make it as original as possible so will be smartening it up as far as I can myself, but it needs a bit of rust work doing on the rear OS arch pretty soon.

First job will be to tackle the horrid black paint covering the bottom half of the car - all along the doors and the front valance! Grim. Any ideas as to why people would do this? My first thought was covering up rust but there's nothing too bad on these parts from what I can see. Underneath looks... like a different story. But time will tell, and I'm excited to get started!

https://i.imgur.com/YZcqZa4.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/kK2B1Fi.jpg

Looks like a good base, somone may have treated some surface rust on tbe lower half of the car and painted over it, looks decent enough though. Won't take a lot to make it a clean car

Thanks mate