Jamaica yellow sr
Back when I first past my driving test, I had a hate for novas, that was until I owned one! I had a 1.2 that ended up with a nova gsi engine plonked in it, resprayed and gsi bits bolted on, whilst driving it everyday, doing the work on the road out side my house and with a tiny budget, out of my tiny wages. She was a dog, but I defo loved this car
Thankfully, I have a bigger budget, more refined taste, a garage and most important, still got a love for novas
so whilst always wanting to get a project underway, never actually putting my money where my mouth is and getting stuck in, I came across this beauty, dry stored in a backstreet garage for big part of 10 years, lots of dents from where the guy has been using it as a cupboard, but absolutely no rot in it at all, still got the original tyres on it.
sr 1.3 on a e plate
First had to go shopping for a doner car, bought a corsa sport, £350, took all I needed and scraped the rest so all in all engines and other bits only cost me £150 which I was very happy with
More shopping, new inlet manifold.... Yum
Always had a love for cav gsi slabs on a nova!
Got a bit carried away with the high temperature paint....
On to stripping the nova ready for spraying...
Came across a slight problem, the rubbish rivet things had failed and I had flappy bits of metal,in the engine bay!
Welder out, pigeon sh#t time!
Off to the paint shop, see u in "2 weeks"
ended up up being more like 2 months!
Chose jamacia yellow.... With vw met gun metal grey
it looks a lot more yellower than I thought it wood, but I spouse that all Jamaica yellow novas that I've ever seen are 20 odd years old and very faded
Looks like a solid car,nice find
All painted!
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