The Michalak project

[CorsaBBoomer]

Wel, here it goes then... As said before and now having a little spare time to put it online.

Since I had a little white Nova (Corsa here) bought for the girlfriend those days I was thinking of putting a X20XEV in it.
But being all busy with the house and my Corsa B didn't have much time to spare then. The vid of my Corsa B can be seen on here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A5Zhyc-z_4
After a while the girlfriend left me for another guy but the little white Nova 1.0 was left with me.



Last year I found a Nova Michalak spider on Autoscout24 in Germany for a decent price but the car was allready a project and was completely apart.
But since I had a Nova in the driveway it would look nice and it was a new challenge to put my mind to something else then women

(I made them all clickable to reduce the sizes of the pages )
Here are some pictures from the Michalak in better days:






These are the home coming pictures (please be warned, there are some horror-pics in between :D ):







Ok, the thing is "a bit" rotten but I see something between the red primer and rust. Not sure it was the car or something else

[CorsaBBoomer]

Oh, almost forgot to give you guys the details on this little one:
Opel Corsa (Nova) Michalak "Corsaspider" E16SE rebuild by the guys from JW-Motorsport Germany around '94 and was taxed those days for 56.000DM
Lexmaul 4-2-1 exhaust manifold.
The coilover kit was specially fabricated for them and it's still on.
Black Gsi dash, electric windows

Anyways, since we were in Germany we had to stop for some food at:







On with the trip home we made a little history since it's the first Corsaspider from Michalak to have a new home in Belgium (25-08-2007).
I then started to find out more about Michalak and the spiders. Not so many were build (98) and offcourse not so many are left nowadays.
Since it was so rare I then started to realise this isn't a "rotten thing" but something that's worth the effort and started to sort all the parts out and taking it further apart for a complete resto.

[CorsaBBoomer]

I'm going to spare you guys with the other horror pics but will let you in on the rebuildings of the car since it's now almost ready for bodyworks and rebuilds.
But offcourse I had to find a donor for the rotten parts (mainly the floorpanels, the sides are allready found new)










Anyways, I allready love the Novaload forums since I allready found so much information on Nova's
And keep your comments coming!

[novacabrio]

I've always wanted a Michalak, I may still have my way yet!

[CorsaBBoomer]

A little spider arrived with the post today and is also going to be rebuild to look like it's big brother

[Ernie]

sweet were did you get the model from.

[CorsaBBoomer]

Somewhere here: http://www.bsd-online.com/

[duick]

So, you will build a Michalak model out of that Irmscher? I'll have to see it when it's done

[CorsaBBoomer]

Yep, that is hopefully the final result...

[craig green]

Interesting. Good luck with the build & be sure to keep the UK fans updated.

'Michalak' is a new one on me!