Not A Nova.. But Mini-Based Sabre Sprint

[Dave.]

Not a nova.. but some may find it interesting..

I owned this back in 2004 for around a year, i was 13 at the time and was going through the "tape and halfords" phaze , anyways i ended up selling it to someone from a town next to ours to make way for my blue mk1 nova i had. After that my blue nova had really bad rot so i scrapped it and bought my current nova.

Anyway ive allways regretted selling the sabre sprint, its a mini based kit car from the late 70's. ive been trying to buy it back for around 2 years, but the lad who bought it refused to sell, as it was around 1 of only 10 bodyshells ever produced.

But.. recently hes been needing all the cash he can get, and on friday morning my dad gets a call saying "if your dave wants the sabre, if he can get the money to me today its his!"

i couldnt get to him for 3, so very kindly, another dave from work , paid him the money and picked it up for me, it had been sat in a unit for a year and outside for the other 4.

basically i bought it back, purely because its sentimental to me. it doesnt currently run but did when i owned it, 99% sure its stale fuel.

the plans are to sue it as a track/rally car, as its a mini chassis, a metro engine and a full fibreglass body, so tis very lightweight

some pictures from abck in 2004 when i owned it:




when i went to see it back in 2005, still exactly as i sold it him, except for a inch of dust:

[Dave.]

and after 4 years outside, she looked liek this when we pumped the tyres up and got it back to the unit:

[Dave.]

ripped all the tape out the interior, suffered many slices to hand cutting the tape, and also added a yellow cenetr line to the wheel (sparco wannabee ftw!):


and after the 5 years of grime were washed off!








and with the nova:

[dj_wudgey]

that looks dodgy as bet its light as fook though!!

[BIGS]

i forgot you had this, well it looks alot cleaner

[Dave.]

that looks dodgy as bet its light as fook though!!

its unbelievabley light, was pusing it up a little hill today and thought ollie from work was pushing.. i turn round, hes stood about 20ft away waving

[Dave.]

i forgot you had this, well it looks alot cleaner

, only bought it friday dude, when i was on about it to you he said no to me

[matt_vaughan]

be a bugger if that 2 poster let go

[BIGS]

Ah right i thought you bought it from when you said about it. Dont i feel a tool now

[Dave.]

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