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turbojolt
19-07-08, 02:38 PM
i remember when i first started craving over novas i was walking to school and there was a very clean black nova GTE beginning towed lmao it look original apart from the SS back box and its lowered ride height and the dented front bumper lol
can anyone else remember when they first fell for the nova
As long as I can remember lol
There used to be a black J plate GSi knocking about when I was at school, 93/94, so was a pretty new car still and he had OMG Speedlines lol
It was awesome. used to use it as a pizza delivery car and some **** nicked it when he was at someones door I heard, probs left engine running :(
LOL that just reminded me, around that time there was a back page mini feature in Max IIRC on a black Corsa B SRi and a black Nova GSi, both on 17" MIM Raffinos. I wanted the Nova and my mate wanted the Corsa lol
They looked stupid.
vaughanmc
19-07-08, 02:54 PM
lol I have that feature of the Black Nova & Corsa somewhere at home :)
Don't know what got me into them really there was always one in the family
At once my mum had a red Flair and my uncle had a white GSi
I was 17 just started driving, bought a 1.1 fiesta. Love it, always stuck to the speed limit, £10 petrol a week to work and back lol
It failed its mot, after about 2 months owning it. That week i was off work, went back on the monday and salesman said to me i hear your car failed mot, ive got a nova for you thats been traded in.
6k on the clock, 1.2 snap 1 elderly woman owner with full vauxhall service history. Not sign of rust anywhere. Bought it for £400 and it went from there :roll:
lee-loon
19-07-08, 03:02 PM
First car 1.3 sr in 2002,striped it back new doors new wings rear arches,full respray.
Always liked the shape of the Nova, but Lee Haslam's black turbo made me really want to do one.
When I started college in 96.... car park was full of sr's.. pretty much like saxos are now etc, You couldnt help but love them and after passing my test a year later I bought my first car in the form of a standard 1990 gte.... good times they were! Although Ive had other cars its never been long before Im back in one again!
large_steve182
19-07-08, 03:19 PM
back in nam
i actually started paying attention to novas due to a girl at school i fancied, her older boyfriend had one and used to put it down all the time (why i thought shed dump a bloke with car for my mountain bike ill never know lol) then i started getting into cars and the nova found me, all the boys round here had them so we'd see them racing round when we was out at night, there was just something so cool about 4-5 novas cruising round ilson of a night time
LEWI007
19-07-08, 05:42 PM
Bought my first nova when i was 13 for 50 pounds it was a white one i dont know what kind propably a merit..got stolen :(, got another nova for my 16th birthday to work on after a while i realised it was just to much rust for me to handle so i had to let go :( if i knew how to weld and had a welder id of took it on.but you know how it is.....so im almost 17 now my first car is definately gonna be a nova :)
my mom had a '83 SR (the euro version, with the snowplough with foglights and all) and i just loved it.
kinda like: when i grow up, i want a nova :P and i did :)
my uncle had a Blue SRi, sold it to my cousin who put a xe in it, nealy killed him self, then my mates bro had a 1.2 and i loved it, since then realy..
Can go back to when i was about 10 and a neighbour had a jamaica yellow SR on a D reg think that must have had some sort of effect on me but it was 7 years later that it started to take over my life, off to therapy now lol
My R5 GTT exploded in masses of boost (25psi+) and the 205 GTi i had afte seized. So keeping in with the 80's retro'ness i though I'd buy a Nova. I still to this day wish I never bought a Nova. Once there under your skin your fcuked!! And trust me to fecking hate them but i just keep buying them :(
djbrowney
19-07-08, 06:09 PM
i always vowed i would never buy a nova, but after smashing my first car up 3 years ago, i had 28 weeks with my leg in plaster, wanted a project to keep my ocupied, an nova was all i could afford, Now im hooked :wall:
twistysnovagte
19-07-08, 06:10 PM
when i first clapped eyes on my little baby,was parked up by the side of the road with a for sale sign(350quid)so i rushed home emptied my maximum on my card and also my dads,went back and bought it there and then and never looked back since.:)
NASTYNOVA
19-07-08, 06:39 PM
my dad had a very nice trip, black with with black bumpers, and nova on the back bumper, vauxhall slanted across the bonnet in yellow, i wanna re-create that with my spin, but in red white and black :thumb: fell in love with walshc's matt loon though, mite look for a decent loon when the spin and the current loon are finished and replicate that too!!
I wanted one since i was about 13.10 years later here i am lol ive had 7 of 'em
:p well i dident no what a nova was tell i went and got the admag. and seen a nova for sale so i just went and had a look (and i love'd it) and took it home lol
that was 3 years ago
and now im on my 6th nova lol
ummm, Im still waiting....
Wanted a mk3 polo coupe as a first car, but ended up with the red nova. 'pos its a bit differant to the Fiestas and Golfs everyone else had at the time.
Funny how many of my family actually owned Novas before, but were to ashamed to admit it till I got mine. My Gran had a silver 1.3SR (one of the very first, bought new) My Mum had a burgo brown 1300 GL, Uncle's both had them, cousins, etc
novacabrio
19-07-08, 07:16 PM
My neigbour had a F plate red 1.3 SR which I loved, had it for years, F41*** cant remember rest, read about them in max power, (walshys!!) and read ins group 5 and thought thats what i'm having. When I think back I can remember loads around my street
White mk2 SR
Red mk1 SR
Black GTE
white Merit (low low miles a mates mams may dig out the pics of us on a day out in it when I was about 11)
I also remember talking to a old scholl friend about the NEW vauxhall Corsa. back in '93 and him saying he prefered the Corsa to his Nans Nova as hers was a 4door. God that lad had no taste.
i always thought they were "ok" but i had an astra gsi(which i wasnt that keen on after buying:roll: but planned to keep it a while)and i went down to pvs last year and i was looking at novas and saw martin kelsons and instantly knew i had to have one so about 20 mins after drooling over it i rang my mate(who wanted to buy the astra)and said im just in northampton but as soon as i get back you can have the astra!lol .and after a couple of months searching i bought this one i have now!and even though at times it does my head in and i think why dont i just buy a right car for some reason i carnt!lol
my mum got a toyota starlet as part of her divorce settlement. it was crap.... the local vauxhall dealer gave her the best trade in, & she became the proud owner of a 1983 astra 1.3ls 5 door. We loved it. my gran came into some money & decided grandads apple green metallic marina had to go, & she told my mum to go & get another vauxhall for grandad.. she bought a 1984 1.2 carmine red merit 3 door. Grandad had it for 2 years then died & we then were allowed the use of the nova. For my sister this meant bouncing off every parked car in Leicester. for my brother it meant conceiving his first child. for me it meant a lifetime of nova obsession & 22 years on I still have a red merit 3 dr. I have owned about 6 over the years & 3 astras
WOW, Now your talking. In 1993 there was a divide, you either had a fiesta or a nova.
I was alway going toward vauxhall. My parents bought me a Jamaican yellow 1.3 sr which already had a 32/34 carb. I remember a guy called Paul Barber who made one of the first 16v conversion in my area, I remember driving it, I could'nt keep it in a straight line.
I had the Jamaican for a year before I was one of the first to have a 1.4SR Mk2 J plate. My mates ripped the piss saying I could have built a 16v for the price. (£6800)
So there was Me and Ben ( fast car feature 95 ), Paul, Kelvin, and the rest, there was 11 of us in total, all with novas nearly each with different engines.
I've always loved the nova, I've had alot of nice cars since (Cosworth, porsche 944, Clio16v, R5TT, SupraTT) but I don't know what it is about the nova. 15 years on and I've just brought a white nova GTE today. It felt so good driving it. You can't not like these cars.
Please tell me where the 14" Speedline allesio went (the one without a centre cap)
turbojolt
19-07-08, 09:01 PM
i knew this would get you all talking lol
turbojolt
19-07-08, 09:14 PM
no one in my family has ever owned a nova :(
no one in my family has ever owned a nova :(
you do, don't you??
turbojolt
19-07-08, 10:23 PM
you do, don't you??
not yet meant to have gone and got one this weekend but it was sold from under me so now I'm looking for another one lol
i dont even have any mates with them
they think im daft for liking them lol
i just went round the corner and put a note on 2 of them 1 red 3 door merit and a blue one dont know the specs of the blue one
I hate them, I think they're rubbish.
First car I saw that provoked a reaction of "one day I would like to own one of those" was in 1994, then came to my senses and thought I'd never have one. Little did I know 9 years later there would be one sat on my driveway and the keys in my hand!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/razorjack/CCUK/2006_07160174-1.jpg
http://totalmotorcycle.com/BBS/images/smiles/inlovesmilie.gif
mine was my brothers he bought a gsi at 16 and tryd to insure it lol took it for mot and it failed bad so stripped it, i was 14 and didnt have a clue about cars tbh i sold thefull engine rad loom gearbox for 60 quid!!, gsi front bumper 15quid with splitter, gsi dash fir 20quid!! cant belive it now . . . then my brother bought a 1.2 in the features page on here after it was passed to me for being to old!! and it went on from there!!
Novasport
19-07-08, 11:47 PM
Used to go to swimming lessons with a friend and his mum had a shiny new Club but the interest didnt start until about 18 when a mate had a 1.2 Swing with a brown check SR interior and SR rear Spoiler. I was into Mini's at the time but after nearly being killed by a mate in his when he crashed it I decided to buy something a little more sturdy.
My mate moved onto an F reg SR and another mate had a black D plate snow plough SR so I bough a G plate 1.4 SR in black.
We then all moved into Sports, all 5 of us!!!
Always liked the shape of the Nova, but Lee Haslam's black turbo made me really want to do one.
Thanks Paul, nice to see my car has inspired you to spend a great deal of money lol
My mum had a brand new D reg 1.2 for a year when I was younger and bought me a 1.0 as a first car when I was 17, never looked back. She says buying that car for me was the worst thing she ever did lol
WOW, Now your talking. In 1993 there was a divide, you either had a fiesta or a nova.
I was alway going toward vauxhall. My parents bought me a Jamaican yellow 1.3 sr which already had a 32/34 carb. I remember a guy called Paul Barber who made one of the first 16v conversion in my area, I remember driving it, I could'nt keep it in a straight line.
I had the Jamaican for a year before I was one of the first to have a 1.4SR Mk2 J plate. My mates ripped the piss saying I could have built a 16v for the price. (£6800)
So there was Me and Ben ( fast car feature 95 ), Paul, Kelvin, and the rest, there was 11 of us in total, all with novas nearly each with different engines.
I've always loved the nova, I've had alot of nice cars since (Cosworth, porsche 944, Clio16v, R5TT, SupraTT) but I don't know what it is about the nova. 15 years on and I've just brought a white nova GTE today. It felt so good driving it. You can't not like these cars.
Please tell me where the 14" Speedline allesio went (the one without a centre cap)
That would be the 15" speedline mistral.
peester
20-07-08, 11:13 AM
billing 1997 i think.. the line up of PNG stand/ migweb stand novas; in theyre hay day i guess.. kind of a 'one day ill have one' moment..
was with viva owners club that year and the year after.. then in 1999 went with p.v.c.c; PNG had disappeared.. banned i think..
Anyway; see old skool pics thread.
That would be the 15" speedline mistral.
I ordered a set of 15" mistrals from elite. Two of my mates had 14" alesio's these were the version 1's. Does no one remember?
paul james
20-07-08, 01:04 PM
Never thought much of Novas as a kid, or indeed cars in general. My mum had a 1.2 merit saloon for years, when I started learning to drive in it, I fell in love with it, thought it was so much better than the corsaB I was having proper lessons in. I eventually got to have the car myself, but it rusted to bits sadly. I enjoyed driving it so much I had to buy another one, and another, and I don't think I would be happy not owning one.
Novasport
20-07-08, 11:56 PM
billing 1997 i think.. the line up of PNG stand/ migweb stand novas; in theyre hay day i guess.. kind of a 'one day ill have one' moment..
was with viva owners club that year and the year after.. then in 1999 went with p.v.c.c; PNG had disappeared.. banned i think..
Anyway; see old skool pics thread.
I think my first experience of PNG was a show at Trentham Gardens in the late 90's. That kicked it off more with me. Anyone remember that show and what year it was? 97, 98 possibly?
craig green
21-07-08, 03:21 PM
can anyone else remember when they first fell for the nova
A middle aged couple living at the end of the road I grew up in had a mk2 Cav Sri & she drove a jamaica Yellow B reg SR.
Though I always thought I'd be more into Astra GTE's as I was in love with mk1 & mk2 1.8 8v's back before the 16v was released. There was a guy on the end of our block that had a white mk1 followed by a white mk2 aswell as all his motocross bikes.
Good times. :)
When i was about 13 there used to be a black nova parked up on the main road near my dads & i loved it. Then i saw P1NKY it was so cool at the time! So from then on i always wanted one, got one when i was 15 & still have it now (only 17 now though lol)
I 1st fell for them at Uni back in 1990. My ex had a brown mk1 3 door 1.2 with the snowplough front. It was basic, had a radio cassette and beige trim and we loved it!
A reg (I even remember the full reg). 1st car I had a shag in!
Hence the reason I love them
lol
i was 18
just joined the air force
i had a mk2 golf 20vTurbo
lad on my course had an XE on TBs and i used to slate it all day long, till he took me out in it and i fell in love!!!
6yrs on, ive had a few, and some half decent exotica, but still cant stay away.; desperately trying to stop myself buying another. ive even bought another DC5 to try stop myself!!!
jimbob-mcgrew
22-07-08, 01:39 PM
origionally never liked em myself - stupidly i listened and absorbed all the talk of the bad rep they had and cast them aside as a shi-tty chav car.
but one day after i had become carless due to driving at silly speeds in a rear wheel drive car with allready shredded back tyres from doing doughnuts in a farmers field, a friend of mine had this 1 litre nova that was fcuked (had been rolled at slow speeds apparently, body bit shabby and mirrorless) and he was prety much about to dump/torch the thing, and offered it to me for nowt, naturally i took the car. first time i took the car out it was bellowing smoke/steam out the dash, and i thought " oh my fcukin days " but i couldnt complain cos the thing was free!, anyhow after id sorted all the probs out (ALOT of probs) and the car was roadworthy-ish again, i thought to myself " fcuk me, these little nova's aint bad at all ". im on my fourth one now.
i thought to myself " fcuk me, these little nova's aint bad at all ". im on my fourth one now.
Classic.
Brodie_Sri
22-07-08, 06:02 PM
I used to see loads about when i was a kid then when i was about 14 or 15 a couple of older mates had sr's. There was a lad who lived a couple of streets away and he always had novas and one of them was a white sri i used to love it. There was a girl at school whos boyfriend was best mates with the lad and she told me that he was selling it i was still 16 but had to have it and bought it 5 years on i still have the car and have spent a fortune just carnt bring myself to get rid of it hopfully will be back on the road fairly soon i carnt wait to drive it again:D
oddly, the original png actually put me off a bit.
I went to a regional meet in Luton & the coordinator had a 2.0 8v in an sr, I had my homemade 1.4 in a beige A reg thing with snowplough, gte skirts & rear spoiler, everyone else turned up in 1.2s with crazy graphics, big alloys & promptly opened their hatchbacks & stood round looking at each others ICE.
then we drove to a pub, the 1.2s were wheelspinning everywhere, & acting like prats........At least the coordinator bloke was nice.. he used the nova as a tow car for his f2 stockcar. that was in about 1994
~~joycey~~
23-07-08, 03:06 PM
When i was about 14 my older sisters ex bf had a couple of mates that had them, both mk1 SR's one was black and the other was white both lowerd,15's,BB4 :thumb:
Then later one of them had a mint silk violet gsi on alessio's :)
By this time i had fallen in love :D lol
wisewood
23-07-08, 03:14 PM
It was fluke. My dad's uncle passed away, and my dad dealt with all his stuff etc. I ended up with his 1987 1.2 Merit, in Jamaica yellow.
~~joycey~~
23-07-08, 03:29 PM
^^ pics of sister ?
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm273/grimgriffin/8ve057er.jpg?t=1216823261
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
wisewood
23-07-08, 03:33 PM
Why does it say fail, she's HOT!!!
~~joycey~~
23-07-08, 03:39 PM
lol lol lol lol lol
Hmm, I bought my first one off my sister. Its all her fault
ben doodar
23-07-08, 05:36 PM
I hate them, I think they're rubbish.
you must have alot of spare time on your hands then mate, if you hate novas that much, but are on a forum dedicated to them :roll:, and its not as if you only come on here now and again is it?. perhaps your just saying that to sound "cool" on here, else why would you bother???
I love them, always have, haven't even got one ATM but you never know, always looking :)
you must have alot of spare time on your hands then mate, if you hate novas that much, but are on a forum dedicated to them :roll:, and its not as if you only come on here now and again is it?. perhaps your just saying that to sound "cool" on here, else why would you bother???
LMFAO I was waiting for someone to react to that lol
Meh, I do have a lot of spare time on my hands, and I said it because its my opinion - nowt to do with sounding "cool" :p
Hmm, I bought my first one off my sister. Its all her fault
pics of your sister, im intrigued to see wether shes better looking than you or not ;)
Clearly not. Although has bigger boobs than me.
ben doodar
23-07-08, 07:06 PM
i used to hate novas and was once a non believer myself. but ive saw the error of my ways. since my mate had a 1.3sr was resprayed a funny orange colour, and a loud ass mother hubard of a stereo thats all i knew bk then. i allways preferred xr2s over novas as all my older brothers mates had them. but now i think there really cool little cars, "retro" sums it up for me, and i love when you get a 30 odd year old bloke saying your cars cool n he can rember when he had one of them when i he was my age. they will allways be one of my favourite cars.
~~joycey~~
23-07-08, 08:33 PM
pics of your sister, im intrigued to see wether shes better looking than you or not ;)
lol This is classic keep it up :thumb:
the day i got mine...
i wasnt really a nova person untill the one that a coppers mum owned on my street was forsale and i was like:eek: i like that car i will have it..so i bought it and i started loving them from then onwards:)
I never used to like them at all, although i noticed them around (a pizza place near the town centre had one as a delivery car perno pizzas if any east yorks peeps remember it, looked like it was fresh from an autograss event with full cage, sponsor graphics and battle scars lol) and a supermarket i worked at one of the till girls had a bloke with a black J plate SR.
Then a mate bought a star silver 1.2 mk1 with the dark grey vinyl as a first car, with a 1400 astra lump dropped on its a$$ on cav slabs and full GTE kit, it was ace it went like a whippet on speed and cornered like it was a scalextric car i loved it and instantly wanted one, had about 9 of them now and sooo need another one lol!
I fell in love with a B reg white nova sr which was brand new at the time.
It was owned by a friends older brothers mate.
He must of been like the chave of the time dew to being 17 with a brand new nova sr.
jack0207
24-07-08, 02:28 PM
my love 4 the nova began bak in 04 when a mate of mine turned 17 and his perents bought him a mk1 1.2 merit 4 his birthday and after hours apon hours in the gaurge it started 2 look lik summit speical and thats when i knew i needed 1, after i passed my test the hunt began 4 a cheap beater that i could play about wit, a few weeks later a mate of mine said he knew about a baby blue sr 4sale so i went and had a look it was a beater but it had summit about it and i ended up buyin it. it was prity much standerd apart from full set of konis a full stainless and a 1.4SRI motor and i loved it bcoz went lik F**K, it looked lik such a shed but it wiped the floor wit newer more high powered cars witch i loved. And from then on ive always loved the nova and always wil
Clearly not. Although has bigger boobs than me.
:bullsht: you have the biggest boobs known to man!
:bullsht: you have the biggest boobs known to man!
he is the biggest tit known to man yes
craig green
24-07-08, 04:11 PM
1st car I had a shag in!
Hence the reason I love them
lol
Funnily enough I lost my virginity within days of getting on the road in my 1st car (nova) The back seat (SR Brown cheque) saw some action. :p :D
he is the biggest tit known to man yes
Thats why you love me so much :D
Thats why you love me so much :D
i know, im just nice to alex to get close to you - especially when you get your tight fitting leather
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