Will
02-04-03, 06:25 PM
Picture this: You finish university for the easter holidays and a mate from novaload says, fancy coming to look at nova with us and possibly driving it back if we buy it. I thought why not, it could be a laugh.... well heres what happened!
Woke up 9am, showered and set off from leighton buzzard to northampton to meet Matt, got there at 10am and then left for Rushdon to meet Bill (aka rustboy) met with Bill and hit the road for cambridge :D everything was going as planned, me and bill started to take matts car to bits interior wise while driving along. We cut up a few cars not really knowing where we were going but ended up in a random village nr soham to meet a guy called joe who was selling his uncles red nova spin.
After looking round the car and picking as many holes in it as was necessary we took it for a test drive. I drove it and thought it pulled very well, took it on an 8 mile or so drive and it was happy at 90mph, we made the guy an offer, paid for the car swapped documents and then decided we were hungry! So off we went to a random Burger King near the A14, pulled in and ordered our food and ate it........ wots the point you say. Well, it appeared the BK had rodeo type chairs which has bars like a prison on them, so pics were taken.........
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=581
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=582
This was all great but while trapped in my prison i saw this :cry:
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=583
Bad timing or what, yes slatter she was abt 15 LMFAO
We left BK and entered the car park and saw this
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=585
I think that RAC van was trying to tell us somthing in advance! Bill had a quick drive of the car in the carpark (he has no licence) he only stalled once how impressive, LOL
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=584
Off we went for the journey back to Rushdon, now matts car is 1.2 carb and this spin was 1.2 injection so we decided to see if the injection was after all worse than the carb, side by side up to 100mph, then suddenly the oil light came on, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, thats ok we thought, add some oil............... and some more.............. and some more............................ then we got 3 more miles and broke down in a laybay on the A428, this was to be our home for 4 hours!
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=586
The rocker cover gasket was crap and a spark plug had blown somehow
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=587
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=588
none of us had valid break down cover so we waited for bills dad, Bills dad doesnt understand directions very well and was within a 3 mile radious of us for 2 hrs, LOL!
While waiting to fix the nova we found time to sunbath and look at our surroundings. This included a random dead animal that appeared to have walked head 1st into an electric fence, OUCH!
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=589
I got so bored i fell asleep
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=590
Then bills dad arrived, we fixed the spark and gasket and found that it was actually the bottem end rattling like a bitch :( problem was we had 3 Litres to much oil, off we went burning the oil and making literally fog thick black clouds all the way for about 6 miles, then chugging the poor car back at 30mph to bills house.
Me and matt set off for northampton, then i went home and got in at gone 10pm..... wot a bloody day!
Shame you cant see the black smoke in this pic but this was us after being stuck for over 4 hrs!
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=591
Good luck with the car bill!
Nutter
p.s. sorry abt long post!
Woke up 9am, showered and set off from leighton buzzard to northampton to meet Matt, got there at 10am and then left for Rushdon to meet Bill (aka rustboy) met with Bill and hit the road for cambridge :D everything was going as planned, me and bill started to take matts car to bits interior wise while driving along. We cut up a few cars not really knowing where we were going but ended up in a random village nr soham to meet a guy called joe who was selling his uncles red nova spin.
After looking round the car and picking as many holes in it as was necessary we took it for a test drive. I drove it and thought it pulled very well, took it on an 8 mile or so drive and it was happy at 90mph, we made the guy an offer, paid for the car swapped documents and then decided we were hungry! So off we went to a random Burger King near the A14, pulled in and ordered our food and ate it........ wots the point you say. Well, it appeared the BK had rodeo type chairs which has bars like a prison on them, so pics were taken.........
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=581
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=582
This was all great but while trapped in my prison i saw this :cry:
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=583
Bad timing or what, yes slatter she was abt 15 LMFAO
We left BK and entered the car park and saw this
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=585
I think that RAC van was trying to tell us somthing in advance! Bill had a quick drive of the car in the carpark (he has no licence) he only stalled once how impressive, LOL
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=584
Off we went for the journey back to Rushdon, now matts car is 1.2 carb and this spin was 1.2 injection so we decided to see if the injection was after all worse than the carb, side by side up to 100mph, then suddenly the oil light came on, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, thats ok we thought, add some oil............... and some more.............. and some more............................ then we got 3 more miles and broke down in a laybay on the A428, this was to be our home for 4 hours!
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=586
The rocker cover gasket was crap and a spark plug had blown somehow
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=587
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=588
none of us had valid break down cover so we waited for bills dad, Bills dad doesnt understand directions very well and was within a 3 mile radious of us for 2 hrs, LOL!
While waiting to fix the nova we found time to sunbath and look at our surroundings. This included a random dead animal that appeared to have walked head 1st into an electric fence, OUCH!
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=589
I got so bored i fell asleep
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=590
Then bills dad arrived, we fixed the spark and gasket and found that it was actually the bottem end rattling like a bitch :( problem was we had 3 Litres to much oil, off we went burning the oil and making literally fog thick black clouds all the way for about 6 miles, then chugging the poor car back at 30mph to bills house.
Me and matt set off for northampton, then i went home and got in at gone 10pm..... wot a bloody day!
Shame you cant see the black smoke in this pic but this was us after being stuck for over 4 hrs!
http://www.novaload.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?id=591
Good luck with the car bill!
Nutter
p.s. sorry abt long post!