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vaughanmc
14-11-06, 06:34 PM
when did u 1st get into novas.....
i think from about the age of 3-4....when my uncle had his white GSi
lol, its not an obsession for me, theyre just uber light and easy to bolt in big engines!
What he said ^^^
Theres not any other car thats as cheap / light / and easy to make crazy fast !!
Obssessed ? Nah ... i have owned about 15 tho !!
lol
Rich
same as...
But, my first one was at 17 as soon as i passed my test Wahhhoooo
H15 NVA
14-11-06, 06:43 PM
i got hooked at college, was always into fords until mate got a jamaica yellow sr for his first car. then i was proper hooked!! no matter what ive had, escort rs, golf gti etc etc theres always bin a nova next to it on my drive!!!!
Pmsl, ive always had that problem... dam things just wont go away
not sure how many years its been, but defantly obsessed!!
lol 10 yrs now , since i was 15 , just somthing about the ****ers lol
riggy actually was born with a toy nova in his hand, he has a Vin plate on his back he also came with rust and a funny smell. just like a nova
oh you cheeky ****er ,
i havent got any rust :thumb:
riggy actually was born with a toy nova in his hand, he has a Vin plate on his which is identical to the nova. He also came with rust and a funny smell.
ROFL lol
Lmfao @ Rexy lol
I don't have an obsession, its just for the price of a handful of mods on the Celica I can have a quick Nova lol
i got my obsession when i was about 3 i seen 1 and i fell inlove with the boxy line drawn shape lol
letvalva
14-11-06, 07:25 PM
liked them since i was about 7 been right in to them for the last 10 years , will always have at least one, got the wife hooked on them too lol
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 07:32 PM
i think there will always be one on the scene at my house :)
greg1.4
14-11-06, 07:39 PM
I really like novas! So easy to work on and as said before easy to bolt big engines in. I first started liking novas when i was 6 years old when my brother passed his test and had a jamaica yellow 1.3 sr. I really wanted one when i went a run in a 2.0 16v gsi. It was quick and so cool!
mikey14sr
14-11-06, 07:44 PM
Hated them when i was at school, bought one after killing a fiat 127 and haven't looked back apart from getting the astra, which I've still got after nearly 4 years, the sr is my 4th nova.
womble sri
14-11-06, 07:59 PM
i hated them untill a friend got an sr when i was about 16 and i saw they werent actually that bad. he sold it and about a year passed and i was looking at fiestas escorts all the insurable cars and he said what about a nova i thought no but had a look at a few and ended up buying a mint sri had a taste and i loved it passed my test and then unfortunatly rolled it. i was looking at getting a different car but thought no i can tranfer all my mods over so i bought another white one which lasted a week untill some **** smashed the fcuk out of it. so frustratedly i looked for another nova bought an sr with twin carbs on it, modded it and used it as an everyday runner for a while, untill it got sick, and then bought a mint blue sri which im still driving so i guess it is because i dont know any different than an obsession but my mates still all take the piss out out of me.
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 08:11 PM
my mates still all take the piss out out of me.
ahh i know the feelin and i don't own a nova...yet
since 1985 my old man had a c reg 1.0 nova just loved that car got my first one when i was 17 im now on my 15th now about to get no. 16 next week ive got 2 at the moment both c20xe
krobinson
14-11-06, 08:20 PM
Parents got one in 1989, a red merit X. Hooked ever since really! I've had 7 novas since i turned 17, and still have two, both with under 13k miles on them lol :)
Keith
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:20 PM
My obsession started just because my first car was a Nova. The saloon, then I got the white SRI 3 years later.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i203/Shaun_ODonnell/1stnovas.jpg
I rolled the SRI and my then girlfriend (now wife) wrote off the saloon. So we replaced the saloon with a decent car built up from 2 Novas (red SR and a red spin)
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i203/Shaun_ODonnell/rebuild1.jpg
I then sourced a new shell for my SRI and built it up.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i203/Shaun_ODonnell/finished.jpg
The finished projects 4 years ago. The red car is now scrapped and the blue one I sold early this year.
The current steed:
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i203/Shaun_ODonnell/STA60023.jpg
Still to take photos of how it looks now after owning it for 4 weeks!!!
Long live the Nova.....
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 08:24 PM
loving the blue saloon....that the low mileage one?
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:27 PM
That's it! Collected it with 6784 on the clock, now has 8038.
Loving it to bits!!!!!
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 08:30 PM
my dad had a black nova 2 door GL....B reg
then moved away from novas...came back with an H plate nova diamond...moved away from them again and then bought a K plate nova flair with 19k on the clock....sold it so now its my turn :)
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:34 PM
Memories....
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i203/Shaun_ODonnell/novagl.jpg
a girl at schools boyfreind had one and being a max power reader i took the mickey constantly, then when i left school and grew up a bit (might happen one day lol) i looked at them in a differrent light - not sure how many ive had but been mainly ****ters lol
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 08:37 PM
i think i remember my dad sayin' his GL had chrome inserts in the window surrounds....is this correct??
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:38 PM
Hang on, I'll get another photo.....
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:41 PM
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i203/Shaun_ODonnell/sidegl.jpg
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:42 PM
bling bling baby!!
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 08:42 PM
they don't look 2 bad....dont think they would suit any novas now though
*Very 80's*
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:44 PM
I have quite a few old Nova brochures and it's not that cars that look dated and "very 80's", it's the hairstyles!!!!!!!
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 08:47 PM
dont have that many brochures my self.....nova sport one (on the wall(framed) - prized posession) and 2 MK2 nova brochures.
Shaun_O'Donnell
14-11-06, 08:51 PM
I've sold alot of mine off on eBay whilst I was in my dry period away from Novas. Now that one graces my driveway again, I'm keeping what I have left.
vaughanmc
14-11-06, 08:53 PM
i'm on the look out for some PNG stickers....anyone willing to help my needed fix?
I just got rid of a PNG sticker from the inside of my windscreen as it got smashed and when it got changed i completely forgot about it!
Been into em since i was 17, i had MK1 golf G60 and my mate had a GSi 16v, he took me out in it and i used to hate novas but i was blown away by it, next day the golf was up for sale and i bought an XE nova within a week!
Had 5 now, currently own 3
GSi shell, in bits
Wide arched shell, getting an LET rebuild
Breeze Blue SR, Daily driver clean as feck, XEd soon!
Dergnova
14-11-06, 11:37 PM
My dad owned a garage and nova sales were boomign so im well used to them beign about since i can remember...a day il never forget was dad driving over a copper saloon in the landrover...had the front wheels above the back windows...was awesome veiwing lol ... iv just always loved them tho...always wanted one and now i got 2, when i was 17 :D !
Matt2107
15-11-06, 09:46 AM
It all started for me with my first car.
It was free.
1.2 5 door in jamaica yellow.. I put some horrid seat covers in, light brows and a black sun strip.
I'll have to scan the pic I have... will be worth a laugh.
I'm amused by those saying they loved Novas from an early age (i.e. before being 17 and having one!)... erm, when I was a kid, I loved American muscle cars, fast and sporty powerful cars - not an everyday cheap family hatchback!
I used to hate Novas and the percieved chav image when I knew nothing about cars, but as I started to drive my mums on and off I grudgingly realised how fun it was, despite being front wheel drive (all the others have been RWD). When I learnt a little more about power to weight ratio and what suspension bits do what, the pieces fell together very quickly! I got my first and current Nova, mums 1.2 5 door. It was only supposed to be a cheap way of having an insurance policy so I could drive my BMW with 'the owners permission' (dads insurance for 200 a year!!). I've ended up having more fun in the nova than my BMW and my RWD Volvo, purely becuase I cover so many miles in it. I think half the fun is the cheapness, it doesn't drink, parts are cheap when you break them and its fairly anonymous which I like. Especially as it will do my friends Rover 25 GTi that he just bought for 3 and a half grand around the local country lanes and roundabouts!
got into them since my mate had a gsi16v when i was 16 ive now had x2 sr's, anitbes, x2 1.2's i love em long live the novas!
I've always like the look of nova's from around the age of 15/16, I got my first nova after crashing my first car on the road (2nd car owned) which I'm ashamed to say was a Punto! Ever since then (17 and I'm now virtually 20) I've 'loved' them! I sold my first one to buy a newer car and soon realised that it was no fun and ever though my first nova wasn't as fast it was much more fun to drive. So I'm currently on my second nova which is a pain cos it's always braking! but I still love it when I walk past it sat on my drive :D
but I still love it when I walk past it sat on my drive :D
I sometimes look back at the car with a grin on my face when Im going into my house after a really good drive... Anyone else??
Matt2107
15-11-06, 12:12 PM
Every time I open the garage for my WIP it makes me happy
wisewood
15-11-06, 12:14 PM
I inherited my first in 1997. Great uncle died, dad went down to Kent to sort out all the arrangements etc and came back with a 1987 1.2 Merit, Jamaica yellow, less than 27k on the clock, and gave it to me.
I treated it badly, to be fair, but i loved it. Decided the brown interior wasn't for me a few years later and duely found an SR interior on the net somewhere, went to leeds and bought it. The guy selling it asked if i found it for sale on "novaload" to which i replied, "dont think so, whats that?" ... the rest is history lol.
I've had that 1.2, a black 1.3 sr, and a blue 5 door shed. Added to that, my better half has had a blue 1.2, a red 1.3 sr, a red GSi and a silver GSi (currently being stripped).
The novelty of freezing to death in winter, the ongoing rust battle and constant M.O.T worries have got the better of us now though. I would like to own another good condition nova at some point, but doubt either me or the wife will be bothered - new cars are the future!
hendrix
15-11-06, 12:47 PM
I got my first one when I was 16, a 30 quid A reg shed. It sat on my drive for months refusing to start until I found out it was fuel pipes, replaced them started it up and the exhaust fell off, so I scrapped it lol. After that I went into of a phase where I couldnt stand them and thought they were the car of the chav lol. Everyone knew I hated them except me ma who baught me one for my 18th....never looked back since then! Ive been back in the nova game for little less than a week after owning a mondeo and a corsa after my last nova got stolen but its good to be back :thumb:
got my first at 17 as my first car, owned them for 7 yrs..
had about 8 of them
never really been obsessed with them, just cheap cars to run, no finally no longer a nova owner, to be honest down think i'll have another
well, until I hit 17 I never had a great amount of interest in cars.
Then, it came to buying a car to learn to drive in, and my dad found an old 1.0 banger - I didn't even know what a nova looked like!
Then... I fell in love with it's hard boxy shape. And old skool looks. I'm now 19, and on my second nova. Very nearly lost all hope in it, but.... maybe I can't bring myself to tow it to a scrappy yet ;)
wisewood
15-11-06, 04:09 PM
have someone come and collect it and take it there for you, its much easier... you can imagine it going to "a better place" as its hoisted off the ground :wisewood:
Matt2107
15-11-06, 04:31 PM
Last time I had a nova collected the monkey operating the crane swung it in mid air, hitting the corner of a garage roof... it nearly took the whole roof off. lol
craig green
15-11-06, 04:32 PM
I was a total fan of Vauxhalls at 10 or so. I was into mk2 Cav SRi's & Astra GTE's. I discovered the Nova when in my last years of school reading the MAX POWER feature of John Shields 16v turbo at Millbrook. I recognised the shape from a Silver GSi in my street & my love affair began.
Any MAX Power or Fast Car with a Nova feature was bought for the scrapbook cuttings & I got a 1.2L in leaf green (B reg) as my 1st car.
2nd car was a flame red H plate GSi & I still have her.
rednova
15-11-06, 06:09 PM
i still browse through my old mags looking for inspiration lol where did i put those 3 spokes! lol
my dad used to have one when i was younger was a 1200 l or club not sure but i got one for my first car and ive had at least one ever since
Phil
nov4801
15-11-06, 06:17 PM
been hooked since i was 14 wen i went to me first cruise with a mate and seen a few got me first one at 18 and never looked back only on me second one at minute
My sister's first car was a Nova Swing in 1996, B reg iirc, Mexico Red. Her second was a J reg 1.2 Merit, Mexico Red. Which I bought from her in 2000 as my second car. Then bought a 2dr H reg saloon alongside that one in 2003, 1.2, Mexico Red.
Sold both mine in early 2005, and bought a GT4 which wasn't Mexico Red :(
A lad who went to my school (who was 2 years older than me) had a calypso red GTE when he was 18. I was 16 and that was it.
Jim Mcrae
15-11-06, 07:39 PM
My mates nova, he found an escort so sold the nova to to me!!
lee 16v
15-11-06, 09:58 PM
there was a white nova think it was a gsi at my school when i was about 7or 8 and i loved it, then my nanna's bext door got a white gte and i told everyone i was going to have that car one day. then at sec school i didnt like them, didnt like cars thought "barry boys" where sad and said they all have 13 year old girl friends, pased my test got a 1.3 L kevscort and my mate had a 1. f**kall nova and wooped my ass all day long. then i drove pased a mint red mk1 sr and thats when it all started. had a nova ever since that day, best car i ever got.
oh yer i got the gte as well and killed it endded up in the scrappy lol looked mint though. the only pic i have of it now http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/lee216v/Lookout.jpg
NOV4_SPORT
15-11-06, 10:00 PM
i can remember my big bro getting a mint 1 ltr trip, lovely black, fitted a gte spoiler and Le kat side skirts, and c,c bumpers, i loved that nova, wish had bought it off him, only got $400 trade in for the escort, that was when i was 14, iam 22 now and still cant go past a nova without wanting it, cant wait for the summer to come back so i can get my sport out on the road...........
http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcfn0020ay1.jpg
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/9833/dcfn0021wj4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/3140/dcfn0024iu8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
and i dont ever see it stoping
Asa-James
15-11-06, 10:03 PM
my ma and pa got a mint a reg 2 door sally in '98, i used to wash it every weekend, rain or shine, and then i got to drive it two years ago...and promply put it thru a hedge!
vaughanmc
15-11-06, 10:20 PM
loving that sport....easy my favourite nova out the whole range...or an early MK1 SR (yellow - deep front spoiler) :):)
yup the sport is mint!! I reckon that the yellow sr is still the best or the blue sri/sr. Mine started wen i was 15 when my older brother bought and (TRIED) to insure a GSI at 17 on a provisional pmsl!! I just used 2 sit on the drive and rev it lmfao had 6 Novas since then and a Mk3 escort a Mk3 Fiesta and a Rover 214sei but i always end up with a fukin Nova!! :D
euro sbd
15-11-06, 11:52 PM
yeah im obssesed, it started when i was ten and see my first 2ltr 16v, funny years later i ended up buying it, you all have seen it. i used to be registered as batsport on here its in the 16v section is on 19" areospeeds ive have another four since then, people think im mad as i have had a skyline r33, lexus soarer and ive just sold my 2001 merc s class to build my latest c20let project ?15,000 merc for a nova so yep im obssesed or just a little stupid aint quite worked out which yet
Mum bought me an F-reg Nova 1.0 in white when I passed my test at 17. Made it into an SR replica and ran it for two years.
Then bought my black H-reg GSi in Jersay. That got an XE when I was 20 and then the LET 6 months after that and I still have that car, just in the process of having a full respray/rebuild now. (has been for 3 years)
Also had a dabble with a Renault 5GTT when the Nova came off the road, should have kept that instead of the Nova as it was the best car I ever had but sold it to get some cash to carry on with the Nova.
Then got a yellow 1.3 SR rotbox and put an XE in it and then a red GSi that I swapped the XE into. Sold this recently and got a Celica GT-4 and have fitted the LET into a Corsa SRi until the Nova comes back from paint.
Can't imagine being without the black Nova now i've had it 6 years even though its been off the road for the last three.
nova ian
16-11-06, 01:02 PM
I saw one in a max power magazine when I was about 14-15, and loved it. Then when I turned 17 dad asked me what car I would want as a first car, and I wanted a nova!
Dad bought me a 1.2sx and got hooked since that day really! That was written off earlier this year, so had it nearly 4 years. Now ive got my 2nd which is my project car.
craig green
16-11-06, 01:38 PM
just in the process of having a full respray/rebuild now. (has been for 3 years)
Can't imagine being without the black Nova now i've had it 6 years even though its been off the road for the last three.
Funny that. I got my GSi in 99 with 94k miles it wasnt low or high mileage but about average for the age. My car has spent so long off the road for whatever reason etc. Its now almost 2007 & its on 129k.
Is that below average mileage? lol
Funny that. I got my GSi in 99 with 94k miles it wasnt low or high mileage but about average for the age. My car has spent so long off the road for whatever reason etc. Its now almost 2007 & its on 129k.
Is that below average mileage? lol
Bought mine in 2000 with 69k on and when it came off the road at the end of 2003 it had 79k on lol. Did 5k on the 1.6 engine, 2k on the XE and 3k on the LET. Was my daily driver as well but it spent 4 months off the road at one point when I was fed up with it.
kronk10
16-11-06, 05:35 PM
My nova obsession started when i was driving home from work in a **** grey 1.1 ford fiesta and a white nova lowered gsi kit etc was in front of me. It looked and sounded amazing plus it was the first one i had seen in years there different mainly because its all about saxos etc nowadays. But that was my starting point to proper get into novas, hence the reason a bought a white sr as my first nova:thumb:
puss puss
16-11-06, 06:15 PM
since i was 16 started openin my eyes seein them around n got mine on monday so am urber happy :D
when i was looking for a first car with a budget of ?1000, i was looking at anything but nova's, i hated them. Then my mates dads mate (who are car dealers - sounds dodgy doesnt it) got hold of a nova which was left at vauxhall, for them to sell. The old woman who owned it before had just died and the family passed it on. Anyway it was washed once a week, garaged and best of all it only had 48k on it. It was the straight-est car i'd seen and after a test drive, it was mine. Since then i've loved it to bits, but i really should of kept it standard. The only reason it became moddifed i because some one loosened my hub caps and work and i lost them on the way home. I couldn't find any others so i bought some (gay) alloy wheels, which then meant i needed to lower it, and so on and so on.....
It's been up for sale quite a few times now, but i dont think i can actually bring my self to sell it.
First day:
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/3127/1020247imgvm5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
The (gay) wheels and not lowered *sick*:
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3384/1040422imgob5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Finally lowered and laugna splitter:
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/2585/1040435imgoi7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
New wheels, but didn't look right:
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/8079/img0006vc2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
and it's final state, with gsi kit:
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and now tuct up in the garage back home awaiting a rebuild:
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/3206/dsc00195zu6.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)
Its also gone through many many installs. At one point i was carrying around just under 5k's worth of audio, in an unalarmed nova. but then i discovered performance
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Ash
lmfao I remember seeing it with 'those' wheels :D
I was into cars as a kid, but my mum got a 1.3 astra in 1983 & suddenly I liked vauxhalls. then my grandad got a 1.2 nova merit in 1984 & I loved it, even though he only went 25mph and never did more than 5 miles in one trip. He died in 1985, and the nova became our second car. I passed my test in 1986 & within twenty minutes I was a nova driver. I had that car until 1991, fitted a home built 1.4, then it lost an arguement with a cavalier. I had 2 astras for a couple of years then one day I woke up & decided I need a nova. bought an A reg beige 1.2, & a rolled gte, and made a good one out of the 2. It finally rotted out in 2002. my current one is a g reg 1.0 base model with all of the best bits out of my old beige one. I am not obsessed at all, but I can't foresee the day I when I won't have a nova....
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