Why are they murdering good Novas?!

[dhdev (Oli)]

Saw a Nova being towed away by the scrap man the other week and it looked pretty tidy. At the time I thought the other side of it must have crash damage or something, so didn't think to much of it. Anyway, went to the scrapyard yesterday, found the nova, had a good look round and....the only thing I could see wrong was a dented lower front panel, rear arches were near as damnit mint and worst of all it had only 44,000miles on it :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Riggy]

lol tell me about it there are a load round here totally mint in the scrap yards , but with damaged ignition barrels , so insurance have written them off


makes me mad lol

[Philsutton]

ive had a hand in destroying a sub 40000 mile nova, well i didnt destroy it but shal be cutting it up.

Now you know how cav turbo owners feel lmfao. Nova shells are worth nothing so its better to just scrap them, sad but true.

[John]

Lots of good roadworthy cars going for grasstrack/rookie rod cars too, i personally know of a nice, mot'd c20xe converted nova ripped to pieces for the shell!

[draper]

there was a near minter in our local scrappers yesterday aswell, boot floor was solid, battery tray mint, even the doors were ok - only prob was 1 rear arch had gona and had a bad repair

[rc]

Now you know how cav turbo owners feel lmfao.

ive often wondered how ther can be any cav/calibra turbo's on the road with the amount of c20let nova's and astra'a around?? lol

[Philsutton]

think its into double figures now opps, was about 400 ish over a year ago haha

[stuartp]

Lots of good roadworthy cars going for grasstrack/rookie rod cars too, i personally know of a nice, mot'd c20xe converted nova ripped to pieces for the shell!
it woldn't happen to be white?

its strange people scrap the good ones with untidy panel work but try and bodge and fix ones with rotten chassis!! some people just arnt on this planet.:thumb:

[greg1.4]

i have scrapped 2 novas now, both rotten i must say but i feel terrible when they go. wish someone that loves novas near me would take it away and attempt to fix them. i hate them going to waste.

[s14a]

over here in ireland novas even standard are gone very rare, its a joke, even in scrapyards theres none anymore, its a disgrace good shells being scraped, why dont ye buy a sheel when you see a good 1. i know this sounds silly but there will become a day when even in the uk they will become rare and mite be therefor worth a few quid?? maybe not

[Stuart]

son to be another "good" shell off to a scrap yard (in bits so the feckers cant make money from it) if someone dosent buy it before i move lol

[badboynova7]

my dads got a scrapyard thats where i got my nova from some guy came in to scrap it so i said to my dad i will have it the arches were almost mint the battary tray is and the boot is so i saved it from getting scraped

[Benn]

Saw a Nova being towed away by the scrap man the other week and it looked pretty tidy. At the time I thought the other side of it must have crash damage or something, so didn't think to much of it. Anyway, went to the scrapyard yesterday, found the nova, had a good look round and....the only thing I could see wrong was a dented lower front panel, rear arches were near as damnit mint and worst of all it had only 44,000miles on it :cry: :cry: :cry:

why didnt you buy it then sell it on????

[Spudly]

Well im a good boy as mine came from simpson salvage and i recued it and i even spent my afternoon today taking my car to work to thouroughly valet it, am i sad???
But heres the result tho:-
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a36/spudly01/Cars/DSC00115.jpg

[Ash]

/\ that came from a scappers! where is this place? i need to go a) to kick there **** for going to scrap a desent car and b) to get another nova shell. lol

Ash

[s14a]

@ sr spudly it hardly cam from the scrapers with them bits on it?? lucky find all the same

[Dave.]

hated scraping my blue 1, tought someone would want it but the chassie legs were rotten

thats what you get when you buy old cars tho

[welsh_roadrally]

Just think how many less Nova's you see on the road today than say 5 years ago,how many are going to be left in another 5 years time?,trouble is the 2nd hand parts start to dry up and those breaking them will want the earth for bits:(
I can think of loads of cars that were popular 10 years ago that you hardly ever see anymore for example whens the last time you seen a mk2 Cavalier?,i dont think i've seen one on the road for at least 2 years and that was a tidy SRi130 base models must be almost all gone now...
Its got to the stage now with stricter m.o.t's the cost of 2nd hand cars coming down(compare what you can buy for a grand now with what a grand bought you 5 years ago!)that only older cars with cult followings like : Nova's,Mini's, mk1/2 Escorts,Golf's e.t.c will survive,mainstream cars once they get to ten years old will disapear,its a shame but thats whats happening:cry:

[JSeymour]

heres me in my first nova lol, found it at the scrap yard a few of months ago. i sold it to get my gte on the road...if i knew what i knew now id have kept it....tiny bit of rust at the rear, a solid shell and i was the 2nd owner.
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p174/jamezp/DSC00103.jpg

[draper]

ive scrapped a few novas that knowing what i know now should of kept :roll: when i get my house if i see a decent shell at a scrappers id prob buy it :thumb:

[Nova_one]

yeye defo,i no someone which has done 20k miles and is keeping it in storege :P

[craig green]

This thread wouldnt even scratch the surface of how many good Novas have been scrapped or raided for bits.

at the end of the day, the one you saw Oli was probably an MOT failure & in the eyes of the owner not worth spending another penny on.

One mans waste is another mans treasure etc.

[Riggy]

lol yeah ive scraped some good condition shells in the past as i have had the bits of them and no one wanted the shell , even for free lol

if i had a massive unit id store them but i dont so oh well

[craig green]

same as!

I saw a minter on a flat bed a while back, I thought whoa look at that, being scrapped no doubt. Later on that afternoon it was ontop the pile at the crushers yard.

once it goes to a crushers or metal merchants cars are not allowed out.

[Philsutton]

yeah ive scraped some good condition shells in the past as i have had the bits of them and no one wanted the shell , even for free lol

Agreed, everyone whining about how good shells get wasted but no one ever wants a good shell when you need rid and for that people shouldnt moan lol

[Mike]

Agreed, everyone whining about how good shells get wasted but no one ever wants a good shell when you need rid and for that people shouldnt moan lol

how true is that!!

p.s. im a good boy too, my white shell was orignally a stolen recovery Spin from a salvage auction ;)

[Dave.]

Saw a Nova being towed away by the scrap man the other week and it looked pretty tidy. At the time I thought the other side of it must have crash damage or something, so didn't think to much of it. Anyway, went to the scrapyard yesterday, found the nova, had a good look round and....the only thing I could see wrong was a dented lower front panel, rear arches were near as damnit mint and worst of all it had only 44,000miles on it :cry: :cry: :cry:

wasnt mine was it? mine had lower front damage mint arches and 44k on lol

co-insidense (dont know how to spell lol)

[mowgli]

I have scrapped 3 novas over the years
1. was a write-off
2. I bought as a runabout & it was such a sack of pooh that I broke it for spares & made ?200 profit
3. I'd run her for 8 years & the tin worm finally won, but I removed everything except the shell & doors and stuck it all in my shed.

[krobinson]

My latest nova was going to a field for the owners nephew to handbrake all over the show and rally up and down it.

Imagine this getting wrecked in a field!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad i saved it!!

Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/keithrobinson/terrinova/before1.jpg

After a days work!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/keithrobinson/terrinova/tcut2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/keithrobinson/terrinova/newnova8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/keithrobinson/terrinova/newnova5.jpg

Keith

[craig green]

My Luxe+ that I'm sending to the scrappers next weekend.. I always thought it was solid save for some surface rust in the rear quarters & flaky doors.

Not so!

After attacking her with a hammer there are massive holes in the doors, sill edges, quarter panels & floor. The fr chassis legs developed large holes after the crash last summer but funniest of all was the massive patches of filler from the rear quarters. A peice larger than an A4 peice of paper fell off with one side coated in a silky coat of Satin Red. Quite amusing.

I'll get pics of it when it gets lifted away.